Climate activist group ‘Women of Color Speak Out’ is changing the face of the white-dominated climate space by uplifting the voices of women of color through educating and informing their communities on the climate crisis. At the Ethiopian Community Center in Seattle, climate activists Sarra Tekola, Afrin Sopariwala, Zarna Joshi, and Yin Yu of the Women of Color Speak Out group speak on how racist systems of oppression have created and maintained our climate crisis. Women of Color Speak Out highlights the historical and current uneven impacts of capitalism, colonialism, and the prison industrial complex on the environment and people, as well as solutions for just system transitions. Emphasizing that marginalized communities have been/are bearing the brunt of violence from these oppressive systems both directly and indirectly through climate change, this educational presentation is rooted in truth telling and a call to action for local and global solidarity.
