Educators Acting on Earth Day
What is ecan?
Educators across the country are joining together to learn, strategize, and take action to address the climate crisis through the Educators Climate Action Network (ECAN). Led by union teachers and educators, and convened by the Labor Network for Sustainability, this inspiring network connects union educators to each other, to resources, and to solidarity support and capacity for taking action around the critical intersections between public school communities and climate & environmental justice. Sign up and get support!
LET TEACHERS BREATHE
Public schools are enduring cuts, closures, and immigration raids, as well as suffering toxic facilities, extreme heat, and climate disasters. These harms are coming from a common set of fossil fueled billionaires, corporations, and politicians. The billionaire class will ruin the public sector and the planet we share if it means more power, profit, and control for them. They strap districts with unsustainable debts, while leaving our schools and environment falling apart.
Without a strong public sector, there is no community resilience or protection against billionaire rule and climate disaster. The public sector, especially public school communities, are the frontline of democracy and resilience against billionaire attacks, Trump attacks, and climate disasters.
But educators are fighting back in their unions and communities, organizing for action such as: teaching the truth about climate justice; turning their schools into “resilience hubs” during climate emergencies; saying no to billionaire-backed toxic bond financing of school facilities; pushing their pension funds to invest in social good for sustainable returns, instead of toxic activities for uncertain returns; and bringing community members into their contract bargaining fights, incorporating clean air, air conditioning, and community-informed green retrofitting of schools in their demands. If you wish to be involved, plug into ECAN today.