[1]Fossil Free Digest
Art pours in from around the world as the Global Climate Strike
approaches. 

Dear John,

Picture this: in less than one month, the world will get its biggest
wake-up call yet as millions go out on climate strike to stop business as
usual. Offices, classrooms, factories, transport, shops and farms will
fall strangely quiet. Instead, countless millions of youth, parents, and
workers will fill the streets worldwide in a loud and colourful act of
collective disruption.

The Arctic and the Amazon are literally on fire. It doesn’t take a climate
scientist to understand we can’t continue down this path. We can’t keep
powering the world with fossil fuels. We can’t keep electing politicians
who do nothing. But we can change course.

Nelson Mandela once said: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

For the Global Climate Strikes to succeed, we need everyone to believe we
can end the age of fossil fuels. This issue of Fossil Free News gives you
a glimpse into the lives of regular people who have left their fear behind
and are working to make September 20 to 27 a turning point in history.

I want you to share this vision with others. Can you forward this email to
3 people you know to tell them about the Global Climate Strike, and that
now is the moment for them to [ [link removed] ]pledge to join?

Onwards, without fear
Nicole

P.S. There's a [ [link removed] ]web version of this Fossil Free News to share outside of
email and invite others to subscribe, too. 

In Case You Missed It

Clad in a pinocchio nose, an activist disrupts a speech from Brazil's
Environment Minister. 

Liar liar: International attention has turned to the Amazon, where
thousands of fires have been left raging for weeks. Yet Brazil’s
Environment Minister Ricardo Salles was at a Climate Week in Salvador to
defend fossil fuels. Thankfully, activists were there to call his
bluff. [ [link removed] ]More

A new storytelling series has been launched ahead of the Global Climate
Strike.
Strong winds: 63 Pacific Climate Warriors – islanders on the frontlines of
the climate crisis – gathered in Fiji to develop their unique response to
this moment in history. Their Matagi Mālohi, meaning 'Strong Winds' in
Tokelauan, is a powerful storytelling project that centers Pacific
identities and strength. They faced [ [link removed] ]colonialist posturing from
Australia during the Pacific Islands Forum last week where Pacific leaders
demanded Australia prioritise survival over coal. [ [link removed] ]See Matagi Mālohi

At the site of the now-vanished Okjökull glacier. Photo: Jeremie Richard,
AFP Getty Images

A letter to the future: People walked across Ok volcano crater in Iceland,
for a funeral at the site of the island nation's first glacier lost to
climate change. "This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is
happening and know what needs to be done.” [ [link removed] ]More

 

Protesters in Kinshasa demand justice for their national parks.

“We will not stop”: Activists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are
protesting the government’s issuing of oil licenses in Virunga and Solanga
reserves. They’re part of Africa Vuka, a continent-wide network gearing up
for powerful storytelling around their local struggles for a fossil free
world during the climate strikes. [ [link removed] ]Read more
 

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Hundreds bid farewell to Greta Thunberg as she sets sail towards the UN
Climate Emergency summit. Photo: PA Media

Bold Voyage: Greta marked the one-year anniversary since her first solo
school strike from a sailing boat – an experience she’s described as
‘camping on a rollercoaster’. She’s currently in the middle of the
Atlantic, on her way to the UN emergency climate summit in New York City.
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One to Watch

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Unions have long been a powerful force. When employees and workers have
stood together in solidarity and disrupted business as usual, they've won
huge change. Now unions worldwide are getting on board with the Global
Climate Strike. For example, Germany, France and Italy’s largest unions –
representing millions of workers – are all encouraging their members to
take part. [ [link removed] ]Watch this video from American workers and union organisers
to hear more.

Inside Story

Christine Caillaud, 48, from Italy knew about the climate crisis – but she
wasn’t totally convinced of the need to protest. After her son saw other
youth leaving their classrooms to strike for change, he joined and urged
his mother to do something. Now she’s organizing other parents in her
city, Torino. [ [link removed] ]Watch

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Use Your Power

Artists play a huge role in pushing our collective imagination. The
beautiful artworks they’re creating for the Global Climate Strike are no
exception.

There’s an artist in all of us, so please share your own vision and
message with others -- whether that’s a simple doodle or a huge mural.
Share them online using #ClimateStrike on social media or email them to us
at [ mailto:[email protected]?subject=Climate ][email protected]. If you need some help, this new [ [link removed] ]Arts
Toolkit is packed with templates and examples. 

[ [link removed] ]Arts Toolkit

 

That's it for now. We'll be back in two weeks with more climate movement
news from around the world – ahead of a special live coverage edition for
the Global Strike that you won't want to miss. 

 

 
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