#FoodSovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy & culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods
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News24 Sunday reports that one of Jhb Water’s worst performing treatment plans, on the Juksei River, “is actively pumping copious of sewerage into its waters, which now has EIGHT time the legal limit of fecal content” 🤮
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1/ Climate Newswrap 21 August 🌍 What mattered in climate news this week — a thread 🧵
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🚨#BreakingNews: The Constitutional Court has set aside Shell’s entire right to explore for oil and gas off the Wild Coast declaring the entire process flawed for, among other things, inadequate consultation with communities!
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🚨 Tomorrow, 14 August, the Constitutional Court rules on Shell’s offshore seismic survey case.
CJCM will stand with communities who’ve fought this for years.
📍 Constitution Hill, Braamfontein
🕘 Meet 9am · Judgment at 10am
Come stand with us. ✊🏾
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El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the WMO.
The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.
e360.yale.edu/digest/el-nino…
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📢 Call for Think Pieces & Stories! 📢
How do we live and share "the commons" every day? The Emancipatory Futures Studies Project invites you to submit a 2000-word piece exploring topics like simple living, water sharing, eco-ethics & more.
🔗 Learn more: emancipatoryfutures.co.za
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The Rooted Magazine launched its first special issue focusing on supportive policies for agroecology and food sovereignty. Read magazine, including @AgroecologyNow contributions, here: rooted-magazine.org/
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The industrial food system is poisoning our planet & fueling climate change. 🌍❌ On #WorldFoodDay, we call for a shift to biodiversity & ecological farming to nourish the Earth & its people. 🌱✨ Let's reclaim our food system for a healthier future! @drvandanashiva #Biodiversity
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750 varieties of rice conserved & regenerated in Navdanya's living seed bank in Doon Valley getting ready for harvest .
Kaia Singh visiting Navdanya filmed the diversity
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Join us on October 16th from 14:00-16:00 outside Parliament in Cape Town! We’re calling on Parliament to adopt the People’s Food Sovereignty Act & Policy to #EndHunger #EndThirst & #ProtectNature.
Register your local actions: forms.gle/Y52oZptw5f5dShZf9
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Sign this petition and help call for a Climate Emergency Social Contract (CESC) to be the overarching framework for the GNU, by working with civil society, driven by the people and workers.
Sign the petition: chng.it/ZjMM8tycVf
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We call on all climate justice forces and civil society to unite and ensure that the national dialogue process envisaged in the GNU document of intent is all-inclusive and tackles the climate emergency.
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This is despite the fact that the document was drafted while floods had displaced 3000 people in the Eastern Cape province and a tornado had destroyed communities in Tongaat, Kwa-Zulu Natal. These are not natural disasters. These are climate shocks.
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When the GNU statement of intent emerged, it had a glaring omission. There was no mention of tackling the climate crisis and the urgent need to take decisive measures to protect the most vulnerable from climate harm.
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The Climate Justice Charter Movement demands a Climate Emergency Social Contract (CESC) from the Government of National Unity (GNU) to confront the worsening climate crisis and create a just and liveable South Africa.
Sign the petition: chng.it/ZjMM8tycVf
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Topic: CJCM People's and Workers Assembly on a Climate Emergency Social Contract.
Thursday, June 27, 2024
3:00 - 5:00 PM SAST
Zoom Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
CESC download: cjcm.org.za/download/5f669fe…
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Topic: CJCM policy workshop: Towards A CJCM Climate Emergency Policy Platform
Date: Thursday, 15 February 2024
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Zoom Registration Link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Link to volunteer and donate: cjcm.org.za/national-electio…
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Read our discussion document, For A National Climate Emergency Election in 2024, An Electoral Tactic for the Climate Justice Charter Movement (CJCM) ( cjcm.org.za/download/b8c9297… ).
Volunteer: Stand with us. Let's get the CJCM into Parliament together. We would appreciate your time, effort, and commitment to securing a just and liveable South Africa. Please volunteer to be part of our election campaign. Click here: cjcm.org.za/national-electio…
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Volunteer: Stand with us. Let's get the CJCM into Parliament together. We would appreciate your time, effort, and commitment to securing a just and liveable South Africa. Please volunteer to be part of our election campaign. Click here: cjcm.org.za/national-electio…