{"id":1127,"date":"2019-07-30T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:58:36","slug":"women-of-color-lead-fighter-league-to-combat-climate-change-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/07\/30\/women-of-color-lead-fighter-league-to-combat-climate-change-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of Color Lead “Fighter League” to Combat Climate Change in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Group of demonstrators on road, young people from different culture and race fight for climate change – Global warming and enviroment concept – Main focus on afro girl face<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Trimmel Gomes Florida News Connection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A pilot project called “Fighter League<\/a>” is arming women of color with the tools\nthey need to fight climate change. 
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\nTwo national groups, the Movement Strategy Center<\/a> and the Solutions Project<\/a>,\nfounded by celebrities such as Mark Ruffalo, are making a concerted effort to\nfund and support women such as Mary Gutierrez. She is the co-founder of Another Gulf is Possible<\/a>, a\ncollaborative that uses a variety of strategies to fight for environmental\njustice in underserved communities. 
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\nGutierrez is among six women who will each receive $10,000 to participate in\nclimate leadership development training to help boost their efforts in the Gulf\nSouth.
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\n“It’s certainly grateful to be receiving funding, because it’s not often\nthat we women of color that are doing this type of work receive any sort of\nfunding,” Gutierrez said.
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\nStudies show areas in the U.S. that will be hit hardest by climate change are\nthose along the Gulf South, a region activists say receives the smallest amount\nof climate funding. 
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\nRudi Navarra, director of investments with The Solutions Project, said they’ve\nfound the people and talent are already on the ground working on solutions. So\nthe partnership will fund $60,000 in total grants to women leaders in the\nyear-long fellowship program designed to help foster more collaboration and\npromote clean energy solutions.
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\n“So our effort is to, through the Fighter League, to begin to at least\nhighlight and deal with some of the racial and gender inequities and, by doing\nso, also get to be better and get to better solutions,” Navarra said.
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\nGulf South Rising<\/a> is\na five-state grassroots initiative anchored by the Gulf Coast Center for Law and\nPolicy<\/a>. It’s also receiving funding through the Fighter League. Navarra\nsaid he hopes other organizations will follow suit and start funding similar\nprojects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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