Canoes to Paris Garners International Coverage
Indigenous people fighting for their lives and way of life brought a flotilla of canoes and kayaks to Paris. With a strong message to defeat the REDD+ deal and to keep 80 percent of fossil fuels in the ground, tribes from around the world took to the waterways.
"We’re very, very concerned about the fact that reference to indigenous rights and human rights have been moved into an annex in the…
Women on the Frontlines, Paris COP21: Climate Justice Women’s Assembly on Tue, Dec 8
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Monday, December 7, 2015
Come find out the crucial intersections of gender, climate change, ending war/conflicts, and building economic alternatives to capitalism.
As thousands of climate justice movements gather in the Climate Action Zone, frontline feminist leaders from global grassroots movements will convene an assembly on the leadership of women within the climate…
Alternatibas’ Global Village
A little ways from the People’s Climate Summit is Alternatibas’ Global Village, a pop-up village showcasing alternative solutions to those of #COP21. I asked my room mate who organizes in Harlem, Diane, what she thought of the global village. She paused.
“It’s cute,” she said tepidly.
Bryce organizing via whatsapp
Arts organizer Bryce offered a fuller critique of the space as he saw it.…
Watch A Powerful Video From Our Dec 4 – Solutions21 Action: End Fracking!
Watch a powerful and inspiring video featuring Kandi Mossett, organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and It Takes Roots delegate. This was from an action on Friday December 4, confronting the France based fracking company Suez which is a Solutions 21 corporate greenwash sponsor of COP21. Watch this powerful video and share it with your networks!
Global Justice Blog: Shout Out to It Takes Root Delegation
In a succinct round up of the COP21, Global Justice Fellow Kevin Smith gives the It Takes Roots delegation a memorable shout out: "...huzzah for the frontline folks representing so hard in Paris à partir de ce site. A much-needed breath of fresh air amidst the greenwash and the realpolitik and the corporatisation of the talks. I’ve been particularly impressed by the It Takes Roots to Weather a…
Tom Goldtooth in Yes! Magazine: Leaders Need to Recognize ‘The Spirit of Life Itself’
Indigenous Environmental Network Executive Director and It Takes Roots Delegate Tom Goldtooth discusses his views and reflections on COP21 and the urgency to listen to indigenous leadership as the key way to mitigate climate change and restore the balance of nature. Read this incisive discussion
Paris Climate Accord: Crime Against Communities
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Paris Climate Accord is a Crime Against Vulnerable Communities
Carbon markets and offsets are the trojan horse that the fossil fuel industry in pushing through the Paris Climate Agreement.
A broad alliance of leaders from communities on the frontline of the climate crisis have traveled to Paris to speak out against the proposed global…
10,000 people in Paris and over 600,000 Worldwide Take to the Streets for Peace and Climate Justice
On Sun, November 29th, a day before COP21 is set to kickstart in Paris with world leaders attending the opening week, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Paris, participating in a creative action called a “human chain.” The chain stretched the length of the intended march route in a powerful display of the voices of popular movements who have been shut out of the COP process through…
Water Ceremony – Love Water Not Oil
A water ceremony led by the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defenders of the Earth Treaty initiative. A prayer action for the defense of Mother Earth’s life blood, the water. Frontline women invited to this event. (Note: Please bring a small volume of water from your homelands to participate)
Co2lonialism – IEN sponsored workshop – Voices from the North and South
How does the fight for Climate Justice intersect with the resistance to colonization, in the context of Indigenous movements? This discussion will look into how different frontline leaders respond to this question.
People’s Climate Forum & Global Village of Alternatives
It Takes Roots will be joining our international allies in a series of workshops lifting up our strategies, our shared analysis, and our vision forward.
Our Power Campaign: Frontline Communities Uniting to Build a Just Transition from Extraction to Regeneration (Dec 5th, 10:00am-12:00pm, Lycée Jean Jaurès - Salle 306)
Climate Space: System Change Not Climate Change (Dec 5th, 13:30-15:30, La…
Newsweek Features ITR Delegate Kandi Mossett: From North Dakota With Love
Noted environmental journalist Antonia Juhasz features It Takes Roots delegate and theIndigenous Environmental Network's native energy and climate campaign organizer, Kandi Mossett in a Newsweek article on COP21, ahead of the Paris conference. Read the article
Climate Justice Human Chain
From 1 pm to 2 pm between Place de la République and Nation, along the Boulevard Voltaire. This will be an opportunity to display the messages and visuals that were prepared for the Global Climate March, before the protest ban was announced. The It Takes Roots delegation and the IEN Indigenous Bloc (Chapter) will join the 1st Chapter of the March: from the frontlines of the crisis to the…
MEDIA ADVISORY: It Takes Roots Statement on the Protest Ban in Paris
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November 23, 2015
No War, No Warming - Build an Economy for People and Planet
Despite the ban on Protest in Paris, we will be there to raise our voices against war, racism and pollution profiteering. We stand in solidarity with the countless victims of recent violence in Paris, Beirut, and Mali, as well as their families and loved ones.
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It Takes Roots Delegates Diana Lopez and Shawna Foster On Uprising Radio
It Takes Roots Delegates On Uprising Radio with Producer Sonali Kolhatker, November 20, 2015
GUESTS: Diana Lopez is an organizer with the Southwest Workers Union for worker rights, environmental justice and community empowerment in San Antonio, Texas and has attended several UN climate conferences;
Shawna Foster, veteran of the US National Guard where she served as a Nuclear Biological…
About the Delegation
It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm a delegation of over 100 leaders and organizers from US and Canadian grassroots and indigenous communities headed to the upcoming UNCOP21 in Paris. It Takes Roots joins together three powerful alliances of grassroots activists and frontline communities’ leaders: Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), and the Climate…
Ahead of Paris, Grassroots Activists Demand Real Change: “President Obama: Listen To The People, Not Polluters!”
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Release Date: Friday, November 13, 2015
Ahead of Paris, Grassroots Activists Demand Real Change:
“President Obama: Listen To The People, Not Polluters!”
The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is excited to announce a delegation of 100 leaders and organizers from US and Canadian grassroots and indigenous…
COP21 Delegation
WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE & THE PLANET
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and the It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm Delegation call on President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and US lead negotiator Todd Stern to make binding commitments in response to both science and the demands of frontline communities to:
Establish mandatory--not voluntary--emissions cuts at the…
Video: Voices of the People’s Climate March – Climate Justice Alliance
Grassroots Global Justice, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Climate Justice Alliance along with allies and friends mobilized in force to the streets of New York City on September 21, 2014 to demand Climate Action rooted in Justice for frontline communities across the U.S. and around the world. Seven frontline community members from across the U.S. and around the world spoke at the…