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Meaghan LaSala

Three weeks ago I stood in a crowd of thousands outside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. Hosted by California governor Jerry Brown, the international summit was billed as a crucial moment between the 2015 Paris Accord and the 2020 goal post for curbing carbon emissions, identified by climate scientists.

Inside, members of our delegation were disrupting a speech by Michael Bloomberg. Outside, we had entrances blocked by locked-down protesters and a rally of frontline communities — mostly Indigenous Peoples, African American, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and low-income and poor white folks — people who are most likely to live near toxic industries and experience climate displacement.