Frontline Indigenous Groups
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
In 1991, near the sacred Bear Butte in South Dakota, near 500 Native people came together at the outdoor 2nd Annual IEN Protecting Mother Earth gathering. At this gathering, this Unifying Principle and the Environmental Code of Ethics were written.
IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law.
The Red Nation
The Red Nation is dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism. We center Native political agendas and struggles through direct action, advocacy, mobilization, and education.
We are a coalition of Native and non-Native activists, educators, students, and community organizers advocating Native liberation. We formed to address the marginalization and invisibility of Native struggles within mainstream social justice organizing, and to foreground the targeted destruction and violence towards Native life and land.
Indigenous Climate Action (ICA)
Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country. We believe that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are critical to developing solutions to the climate crisis and achieving climate justice.
ICA works on connecting and supporting Indigenous communities to reinforce our place as leaders driving climate change solutions for today and tomorrow. We model our work and organizational structure on systems of free, prior and informed consent and self-determination. By providing communities with knowledge and resources, we can inspire a new generation of Indigenous climate leaders building solutions centered around our inherent rights and cultures.
Indigenous Climate Action was founded in 2015 by Alberta Indigenous women who saw a need to bring Indigenous Peoples together to begin discussions on climate change and Indigenous rights. Following these initial conversations, the first Indigenous Climate Action: Indigenous Peoples’ Meeting on Climate Change was held in January 2016 in the heart of Treaty No. 6, Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). This meeting set the stage for Indigenous Climate Action by inviting Indigenous leaders from across so-called Canada. A year later, many of these Indigenous climate justice leaders would become members of ICA’s first volunteer National Steering Committee.
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brasil (APIB)
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil – APIB was created by the indigenous movement at Camp Terra Livre (ATL) 2005.
ATL is our national mobilization, held every year, starting in 2004, to increase awareness over the situation of indigenous rights and claim from the Brazilian Government the fulfillment of its demands.
Apib is an instance of national reference of the indigenous movement in Brazil, created from the bottom up. It brings together our indigenous regional organizations and was born with the purpose of strengthening the unity of our peoples, the articulation between the different indigenous regions and organizations in the country, in addition to mobilizing indigenous peoples and organizations against threats and aggressions against indigenous rights.
Today APIB is once again here and fulfilling its role.
The National Indigenous Congress of Mexico (CNI)
The National Indigenous Congress (CNI) was constituted on October 12, 1996, as the home of all indigenous peoples, a space where originary peoples can find shared thought and solidarity to strengthen their struggles of resistance and rebellion, with their own forms of organization, representation and decision-making. It is the house of the indigenous peoples, tribes and nations we are, speaking Amuzgo, Binnizá, Chinanteco, Chol, Chontal of Oaxaca, Chontal of Tabasco, Coca, Náyeri, Comcac, Cuicateco, Kumiai, Lacandón, Matlazinca, Maya, Mayo, Mazahua, Mazateco, Mixe, Mixteco, Nahua, Ñahñu, Ñathô, Popoluca, Purépecha, Rarámuri, Tepehua, Tepehuano, Tlapaneco, Tojolabal, Totonaco, Triqui, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Wixárika, Tohono Oódham, Mame, Tlahuica, Guarijío, Sayulteco, Yaqui, Zoque.
When we say we are peoples, it is because we carry in our blood, in our flesh and in our skin all the history, all the hope, all the wisdom, culture, language, identity.
We are the peoples we still are despite 523 years of extermination, violence, domination and plunder from capitalism and its allies, the owners of money and power, the representatives of death. Capitalism was born from the blood of our peoples and keeps feeding from it.
We do not forget. Because that blood, that history, those lives, those struggles are the essence of our resistance and our rebellion that turns into autonomy, ancestral revendications of education, security, justice, spirituality, communication, self-defense and self-government.
We collectively built, embrace, defend and exercise the San Andrés Accords as the constitution of our peoples, because they represent the only way for us to keep existing as the peoples we are, they are our right to self-determination and autonomy, that is, deciding over our own territories, our own forms of collective organization and the way we want to build our future.
The peoples that conform the CNI rule ourselves by seven principles, and our maximum decision-making space is the general assembly gathered together in Congress, where we all have the word to decide collectively.
Worldwide Groups
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)
From its inception, TUED has carried out hard-hitting research, analysis and consultation, with the aim of helping unions, individually and collectively, to formulate a strong and independent voice on energy transition and climate change — a voice that is firmly grounded in the facts and resolute about defending workers’ interests and building a better world.
Informed by this work, TUED and its participating unions are actively working at international, regional, national and local levels to protect the interests of workers and their communities, to advance a vision for energy and climate protection rooted in the public good, and to build political support across the 200-million strong global labor movement for a just transition to democratically accountable renewable energy systems. Such a transition needs to address the immediate concerns of workers in a way that can advance the extension of social ownership and democratic control of energy as part of a broad, inclusive, and vibrant social movement.
Sea Shepard
Sea Shepherd’s sole mission is to protect and conserve the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. We work to defend all marine wildlife, from whales and dolphins, to sharks and rays, to fish and krill, without exception.
Serving as the only fleet in the world whose sole purpose is to protect all marine wildlife, we are committed to the protection and enforcement of conservation law.
Our model of engagement provides unique, at sea resources to assist, serve and support developing coastal and island governments in the protection of their sovereign waters against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Sea Shepherd’s primary goal is to greatly enhance a government’s own capacity to patrol, monitor, and enforce their own laws.
Fridays for a Future (FFF)
Fridays for Future, or FFF, is a youth-led and -organised global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. In the three weeks leading up to the Swedish election, she sat outside Swedish Parliament every school day, demanding urgent action on the climate crisis. She was tired of society’s unwillingness to see the climate crisis for what it is: a crisis.
To begin with, she was alone, but she was soon joined by others. On the 8th of September, Greta and her fellow school strikers decided to continue their strike until the Swedish policies provided a safe pathway well under 2° C, i.e. in line with the Paris agreement. They created the hashtag #FridaysForFuture, and encouraged other young people all over the world to join them. This marked the beginning of the global school strike for climate.
Their call for action sparked an international awakening, with students and activists uniting around the globe to protest outside their local parliaments and city halls. Along with other groups across the world, Fridays for Future is part of a hopeful new wave of change, inspiring millions of people to take action on the climate crisis, and we want you to become one of us!
Planet Wild
We partner with some of the most innovative environmental organisations around the world that are working to create real and lasting impact. By funding local and grassroots rewilding projects, you are helping nature to bounce back.
350.org
We’re an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.
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Extinction Rebellion (XR)
Extinction Rebellion is a decentralised, international and politically non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
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United States
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
Our national network is made up of many eco-activists, social justice activists, global justice activists, street medics, herbalists, permaculturalists, mutual aid organizers, black liberation organizers, community organizers, and others who are actively organizing around supporting disaster survivors in a spirit of mutual aid and solidarity. It is a decentralized network across the so called United States, defined by the character and creativity of a multitude of communities and drawn together by our collective commitment to stand in solidarity with those impacted by disasters and turn the tide in favor of climate justice. We build our network through education and action, valuing both collective decision-making and autonomy. We are deeply moved by the Black Panther survival programs which served the aim of satisfying immediate needs while simultaneously raising people’s consciousness. We uplift and support the efforts of frontline communities leading their own recoveries in the wake of visible crisis moments, and the invisible, ongoing disasters of capitalism, colonization, resource extraction, gendered violence, and white supremacy among other forms of domination. Rooted in our history and experiences of social movement organizing we see our disaster relief work in the context of social struggle and believe that we must simultaneously address people’s immediate self-determined needs for survival and organize for fundamental shifts in the way we relate to each other and the earth.
Mom’s Clean Air Force
Our mission is to protect children from air pollution and climate change. We envision a safe, stable, and equitable future where all children breathe clean air.
We are a community of over 1.5 million moms and dads united against air pollution—including the urgent crisis of our changing climate—to protect our children’s health. We fight for Justice in Every Breath, recognizing the importance of equitable solutions in addressing air pollution and climate change.
Through a vibrant network of state-based community organizers, we work on national and local policy issues. Our moms meet with lawmakers at every level of government and on both sides of the political aisle to build support for equitable, just, and healthy solutions to pollution. We consider ourselves “Mompartisan.” Protecting children’s health is a nonpartisan issue.
Resilience Force
Resilience Force works with community advocates and forward-thinking leaders in government, labor, the private sector and philanthropy to rewrite the rules of recovery.
A strong and active Resilience Workforce is vital to helping America’s cities and towns solve the many challenges that disasters pose and build thriving economies and inclusive communities as they do it.
By devising and implementing solutions to support the Resilience Workforce, Resilience Force and our partners are ensuring a more effective and equitable approach to disaster preparation, response, recovery and rebuilding.
The people who make up our country’s Resilience Workforce are now coming together—to be heard and to be counted, and to remove the barriers that hold them back from helping America rebuild.
The Resilience Workforce includes firefighters and other responders who limit the damage and harm caused by disasters as they emerge, as well as health care workers who assess needs and help the people most impacted. They are day care workers caring for children so their parents can return to work during recovery, and counselors who help impacted communities heal and rebuild social ties.
The Resilience Workforce includes people who start makeshift food pantries, check in regularly on their elderly neighbors and get the word out to displaced people when local housing and jobs become available.
It also includes those with more formal work roles. Some in the Resilience Workforce have secure and protected jobs, but far too many are under-paid and overlooked—they are people whose vital work is ignored, and whose humanity is threatened at every step.
Resilience workers include construction workers who fortify buildings in preparation for disasters, as well as reconstruction workers who rebuild homes and office buildings after disasters strike.
Labor for Sustainability (L4S)
Mission statement: To be a relentless force for urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful labor-climate movement to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future where everyone can make a living on a living planet.
Sunrise Movement
The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priorityacross America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is helping build a decolonial movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the state, federal, and international levels.
Our mission is to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature.
Australia
Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies
We are Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies, a new politically non affiliated group of ordinary citizens taking action to force governments to cease their support for the fossil fuel industry. At a time when the ‘science’ unequivocally states that our planet’s life support systems are in serious peril due to our dependence on the burning of coal, oil and gas, governments around Australia continue to support the expansion of fossil fuel industries through their use of tax payer funded subsidies. As responsible citizens we have been forced to embark on a path of non violent civil resistance in order to stop this obscenity.
Europe
Letzte Generation
Die Regierung ignoriert alle Warnungen. Immer noch befeuert sie die Klimakrise und hat uns damit an den Rand eines Abgrunds gebracht.
Wir sind nicht länger bereit, dieses Verbrechen an der Menschheit widerstandlos hinzunehmen. Wir werden nicht abwarten während ein Staat nach dem anderen kollabiert. Am Ende sind wir alle in Gefahr. Wir sind der Überlebenswille dieser Gesellschaft.
Vor der Bundestagswahl 2021 erschütterte ein Hungerstreik das Land und sorgte dafür, dass einer der ersten Termine des neuen Bundeskanzlers Olaf Scholz ein Gespräch mit uns über die Klimakatastrophe war. Da der Kanzler kein Bewusstsein für die existenzielle Bedrohung der Gesellschaft durch den Klimanotfall erkennen ließ, begannen Menschen unter dem Namen der Letzten Generation Anfang 2022 die meistbefahrene Autobahn Deutschlands zu blockieren.
Immer und immer wieder kehren wir seitdem nach Berlin zurück und blockieren dort die A100 und andere große Straßen. Wir tun das nicht gerne. Doch wir sehen diesen zivilen Widerstand als unsere beste Chance, auf unserem zerstörerischen Kurs die notwendige Umkehr zu bewirken.
Wochenlang drehten Menschen auch immer und immer wieder auch Öl-Pipelines zu. Straßenblockaden in Frankfurt am Main, dem Herzen des fossilen Wahnsinns, die Zerstörung unserer Zukunft mit Milliarden zu finanzieren, brachten Dutzende bis zu eine Woche in Polizeigewahrsam. In München wurden wiederholt Menschen für lange Zeit präventiv in Gewahrsam genommen, um sie von ihrem Protest abzuhalten, z.T. für bis zu 30 Tage am Stück.
Wir sind die Letzte Generation, die den Kollaps unserer Gesellschaft noch aufhalten kann. Dieser Realität ins Auge blickend, nehmen wir hohe Gebühren, Straftatvorwürfe und Freiheitsentzug unerschrocken hin.
Die Letzte Generation erhält einen Großteil der Mittel für Recruitment, Training und Weiterbildung aus dem Climate Emergency Fund. Seit April 2022 ist sie Teil eines internationalen Netzwerks ziviler Widerstandsprojekte. Es nennt sich das A22 Network.
Stopp Oljeletinga
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Återställ Våtmarker, Sverige
Projektet för att återställa våra svenska våtmarker, & stoppa makthavarnas förgörelse av livet på jorden.
Återställ Våtmarker är en sammanslutning av människor, som genom fredligt motstånd ämnar att tvinga den svenska regeringen att förbjuda torvbrytning och återställa våtmarker för att ta det första nödvändiga steget mot att skydda sin befolkning istället för att förgöra den.
Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil is a nonviolent civil resistance group demanding the UK Government stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects.
MASSolidarity.org 