[1]Fossil Free Digest
Activists in Cape Town demand a Just Recovery from world governments and
central banks.

John,

I’m so excited to share these beautiful action images with you from around
the world.

Late last week, from Bangladesh to Brazil, Germany to the Philippines,
people protested, projected, and spoke truth to power, urging the world’s
most powerful economic leaders to fund a [ [link removed] ]Just Recovery in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our calls for justice also dominated the conversation online around the
G20 meeting of finance ministers and Central Bank governors. They’ve
definitely heard us – and they know we won’t stand for the usual fossil
fuel bailouts, tax cuts for the rich, and debt-burdens for poor countries
that only make the climate crisis worse.

No big announcements came out of the meeting – it wasn’t a formal
decision-making space – but this was only the beginning. In the coming
weeks and months, we’ll keep up the pressure on the people who hold the
pursestrings to our public money. [ [link removed] ]See how you can get involved where
you live.

I couldn’t think of a better set of actions to share to send off this
email, which is my last edition of Fossil Free News. After two years, it’s
sad to go – but the team at 350.org will keep bringing you regular updates
from across the globe.

Enjoy the G20 highlights and other stories below – and I hope we might one
day cross paths in the streets, standing up for a better world.

With love and solidarity,
Nicole

G20 Highlights

In England, Belgium, and Germany, activists targeted some of Europe’s most
influential economic institutions, including the EU in Brussels and
Europe’s Central Bank. Above, 15-year-old climate striker Sophia Coningham
is featured in a video message projected on the walls of the Treasury in
London.

 

On the coast of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – an area recently hit hard by
Cyclone Amphan – people donned masks and demanded that fossil fuels be
excluded from any financial stimulus for coronavirus. This week, over
one-third of Bangladesh is underwater as the country [ [link removed] ]faces its worst
floods in over a decade.

 

Climate activists in Manila, Philippines, wielded pixelsticks and fairy
lights to illuminate the way towards a more resilient, climate-safe
future. At the same time online, people from G20 nations around the world
took to Twitter in coordinated fashion to tag and call out finance
ministers from their countries to push them beyond a business-as-usual
recovery.

You can find the full global round-up with [ [link removed] ]more action highlights here.
Make sure to also plug in to the Just Recovery campaigns in your region so
you can find more ways to take meaningful action with others in your part
of the world.

 

[ [link removed] ]Get Involved

 

In Case You Missed It

Strike for Black Lives: Across the U.S., thousands of essential workers
walked off the job on Monday as part of the Strike for Black Lives,
organised by the Services Employee International Union. Strikers were
joined by more climate activists and youth to demand corporations and the
government act on the triple-crisis of white supremacy, COVID-19, and
climate change. [ [link removed] ]Read more

Photo by @fraksirakyat_ID on Twitter

All in one: In Indonesia, groups continue to sound the alarm over a new
proposed omnibus bill that puts marginalised groups and the environment at
risk. By scrapping investment regulations and ignoring public input, it’ll
erode environmental safeguards and make it easier for companies to extract
resources with minimal permit requirements. [ [link removed] ]Read more 

#PeopleNotPipelines: Roughly 100 activists in Southern Italy – students,
mothers, farmers, and local business owners – are facing trial and steep
fines for resisting construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline funded by
the EU. Their problem is familiar to those defending their own communities
and our planet from climate-wrecking fossil fuel infrastructure all around
the world. So show your solidarity, and donate if you can, to [ [link removed] ]support
#NoTAP defenders with their legal fees.

One to Watch 

“Wait, so how’d they do that?”

See this 3-minute [ [link removed] ]round-up video, with behind-the-scenes footage of
some of the COVID-safe actions and projections from G20 demonstrations
around the world. And make sure to [ [link removed] ]share it with your family and
friends so our demands for a Just Recovery reach far and wide.

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