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Worldwide Women Prepare for September Climate Justice Mobilization
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Calif., Sept 3, 2015 – Momentum is building towards the Global Women’s Climate
Justice Day of Action. On September 29th women around the world will mobilize and raise their voices to
demonstrate local climate impacts and solutions, call for bold action from world leaders during December’s
COP21 climate negotiations, and highlight why women are key to social and environmental justice.
Women are committed to action in over 30 countries, and will be holding decentralized events throughout
September and on the Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action itself. Photos, videos, statements, and
action recaps will be submitted to an open portal and amplified worldwide via a vibrant gallery on theWomen’s
Earth & Climate Action Network webpage.
In the Niger Delta region of West Africa women will hold a summit on gender and oil, in the Amazon Rainforest
Indigenouswomen will stand up to protest fossil fuel extraction in their territories, and from Canada will come
documentary photography of women across the country standing to protect water from pollution. These are but
a few of the powerful emerging actions.
While women hold local actions in their communities, an outstanding line-up of leaders will gather in New York
City for a September 29th hub event ‘Women Speak: Climate Justice on the Road to Paris & Beyond’. Featured
speakers include UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, Mary Robinson; Nobel Prize laureate, Jody
Williams; Melina Laboucan-Massismo of the Lubicon Cree First Nation and Greenpeace Canada; Patricia
Gualinga of Sarayaku, Ecuador; May Boeve of 350.org; and Jacqui Patterson of the NAACP.
Solutions, statements, and policy demands submitted as part of the Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of
Action will be presented and honored during the hub event with the aim of drawing the attention of world
leaders meeting across the street at the United Nations General Assembly. The event will also include a signing
ceremony for the Women’s Climate Declaration, which will be presented with collected signatures to world
governments at COP21 climate negotiations in Paris in December.
“The Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action is about connecting women working on vital climate projects
around the globe. It is about bringing our passion and determination to the surface and manifesting our
vulnerabilities and fierce strengths,” explained Osprey Orielle Lake, co-Founder and Executive Director of
the Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, “Women around the world are facing the impacts of the climate
crisis everyday. On September 29th, we mobilize together to say ‘enough is enough’ – we are issuing a wake up
call to the world that the time has come for bold action to address the roots of the climate crisis, with women’s
leadership at the forefront. Every action is critical, we invite allies around the world to join us in adding a voice.”
A diverse group of Global Women's Climate Justice Day of Action spokeswomen is ready to engage with press at
any time.
Full details and a submission portal for the Global Women’s Climate Justice Day of Action are available
here:wecaninternational.org/global-womens-climate-justice-mobilization
Speaker details and registration for the ‘Women Speak’ hub event in NYC is available
here: wecaninternational.org/wecan-nyc-september-2015
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About WECAN International
www.wecaninternational.org
The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) is a solutions-based, multi-faceted
effort established to engage women worldwide as powerful stakeholders in climate change and sustainability
solutions. Recent work includes the 2013 International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit, Women’s Climate
Declaration, and WECAN Women’s Climate Action Agenda. International climate advocacy is complemented with
on-the-ground programs such as the Women’s for Forests and Fossil Fuel/Mining/Mega Dam Resistance, and
Regional Climate Solutions Trainings in the Middle East North Africa region and Democratic Republic of Congo.
WECAN International was founded in 2013 as a project of the 501(c)3Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus
(WECC) organization and its partner eraGlobal Alliance.