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The
Women's Earth and Climate
Action Network (WECAN)
on Thursday, May 28
for our upcoming webinar,
"Structuring an
Economy for People and
Planet
in the Time of
Climate Crisis and COVID-19”
During this dynamic dialogue
women and feminists from
different regions of the
world will unite to discuss
alternative economies that
counteract extractive
economic systems,
colonization, racism, and
patriarchy— and instead
visibilize women’s labor,
center Indigenous knowledge,
and prioritize people and
planet. There could not be a
more important time to
ensure we do not go back to
business as usual.
As unemployment severely
rises, food and housing are
under further threat, oil
prices plummet, and some
governments insist on
bailing out the fossil fuel
sector and other
destructive industries
instead of people and
nature— the COVID-19
pandemic has laid bare the
already existing severe
cracks in our global
economic system. What is
needed now is investment in
economies founded on
principles of justice,
reciprocity, and
regeneration. Learn more
about this vital interactive
discussion and how to
participate down below!
Structuring an Economy for
People and Planet
In the Time of Climate
Crisis and COVID-19
Thursday, May 28, 2020
11:00 am PST/ 2:00 pm EST
USA time
Please check your own time
zone to coordinate!
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Rooted in neo-liberal capitalism, the current economic
system is set to continue to rapaciously extract
resources from the Earth and drive the dual crises of
climate chaos and pandemics, while exploiting the labor
of people worldwide to line the pockets of wealthy CEOs,
fossil fuel companies and other large corporations. As
we see disaster capitalism play out in real time, we
must dismantle the current system and call for a
regenerative, rights-based economy that prioritizes
communities and nature.
An integral part of the fight for climate justice is
rejecting false market-driven "solutions." This includes
the effort to expose and dismantle the roots of the
extractivist economy that is inextricably intertwined
with the patriarchal system that has been exploiting
women and the environment for centuries. Women are on
the frontlines of the climate crisis and the COVID-19
pandemic, making
up 70% of healthcare workers worldwide and the
majority of unpaid care workers who bear the brunt of a
broken economic system.
We are calling for a transition from a colonial paradigm
of “exploit and extract” to a regenerative,
globally-conscious one of “respect and restore.” What is
needed now is an investment in alternative economic
models predicated on community-led solutions, Indigenous
knowledge, and ancient concepts of reciprocity with the
Earth and all living beings. Already there are
Indigenous economies to learn from and an emergence of
socially just, place-based, caring economic models that
are structuring a path forward.
Speakers include: Melina
Laboucan-Massimo (Lubicon Cree First Nation),
Programs Director, Indigenous Climate Action; Ruth
Nyambura, Kenyan Activist with African
Ecofeminist Collective; Cindy
Wiesner, Executive Director, Grassroots Global
Justice Alliance; Ellen
Brown, Attorney and Founder of the Public Banking
Institute; Rauna
Kuokkanen (Sápmi) Research Professor of Arctic
Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland,
Finland; and comments and moderation by Osprey
Orielle Lake, Executive Director Women's Earth
and Climate Action Network (WECAN).
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REGISTRATION IS
REQUIRED, please register here:
To ensure the security of our participants and speakers
we ask that you register for the webinar via Zoom, which
we encourage so that you may participate in the
conversation and ask questions and make comments. If you
do not want to register, you are welcome to join us on
Facebook, where we will be streaming the event live.
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Presenters: |
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Melina
Laboucan-Massimo, Lubicon Cree First Nation
Programs Director, Indigenous Climate Action
Canada,
Turtle Island
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Melina Laboucan-Massimo is Lubicon Cree from Northern
Alberta, Canada. She is the founder of Sacred Earth
Solar and the Campaign Director at Indigenous Climate
Action. She has worked on social, environmental and
climate justice issues for over 15 years. Melina has
worked, studied and campaigned in Brazil, Australia,
Mexico, Canada and across Europe focusing on resource
extraction, climate change impacts, media literacy,
energy literacy and Indigenous rights &
responsibilities.
Melina is the host of a new TV series called Power to
the People which documents renewable energy, food
security and eco-housing in Indigenous communities
across North America. She is also a Fellow at the David
Suzuki Foundation with a focus on Climate Change,
Indigenous Knowledge and Renewable Energy. Facing the
firsthand impacts of the Alberta tar sands in her home
community, Melina has been a vocal advocate for
Indigenous rights and environmental justice. For over a
decade, Melina worked as a Climate and Energy Campaigner
with Greenpeace Canada and the Indigenous Environmental
Network. She has written for a variety of publications
and produced short documentaries on the tar sands,
climate change, water issues and Indigenous cultural
revitalization.
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Ruth
Nyambura
Kenyan
Activist with African Ecofeminist Collective, Kenya
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Ruth Nyambura is a Kenyan eco-feminist and
researcher working on the intersections of
ecological justice in Africa. Her work and
activism uses a feminist political ecology lens
to critically engage with the continent’s and
global food systems; challenging neoliberal
models of agrarian transformation and amplifying
the revolutionary work of small-holder farmers
of Africa (most of them women), as well as rural
agrarian movements offering concrete
anti-capitalist alternatives to the ecological,
economic and democratic crisis facing the
continent.
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Rauna
Kuokkanen, Sápmi
Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies,
the
University of Lapland, Finland
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Rauna Kuokkanen is Research Professor of Arctic
Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland,
Finland. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor at
the Department of Political Science and Indigenous
Studies Program at the University of Toronto
(2008-2018). Her main areas of research include
comparative Indigenous politics, Indigenous feminist
theory, Indigenous women’s rights and Arctic Indigenous
governance and legal and political traditions.
Professor Kuokkanen’s new book Restructuring Relations:
Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance and Gender,
forthcoming by Oxford University Press in 2018, is an
Indigenous feminist investigation of the theory and
practice of Indigenous self-determination, governance
and gender regimes in Indigenous political institutions.
She was the founding chair of the Sámi Youth
Organization in Finland and has served as the
Vice-President of the Sámi Council. She has also long
worked and advocated for the protection of Sámi sacred
sites, particularly Suttesája, a sacred Sámi spring in
Northern Finland. Professor Kuokkanen was recently
appointed as the Chair of the Arctic Program Committee
of NordForsk. She is from Ohcejohka/Utsjoki, Sápmi
(Finland).
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Ellen
Brown
Attorney and Founder of the Public Banking Institute,
USA
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Ellen Brown is the founder of the Public Banking
Institute and the author of a dozen books and hundreds
of articles. She developed her research skills as an
attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In
the best-selling Web of Debt (2007, 2012), she turned
those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and
“the money trust,” showing how this private cartel has
usurped the power to create money from the people
themselves and how we the people can get it back.
Ellen ran for California State Treasurer in 2014 with
the endorsement of the Green Party garnering a record
number of votes for a Green Party candidate. Learn more
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Osprey
Orielle Lake
Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate
Action Network (WECAN), USA
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Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive
Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
(WECAN) International dedicated to accelerating a global
women’s climate justice movement. She works nationally
and internationally with grassroots and Indigenous
leaders, policy-makers and scientists to promote climate
justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to
a decentralized, democratized energy future.
Osprey serves on the Executive Committee for the Global
Alliance for the Rights of Nature and Osprey is the
Co-Director of the Indigenous Women's Divestment
Delegations, and actively leads WECAN’s advocacy, policy
and campaign work in areas such as Women for Forests,
Divestment and New Economy, Indigenous Rights, a
Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal, and UN Forums.
Osprey is the author of the award-winning
book,"Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture
with Nature."
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