Sustaining All Life at COP27
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Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism
at COP27
🌍 COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 🌍
NOVEMBER 6-13, 2022
Dear RCers,
The United Nations talks on climate change (COPs) happen in Egypt from November 7 through November 18. Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism (SAL/UER) will be present the first week to do in person workshops, forums, and more. The second week we will hold four workshops online and two members of our delegation will also present to talk to people, refer them to our online events, and do what two people can figure out to do there in person.
Thank you for supporting us in so many ways: by attending our practice events online, helping us present our events online, fundraising for us, and in so many other ways. We welcome your support over the next few weeks in the following ways.
SAL/UER IN-PERSON EVENTS AT COP27
If you know people attending the COP, please talk to them about SAL/UER and encourage them to check us out while they are there. We will have a booth in both the Blue Zone (governmental area) and the Green Zone (civil society area). Information about the in-person events, including a flyer of our events that you can download and send to them, is posted here (SAL website) and here (RC website).
Workshops which were offered:
- Emotional Burden of Oppression and the Climate Crisis
Monday, November 7, 3:30 - 5:30 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into French - War and Climate Justice
Tuesday, November 8, 11 am - 1 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into Arabic and French - Young People at the Forefront of the Climate Emergency, Tuesday, November 8, 3:30 - 5:30 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into Spanish and French - Women and the Climate Crisis
Wednesday, November 9, 11 am - 1 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into Arabic and Spanish - Forum: The Impact of the Climate Crisis on Africa
Thursday, November 10, 11 am - 1 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into French and Arabic - Healing the Trauma of the Climate Crisis
Thursday, November 10, 3:30 - 5:30 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into Spanish and French - No Human Enemies: A Strategy for Climate Justice Organizing
Friday, November 11, 11 am - 1 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into Arabic and French - Staying Hopeful as We Face the Climate Crisis
Friday, November 11, 3:30 - 5:30 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into Spanish and French - The Legacy of Colonization and Racism in Africa
Saturday, November 12, 11 am - 1 pm, Green Zone SAL booth.
Interpreted into French - Daily introduction to the tools of Sustaining All Life classes
- Daily listening projects and listening circles
ONLINE EVENTS THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 14
The second week of COP27 we have 4 online events scheduled. These events are targeted at people who are at the COP and interested in supporting the work of the COP. We encourage RCers to bring a friend to these events. If you bring a friend and attend the event, it will go best if you give your friend at least a little introduction to RC and the work of SAL/UER before the event. Any RCer at the event should primarily be there to support those people attending who are new to RC and learning about SAL, UER, RC, and racism at this event. This means warmly greeting anyone you are paired with in a mini (whether you speak the same language or not). And it means coming as counselors to the new people who will be there, and only discharging in ways that will make sense for the new person. Flyer for the online events is here.
We Want to Live: Our Water, Art & Climate Justice Movements
Saturday, November 12, 12:30 - 2:30 pm EST / 5:30 - 7:30 Nigeria/London.
Led by AL Caballes
Interpreted into Igbo, French, and Spanish
Listening Circles: A Tool for Climate Activists
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 5:00 - 6:30 EST / 10:00 - 11:30 AM GMT. Led by Caroline New
Interpreted into French
What Does Race Have to Do with It: Racism and the Climate Emergency
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 12:30 - 2:00 EST / 5:30 - 7:30 pm Nigeria/London, followed by half hour listening circle.
Led by L.G. Shanklin-Flowers
Interpreted into French and Spanish
Muslims and Jews United for Climate Change
Sunday, November 20, 12:00 - 2:00 pm EST / 5:00 - 7:00 pm Nigeria/London.
Led by Cherie Brown
Interpreted into Hebrew
SOCIAL MEDIA
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SAL HANDOUTS
You may want to send a friend one of the many SAL handouts; you can find them all here (with many translations).
SAL VIDEOS
Check out our new 1.5 minute Overview of Sustaining All Life. That and many other videos can be found on the SAL resource page.
And we have produced a 30 minute video about SAL that will be playing in our spaces in the Blue Zone (governmental area) and Green Zone (civil society area) at COP27.
Thank you again for all your support for the work of Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism.
With love,
Janet Kabue, Iliria Unzueta, Diane Shisk