Water Protectors Rising
Resources to Take Action
📸: Brittany Greeson + Sierra Club HI + Marie Hobro + Matt Hardy/Pexels
From Red Hill to Flint to Vieques, we know what our communities need to keep us safe. Join us as we learn from organizers, advocates, and experts as they share their experiences, victories, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. By linking arms with these communities and sharing knowledge with one another, we aim to build a stronger, more unified water justice movement.
Read on to find resources to take action from wherever you are in the world!
What can you do to take action?
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Red Hill Petition: Defuel Red Hill by the end of the year
Flint Rising Petition: Put Flint Families First!
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Talk to your neighbors and co-workers, and invite them to attend gatherings, events, town halls, and more. The only way we win is through strength by numbers, and it starts with each and every one of us.
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Panel #1 | Lessons from the Fight for Water Justice: From Camp Lejeune to Red Hill
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 12PM HST
Water contamination issues have been largely rooted in government failures across the globe. Listen to water protectors hailing from Red Hill, Camp Lejeune, Alaska, and Flint as they share the grassroots-driven approach their communities have taken to protect their water.
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Panel #2 | Watering the Buds of Solidarity
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 12:30PM HST
Throughout history, many island communities have stood on the frontlines of environmental pollution and water contamination. Join us as we bring together organizers from Hawaiʻi, Puerto Rico, and Guåhan to discuss these toxic legacies, their current work and strategies to protect water, and ways we can build solidarity across islands. Together, we will rise up against these systems that treat our water and our lives as expendable.
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Panel #3 | Together, We Rise
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 12:30PM HST
Explore the patterns and crises systemically rooted in U.S. imperialism, militarization, racism, and highlighted the importance of our response to also be systemic. Join panelists Noel Kaleikalaunuokaʻoiaʻiʻo Shaw, Jamie Williams, Dr. Nick Estes, and Dr. Akiemi Glenn and moderators Wayne Tanaka, Executive Director of Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi and Natali Segovia, Legal Director of Water Protector Legal Collective.
