Counterstream Co-Founder and President and Host Shilpi Chhotray takes you inside the fight for climate and environmental justice with organizers, legal experts, filmmakers, and movement leaders challenging the corporate and political forces blocking real change — from Big Oil and militarism to over-policing and the Supreme Court.
If you’re serious about building a mass climate movement, this season is for you.
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The Latest at Counterstream
Join us for our next Story Salon in Austin, TX!
For decades, Gulf South communities have fought fossil fuel and petrochemical companies that promise jobs and prosperity while leaving communities with the health and environmental costs. Now, AI and data centers are driving new industrial expansion and bringing the same extractive logic, demanding enormous amounts of land, water, and energy.
Join Diane Wilson, Alexia Leclercq, Frankie Orona, Jo Banner, and Joy Banner at Austin Film Society on November 1.
Counterstream advisor Erin Hart honored PRNEWS' Mentor of the Year
Erin B. Hart, who is the founder and president of Hart Strategies, was highlighted for her work in media and communications. As an advisor, Hart helps our justice-focused organization make an imprint in a media ecosystem dominated by legacy outlets. Read more
Movement News
Salmon species thriving after Klamath River dam removal
For the first time in years, the Yurok Tribe served salmon at their annual festival. Go inside the dam removal with Amy Bowers Cordalis in Season 1 of A People’s Climate. Read more
What does climate justice look like for Nepal?
“When we talk about floods, we talk about the water, the death toll, the missing persons. But for communities, the real story continues long after the water disappears.” Read more
Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from major Supreme Court case on climate accountability
The case will determine whether or not states can sue fossil fuel companies for pollution and climate change. Alito has been under fire for his ties to the fossil fuel industry. Read more
Trump’s attacks on academia leave colleges vulnerable to fossil fuel interests
A new study argues the administration’s assault on university independence makes it harder for schools to avoid influence from the fossil fuel industry. Read more
Worth Revisiting
Ark Building in the Age of Climate Change
With El Niño approaching, revisit Heather McTeer Toney’s piece on why survival of the flood is an act of faith — and community.