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The climate, the pope and the prof -- a must-read thread. #uutwitter
Today, @pontifex released Laudato Deum, an update on the 2015 encyclical. It's not so much a breath of fresh air as it is a bucket of ice water, straight to the face of those who are standing in the way of and delaying climate progress. Here are a few highlights:
The father says: "This is what #courage looks like." He's right. But give yourself the gift of hearing the words of his 11-year-old #trans daughter for yourself. (And thanks for your own courage and vigilance, @ErinInTheMorn)
Stop what you are doing and watch Allison, an 11 year old trans girl, testify to her school board.
“I came here not to fight, but to make peace. How? I’m going to tell a story.”
I don't know how you can have dry eyes after watching this.
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Terrific review by Ned Blackhawk, author of "The Rediscovery of America" -- which Brookline's Indigenous Peoples Celebration Committee will be discussing Nov.5 @ 4pm Eastern. Join the conversation! brooklinema.gov/1555/Indigen…
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Celebrate #Indigenous Peoples Day in @TownofBrookline Monday Oct9 @ 2pm with a lineup of Indigenous poets, artists and speakers and a booth featuring First Parish's Footprints tour of Indigenous history in Brookline. @Brookline_ODICR
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“Hatred is a shield that prevents people from reckoning with their own pain.” -Alok Vaid-Menon @SecDebHaaland #uutwitter
To celebrate LGBT History Month, I joined outdoor advocate and climate movement icon @pattiegonia to discuss how places like @StonewallNPS help tell our country’s full and honest story.
“I’m always thinking about peace with earth rather than peace on earth because one is held in domination and one is held in relationship.” -@Tiokasin via #CollectiveTraumaSummit @thepocketproj
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Many ways to #AllyUp. Thanks, @sunrisemvmt
RIGHT NOW: we’re in @SpeakerMcCarthy’s office, demanding him to avert a government shutdown and fund climate action we desperately need.
America's binary #gender agenda arrived in the 1600s with puritan christians. By contrast, "From the beginning of our Torah’s imaginings of the creation of humankind, gender diversity was part of the Divine plan." rac.org/blog/what-torah-teac…
Mike Pence's threat to end trans healthcare shows the depth of his connection to the #AntiTransHateMachine. That combined with the attack on trans Pentagon officials on the House floor today underscores that being anti-trans is an essential litmus test to being a Republican.
Help us to really understand why Indigenous people are only 5% of the global population but protect 80% of the globe's remaining biodiversity. Might capitalism learn to value reciprocity? That would be quite a gift, @zoeschlanger
I start at @TheAtlantic next week covering climate change. I'd love to know what kind of stories you'd like to read, and what questions you'd like to see answered.
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"Antiracism work is not one-human-being work. It is collective work. Racist structures and systems are so entrenched, so insidious ... Antiracism requires collective power building, collective action, and collective dismantling." - Yanique Redwood bostonglobe.com/2023/09/25/o…
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Blessed are the truth tellers.
Appalled by the rampant hate speech on my recent post about TMX pipeline (AKA Federal government) violating the rights of the Secwepemc & when they’ve already been through hell. Yet residential school deniers are unleashing their racism. This is where we’re at with reconciliation in Canada.
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The Anti-Colonial Research Library: A most welcome resource! Especially after hearing Patty Krawec so convincingly connect #Decolonization with #LandBack truthout.org/audio/we-can-su… @truthout
A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.…
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So true. And closer to home in Brookline MA ... hiddenbrookline.weebly.com @Brookline_ODICR
On this day in 1962, the St. Matthew Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia, was burned to the ground. It was the fifth Black church in Georgia destroyed by fire over the span of several weeks. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
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C'mon, MA, let's make #IndigenousPeoplesDay official! The state is named for the Massachusett people, after all.
Please support getting a statewide #IndigenousPeoplesDay bill passed in Massachusetts!
Just pop in a MA address to send an automated email (that you can customize) to the legislative committee that will hold a hearing for the bill.
#SinkColumbus
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Nearly 2000 land and environmental defenders have been killed since 2012.
Today, we're screening their names in New York's Times Square to pay tribute to them.
As global leaders gather for the @UN Climate Ambition Summit, we call on governments to #DefendTheDefenders
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A phrase for our time: #AllyUp
My latest with @TorontoStar
You want to help tame the colonial beast? Well, Ally up! thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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Standing Firm is the annual report from @Global_Witness regarding the international targeting of land and environmental defenders. Warning: This report is deeply troubling. In the report:
Almost 2,000 were killed 2012 to 2022 for protecting the planet globalwitness.org/en/campaig…
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You make us wonder, @LakotaMan1: When do we start referring to today's illegal immigrants as pilgrims and settlers?
"Although they comprise less than 5% of the world population, Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the Earth’s biodiversity in the forests, deserts, grasslands, and marine environments in which they have lived for centuries." - @WWF
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So in the past couple of days, there have been dozens of international headlines re: Thacker Pass lithium deposits. Yet, the mine there has been in development for years by Canadian owned Lithium Americas.
It just so happens my film THACKER PASS: Protect the Sacred came out yesterday.
This new “gold rush” everyone is salivating to get their hands on isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. It will not save the earth. And it’s destroying the environment and Indigenous rights, just like the colonizers have always done. Please go watch my film:
youtube.com/watch?v=uLO7ClVt…
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Amazing film. Connects so many dots.
When I set out to do this story I had no idea that lithium mining was so bad. It has a huge carbon footprint, yet it’s marketed to save the world-it was fascinatingly disturbing to learn the truth. Meanwhile, Indigenous Peoples are paying the consequences of extraction companies ripping up their land…as per usual. Go have a watch!
youtube.com/watch?v=uLO7ClVt…