Catherine Coleman Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers is an environmental and climate justice activist. She founded the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and is the author of WASTE: One Women’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. Her essay collection, Thirty Pieces of Silver, will be published next January. (March 2024)

Life and Death in Alabama

The recent struggle over IVF in my home state reveals how little value its government places in human life.

March 8, 2024

Our Lives in Their Hands

If state governments truly cared about the lives of poor women or our children, they wouldn’t poison our water and pollute our air. They can’t be trusted with our bodies.

May 13, 2022

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