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Biden EPA Cuts Big Check For Pro-Defund The Police Activists To Pursue ‘Climate Justice’ For Convicts

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sending up to $3 million to activist groups that advocate for cutting police budgets and closing prisons to pursue “climate justice” for incarcerated people and “reentry communities.”

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Baker Center) and the Insight Garden Program chosen It will receive $1 million to $3 million in funding to pursue “environmental and climate justice in prison and reentry communities.” The Baker Center has historically supported or defended the positions of left-wing activists, including: Funding cuts of police,Effectively SubtractAbstinence Shoplifting, closure Prisons, etc.

According to the EPA, the funding the Baker Center is receiving comes from the nearly $2 billion “Community Transformation for Environmental and Climate Justice” EPA grant program established by President Joe Biden's signature climate change bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Baker Center is a partner organization in the Insight Gardens program, which is the lead applicant. (Related: Green New Deal activist endorses Kamala Harris after she was named as a recipient of $50 million from the administration)

“The project will engage up to 1,350 people in California's prison and reentry communities to learn more about the unique environmental and climate justice challenges these communities face — such as the impacts of dangerous heat waves on people held in aging facilities without adequate cooling or ventilation — and identify potential solutions,” the EPA said. “The project will also establish a statewide environmental advisory committee to educate policymakers about these challenges and develop policy recommendations to improve conditions.”

Baker Center support cuts to the police budget, and It is called In November 2021, following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the group called for a “total divestment from police.” It is called They called on California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, to close five prisons in the state.

The group also Praised The passage of California's Proposition 47 in 2014, which effectively decriminalized shoplifting by making the theft of property under $950 a misdemeanor instead of a felony. according to Filed in California Superior Court, Proposition 47 sparked a massive increase in retail theft in the state. according to Across the state, increases in theft and crime are driving retailers and businesses out of cities like San Francisco, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

Baker Center[works] “Towards Queer Black Feminist Liberation” and “[strives] “To directly confront anti-Blackness personally, institutionally, and within our communities, without reproducing the culture of white supremacy (fear of open confrontation, perfectionism, monopoly of power, microaggressions, individualism, etc.).” according to It can be found in the “Our Values” section of our website.

The organisation also runs a Civic Leaders Hub and a Voter Hub. according to Please visit our website.Voter Hub” contains a link to California’s voter registration website and information about inmates and former inmates who are eligible to vote in California.

“The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the most recent funding announced last week, is set to receive between $1 million and $3 million,” West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said during a legislative session on Wednesday. Press conference To the EPA Activist Award winners: “They actively advocate for defunding the police, decriminalizing shoplifting, and abolishing prisons. I mean, this is taxpayer money. What do they have to do with telling people how to live better, how to cope, how to clean up the environment?”

The Baker Center joins a growing list of left-leaning activist groups that receive taxpayer funds from the EPA. Other groups receiving $50 million as pass-through grant donors include the Climate Justice Alliance, the New Jersey Immigrant Justice Alliance and the New York Immigrant Coalition, which are partner organizations in the coalition that were awarded $50 million through the same EPA pass-through grant donor. program.

The EPA and the Baker Center did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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