Indigenous Environmental Network announces anti-capitalism/climate change protests 9/10 & 9/13/18
Stand with Communities, Not Corporations!
SEPTEMBER 10TH & SEPTEMBER 13TH 2018
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
The twin crises of capitalism and climate change are destroying the planet, burning our homes, and flooding our communities. We are witnessing unprecedented harm, from the hurricanes that ravaged Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the Gulf Coast, to wildfires destroying communities along the west coast. At the same time, California passed carbon trading laws (AB 398) that subsidize, and allow the world's largest corporations to continue destroying our climate and communities with pollution and poverty.
In September, Governor Jerry Brown is convening the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco to promote his “real climate leadership” credentials on a global stage. But Jerry Brown’s promotion of pollution trading and other perverse subsidies to oil, gas and corporations only perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world.
Such incentives for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline communities into sacrifice zones for decades to come, and despite Brown’s attempts to prove he is different from Trump and the forces of climate denial, his “climate leadership” promotes the same corporate agenda – aimed at expanding the dig, burn, drive, dump industries destroying our communities and the air, land and water we depend on.
Join us to stand in solidarity with frontline communities protecting Mother Earth, and cultivating real solutions to the twin crises of climate change and capitalism. Join us to demand that elected leaders stand with our communities on the streets, and not the climate profiteers gathered inside.
On September 10th, you are invited to join us for, RISE Against Climate Capitalism, a nonviolent action that will include prayer, teach-in, painting a street mural and direct action where climate profiteers will be meeting prior to the Global Climate Action Summit. This action will be wrapped in prayer and committed with love for all we hold dear. We will gather at 8AM PST at 55 Cyril Magnin St., San Francisco, CA 94102-2812.
On September 13th, join us to: “Stand With Communities, Not Corporations!” - a family friendly rally and non-violent action at the Global Climate Action Summit. The rally will commence with prayer and ceremony at Jessie Square, 736 Mission Street, close to Powell Street and Montgomery BART stations.
We invite elected leaders to return all stolen wealth and reinvest in frontline communities organizing a Just Transition to local, living economies guided by the earth’s natural cycles and the needs of all peoples, not the profits of a few.
Join us to stop an economic agenda that causes climate change and also militarizes our lands, gentrifies and displaces our communities, wages gendered and racialized violence on our peoples, incarcerates our youth, and exploits and enslaves our natural and human resources to concentrate profit and power.
Our actions will be wrapped in prayer and committed with love for all we hold dear. Our actions will embody visionary and beautiful solutions cultivated by our communities whose deep roots are bound in protecting the fragile balance between Mother Earth & Father Sky.
Join us on the streets of San Francisco as we tell Jerry Brown and his friends that “real climate leaders” stand with people, not the pollution profiteers.
Join us! RSVP Here:
September 10th: https://www.facebook.com/events/224311744948766/
September 13th: https://www.facebook.com/events/571268929956792/
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