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From Sierra Club...

Be sure to check out this excellent personal essay by Sierra Club Outdoors program coordinator Sergio Avila on his experiences in the outdoors as a person of color, and what it'll take to build a more inclusive and safe culture.  [Here's an excerpt...]

"...I got ready for my run thinking what a week it had been, and as I opened the door I was frozen with deep fear. That morning I could not leave my home. I could not go outside for the regular run I do most days. I felt fear for my own life and the possibility of no one in my running community knowing what happened to me, even when I tried to rationalize that “this doesn’t happen here.” I had never felt this fear before in relation to running, even though I’ve been threatened with guns by Border Patrol agents and the Minutemen vigilantes while working in the borderlands, but that’s another story. I didn’t go running that morning, and that affected me even more...."

Also...

Sierra Club senior organizing rep Roberto Morales wrote a great column about working for equity and access in the outdoors in Los Angeles and the recent wins to protect the San Gabriel Mountains.

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