Our Campaigns
Honor The Earth’s campaigns are at the forefront of combating climate chaos in our communities. By staying rooted in frontline resistance, we are uniquely positioned to change the way 501(c)3s engage with movement spaces while simultaneously fighting extractivism, which we identify as colonialism and imperialism. We are also pushing back against neoliberalism in our movement and nationalizing our narrative in order to popularize, normalize, and advance real solutions.
Our campaigns are tied to grassroots organizing initiatives and rooted in supporting Indigenous communities and grassroots organizers. Contact us to learn more about our organizing efforts or to join the fight.
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Land Back is our North Star, guiding us in our fight for sovereignty and liberation. Land Back is the political movement of Indigenous Peoples reclaiming sovereignty over homelands from colonial states. Land Back is also about reclaiming relationships and Indigenous values rooted in the land itself. This means having a say over our bodies, our land, our peoples and our nations that predate colonization.
We contend that Land Back is a solution to the climate crisis. Unlike systems of colonial extractivism, Indigenous Peoples have land practices rooted in knowledge of their specific homelands that sustain our human and non-human relatives alike. Restoring right relationships with land, based on Indigenous principles, is the only way forward in the face of escalating ecological collapse.
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Green Colonialism is a form of settler-colonialism rooted in so-called “green extraction” that impacts the lands and lives of Indigenous communities globally. Green colonialism manifests in environmental projects or initiatives that are described as conservation or sustainable development but instead perpetuate and reinforce colonial power dynamics. These “green” projects typically involve the extraction of natural resources, land grabs, displacement of Indigenous populations, and imposition of colonial conservation without respecting Indigenous knowledge, needs, rights, sovereignty, or free prior and informed consent.
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From Palestine to Turtle Island, Indigenous struggles for sovereignty, land, and basic human dignity are intertwined. As Indigenous People, we must stand in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for decolonization.Our peoples both face violent settler-colonial regimes, rooted in racist supremacist systems, that enact programs of extermination and land theft. These regimes - so-called “Israel” and the so-called “United States” - share strategies, ideologies and resources to enforce global dominance over Indigenous peoples.
In addition to our focus on political education, Honor the Earth has provided on the ground support to Palestinian organizers. We supported the March on Washington for Gaza in November 2023 and delivered speeches on Indigenous solidarity. We also drafted and supported resolutions to tribal authorities that called for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council unanimously passed this resolution in December, and under the leadership of the Oglala chapter of the International Indigenous Youth Council, the Oglala Sioux tribe passed a parallel resolution.
As we fight for the liberation of our Peoples hand in hand, the recognition in our communities that Indigenous sovereignty includes Palestine is a powerful measure.
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As Honor the Earth expands our focus to confront Green Colonialism, we haven't lost sight of the organization’s historic fight against the fossil fuel industry. In fact, we know that many of the same companies that drill for oil and frack for natural gas are now turning their attention to profiting off of the false solutions to the climate crisis. Honor the Earth continues to support grassroots communities resisting all forms of extraction in their lands.
