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Our Statement to COP27 in Egypt: Human Rights are Climate Justice!

International climate negotiations and its governance have continuously failed to address the root causes of the climate crisis, among others: racism, sexism, colonialism, and capitalism. Movements around the world have been repeatedly raising concerns around the obsoleteness of such conferences. They do not live up to what Most Affected People and Areas (MAPAs) demand: representation, decision-making power, reparations.

This year, in Sharm El-Sheikh, the hopes for change are lower than ever, due to the alarming escalation of securitization around this conference. El-Sisi`s dictatorship puts activists and movements, especially those from Egypt and other Global South countries, in grave danger of persecution and violence during and after COP27. 

Find our Statement in various languages about COP27 and human rights abuses in Egypt here. Share and support it as much as possible in your networks!

There can not be any climate justice without Human rights! There is no one without the other.

2021

November

30/11/2021 This month the COP 26 happened in Glasgow Scotland.

As usual it led to a lot of disappointment amongst actors in the climate justice struggle.

Read what the newest member of the collective thought about it here

We have been pretty silent over the last months on our website. We have been busy writing, discussing, networking and doing many inputs and workshops.

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February

January

15/01/2021 Decolonize Erfurt “Auch der Kolonialismus ist Ursprung der Klimakrise”
Input Colonialism and Climate Crisis (German spoken language)

09/01/2021 Protest demonstration in solidarity with farmers in India,
Rathaus Neukölln, Berlin
Statement

07/01/2021 Decentralized commemoration of Oury Jalloh’s murdering
Participation

2020

December

18/12/2020 Greenpeace UK, ‘Our society is broken – it’s time to reimagine a new one’
Input/Narration Food as Global Commons

11/12/2020 Bundesarbeitskreis kritischer Juragruppen (BAKJ)
Workshop ‘Supporting the Climate Justice Movement Through Environmental Law’

November

30/11/2020 Klima-Allianz-Deutschland
Panel #13BKG ‘Interkulturalität und Klimaschutz’  (13. Berliner Klimagespräch, German spoken language) 

24/11/2020 taz Panter Preis
Nomination

23/11/2020 Eine-Welt-Stadt Berlin MMR Klimagerechtigkeit
Interview ‘What does “climate just Berlin” mean to you?’
(German spoken language)

15 – 17/11/2020 BIPoC Climate Justice Conference
Input “Racial justice and Climate crisis”

Panel “Tea circle on History of Climate Justice Movements”

October

27/10/2020 Greenpeace Online Greencamp
Panel “Rassismus, Kolonialismus und Umweltschutz” (German spoken language, w/ captions)

16/10/2020 MdbK [insight] #9 Zero Waste, Leipzig
Interview “Cost of living in a Plastic World” (German spoken language, w/ captions)

10/10/2020 Anticolonial rally, Berlin
Speech

Read speech…Photo: Chepita

September

25/09/2020 Global climate strike, Kiel
Speech

15/09/2020 Berliner Demokratietag
Video/Interview “Postcolonial perspectives on the climate crisis”

August

25.08. Soli Goes Open Air, Wagenplatz Kanal e.V., Berlin
Event

22/08/2020 Demo against racism, Potsdam
supporting Women* in exile e.V.
Participation

20/08/2020 taz online
Interview “Was du über Kolonialismus wissen solltest” (German spoken language, w/ captions)

10/08/2020 taz online
Interview „Nicht alle sitzen im selben Boot“ (German written language)

08/08/2020 About Utopia, Tübingen
Input “Climate Justice from Black perspectives and Climate Justice and Migration” with Women* in exile e.V.

07/08/2020 “Aufstand mit Abstand”
Participation in blockage of Shell refinery, Wesseling (NRW)
In solidarity with the Ogoni people in Nigeria

PhotoPhoto credit: Infozentrale

July

22/07/2020 Summer-action bustour with Women in exile e.V., Wünsdorf (Brandenburg)
Participation

04/07/2020 Greenpeace Actions Conference
#By2020WeRiseUp & The European Climate Campaign & the European Changemakers project
Moderation (w/ Wretched of the Earth, SPINA, EYFA)

Read more about the results of the conference here

June

21/06/2020 Training for Trainers, Bewegungsschule Berlin

May

31/05/2020 Black Lives Matter Demo, Herrmannplatz, Berlin
Participation

30/05/2020 Black Lives Matter Demo, US embassy, Berlin
Participation

Solidarity Funds for Refugee Women* Group in Berlin-Brandenburg

Please spread this call for reparations! Find the call at Betterplace.org

Women* protestors with raised fists hold up a banner in front of the Berliner Dom
Women* protestors with raised fists hold up a banner and demand reparation payments in front of Berliner Dom

08/05/2020 International Day of Resistance, Migrantifa boat protest, Berlin

April

24/04/2020 Global climate strike, Berlin
Statement

An image reading our demands
“Nothing about us without us!”

22/04/2020 Bard College, Berlin
Input in course “SE224 Social Justice:  The Transnational Feminist Perspective”

Statement on anti-racism during the Corona crisis

Support the reparations campaign “Decolonize Corona Solidarity”

18/04/2020 Corona solidarity initiative
Video/Statement

17/04/2020 Training for Trainers, Bewegungsschule Berlin

March

14/03/2020 „System Change not Climate Change“ Conference, Marburg
(Black Earth and Women in exile e.V.)

08/03/2020 Demo ‘8 March 2020 “It’s not a party – It’s a fight”‘, Berlin

01/03/2020 Kollektiv opening / getting to know us, H48, Berlin
Event

February

01 – 29/02/2020 Protest, Datteln IV, Datteln (NRW) 

January

07/01/2020 Demo ‘Oury Jalloh – Das war Mord!’

2019

October

R.I.P to the killed environmental defenders in the Global South
Statement/Event

Photo