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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
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
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
Google Docs
Open Letter
To whom it may concern, We are writing to express our concerns with the commissioned show noscriptd ‘The Activist’ on CBS, produced by Global Citizen with hosts Priyanka Chopra, Usher and Julianne Hough. We represent a coalition of, primarily youth, activists…
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
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdumppzoqEt2C7zeBvNcEYvjGlFxIvagU
Hello. Over the past few months we started a series on this channel called #MAPAReccomends. Have you found it useful?
Select all that apply for you
Select all that apply for you
Anonymous Poll
7%
I have read/listened/watched all the recommendations
28%
I have recommended some of the recommendations to other people
34%
I have learned a lot from the recommendations sent
42%
I haven't gotten the time to go through them
38%
I have gone through them but not all of them
37%
I'm planning to go through them at some point.
3%
I haven't found them useful at all. I didn't like them.
2%
They are just meh :)
20%
I have learnt a lot from them and it would be cool to have a space to discuss the recommendations
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/
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/last-line-defence/
Global Witness
The industries causing climate crisis and attacks against defenders
2020 was once again the most dangerous year on record for people defending their land and our planet
Forwarded from Global Climate Strike Announcements (Mitzi Jonelle 🇵🇭🌏)
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
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
yay <3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Affected_People_and_Areas
Wikipedia
Most Affected People and Areas
neologism that means disproportionately affected groups and territories
“ 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
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
www.fossilfreeuniversity.org
Understanding climate justice
It's the Global Climate Strike tomorrow!
Check this out!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUKpzOuD7va/?utm_medium=copy_link
Don't forget to tune into our social media and check out everyone's cool strikes!
Check this out!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUKpzOuD7va/?utm_medium=copy_link
Don't forget to tune into our social media and check out everyone's cool strikes!
"Their militias will keep us out of our lands which they need for “carbon credits” so their industries can continue to produce and pollute unabated."
Powerful views by Mordecai Ogada.
https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2021/09/24/marseille-2021-the-2nd-scramble-for-africa/
Powerful views by Mordecai Ogada.
https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2021/09/24/marseille-2021-the-2nd-scramble-for-africa/
The Elephant
Marseille 2021: The 2nd Scramble for Africa
I come back home a worried man, even more perturbed than I was before, about the march of colonialism under the guise of conservation.
The livestream where we're announcing the next Global Climate Strike is starting in 5 minutes! RT!!
https://twitter.com/Fridays4future/status/1442820131164499970?s=20
https://twitter.com/Fridays4future/status/1442820131164499970?s=20
Twitter
Fridays For Future
Last Friday's Global Climate Strike was amazing! With over 1500 strikes we wont stop, we are going to to keep fighting to #UprootTheSystem Now we will announce our next 2021 Global Climate Strike! Get to know more in our press conference in 5 minutes! tw…
Drought crisis in northern and eastern Kenya
Kenya is facing its worst drought in a decade, with 2.4 million people expected to be going hungry by November. The fast-emerging humanitarian crisis is not only the result of two consecutive poor rainy seasons in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands region – an arc of under-developed territory in the north and east of the county. Needs are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, insecurity, as well as by pests and diseases. Household maize stocks are well below the five-year average, and both livestock and milk production have fallen, driving up prices. A glut in the livestock market, as people sell off their animals, is further eroding pastoralists’ earnings. They are already forced to walk longer distances in search of water and to forage for their livestock, resulting in a spike in inter-communal tensions. Upcoming short rains, due to fall from October to December, are also forecast to be below average, resulting yet again in poor harvests and worsening livestock conditions next year.
Kenya is facing its worst drought in a decade, with 2.4 million people expected to be going hungry by November. The fast-emerging humanitarian crisis is not only the result of two consecutive poor rainy seasons in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands region – an arc of under-developed territory in the north and east of the county. Needs are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, insecurity, as well as by pests and diseases. Household maize stocks are well below the five-year average, and both livestock and milk production have fallen, driving up prices. A glut in the livestock market, as people sell off their animals, is further eroding pastoralists’ earnings. They are already forced to walk longer distances in search of water and to forage for their livestock, resulting in a spike in inter-communal tensions. Upcoming short rains, due to fall from October to December, are also forecast to be below average, resulting yet again in poor harvests and worsening livestock conditions next year.