For too long, Black, Indigenous, and frontline communities across the Gulf South and Appalachia have borne the brunt of climate disaster while being excluded from the decisions shaping our futures. #WeChooseNow is our collective response to that reality.
#WeChooseNow is a climate action strategy and campaign rooted in frontline governance and collective care.
In response to the growing climate crisis, Taproot Earth convened over 150 frontline and allied leaders from through a Gulf to Appalachia People’s Movement Assembly, now Gulf South to Appalachia.
Over the course of a year, Black, Indigenous, and frontline leaders engaged in shared analysis, political education, and collective strategy building rooted in ancestral wisdom and lived experience.
What emerged was not a list of demands. It was a shared climate action strategy grounded in facilitative leadership, policy research, narrative building, community action and restorative resourcing.
Together, these three commitments shape how #WeChooseNow organizes, communicates, and acts.
We tell the truth about climate injustice, racialized extraction, and systems built on disposability.
Solutions are designed, tested, and led by communities most impacted, across regions, generations, and movements.
We advance tangible models of repair, care, and shared power that can be practiced, resourced, and replicated.
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#WeChooseNow emerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in 2021, when destruction rippled from the Gulf South through Appalachia and exposed the deep interconnection our regions are.
When frontline leaders gathered and worked to share analysis, politically educate, and collectively strategize, they began a building rooted in ancestral wisdom and lived experience.
The shared climate action strategy that emerged over the course of a year still continues to support facilitative leadership, policy research, narrative building, community action, and restorative resourcing, all grounded in repair and liberation.
#WeChooseNow advances climate action and repair by changing how power moves.
It brings frontline leaders into shared governance across regions and borders. It makes Global Climate Reparations visible and actionable. It replaces fear-based climate narratives with solutions rooted in care, accountability, and abundance.
#WeChooseNow, as both a strategy and campaign, is shaped through convenings, political education, and frontline-led research. It continues to reflect lived experience tested in community, rather than theory developed solely in isolation.
Climate justice, action and repair all begin with collective choice and frontline leadership. Choose now with us. We need you at the table.
Take a look at how #WeChooseNow continues to guide climate action rooted in repair, frontline-led governance, and shared power.
