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April 2026: corporate accountability

Each month, we break down our topic into four weekly modules. Catch up on previous editions here.​

This week's module: REFLECT

• ✅ CONNECT | Dream about the role corporations play (or don't play) in your ideal future
• ✅ LEARN | What are some success stories of holding corporations accountable, including employee-driven activism campaigns?
• ✅ ACT | Actions for corporate accountability and grassroots organizing
• 🎯 REFLECT | Art, poetry, and commitments

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Here's what we'll learn today Reader

Happy Earth Day 56.

Did you know the first Earth Day was a protest that remains the largest single-day protest event in the USA with 20 million people?

That was all before The Climate Movement was a thing.

Mass mobilizing works, and as we end this month on corporate accountability, that's where I'd like to leave us.

Corporations are never going to change voluntarily. They're made up of good people like you and me, but the entrenched incentives of profit maximization mean, most of the time, that the farther you get into your career, the more you are beholden to the corporation.

Even more than you're beholden to yourself. The safety of your children. The health of the planet. A livable future with clean air and clean water.

Otherwise, why would fossil fuel CEOs be willingly destroying the earth?

So, today, I want to re-ground in our allegiances. Because things are going to get worse before they get better, thanks to the powerful people that serve their interests. It sucks to say this on a newsletter oriented in joy, but we are already in a state of collapse. However, we still decide how badly we want to snatch our future from the jaws of billionaires and their cronies.

For me, it's not about "what if the world ends?!?!" because honestly? I believe that the world as we know it has ended. Or it is in an active state of ending right now. Does that depress me? A little. Howeeeever: we can shape the new world with our hands and our hearts. But we HAVE to step up and do it, and we can take our lessons from the very first Earth Day.

You can look up the history of Earth Day online and go down that rabbit hole, but in today's Changeletter, I want to leave you with a beautiful poem that reminds me why I keep fighting even when it looks like the bad guys might win.

I will sign off here so you can read the poem in peace. Read it out loud. Read it at work. Remember, above all, you are human. And we are here, together, bound together in each others futures in knots we can hardly comprehend.

And isn't that fun?

Love and team earth forever,

Nivi

P.S. if your company claims to care about Earth Day, push them on it. Today's a great day to ask questions.

Your bite-sized action plan Reader

✅ REFLECT on this poem and where your allegiances lie.

Patriotism by Ellie Schoenfeld

My country is this dirt
that gathers under my fingernails
when I am in the garden.
The quiet bacteria and fungi,
all the little insects and bugs
are my compatriots. They are
idealistic, always working together
for the common good.
I kneel on the earth
and pledge my allegiance
to all the dirt of the world,
to all of that soil which grows
flowers and food
for the just and unjust alike.
The soil does not care
what we think about or who we love.
It knows our true substance,
of what we are really made.
I stand my ground on this ground,
this ground which will
ultimately
recruit us all
to its side.

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