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A word about the conference theme...Movements for social justice include all peoples' struggles for self-determination and against any form of social and economic domination, whether appearing as global power imbalance or local injustice. Environmental justice-based approaches recognize that the effects of environmental degradation are not equally distributed across the world's peoples; instead, the brunt of environment-based harm is borne by racialized communities, working class and impoverished people, indigenous peoples, and other populations marginalized by global systems of domination and inequality. Therefore, environmental justice requires that analysis and organizing around environmental issues follow principles of anti-oppression (or, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-classist, and anti-neoliberal principles), and seeks pro-environment solutions that help redress inequality along all axes of domination.

The organizers of Study in Action hope to bring these two approaches together, first, to counter the belief that struggles against environmental destruction and social domination must be held apart, second, to highlight the concrete ways in which these struggles already play out together, and third, to point to potentials for increasing understanding, solidarity, and cooperation between social movements and pro-environment movements.