22/04/2026
Earth Day 22 April 🌍⬇️
Earth Day needs reclaiming from the greenwash! The first Earth Day took place in 1970 with an estimated 20 million Americans participating in rallies, marches, and teach-ins responding to toxic pollution of their air, waters and land by corporations pursuing profit in the absence of environmental regulation.
Then, as now, the worst exposed to these hazards were working class and non-white Americans. The largest source of funding for the first Earth Day was organised labour, in particular from the United Auto Workers (UAW) which also provided practical support for printing and telephone communications.
The national organiser for Earth Day later said "Without the UAW, the first Earth Day would have likely flopped." More background in this article ⬇️🌍
The world’s on fire and Trump and the billionaires are taking away the fire hydrants. He’s opened up so much federal land to drilling that even the oil CEOs are telling him to stop! Beyond that, he’s looking to gut the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and setting his sights on the Clean A...
