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    In recent years, organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Blockade Australia, and the Sunrise Movement have popularized direct action as a way to accelerate the global transformations needed to avert environmental catastrophe. Direct action can be defined as a politically motivated action that involves physical presence, or putting your body on ...
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    Members of civil society have acknowledged a gap in human rights protections, as well as implementation of commitments and obligations, within the climate and environmental spaces for decades. They have pushed forward innovative solutions like the Aarhus Convention in 1998, and the Escazú Agreement in 2018, to guarantee access to information ...
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    Activists hope to build a multi-party coalition of political support for more radical and swift climate action. Popularised in the United States by politicians such as US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, "green new deal" proposals aim to address climate change alongside social justice problems such as inequality and racial discrimination.
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    The Honduran Indigenous campaigner, Berta Cáceres, was murdered for her environmental activism in 2016. In Nigeria, Imoleayo Michael is facing prison for taking part in the 2020 #EndSARs protests. While in Colombia in 2022, Indigenous leader José Albeiro Camayo , one of the founders of the Indigenous Guard, an unarmed collective of land ...
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    Nyombi Morris is a Ugandan climate activist and social media manager for a climate justice non-profit organization called Rise Up Movement. Image: Courtesy of Nyombi Morris. Growing up in a low-income community directly impacted by severe weather and plastic pollution led to Morris' climate-focused activism.
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    In fact, dozens of environmental activists are killed each year for their work, and many more are attacked, harassed, and intimidated. That's why organizations like the Goldman Environmental Prize exist — to bring awareness to the causes championed by grassroots environmental activists, while giving them an opportunity to expand, network, and ...
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    She also campaigns with Climate Camp Scotland, another direct action organisation. This activism, along with her impact in engaging tens of thousands of other young people in these topics of racial and climate justice, earned Loach a nomination for the Global Citizen Prize: UK's Hero Award, presented by Vodafone — a Global Citizen Prize ...
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    Vivek Maru is a social entrepreneur and human rights activist in the US who is a pioneer in the field of legal empowerment. He believes that we can advance social and environmental justice by deepening democracy. His TED Talk, "How to Put the Power of Law in People's Hands" has been viewed over a million times.
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    Soreng also has experience in advocacy and research on the rights of Indigenous communities and climate action. Her activism work focuses on documenting, preserving, and promoting the traditional knowledge and cultural practices of Indigenous communities in the fight against climate change. In Soreng's family, activism and tribal ties run deep.
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    Follow Nyombi on Twitter.. 2. Brianna Fruean. In 2021, Samoan climate campaigner Brianna Fruean told world leaders at the COP26 climate summit that, despite a torrent of corporate greenwashing, broken promises, and overall climate action reluctance, youth activists will never stop holding those in power to account and fighting for what is right. "We are not drowning; we are fighting," the 24 ...

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