Normalising these killings won’t stop them, why we must act now and what we can do, by Martín Vainstein. This is a guest post by Martín Vainstein, a climate and human rights campaigner and community organiser based in London. In 2015 he co-founded Wretched of the Earth and the new Argentina Solidarity Campaign. Formerly with …
International Women’s Day
Today, on the International Women’s Day of Struggle, Friends of the Earth International is sharing the voices and experiences of Friends of the Earth women and transgender environmental activists. The national and regional contexts described by these activists are diverse. But the challenges they face are a common expression of the linked oppressions based on …
We are hiring – Young Friends of the Earth Network Development Officer!
Young Friends of the Earth Europe is seeking a Network Development Officer, to support a growing and diverse network of young activists, working on environmental and social justice issues in more than 20 countries. Young Friends of the Earth Europe (Young FoEE) is a grassroots network of young people and youth organisations working collectively on …
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Friends of the Earth International in Solidarity with Refugees Sentenced in Hungary
Resolution proposed by Young FoEE and FoE Hungary and approved at Friends of the Earth International Biennial General Meeting in Indonesia, 2016 December. On November 30th 2016, a refugee from Syria named Ahmed, who got asylum in the EU and was trying to help his family in the perilous journey to Europe, was sentenced to …
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Førdefjord Activists on Trial for Civil Disobedience
Tina Andersen Vågenes, activist on trial and member of central board in Young Friends of the Earth Norway (Natur og Ungdom). Contact at tinav@nu.no The Norwegian government has approved massive disposal of mining waste in the Førde fjord. Nordic Mining has been allowed to extract rutile from the Engebø Mountain, and dump 250 million tons …
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Global call on banks to halt loan to Dakota Access Pipeline
Young Friends of the Earth Europe has joined more than 500+ civil society organisations from more than 50 countries in sending a joint open letter to the seventeen banks providing a US$2.5 billion project loan to Dakota Access LLC. This letter, endorsed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, demands that the banks involved immediately halt …
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Global Climate Justice Movements Refuse to Be Overshadowed by Election of Climate Change Denier to U.S. Presidency
Young Friends of the Earth Europe has joined the undersigned organisations, networks, and movements gathered in Marrakech at COP22 to issue the following collective statement in support of communities and movements around the world in response to Donald Trump becoming President-Elect of the United States of America and its potentially devastating implications for the cause …
Podcast: intersectionality and broadening the climate movement
At the recent Young Friends of the Earth Europe convergence event on intersectionality in theory and practice, we recorded an episode of the Real World Radio Europe podcast on intersectionality: what it is, and how we can (practically!) make the environmental justice movement broader and more inclusive. Let’s not mince words: we mean less white, …
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Share Widely: Reclaim Power Statement for COP22
After a powerful wave of actions across the globe demanding to act on local struggles and oppose dirty energy projects, the Reclaim Power initiative addresses governments at the UN climate talks in Marrakech (COP22), calling for an immediate and just energy transformation. The statement will be delivered today (17th November) in Marrakesh at 13:00 (14:00 …
COP 22: What will climate justice mean in Marrakech?
A comprehensive article compiled by members of the Young FoEE Climate Justice working group to mark the start of the UN Climate Talks in Marrakech – outlining our views on the need for ambitious action on climate change to avoid causing further instability and injustice. COP 22: What will climate justice mean in Marrakech? Today opens the …
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