Women Act For Climate Justice: Ten Days of Global Mobilization

This October 28th to November 6th, diverse women and girls around the world are organizing together to show their resistance to environmental and social degradation, demand drastic change away from our unjust economic and development systems, highlight the climate impacts our communities are facing, and demonstrate the many effective, just and safe climate solutions, strategies and political calls that are being implemented by women and girls around the world on a daily basis. 'Women Act for Climate Justice: Ten Days of Global Mobilization' is a worldwide call for women and girls to bring light to their climate struggles and solutions by sending in photos and a statement, or through escalated actions such as educational events, community projects and marches.The 2016 ‘Women Act for Climate Justice’ campaign is being called in advance of the November 2016 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - COP22 Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, where we must work together to ensure a sustained civil society presence and pressure to demand that all government road maps ahead originate in a climate justice framework, and with respect to human, Indigenous and women’s rights, and gender, social, economic and ecological justice. The "Women Act for Climate Justice’ decentralized mobilization is intended to show our collective actions and voices in the lead up to COP22, but also far beyond the UNFCCC.

The Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi is an official partner in this international decentralized action campaign and we encourage you to join us.

Save the Date:

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

8:30am-2pm

Hoʻoulu ʻĀina - Kōkua Kalihi Valley

Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi hosts a wahine led workday at Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, followed by lunch and talk story

JOIN US!  No action is too small and all voices are critical. There are several ways to get involved:

• Take a photo of yourself and/or a group holding up sign[s] with messages about the climate impacts your community is facing, your solutions and movements for change, or your message to world governments in advance of COP22. We encourage participants to take their action photo at a meaningful location, such as a site of pollution, extraction and profit, or a place of continued resistance and/or hope.

Example messages include:  “Stop oil extraction in my community”, “Women farmers feed the world!”, “Take action to keep below 1.5 degrees rise”, “Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground”, 'Keep the oil in the soil', 'No Gender Justice without Climate and Ecological Justice', "No Climate Justice, Without Gender Justice",  “Water is Life”, 'No Healthy Oceans, no Life", “Climate Justice Now”, “Women for 100% Renewable Energy”, “Communities own seeds, never corporations”, "System Change, Not Climate Change”.  We want to hear YOUR voice - get creative!

Include the hashtag: #womenact4climatejustice

• A second optional level involves organizing actions and statements to showcase local struggles and solutions being offered by women leaders and their communities.  Further action ideas beyond photos and statements include:

  • Work in your community, such as starting a seed bank, planting a food security garden, community garden, installing a solar panel
  • Organize an educational event or campaign in your community, district, school, or workplace
  • Record a short video about the climate harms in your life and community, and/or solutions you or your community are offering
  • Organize a sit-in, march, demonstration, protest or other non-violent action at sites of extraction, places of corporate destruction, pollution and profit, and/or sites of positive resistance and solutions
  • Create a women climate justice art piece and share your work and its story

Additional resources women and climate change: 

• Climate Change: Beyond Outrage - LAMA featured on Think Tech Hawaiʻi
• Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner speaking at the UN Climate Leaders Summit in 2014 - Video
• How Climate Change Impacts Women Most - Vice News
• Why Climate Change is a Women's Issue - Think Progress
• 20 Women Making Waves in the Climate Change Debate - Road to Paris
• Four Ways Climate Change Affects Women More Than Men - Pacific Standard