{"id":14127,"date":"2020-03-14T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=14127"},"modified":"2020-03-14T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:44:26","slug":"mother-earth-mothers-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/14\/mother-earth-mothers-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Earth Mothers Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Extinction Rebellion (rebellion.earth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 MAR | Across Uganda, DRC, Nigeria & The Gambia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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XR Uganda<\/a> organised a Women\u2019s March<\/strong> in Mbale as part of International Women’s Day 2020<\/a>, planting trees and teaching children about the Emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebels highlighted how climate and ecological breakdown will impact women and the poorest communities the most. Women, such as those in Bududa<\/a>, have been left \u2018without anything<\/a> – homeless, helpless, hopeless by unpredictable rains, floods and mud slides<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their situation is made worse by prolonged droughts, higher temperatures, increased crop failure, loss of livestock and increasing food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mbale march also focussed on the need for access to quality education<\/strong>. When breakdown and instability hit, more children are forced to abandon their education and more girls are pressured into child marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brave women<\/strong> of Uganda are refusing to stand by and watch their future and their children\u2019s future be lost. To achieve Climate Justice, we must focus on Social Justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mugunga, DRC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous women in XR Hewa Bora<\/strong> surrounded a park warden camp and demanded an end to climate rape<\/strong> and sexual violence in the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

XR Abuja<\/strong><\/a>celebrated International Women\u2019s Day in Nigeria<\/strong> and held discussions around the challenges women face as a result of the climate crisis<\/strong> and the need for equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breaking Waves at Venice Carnival<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

20-25 FEB | Venice, Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first Wave of Global Rebellion hit the canals of Venice<\/strong> last month, with rebels from across Italy carrying out a series of spectacular actions during the city\u2019s annual carnival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protests kicked off with a blindfolded flash mob performance<\/a>. Blindfolded rebels <\/strong>stood in solemn silence as a speaker called on the carnival revellers to open their eyes to the climate crisis, and join their rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days later, hundreds of rebels flooded the busy Venetian streets for a spot of joyful discobedience<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next morning, a group of rebels blockaded the Ponte dell\u2019Accademia<\/a>, a bridge spanning the city\u2019s Grand Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lock-in marked one of the first high-risk actions for XR Italy<\/strong>. Tensions were high as the rebels fitted into their arm tubes, but thanks to heartfelt chants and open dialogue, the blockade continued without violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venice is made up of more than 100 islands inside a lagoon and has already suffered extensive damage from the climate crisis. Much of the ancient city is flooded<\/a> year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Venice become our next Atlantis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the Italian government and local authorities have still not declared<\/strong> a climate emergency. Without major policy change, the UNESCO world heritage site appears doomed. Or as the Italian rebels put it: \u2018There\u2019s no carnival under the sea<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indigenous Pipeline Protests sweep Canada<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FEB | British Columbia, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Darryl Dyck<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ongoing surge of civil disobedience<\/a> rolled across Canada in February. Protests began in British Columbia, where Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs blocked railways to protest the construction<\/a> of a multi-billion-dollar pipeline through their unceded territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After disturbing reports<\/a> of forceful removal by police (as well as possible illegal restraint), these actions gained traction with Indigenous and solidarity protestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in Ontario and Quebec, Mohawks disrupted rail networks; in Vancouver, 38 people were arrested<\/strong> for blocking access to shipping ports; in Toronto, 37 were arrested <\/strong>for bringing the city’s Union Station to a standstill at rush hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much of this burgeoning civil disobedience has taken inspiration from the initial actions of the Wet’suwet’en chiefs<\/strong>, with the focus point of strategy being rail blockades. This has caused disruption to construction work, passenger and freight transport, and to the Canadian economy at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scale of disruption is clearly evident<\/a> with the news that Canada’s two largest railways have been covertly sharing railway links<\/a>, and have diverted some key routes through the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impact of this story has extended far beyond Canada with protests gaining support from groups all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Cheers to the end of the world!\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1 MAR | Lamma Island, Hong Kong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dining in the South China Sea, Lamma Island, Hong Kong<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, XRHK staged a \u2018dinner party\u2019<\/a> off a Hong Kong Beach among the waves as a reminder that \u2013 even though the media has shifted its attention to the coronavirus \u2013 we are still facing catastrophic ecological and climate breakdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the coal-fired Hong Kong power station as backdrop, rebels impersonated the 1%, \u201ccheering <\/strong>to the end of the world as we know it,<\/strong> partying while climate change and associated natural disasters already kill the poorest and most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, rebels intended to highlight Hong Kong\u2019s vulnerability, as a coastal city, to sea-level changes<\/a>, and the city\u2019s lack of a viable strategy to address the looming crisis. \u201cThe adopted strategy \u2013 to replace one fossil fuel by another, in this case coal by natural gas \u2013 is, while less carbon-intensive, ultimately highly counterproductive,\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read more on XRHK follow them <\/em>here<\/em><\/a> or <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heathrow victory for Earth protectors!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

27 FEB | London, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plans to expand Heathrow airport were ruled illegal<\/a> because they clashed with the government\u2019s commitments to tackle the climate crisis. The government must now either make a new proposal that is in line with the UK\u2019s environmental targets or withdraw it entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exciting ruling by the British Court of Appeal has global implications. It is the first time that climate targets made under the Paris Agreement have carried legal weight.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The success of this court ruling gives some hope to the implementation of the Paris targets. If any other of the 188 nations that are party to the Agreement now green lights a high-carbon infrastructure project, there is a legal precedent to challenge the decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extinction Rebellion (rebellion.earth) 8 MAR | Across Uganda, DRC, Nigeria & The Gambia XR Uganda organised a Women\u2019s March in Mbale as part of International Women’s Day 2020, planting trees and teaching children about the Emergency. Rebels highlighted how climate and ecological breakdown will impact women and the poorest communities the most. Women, such… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14128,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions\/14128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}