NCEJN Blog
Here you can explore articles and stories that we are telling from the front-lines of climate change.
Organizing for Power: Media Advocacy Group
The ladder towards liberation and justice begins with small steps. To achieve our vision of developing a state-wide network that powerfully opposes destructive policies and becomes a platform for proposing and building sustainable policies, we need to strengthen our...
Community Science launch – Spidey Sense-r
Air pollution in the US has been seen as a cost of progress - a necessary evil to have the gains provided by industrial manufacturing. However, black, brown, and rural folks always seem to be caught with the bill for this progress. This “sacrifice” goes largely...
Farms, not Factories!
Join us to hear how representatives from ASPCA, Land Stewardship Project, the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, are organizing against factory farms and changing policies to move us towards a future where sustainable animal agriculture is the norm.
Freedom Hill Documentary Screening & Discussion
Princeville, NC is the first town incorporated by freed, enslaved Africans in America. But, due to hurricanes, white supremacy and political neglect, it is gradually being washed away. Join us 7/6 for the Freedom Hill Documentary & panel discussion.
Weathering the Storm: Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
Saturday, June 26 at 11 AM we held our 2nd Quarterly Meeting of 2021, Weathering the Storm: Disaster Preparedness & Recovery. Just in time for hurricane season, we teamed up with the Department of Health & Human Services to pull together experts to teach...
Weathering the Storm: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
Increasing awareness of post-flooding environmental health hazards and available resources for preparedness and recovery.
N.C. Court Chooses to Restrict Local Property Rights of Neighbors Besieged by Industrial Hog Waste
(Raleigh, N.C.) – Individuals suffering negative recurring health and environmental impacts from open-air cesspits containing hog waste like feces, blood, urine, bone and other animal fluids, cannot sue industrial swine operations for nuisance, after a Dec. 23, 2020...
Organizational Rebirth & Position Announcements
WHO WE ARE: The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a coalition of community organizations and their supporters who work with low-income communities and people of color to promote health and environmental equity, clean industry, safe workplaces,...
Pork Has a Giant Manure Problem: Biogas is Not The Solution
A webinar on biogas and the harmful connection of two notorious industries.
