📢 BREAKING: Big banks poured a staggering $705 BILLION into fossil fuels in 2023! The new #BankingOnClimateChaos report, endorsed by WECAN, reveals just how complicit these banks are in the climate crisis. We demand they #DefundClimateChaos NOW.

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Thank you to the many matriarchs caring for and stewarding a healthy and just future for all generations!

Please meet several Indigenous matriarchs who are leading the way in caring for people and planet. tinyurl.com/4hyadaej

'The difficulty is that we are not just fighting fossil fuel companies, we are fighting an entire global system where wealthy capitalists, mostly from the Global North, exploit the poor for fossil fuels which are destroying the climate.' Read more: tinyurl.com/2s3h8npt

🎉 Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, an Indigenous Wirdi woman, just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for blocking a destructive coal mine and protecting Indigenous rights, ecosystems, and our global climate! Women are leading the way!

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Matriarchs Powering Action for People and Planet! Please see WECAN's newsletter highlighting critical advocacy and actions by women leaders and movements.  conta.cc/4a9i2qD

Sugarcane in the Nile Basin harms soils, water, wildlife, and livelihoods. However, Communities are fighting back by creating 'food forests' that restore water levels, diversify diets, and revive habitats. Learn more:

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Today is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Awareness Day. We must end violence against the land, and violence against women. Let's stand together and demand justice and healing. There should be no more stolen sisters on stolen lands.

🌟We are celebrating Sharon Lavigne, a champion of environmental justice & one of TIME's 100 most influential people! Her advocacy led to the suspension of a massive petrochemical plant project & protection of people & planet! #TIME100

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Climate change is fueling extreme flooding in East Africa — with millions affected since October. The climate crisis is here, and governments must act now to support communities and prevent further catastrophe. Lives and livelihoods are at stake!

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🌟 Congratulations to Teresa Vicente, a 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, for her work to protect and secure the legal rights of the Mar Menor lagoon in Spain, Europe's largest saltwater lagoon. Learn more about this #RightsOfNature victory: tinyurl.com/5mn6r2fv

Just as Big Tobacco was held liable for lying about the harms of smoking, Big Oil must be made to pay for the damage they have knowingly caused to our climate and communities. It is time to #MakePollutersPay and accelerate a just transition to clean energy.…

BREAKING: Citi’s investors demand the bank protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Today, 26% of investors voted for Ask Citi to reveal the effectiveness of its Indigenous Rights policies.

Even investors know that oil and gas extraction on Indigenous lands is a bad investment.

We are occupying Wells Fargo HQ in San Francisco (as allies are doing the same at Citi in NYC). No more profiting from #Fossilfuels and the #GazaGenocide - no more banking on destruction. #ClimateJusticeNow

🌱 Indigenous knowledge is a climate solution!🌎 Watch and share this video highlighting, Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation) & her community in a new project that WECAN is honored to collaborate on: the Earthen Lodge,  for climate resiliency and #FoodSovereignty 🌾✨

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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Climate Activists have shut down the entrance to Citi Citibank in Manhattan demanding they stop their funding of fossil fuels. Since the Paris Agreement was adopted, Citi has poured over $332 billion into the fossil fuel industry. #CitiDropFossilFuels

BREAKING: hundreds of us are currently flooding Citibank’s HQ. We’re blocking ALL the doors. Thousands of finance cannot get to their job of funding fossil fuels.

We’re DONE playing nice, our future is on the line.
#CitiDropFossilFuels

BREAKING: 100 climate activists have shut down Citibank’s Global HQ, demanding that the bank stops financing coal, oil, and gas.
#PeopleVsCiti #CitiDropFossilFuels

🌍 Honoring Earth Week – join us this week to #ActOnClimate and tell President Biden to safeguard millions of acres of mature and old-growth forests on federal lands from logging: climate-forests.org/take-action

🌎Hoy WECAN lanza un nuevo recurso en la lucha por la justicia ambiental y el apoyo a las defensoras de la tierra en la región de ALC que equipa a las mujeres para navegar por las leyes de su país para lograr las protecciones del #AcuerdoEscazú .

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🌎Today on #EarthDay , WECAN is launching a new resource in the fight for environmental justice and support for women land defenders in the LAC region that equips women to navigate their country's laws to achieve the protections of the #Escazú Agreement.

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