Encuentro/Gathering: Mesoamerica Caravan for Climate and Life to Belém, Brazil! COP
Join Seeding Sovereignty as we welcome frontline Indigenous community members traveling to NYC Climate Week from countries impacted by extractive industries for a special event to learn from Indigenous organizers of the Mesoamerica Caravan for Climate and Life that will travel through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, to Belém, Pará, Brazil for the global climate meetingCOP30 🌎🚌
The caravan needs your support to reach their fundraising goal!
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ABOUT THE EVENT
Light refreshments and beverages will be served.
Wednesday, Sept 23rd
2:30-3:45 PM Seeding Sovereignty Co-Executive Director Natalia Guerrero facilitates a discussion with Mirrors of the Global South Mesoamerica Caravan organizers at a time of escalating climate change and violence to frontline communities
"The climate crisis advances unstoppably, destroying our territories, cultures, and lives. In the face of this emergency, we respond with unity, resilience, and hope.
The Caravan will be a meeting place for peoples and communities fighting to defend Mother Earth. We will unite our voices to resist violence, make our biodiversity visible, and denounce the system that perpetuates dispossession." Mesoamerica Caravan
Learn the history of the long lived strategy of organizing through caravan mobilizations in the global South and North America and Seeding Sovereignty’s Eyes in the Sky drone response initiative to support Cacavan communications and story-telling.
Seeding Sovereignty will be joining efforts with Caravans mobilizing to COP30 with the Eyes in the Sky drone response program to support communications and story-telling.
3:45-4:00 PM Closing
Co-Hosts
Seeding Sovereignty at the Chilli Downtown Climate Club @ The Bench
ABOUT THE CARAVAN:
The caravan is a an effort by Mirrors of the Global South and territorial organizations.
The climate crisis advances unstoppably, destroying our territories, cultures, and lives. In the face of this emergency, we respond with unity, resilience, and hope.
The Caravan will be a meeting place for peoples and communities fighting to defend Mother Earth. We will unite our voices to resist violence, make our biodiversity visible, and denounce the system that perpetuates dispossession.
The caravan will travel through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, until we reach Belém, Brazil, for the UN COP30, raising our voices for a just and sustainable future.
We invite you to join the journey! Together, we walk towards a future where life, water, and dignity are respected.
More info:
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