Eliminating Racism in Climate Activism
At COP26 I attended the Sustaining All Life workshop “Eliminating Racism in Climate Activism.” Rachel Noble (the Regional Reference Person for Oregon, USA) set a great tone for the event with her warm, light, and loving leadership. We all laughed when, after un-muting her microphone a bit late, she said, “That was for the lip readers in the crowd.” Rachel and other members of the leadership team spoke powerfully about the effects of racism in climate activism.
A friend (a white European-heritage woman) was delighted to meet people from all over the world in the mini-sessions and amazed at the hopefulness of working on racism in this way. (She is accustomed to just feeling bad and discouraged about it.) She said she had lots of “aha” moments.
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
(Present Time 206, January 2022)