Beyond the panda logo is a charity that has lost it’s way | WWF

Thought To share this article on WWF published in today’s Times newspaper
https://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/the-times/20210903/282192244091372

Hello.
Welcome to this week's #MapaReccomends

To start as off we have a podcast from our very own International team - Fridays for future Digital on the linos between colonialism, capitalism and the climate crisis.
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2raIOQAJB5zk9iPyiBHh4n?si=cBPjeBVXSXCC7SrW40QHqg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

Next up: we have an introduction to white saviourism
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1n7qELp340g1aC8wJKj2E6?si=rAG5w5PBT9SyeKJarFZY7Q&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1


And finally a PDF on De-schooling. What negative impacts has westernized school had on us? Do we need to re-think school?

Vaccine equity now!

https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1434829717555666948?t=zfY02Nl3gP2deIk2jAd-vw&s=19

On UNFCCC COP 26, vaccine equity, and climate justice:

https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1435226862494486531?s=20

https://www.instagram.com/p/CThaOyTM1ii/?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.facebook.com/107051118210906/posts/176135651302452/

[EACOP CALL 10th SEPTEMBER 4Pm GMT]

‼️FRENCH COMPANY TOTAL BUILDING THE BIGGEST OIL PIPELINE - INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN CALL - 10 SEPTEMBER 4Pm GMT‼️

Hey everyone!
The french oil giant Total is planning to build a massive crude oil pipeline right through the heart of Africa – displacing communities, endangering wildlife and tipping the world closer to full-blown climate catastrophe.🚨

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline needs to be stopped, and this 10th of September we will have a virtual strike call to demand Total to stop the construction immediately.

The call will take place on Friday 10th September at 4pm GMT to share ideas on the ongoing actions taken globally to ensure the construction is stopped, plan further Actions we could take, digitally and physically, to hear the experiences of on ground campaigners, and also, come with your #STOPEACOP placard ready to strike online.


If you can attend, put your name in this pad ⏩ https://pad.fridaysforfuture.is/p/EACOP_call
⏫ZOOM LINK IN THE PAD ⏫

And if you'd like to know more about this campaign, check this info pack. In case you have any questions, feel free to reach out to @LineNie or @NakabuyeHildaF

Share this to all your chats so as many people join as possible. 😁

See you soon! 💚

I bet you thought Conservation is good for the planet right? Like the rest of us you see it as one of the ways we can start turning the environmental and ecological crisis around? Well actually you're right. Unfortunately, the majority of conservation being done - especially by the big dogs such as WWF, Wildlife Conservation Society, The Nature Conservancy - is doing much more harm than good in so many parts of the world. And the way in which this is happening is through organisations violating the human rights of Indigenous and local communities who are often the best in the world at conserving biodiversity.
Indigenous peoples safeguard a whopping 80% of the entire earth's land biodiversity, despite only being 5% of the global population.
This model of conservation, better known as Fortress Conservation, has a sinister and brutal history; a history involving white supremacist colonial settlers violently displacing and murdering countless Indigenous people in order to claim ownership of land. From there the colonisers were able to extract, exploit and export Fortress Conservation across the world. This model remains operational even today, and just as violent, extractive, and destructive.
Conservation is at the intersection between the separation of humans and nature, and of racial capitalism. This is why we must ignite resistance against the further destruction of the natural world by acknowledging the centuries of resistance of Indigenous peoples and local communities, and ensure our work is rooted in solidarity.

Join this event to learn more on colonial conservation

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonizeconservation-tickets-169173328981

The climate crisis is undermining Kenya's effort to tackle child marriage in northern Kenya.

https://time.com/5878719/climate-change-kenya-child-marriage/

TweetStorm 6 pm GMT!!!

Let's defend the defenders, support indigenous people of Brazil!!!

HASHTAG: #MarcoTemporalNão

English sample tweets: https://bit.ly/2TbyS6Z
Graphics: https://bit.ly/3hqbKd4
Videos: https://bit.ly/3dsKj0T
Pics: https://bit.ly/3hjoemx

GMVS COMUNICADO 9/09/2021

To all land, water and life defenders
To all those that are being criminalised by the state
To all social movements
To all of our Global Majority siblings

Blessings!

The criminalisation that we are living at the hands of the state is a violence that is only going to increase as ecofacism becomes law and as imperialist centres begin to feel their power and capitalist system of oppression come under threat.

Land, water and life defenders have been, and continue to be, persecuted day in and day out by the state, its police and military units, paramilitary groups and organised crime. They want to silence the communities that they know are creating autonomy and justice.

As social movements we are different from NGOs, we do not call for justice from those that oppress us because we know that they can never give us justice because they fuel the climate of injustice that we live daily, and so as movements we must think about how we act differently from these organisations.

We must think about how we act in response to the criminalisation of our brothers, sisters and siblings and how we must stop being reactionary in the face of all this persecution.

Visiblising is important and social media can be used as a tool against impunity but our fight cannot stop there. We cannot only be visibilising the violence of the state once our siblings are dead, disappeared or in jail because to win this fight we must be alive and free. So what are we doing to ensure that we stay that way? How are we building autonomous communities of defence against the violence that the state exerts on us?

When the state touches one, they touch all, regardless of where we are in the world. These imagined borders that these imperialist centres have implanted to divide us must be broken down through our Global Majority ties of Resistance. As movements what are we doing to break down these borders? How are we mobilising globally in response to persecution that is happening locally?

This September 10th, 2021, the Mexican government is trying to criminalise our brother Miguel López Vega, a water defender who has resisted against the contamination of the river Metlapanapa by an industrial water network in Puebla. Globally we are watching the Mexican government, that pretends to be for the people, as it criminalises those that defend life whilst it leaves the real criminals walk free. And we are not only watching but also preparing ourselves for action. We will not allow for this persecution and violence to go unchecked.

Freedom for all our political prisoners!

Drop all charges against our land, water and life defenders!

Drop all charges against Miguel López Vega!

Signed: Global Majority VS UK Government

Hi there,
You may have recently heard that CBS TV and Global Citizens are planning to produce a new TV competition called ‘The Activist’, which will be judged by celebrities Usher, Priyanka Chopra and Julianne Hough.

As a group we’ve been hugely disgusted by this news and so have written an open letter which we’ll be sending to CBS and Global Citizen Execs and to the management of the celebrities involved. We would love it if your group were able to join us in signing this letter so as to send a clear message to those intending on creating this show that, as activists and justice seekers, we want nothing to do with it!

You can find the full letter here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n5r0M0XGsyC6FV9i8VohJ9rSqzRdf7tTK5ULk5OXj6Q/edit?usp=sharing
Feel free to share it with your group/ network and please let us know if you’re interested in co-signing it by 6pm BST on Sunday 12th September!
Thanks,
PTM Team

Join Fridays for future Kenyas Irene Asuwa as they dubunk the book "The big conversation lie" by Dr. Modecai Ogada together with Amnesty Kenya.

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdumppzoqEt2C7zeBvNcEYvjGlFxIvagU

According to the latest Global Witness report, 2020 saw 227 killings of land and environment defenders, many from some of the most impacted peoples and areas. Over half of the attacks took place in only 3 countries: Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines.

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/last-line-defence/

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE!

let's all hype it up by changing and using and posting the profile picture generator today (September 17)!

💥 get your photo at fridaysforfuture.org/September24

MAPA (Most affected Peoples and Areas) now has a Wikipedia page of its own!

yay <3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Affected_People_and_Areas

“ All Climate justice work is climate work but not all Climate work is climate justice work. “

Listen to this lecture by Kumi Naidoo (former Greenpeace & Amnesty Secretary General) and he dives deep into the meaning of climate justice in the context of international movements.

https://www.fossilfreeuniversity.org/lesson/1001