HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds block the route of
@potus
’ motorcade to his State of the Union address.
We say “no business as usual” for anyone when there is an ongoing genocide of Palestinians!
#CeasefireNow
A scroll of all the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces rolled out on the street in front of the
@WhiteHouse
. More than 10,000 Palestinians, including 3,826 children, have been killed in Gaza.
#CeasefireNOW
#EndGazaGenocide
@ICEgov
so far this administration has “rejected calls to protect one of the most vulnerable groups of trans people: migrants who are stuck in US immigration detention where, reports show, they have faced severe abuse, discrimination and medical neglect.”
War fuels the climate crisis, the US military is the
#1
consumer of fossil fuels in the 🌎, yet the '97 Kyoto treaty exempted them from accountability. We won't find real solutions for this climate catastrophe without holding the US military responsible!
#COP26
#nowarnowarming
In Palestine, the impacts of climate change “must be understood as an inherently political reality defined by decades of Israeli settler colonialism and theft of natural resources.”
In the besieged Gaza Strip, 97% of drinking water is unfit for human consumption.
#WorldWaterDay
A scroll of all the names of Palestinians killed since Oct is rolled outside the Oakland Federal Courthouse
Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed with 60,000+ wounded.
Collectively, 150 family members of the plaintiffs suing Biden admin have been killed.
#WeChargeGenocide
The Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening our energy security.
It's allowing us to fight environmental injustice and deliver a clean energy economy.
TODAY: People affected by
#ClimateCrisis
and militarization confront the many-legged monster of militarism at
#COP26
! The US military is the top polluter in the world, but military pollution is excluded from the climate negotiations. Real climate action requires demilitarization!
@rising_majority
I deployed to Afghanistan believing in lies told. But I felt bomb shockwaves, watched mothers bury children + knew: We cannot bomb our way to peace, kill our way to safety. We will not do this again, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
#CeasefireNOW
!
—
@Britt4People
,
@VetsAboutFace
The Senate is debating a $106 billion deadly deal to send:
-$14.3B to Israel to ethnically cleanse Palestinians
-$8B for border militarization to jail/surveil/deport immigrants
Today, 50+ mvmt leaders were arrested while staging a protest in the US Capitol Rotunda
#CeasefireNOW
We are Jewish, Palestinian, veteran, youth and immigration justice groups calling on Congress +
@POTUS
:
Not another cent of funding for Israel to kill Palestinians!
Not another nickel for militarized borders!
Not another dime for genocide!
We will not be ignored.
#CeasefireNow
Rep
@BettyMcCollum04
’s
#HR2590
, Palestinian Children and Families Act, prevents US tax dollars from funding Israel caging children, destroying homes, and stealing land. Take action. Tell Congress to stop funding harm and instead
#InvestInJustice
:
$37.2 billion a year in water infrastructure would create up to 945,000 jobs while providing safe drinking water to thousands of communities that don’t have it. Less than 1/2 of what the Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin for military contracts in 2020 ($74.9 billion).
Another water crisis is going unaddressed in Michigan, poisoning the predominantly Black city Benton Harbor with lead. “The racism that exists is outstanding. … Nobody cares about Benton Harbor. Nobody cares about Flint,” says
@revpinkney
.
A carbon unicorn appears inside
#COP26
! Carbon market systems are mythological -- they are smoke and mirrors to avoid really keeping fossil fuels in the ground. We stand together to demand real solutions, not net zero mythologies.
#NoNetZero
#KeepItInTheGround
#ClimateCrisis
The Senate just passed the $778 billion Pentagon budget, 89-10. Democratic leadership agreed to vote on it before passing voting rights legislation & before the BBB Act.
And yes, Manchin voted in favor, making it the 11th Pentagon budget in a row he’s supported
.
@IlhanMN
now! "What is more basic than fighting for clean water, a breatheable planet..trying to make sure we have healthcare for people. What is more basic than making sure our indigenous brothers & sisters don't lose their sovereignty."
#Bidenbebrave
#timetothrive
“Can there be peace and prosperity if 1/3 of the world, literally prospers, and the other 2/3 of the world live under siege and face calamitous threats to our well-being?”
—Mia Mottley, Prime Minister
of Barbados
#COP26
“The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.”
#LandBack
We reject ALL spending packages that fuel violence against any of our communities. Iman of
@USCPR_
shares why a coalition of movement leaders REFUSE to be silent while our govt tries to send more money to fund genocide, violence, and militarization!
#InvestInLife
#CeasefireNOW
As we begin the
#LunarNewYear
, we demand an immediate ceasefire of the continuing genocide in Palestine.
Lion dances come from Chinese folklore on how to scare off a people-killing monster. One thing the monster fears is loud noises. 🐉🇵🇸🍉
Make Some Noise!
#CeasefireNOW
Care Jobs Are Green Jobs. We know that reproductive labor is deeply gendered. And so care jobs need a feminist analysis for gender transformation & equity. Here's to a Green New Deal that centers gender & racial justice.
#ItTakesRoots
#BidenBeBrave
Buried in this article: “The military sprayed a special foam on the runway…”
This “special foam” is PFAS-based, known as a “forever chemical” bc it NEVER breaks down. Use of PFAS by military has contaminated drinking water of countless communities around the 🌍.
#NoWarNoWarming
“All systems had stopped working except flight controls and the engine…With the investigation under way, the entire (F-35) fleet is suspended from flying.”
US has spent $1.7 Trillion on this plane. For that amount could’ve canceled ALL student debt.
BREAKING: Today 87 frontlines, environmental justice, and allied groups send a letter to the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus
@SenDuckworth
@SenBooker
@SenatorCarper
calling them to reject Sen. Manchin's dirty energy side deal.
#StopTheDirtyDeal
. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
DoD is the largest institutional consumer of petroleum and emits more greenhouse gas than 100 countries combined while waging brutal violence across the world ensuring access to same toxic resources most responsible for climate crisis…
…won’t be our solution.
Climate change is a threat to national security, and efforts to mitigate this issue are underway across the DOD. Learn more about the actions being taken by the
@USNavy
in one of the most military-dense regions of the country:
🇵🇸Divest from militarism, INVEST IN LIFE! 🇵🇸 Join us on Fri., Dec. 8th at 4:30pm PT | 7:30 PM ET for a virtual teach-in on the connections between U.S. militarism, corporate war profiteering, and Palestine.
#CeasefireNOW
Register:
“The US and UK militaries owe at least $111BN in reparations to communities most harmed by their planet-heating pollution, a first-of-its-kind study calculates.”
#NoWarNoWarming
Today, during the final protest in a series of community demonstrations in Northern Guåhan, we joined communities all over the world taking to the streets in solidarity with
#Palestine
demanding for a
#CeasefireNOW
. 🧵
By the DoD’s own count, there are roughly more than 40,000 contaminated sites on current or former military “properties” across the United States and territories. Rather than suspend, we must demand to
#ShutDownRedHill
Gov. Ige and Hawaii's congressional delegation have released the following statement calling for the Secretary of the Navy to immediately suspend operations at Red Hill following the contamination of drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
This morning, as dozens of organizers sat in the Hart U.S. Senate building demanding
#CeasefireNOW
and end to US aid to Israel, one climbed the statue at the center and sang in solidarity w/Palestine, inspired by this South African Anti-Apartheid movement song.
#StopArmingIsrael
The US military is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels making it an important client of oil and gas corporations.
The US military is the single biggest institutional producer of greenhouse gases, the most significant driver of climate change.
#NoWarNoWarming
More than 150 tankers from 26 installations will perform flyovers at major landmarks, population centers and state capitals in all 50 states, the Air Force said.
“We’re picketing an Israeli-operated vessel - ZIM Volans - it spent over 2 weeks out at sea, unable to dock, for fear of this exact protest. Now its here, while it’s here, we’re doing a community picket.” Wassim,
@AROCBayArea
#BlockTheBoat
#ShutdownApartheid
We celebrate Biden administration's moratorium on fracking on public lands & secure environmental justice. Let’s be bolder & partner together! Frontline communities are a resource for Biden admin & are ready for a
#JustTransition
!
#TimeToThrive
#BuildBackFossilFree
Today, on the heels of the ICJ’s decision ordering Israel to stop committing genocide, Palestinians are in US federal court suing
@POTUS
,
@SecBlinken
, &
@SecDef
end U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
#WeChargeGenocide
One F-35 burns as much jet fuel in an hour, what would take 1,900 cars to burn over the same period. Our environment is the silent victim of war and militarism.
#GroundTheF35
“The fight against police brutality and racism must therefore be linked to the fight to de-fund our military and to the broader fight to de-militarize our very society and culture.”
#DefundPolice
#DefundMilitary
“now hold me
a little while longer
just a bit
cause we gotta get up soon
there's a war on outside
come on now baby
we got work to do.”
—Suheir Hammad,
“We Spent the
#4thOfJuly
in Bed”
GGJ's National Demilitarize Organizer Ramón Mejía speaks on
@democracynow
from
#COP26
, on how critical addressing demilitarization is for confronting
#ClimateCrisis
. The U.S. military is the world's largest climate polluter. There is no
#ClimateJustice
without demilitarization.
U.S. military veteran Ramón Mejía of
@ggjalliance
says he became a climate justice activist after seeing the “sheer destruction" of Iraq’s infrastructure. "After leaving the military, I had to speak up and to oppose U.S. militarism in every shape, way or form.”
GGJ stands in solidarity with our members
@IENearth
and Indigenous leaders taking action today at the White House, this
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
, demanding
@POTUS
respect Indigenous sovereignty and stop all fossil fuel projects. We stand with the
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
.
Today Biden rejoined Paris Agreement. While we celebrate this news, we must remember that the operating text of agreement omits any mention of indigenous or human rights. It's critical that indigenous sovereignty & free prior & informed consent is respected.
#Inauguration2021
Sha Ongelungel of
@IENearth
is from Palau. She shares that the islands across the Pacific have been the site of U.S. military operations and weapons testing, destroying ecosystems and harming indigenous communities.
#NoWarNoWarming
#COP26
#ClimateCrisis
“A moral choice lies before you. As veterans who have faced similar tests of conscience, only to realize too late that we chose wrong, we cannot stress enough the impact this decision will have on the rest of your life.”
No climate justice without indigenous self-determination. Settler colonialism & violence captured in one image on stolen lands.
#StopLine3Pipeline
#WaterIsLife
🆘 EYES ON LINE 3 🆘
Dozens of law enforcement officers have surrounded the Water Protectors and their ceremonial tipi down at the Minnesota State Capitol in an attempt to forcibily remove them from the premises!
“From Palestine, to Mexico, all borders and militarized violence have got to go!”
Immigrant communities REFUSE to be scapegoats for genocide! Demand a
#CeasefireNOW
& an end to abusive immigration enforcement agencies.
#DemilitarizeTheBorder
Take Action:
We refuse to have our communities pitted against each other while Congress debates which families—whether in Palestine or at the US southern border—are killed, surveilled, and harmed. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
#CeasefireNOW
Maria Lopez-Nuñez says BIPOC communities in Newark, New Jersey, have been used as "sacrifice zones" by the government for private companies to pollute the air. Air pollution contributes to racial health disparities that Lopez-Nuñez says politicians like Gov. Phil Murphy can stop.
While only 5% of Fortune 500 companies are run by women, 75% of UNPAID work is done by women, from household chores to caring for the sick, elderly, & children. Meanwhile the 1% reaps massive profits when the true cost of labor is hidden
#NotJustEqual
#IWD2020
@swopista
Over 100,000 people have been impacted by the contaminated water and 2,800 families have been displaced. Nearly 1 million people on Oahu rely on the aquifer for their water. And yet,
Manchin’s dirty energy bill just dropped, it is a complete
#EnvironmentalJustice
disaster. We demand Senators & Congress block this catastrophic backdoor bill, defend frontline communities and fight for a livable future.
#StopTheDirtyDeal
. GGJ's statement:
War fans the flames for climate change. Once again, oil, industrial facilities are utilized as a weapon of war, to fill air with toxins, poison the soil, and contaminate drinking water. There is nothing more destructive to human and ecological systems than war.
#NoWarNoWarming
Local media say a missile hit an oil depot next to Vasylkiv air base. That fireball is so bright, it's lighting up the sky around 18 miles away in Kyiv. Russia reportedly tried dropping paratroopers near that airfield last night but failed.
10 protesters were arrested in Seattle for attempting to block a cargo ship from an Israeli shipping company, as part of the
#BlockTheBoat
movement.
Dockworkers and activists around the world are protesting Israeli cargo ships, blocking boats in California, Italy & South Africa.
We come together as a coalition dedicated to fighting for justice and liberation to categorically oppose all proposals fueling violence against our communities at home and abroad.
Read our Statement
#CeasefireNOW
#StopArmingIsrael
#DemilitarizeTheBorder
Thread: We are sending our love and solidarity to all the families whose lives are right now being torn apart by the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and join the voices of antimilitarist movements around the world, condemning
#Russia
’s invasion of
#Ukraine
.
#NoWarNoWarming
means ending fossil-fueled military escalation across borders all over the world. As congress paves the way for the “defense” budget to exceed $800 Billion, oil and gas corporations are capitalizing on war and crisis, while people suffer. Enough!
"I come with the message to defend water, to defend life. Youth in Guahan are defending the freshwater coming out from our cliffs going out to our oceans from a firing range being built. We need peace just as much as we need
#ClimateAction
." GGJ member Moñeka de Oro of
@mccaguam
.
As genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza continues, GGJ is honoring the call from
@BDSmovement
to boycott the UNFCCC-Conference of the Parties (COP28). 🧵
Full Statement ▶️
#CeasefireNow
#BoycottCOP28
As many begin to finalize plans for
#COP28
, we lift up BDS call to
#boycottCOP28
. To honor this boycott we canceled our delegation for the first time in 15 yrs and call on those who do attend this yr to use every opportunity to demand
#CeasefireNOW
Read:
Afghanistan has rare earth minerals and, perhaps most importantly, what could be one of the world's biggest deposits of lithium — an essential but scarce component in rechargeable batteries and other technologies vital to tackling the climate crisis.