Shilpi Chhotray

@shilpichhotray.bsky.social

Movement journalist + producer for climate & environmental justice

Co-Founder, Counterstream Media | Host, A People’s Climate @TheNation.com

https://substack.com/@shilpichhotray

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There’s one institution propping up the oil and gas industry, but it’s almost never talked about: the U.S. military.

🎧 Host @shilpichhotray.bsky.social and journalist @abbymartin.bsky.social discuss the environmental cost of militarism in our new episode of A People’s Climate with @thenation.com ⤵️

counterstream.orgEp. 1 - Earth’s Greatest Enemy with Abby Martin“National security has always explicitly been about fossil fuels.”
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"Her story is a reminder that even the largest corporations can be stopped when ordinary people refuse to back down."
Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from a small town in Texas, took on ExxonMobil.
Guess who won?
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theguardian.comHow a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi ChhotrayDiane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
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Yesterday, through a flurry of interviews & phone calls, @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this excellent report on the immigration raids in cities across North Carolina. She spoke to community members about the devastation & fear, as well as the love & resistance.

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prismreports.orgNorth Carolina immigration raids expected to escalateAs the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
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A Texas shrimper just made ExxonMobil pause a $10 billion plastics project.

My new op-ed in @us.theguardian.com explores how Diane Wilson and her community used a local court challenge to pressure one of the world’s most powerful oil companies.

@breakfreefromplastic.org @goldmanprize.bsky.social

theguardian.comHow a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi ChhotrayDiane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
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These aren’t isolated NIMBY fights but a regional reckoning with a century of extraction. As heat and storms worsen, #Exxon still calls its #oil and petrochemical expansion “accelerating a just transition” —a claim verging on self-parody. share.google/9rj2v2CyzIQK... via @shilpichhotray.bsky.social

share.googleHow a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi ChhotrayDiane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
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This is cool: @shilpichhotray.bsky.social interviews @justinjpearson.bsky.social for her podcast "A People's Climate" talking about his work defending Memphis communities from oil companies and Elon Musk. Happy to have connected them. Check it out!
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thenation.comMemphis vs. Musk, With Representative Justin J. Pearson“No matter how many billions you have, you don't have enough to buy our lives.”
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