With over 150 different activist groups on the streets of San Francisco this week, waving banners for an equal number of causes, it can be a challenge to read the concerns of the crowd. But Wednesday morning’s 7 a.m. march from Powell and Market Streets will center on the unifying theme of climate.

“When we see free trade pacts taking place, like the North American Free Trade Agreement we saw in the 1990s, it’s about opening reserves of natural minerals for corporations,” said Nik Evasco with No To APEC, the coalition organizing the march. He said corporations in the global north are the ones doing most of the extraction. “That means often displacing indigenous populations.”

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.