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Dear Friends and Allies,
Since we last wrote the world has faced a string of extreme climate distuptions that remind us just how urgent the crisis that we face truly is. A ‘heat dome’ across the Middle East brought some of the highest urban temperatures ever felt by humankind, in the US hundreds of wildfires broke out across Alaska and California, and Typhoon Soudelor battered Taiwan and the east coast of China. However as global temperatures and oceans rise, so do the people. Across the world people are standing up to call for change, envision and create a new world, and re-claim their role as guardians of the Earth. Women continue to work at the forefront of this people’s movement for climate justice. In this newsletter we honor the voices, struggles, stories, and solutions of women in the DR Congo, Bangladesh, and frontline U.S communities- and share details about how worldwide women and allies can join us as we rise up for the Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action on Sept. 29. We also: invite you to join us for our ‘Women Speak’ event in New York City; provide recaps and resources from recent WECAN trainings; and highlight the Women’s Climate Declaration and signature campaign. |
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Day Of Action – Sept 29
Momentum is building for the September 29 Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action. Thank you everyone who is already committed to participate – if you have not yet engaged, we encourage you to add your voice to this critical women’s climate justice mobilization in the lead up to the UN Climate Negotiations in Paris and beyond! No act is too small and everyone can take part.
Please help share the Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action far and wide. Click here to download and explore the Day of Action Organizing and Media Toolkit which includes a range of resources to invite involvement from other women and allies across the globe.
Join us for a Day of Action Organizing Call:
Thursday September 3 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, West Coast USA (Please check your own time zone to coordinate with us)
Training hosted on Zoom (a free program similar to Skype).
Join via internet:
Before call: click here to download Zoom
At time of call: click here to join
Or join by phone: +1 646 568 7788 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 531 608 180
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On Sept. 29th, while women worldwide mobilize as part of the Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action, WECAN International will present ‘Women Speak: Climate Justice on the Road to Paris & Beyond’, a powerful hub event to be held at the United Nations Church Center in New York City.
The event will feature presentations and action plans by women leaders joined in solidarity to speak out against environmentally and socially destructive activities and policies, explore why women are key to just and effective solutions, and present the diverse visions and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world.
Speakers include:
This event is free and open to the public, however registration is required. Click here to learn more and register for the Sept. 29th ‘Women Speak’ event in New York City.
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Last month WECAN International and partners at SAFECO held a workshop in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo to to take steps in ongoing work to prevent the deforestation and destruction of the region’s Itombwe Rainforest, support women as local climate leaders, and protect and impelement the Traditional Ecologic Knowledge of the areas Indigenous Peoples.
Delegates from local communities, Indigenous Pygmys from Mwenga Center and the Itombwe savanna, leaders from regional NGO’s, and provincial authorities united to discuss the threats facing the region and the solutions developed and proposed by participants at previous WECAN/SAFECO trainings.
written by defenders of the forest in South Kivu Province, DR Congo. |
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U.S Women’s Climate Justice Initiative Training Recaps
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Women stand at the forefront of movements for social and environmental justice across the US and the world. On July 8, Kandi Mossett (Indigenous Environmental Network), Casey Camp Horneik (Ponca Nation), Jacqui Patterson (NAACP), and Pennie Opal Plant (Idle No More SF Bay, Movement Rights) spoke about the harms faced by their communities, and the diverse ways that they are resisting and protecting the Earth.
Click here for insight into the powerful experiences, struggles, and solutions presented by these frontline women leaders during ‘Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change: Resistance & Solutions.’
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On July 28 Shannon Biggs of Movement Rights and Osprey Orielle Lake of WECAN International spoke as part of the US Women’s Climate Justice Initiative online training ‘Rights of Nature & Community Rights: Protecting & Defending the Places We Live.’ Rights of Nature is a powerful advocacy tool that provides us with a new legal framework to protect our communities. Due to enthusiastic requests from our network, the training will be repeated in the future! Click here for a training recap and complete list of resources.
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