Thread by @WarOnWant

From Crisis to Justice. How do we win a #GlobalGreenNewDeal is starting now!

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"We are facing multiple crises: a crisis of vaccine apartheid; economic recession and poverty; billions without access to universal services.

System change not climate change is the slogan of our movement, today, we will populate that system change." @chilledasad100

@chilledasad100 "Discussing justice without discussing land & housing would be unjust. They are questions of dignity, equality, food access & revolutionary democracy.

The social value of land must come before commercial value, prioritising humanity ahead of profit."

S’bu Zikode, @abahlali_abm

"It’s straight forward - instead of assuming every economic sector must grow, we should discuss what sectors we want to improve (public healthcare, public transit), and what sectors are destructive and to be scaled down (military, fossil fuel industry)."

@jasonhickel

Catch up on all the conversation so far, and tune in for @IlhanMN, who is just about to join us.

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@IlhanMN "Too many #GreenNewDeals are national in scope. Too many ideas about ‘greening’ are national and personal in scope, and don't recognise global structures that create more injustice, and destroying the possibilities to address the existential challenge of climate."

@Jayati1609

@IlhanMN @Jayati1609 "We cannot afford to ignore the cries of young people who will inherit a damaged climate from today’s leaders. We don’t have time for incrementalism. Climate change is here."
@IlhanMN

@IlhanMN @Jayati1609 "The pain caused by this crisis is self-inflicted. For decades, the US government has subsidised the polluters that are creating climate change, doling out more than $20 billion a year on fossil fuel energy when that money could be spent on alternatives"

@IlhanMN

@IlhanMN @Jayati1609 "Renewable energy is being pushed. The green transition is currently meaning greater extraction and appropriation of resources of Southern states, greater mining extractivism, more lithium, more copper - in territories that are already degraded."
@LucioCuencaB

@IlhanMN @Jayati1609 @LucioCuencaB "Many workers in the garment sector are forced into a job with poverty wages, without enough to pay their costs. We can’t just stop buying.

The question: How do we turn ethical consumption into political activism that tackles the structural power of corporations?"

@kalponaakter

@IlhanMN @Jayati1609 @LucioCuencaB @kalponaakter We're calling for a Global Green New Deal for people and planet - join us now! cutt.ly/DTy951z