Why All Americans Should Care About 'Environmental Racism’ | NowThis

'Indigenous peoples have been on the front lines of environmental racism for decades’ — Indigenous rights lawyer and activist Sherri Mitchell explains why all Americans should care about environmental justice and Indigenous issues.
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In US news and current events today, meet Sherri Mitchell, an Indigenous rights lawyer and activist who has fought for environmental justice for more than 25 years.

Mitchell was born & raised in the Penobscot Nation, a federally-recognized native tribe in Maine, where she witnessed the impacts of the climate crisis 2020 firsthand.

'Environmental justice is a term that is thrown around quite frequently. And I think that a lot of people have this idea that it's this separate component that people need to be working on. But for us, environmental justice is really about harmonized relationship, what we call Psilde N’dilnabamuk. It's about living in kinship with the rest of creation, with all life. So we understand that we have a certain responsibility to honor the right, that all other living beings have to continue to exist, uninhibited, unmolested in their natural environment, just as we do in ours.' — environmental lawyer Sherri Mitchell

Watch our full Sherri Mitchell interview here.

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