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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · 4d

Honored to be speaking at my law school alma mater this week, if you’re in Boston, come through law.northeastern.edu/news-events/...

Daynard Public Interest Law Fellows Program - School of Law

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · 12d

Plane flying over Sunset Park the next 2 hours is a direct action from @uprose & our climate justice allies as we close down NYClimateWeek& protest @nycedc @batworks compromising justice #dontselloutsunsetpark #goGRiD @Bat In Sunset Park we organize & lead with operational solutions We See you✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · 24d

For Justice🖤

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · 25d

ourtimepress.com/elizabeth-ye... grateful to have the opportunity to lift the significance of NYC frontline communities💚

Elizabeth Yeampierre: The Environmental Justice Warrior Who Leads UPROSE

Fern GillespieFor almost 30 years, Elizabeth Yeampierre, an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney of Black and Indigenous ancestry, has been on the frontline advocating environmental justic...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 30

Bernie Sanders: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.”

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Aug 29

@uprose.bsky.social Honoring Mother Earth & Father Sky while lifting solutions from Puerto Rico , the Gulf South to Brooklyn ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽💚 Please us QR code to register!!! For each or all the events 🌻

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Aug 20

“From citing non-existent studies generated by the FDA’s AI tool ‘Elsa’ to mischaracterizing real research on the COVID-19 vaccine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly spread false claims”

In fact, RFK has screwed us so often, @standupforscience.bsky.social struggled to restrict its list to 9!

The 9 Worst RFK Jr. Decisions to Date — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

RFK Jr.'s actions undermine scientific progress, public trust, and the health of millions. Stand Up For Science won't stand for it. Start here.

www.standupforscience.net

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · Aug 16

“I was laid off after my company introduced a new AI-driven tool that automated a significant portion of the editorial workflow. While the tool promised efficiency, what it really delivered was displacement”

In the last 90 days, 300,000 Black women have lost their jobs!… 🧵

Black women are leaving the workforce — this fund wants to help

In the past 90 days, 300,000 Black women have exited the labor force. Between AI layoffs, shrinking DEI programs, and limited access to high-growth fields, the job market is increasingly hostile. The ...

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is Good News, we need and deserve good news - this is whats possible, please share 🖤🤎🖤💚

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Aug 10

OTD 11 years ago

Mike Brown was shot 6 times by policeman Darren Wilson.

The 18yo Black murder victim was then left laying in the street for 4 hours

Sparking the Ferguson Uprising

That shut down “multiple MALLS & big stores on BLACK FRIDAY impacting million$$$.” - OTG reporter Chuck Modiano

A tall, chubby Black teenage boy with short hair on his chin, wearing a green and high school graduation cap and gown

A Twitter post from 10:39 PM on 11/27/14 by Chuck Modiano (@chuckmodi1): (text) #HandsUpDontShop Protest at Walmart St Charles
#FergusonAction #Ferguson | (photo) A crowd of mixed races, ages, genders and sexualities marching through a large big box store, chanting with their hands up

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Aug 9

Our victory against the rezoning proposed by Industry city featured in Emergent City will be airing on PBS on Mon, Aug18th. UPROSE had an organizing, political, popular ed& comms strategy & an alternative plan. We worked hard for 7 yrs & a well informed emboldened community rose up
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Emergent City - POV

A new “innovation district” tests local democracy in a divided Brooklyn community.

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Center for Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health @ceejhaction.bsky.social · Jul 9

Proudly announcing our keynote speakers: Dr. Robert Bullard, @drrobertbullard.bsky.social, Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome @drjalonneege2.bsky.social, William J Barber III, Esq. @williambarberjd.bsky.social, Elizabeth Yeampierre @uprose.bsky.social @yeampierre.bsky.social & Wanjiku "Wawa" Gatheru!

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you for featuring frontline solutions! citylimits.org/solutions-ar...

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 21

The construction for the First Community Owned Solar Initiative of its kind in NYC has started… this is whats possible!! Please read & share 💚https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-launches-first-community-led-solar-project/

‘By and for the people’: Brooklyn launches city’s first community-led solar project in Sunset Park • Brooklyn Paper

Energy justice advocates and local representatives celebrated the installation of New York City’s first community-led and cooperatively owned solar project,

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is sanctioning the racially motivated assasination of Black People- #BreonnaTaylor

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 11

iefworld.org/SMOCreversal...

Southern Ocean circulation reversed | International Environment Forum

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 11

Axè mi gente, tremendo honor estar incluida en este grupo que hacen y han hecho historia. Tremendous honor to be included in a group that has made and is making history. “We protect and defend our peoples right to breathe” Elizabeth Yeampierre

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Center for Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health @ceejhaction.bsky.social · Jul 9

Proudly announcing our keynote speakers: Dr. Robert Bullard, @drrobertbullard.bsky.social, Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome @drjalonneege2.bsky.social, William J Barber III, Esq. @williambarberjd.bsky.social, Elizabeth Yeampierre @uprose.bsky.social @yeampierre.bsky.social & Wanjiku "Wawa" Gatheru!

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 5

#vivaPuertoRicoLibre #YoungLordsTaughtUs #BadBunnyIsOurHeart 💚♥️🖤🇵🇷

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jul 4

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Jun 29

Icymi last month: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into a national criminal database originally built for people convicted of sex offenses and violent crimes

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jun 25

Their support for Cuomo wasn’t surprising to the Climate Justice movement-they say “ green economy” & we say “ just transition” because racial justice & moving to a regenerative economy that honors people & the planet is the way-old school thinking that compromises our lives is unacceptable 🌻

Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · Jun 25

The "big green" theory of change is dead. New York's biggest, most "powerful" green lobby—the League of Conservation Voters—endorsed Andrew Cuomo! To win on climate, it's economic populism or bust.

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Elizabeth Yeampierre @yeampierre.bsky.social · Jun 19

be Pro-Black , this country owes the Black American community everything 💚♥️🖤🇵🇷 Axè & Happy Juneteenth mi gente💚♥️🖤🇵🇷

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