Jim Janko, Albuquerque, NM, chapter of Veterans For Peace (VFP), is an active participant in VFP’s Climate Crisis and Militarism Project, which seeks to educate and mobilize others to help stop US militarism and reverse its environmental impact. The Project is part of the worldwide movement to end the climate crisis and promote climate, environmental, racial, and economic justice. It focuses on how U.S. militarism, the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gasses on the planet, fuels the climate crisis. During the Vietnam war, Jim was an army medic in an infantry battalion, where he witnessed heavy casualties and immense destruction of the Earth. He recognizes that, in his words, “to work for climate justice is to work for social and economic justice.”
Kamillah Ealom is Community Organizer/Program Coordinator for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, the organization that has been fighting in the San Francisco Bayview/Hunters Point community for health and environmental justice for over 25 years. Born and raised in the Bayview neighborhood, Kamillah is passionately committed to informing and mobilizing her community about the radioactive and toxic waste left behind by the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and its harmful impact on neighborhood residents. Kamillah works actively with many community partners on campaigns advocating for full cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund Site and other contamination sites, as well as ending industrial pollution that impacts the air residents breathe.
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Betty Traynor
