What’s been happening around Turtle Island? (October)
Taansii Kiyawow – It’s Erin Blondeau here, the new communications coordinator at ICA. We are trying something new for the next few weeks: a weekly round-up newsletter and Facebook post. We will test this for a while and see how you like it.
A lot has been happening lately across Turtle Island. We know it can be hard to keep up, so we’ve compiled a list of news, events, and big stories related to Indigeneity and the climate crisis.
Check it out, and be sure to share with your friends, family, and community!
HAPPENING NEXT FRIDAY: Indigenous Rights and False Solutions at COP26
(October 15th at 12pm PT / 1pm MT / 3pm ET)
Join ICA’s moderator Eriel Deranger with panelists Janene Yazzie (International Indian Treaty Council), Graeme Reed (Assembly of First Nations), Rebecca Sinclair (Indigenous Climate Action) as we explore the narrative around false solutions being presented at the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow, such as carbon offsets and carbon markets under Article 6 and Nature-Based Solutions, and how they affect Indigenous rights.
Register here (Replay will be available on YouTube and Facebook)
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Decolonizing Climate Policy Survey
Indigenous people and our knowledge and perspective are absolutely critical for taking real action on the climate crisis. And so, in this survey, we are beginning to gather ideas from Indigenous people about what climate ‘policies’ and solutions you want to see. We invite you to dream up climate policies, protocols and solutions that express the needs and interests of your community and reflect your culture, values, traditions and your relationship with lands, waters, and the climate.
Online Discussion: Women in Climate Policy
* Featuring Rebecca Sinclair, Research & Policy Analyst at Indigenous Climate Action!
Women experienced the worst effects of climate change. Shouldn’t they be at the highest levels of climate decision-making? Join Fair Path Forward for Women in Climate Policy, an online discussion on Thursday, October 28th at 12:00 PM EST.
Wet’suwet’en Resistance to CGL Pipeline Occupation 2021
Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all Hereditary Chiefs of the five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink to drill on Wet’suwet’en lands. Over the past week … the RCMP has utilized excessive use of force and torturous pain compliance on land defenders. Gidimt’en chiefs and supporters have been defending a number of culturally significant archeological sites and the sacred headwaters of the Wedzin Kwa from destruction on unceded Cas Yikh (Grizzly House) territory belonging to the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en people.
Scientists and Indigenous communities to study effects of climate change on Arctic caribou
Logan Berner of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) was recently awarded $718,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Fate of the Caribou: from local knowledge to range‐wide dynamics in the changing Arctic,” a three-year study of how increased human development affects caribou herds against the backdrop of a dynamic and changing physical environment.
The countries most responsible for climate crisis revealed
(Hint: Canada is 10th)
Analysis of the total carbon dioxide emissions of countries since 1850 has revealed the nations with the greatest historical responsibility for the climate emergency. But six of the top 10 have yet to make ambitious new pledges to cut their emissions before the crucial UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November. The six include China, Russia, and Brazil, which come only behind the U.S. as the biggest cumulative polluters. The U.K. is eighth and Canada is 10th.
For Climate Solutions, Listen to Indigenous Women
From YES Magazine:
“I have always been afraid to talk about climate change. The barrage of doomsday numbers and the overwhelming magnitude of the problem leave me feeling small and powerless. But in the run up to COP26, the most important climate change meeting in history, running away from the world’s toughest problem was no longer an option. So, as an audio journalist and podcast producer, I instead tried to imagine what a different approach to the discussion around climate change could sound like.”
New report shows impact of Indigenous Peoples in the fight against fossil fuel
Indigenous Environmental Network:
Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon seeks to uplift the work of countless Tribal Nations, Indigenous water protectors, land defenders, pipeline fighters, and many other grassroots formations who have dedicated their lives to defending the sacredness of Mother Earth and protecting their inherent rights of Indigenous sovereignty and self- determination. In this report, we demonstrate the tangible impact these Indigenous campaigns of resistance have had in the fight against fossil fuel expansion across what is currently called Canada and the United States of America.
Washington DC: Demand a Fossil Fuel Free Future
From October 11 to 15, thousands of people will take action at the White House, participate in civil disobedience, and demand that President Biden choose a side: People vs. Fossil Fuels.
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In solidarity,
Erin & the ICA Team
Was this useful to you? Send me an email at erin@indigenousclimateaction.com and let me know what you think.