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Across the U.S. territories, environmental injustice and political disenfranchisement operate as entangled legacies of colonial governance, ecological vulnerability, democratic exclusion, and economies rooted in extraction. As the inaugural cohort of the Right to Democracy Environment & Democracy Fellows, representing Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, we explore how relational decolonial approaches to solidarity and shared strategy can strengthen decolonial environmental justice.

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