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Oct 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Severe tropical storm #PaengPH is devastating the entire Philippines. Over 97,000 families have already been affected, floods and landslides have taken the lives of many, & it is expected to worsen.

World leaders need to take the climate crisis seriously!
rappler.com/nation/weather…
We need to ensure that our national leaders focus on the needs of the Filipino people, especially those most marginalized! We need to stop environmentally destructive projects, invest in and prioritize pro-people adaptation, and protect environmental defenders and activists!
With the UN Climate Summit about a week away, remember that there are people and companies, not only allowing, but causing our destruction!

Demand accountability from the richest 1%, the fossil fuel industry & the politicians that are letting us drown because of their greed!
We are currently holding relief operations! Please share and donate!

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Mitzi Jonelle Tan #EndClimateImperialism Profile picture
Oct 30
Filipinos do not deserve to wade through floods & be stranded on rooftops. We do not deserve to see entire communities swallowed whole. No one does. These storms are not “natural” disasters. They are caused by the fossil fuel industry & the profit-oriented global system.
The Philippine national government is not doing enough to ensure proactive pro-people adaptation and structural resilience. We cannot have bandaid solution after bandaid solution. We need to put a stop to the imperialist plunder caused by environmentally destructive projects.
The national government needs to listen to the most marginalized voices and bring their calls to international spaces and truly demand for climate justice. The Marcos government has failed in its response to the 4 typhoons we’ve experienced this month. persecuted.
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Apr 15
Ilang linggo na lang, eleksyon na! Vote for # 16 @ColmenaresPH for Senator!!!
#WeWantNeri

In the time of the climate crisis, we need policy makers who have a track record of prioritizing the people & the planet!

Thread of a few of the things Neri has pushed for the environment:
(either as a lawmaker or as an activist)

🌏 NDRRMC texts - I've been talking to a lot of communities, especially in the provinces and islands and they said this has helped them so much to know when to prepare and evacuate, especially since ABS-CBN got shut down.
🌏 People's Green New Deal resolution!! <- addresses and looks to resolve the different aspects of the climate and planetary emergency 💖

🌏 Pushing for genuine agrarian reform (land back to the small farmers)
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Mitzi Jonelle Tan #EndClimateImperialism Profile picture
Apr 15
#LetTheEarthBreath & #ClimateCrisis are trending because of the #ScientistProtest but people are saying that the answer to the climate crisis = deleting emails & unplugging electronics.
Individual change will never be enough while we're in this imperialist, profit-oriented system ways to help that goes beyond individual change 1. Join the 4. Support initiatives like fossilfueltreaty.org that's work9. Help initiatives and movements that are going against des
1. Only 100 companies are responsible for over 70% carbon emissions driving the climate crisis.

This means that multinational companies, especially the fossil fuel industry, need to be stopped. They have the biggest responsibility & need to be held accountable for their actions.
The fossil fuel industry is one of the main reasons behind the climate crisis and big banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC, Standard Chartered are funding our destruction.
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Mitzi Jonelle Tan #EndClimateImperialism Profile picture
Jul 19, 2021
We must be very careful with our messaging to make sure that we don't add to the narrative that it's "scarier" that privileged people are the ones who are unsafe.

Be concrete and clear with our narrative: climate justice means NO ONE is left behind, especially the marginalized.
I get why it feels scarier for Global North people. It's because it's finally the people in your bubble of privilege. But that's the point, when we use the "no one is safe anymore" narrative to jolt people awake, it adds to the narrative that you should be more afraid & care more
if the people affected are the ones in your bubble. This thinking adds to the narrative that it's fine if the Global South people are affected: that isn't as scary, it's normal for disaster to hit them. BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE!
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Mitzi Jonelle Tan #EndClimateImperialism Profile picture
Jul 19, 2021
The "crisis" nature of climate change isn't just about extreme weather events, floods, droughts, typhoons, fires, etc; which are all pretty bad already. A bigger part of it is how most of impacted communities cannot / can barely recover & bounce back and aren't prepared for it
It's about how we don't have mechanisms in place to adapt & develop with climate change in mind, especially for those most economically marginalized (often tied to other socio-economic crises) and about how how we're systemically kept from having these mechanisms.
When overexploited countries are independent, able to develop & adapt – who has the most to lose? The imperialists whose profit oriented system is built on the dependence of (neo)colonies – on the extraction of cheap natural resources (and labor) & dumping of Global North surplus
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Jul 16, 2021
The climate crisis is here, there's never been a doubt about that. Now we see it in the Global North too. Here are some thoughts and fears that came out with the recent news of the climate crisis impacting industrialized countries historically responsible for the climate crisis: "now that the climate crisis is impacting the Global Nothe net-zero future we fight for shouldn't leave anyone behidevelopment must be for ALL which means keeping in mind the urgent climate action isn't enough, it has to be just and fa
time to come together, as one community and fight for climate justice alongside each other, letting the most marginalized sectors of every country, community, and of our society lead the way system change, not climate change — let's live and breathLove, rage, strength, and solidarity with everyone impacted
*erratum for slide 3:
What I'm saying is, as we campaign for the Global North to cut emissions drastically, we also have to recognize that the crisis is here & as it gets worse, we're going to have more impacted areas & more adaptation measures need to be supported
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