Anthony Rogers-Wright is a long-time social change agent, who is active with Black Alliance for Peace, Movement 4 Black Lives, and the Black Hive. Anthony was in Brazil for the Climate Change COP (Conference of the Parties) gathering when we spoke to him this week.

These annual United Nations climate summits are supposed to be humanity’s best hope for coordinating global action on the climate crisis. But as Anthony points out, the COP process has been captured by elites — by fossil fuel executives, technocrats, and politicians who treat our planet like a bargaining chip in a global casino.

Anthony’s presence in Brazil matters. It’s not just symbolic. It’s part of a growing effort to reclaim global climate spaces from corporate control and return them to the people. Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Brazil have been organizing against agribusiness, mining, and deforestation — not only to defend the Amazon, but to defend a way of life that recognizes the Earth as a living being, not a commodity.

If we’re serious about climate justice, we need to stand with them — not as spectators, but as co-strugglers. Follow The Black Hive and Black Alliance for Peace. Support local and global efforts that put people and planet before profit.

Because as Anthony Rogers-Wright teaches us, the real climate movement isn’t happening inside the COP halls — it’s happening outside, where ordinary people are building the world that must come next.

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