Introducing Ivonne Yanez – Acción Ecológica/Ecuador
September 14, 2022
Meet Ivonne Yanez. She is a founding member and current president of Acción Ecológica (Ecuador), one of the most well-known and respected climate justice organizations in Latin America, as well as Oilwatch Latin America, an oil activities resistance network. Ivonne…
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Introducing Kelly Campo – OFP/Colombia
September 14, 2022
Let’s meet Kelly Johanna Campo Becerra, a member of the coordinating committee of the Organización Femenina Popular – Popular Feminist Organization (OFP/Colombia), responsible for the feminist popular economy and environmental programs. She is also a leader in the youth movement…
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Soutenez les projets de loi pour mettre fin au racisme environnemental et responsabiliser les entreprises
September 13, 2022
In English.La crise climatique et la dégradation environnementale affectent des communautés partout sur la planète, mais certaines communautés le sont plus que d’autres. Depuis des décennies, les industries polluantes et les sites d’enfouissement se sont retrouvés dans des communautés autochtones, noires,…
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Support bills to end environmental racism and make corporations accountable
September 13, 2022
En français.The climate crisis and environmental degradation are taking their toll on communities worldwide. But some communities are impacted more than others. For decades, polluting industries and landfill sites have ended up in Indigenous, Black, Brown and other racialized communities in…
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Reflections from WCC 11th Assembly by Jackcilia Salathiel
September 12, 2022
The opening prayer in the evening of the WCC assembly in Karlsruhe, under the big canopy tent outside, moved me to tears when the Greek Orthodox Bishop in his turn to pray started by saying, “I bring to you greetings…
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Week 3 – COP27 Solidarity- Global Partners
September 12, 2022
One of the ways to Decolonize Climate Action is to listen thoroughly to Indigenous peoples and people from the Global South, and to the organizations that represent them. What they are saying is necessary for effective climate action. This week, we…
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Decolonizing the church
September 11, 2022
Christianity has not always been a primarily European religion and it was not always in collusion with imperial expansion. From its starting point in West Asia (Palestine), as late as the seventh century, three-quarters of the Christian believers were outside…
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Halting the proliferation of fossil fuel bombs
September 9, 2022
If we knew that ongoing and elevated use of something was extremely bad for us, would we continue to do it? For some, the answer is yes. We typically call this addictive behavior. What if we knew that increased use of…
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KAIROS Canada Offers Condolences to Victims of Tragic Attacks in Saskatchewan
September 8, 2022
The KAIROS Canada community and network in Canada and around the world extends deep condolences, sympathy, and support to all those who have lost loved ones and been impacted by the grievous attacks in James Smith Cree Nation and in…
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KAIROS workshop at WCC Assembly inspires hope for gender justice in Christ’s love
September 7, 2022
KAIROS delivered an engaging workshop at the ongoing 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Lessons from women peacebuilders on transformation to more peaceful, just and sustainable relationships among all peoples and with Creation.The…
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The KAIROS Blanket Exercise goes global at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference
September 7, 2022
An internationally coordinated KAIROS Blanket Exercise that highlights the impacts of colonization from Indigenous peoples’ perspectives will be presented in in Adelaide, Australia on September 26 during the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education. This World KAIROS Blanket Exercise amalgamates scripts from…
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Our Call to Care for Creation
September 7, 2022
KAIROS Regina invites you on a journey of faith, one that challenges our comfortable lives and changes the very buildings we worship in. On October 15, KAIROS Regina will host a one-day hybrid conference called, “Creation Care in our Places…
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Youth Poster Contest 2022
September 7, 2022
About the contestKAIROS wants to lift up the artistic work of young activists. We are looking for original artwork that shares a message of justice, peace and hope – artwork that will help us as a movement and a community embrace this kairos moment and lead us into action…
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Corporate accountability parliamentary bills
September 7, 2022
Two private member bills have been tabled at the federal Parliament that together would improve corporate accountability of Canadian companies operating internationally, especially in the resource extraction sector. For nearly two decades civil society, labour unions, and religious groups—including KAIROS and…
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Join the Rally & March: Rights, Regularization, Status for All!
September 6, 2022
The Migrant Workers Alliance is building a massive mobilization on Sunday, September 18 in cities across Canada.Please join this unprecedented opportunity to win permanent resident status for nearly 1.7 million migrants and stop deportations. You are encouraged to organize a…
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Advocating against Environmental Racism
September 6, 2022
Re. Bill C-226, An Act Respecting the Development of a National Strategy to Assess, Prevent and Address Environmental Racism and To Advance Environmental Justice For the third time, a Member of Parliament has tabled a bill to address environmental racism and…
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Week 2 – Canada – Complicity and Action
September 5, 2022
During the second week of Climate Action Month KAIROS will focus on Canadian actions that will help decolonize climate action. What Canada and Canadians do has global impacts. As we learn more and more about the historical and current systems that…
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Confessing our Ecological Debt in the Season of Creation
September 4, 2022
Giraffes tell me the Creator has a sense of humour. Hovering hummingbirds fascinate me with their tiny tongues slurping deep in the bowels of a flower. Wildflowers in all shades of colour grow in every terrestrial ecosystem. Complex ecosystems knit…
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What does it take to get climate justice?
September 3, 2022
During COP22, held in Marrakech in 2016, German labour unions organized a side event called “No jobs on a dead planet.” Side events are sessions usually organized by civil society organizations that run separately from government speeches and negotiations. The labour…
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Decolonizing Ourselves: Healing Haunted Histories
September 2, 2022
On August 27, 2022, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation hosted a group of 45 (mostly) settlers, reflecting on the theme of “Decolonizing Ourselves: Healing Haunted Histories.” The event’s title was drawn from the book by Elaine Enns and Ched Meyers, Healing Haunted…
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Decolonizing Climate Action
September 2, 2022
Decolonizing climate action begins with the recognition that colonialism is still active in our world. Colonialism is when one country exerts full or partial control over another country. That control could be military, political, bureaucratic, economic or the ruling ideas…
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KAIROS and Partners at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches
September 1, 2022
A delegation of KAIROS staff, and two representatives of the KAIROS Women of Courage: Women Peace and Security (WPS) partners from South Sudan and Palestine, are currently participating at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in…
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Décoloniser l’action climatique dans le cadre du Mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS
September 1, 2022
Ce 4ème évènement annuel aborde 5 thèmes en 5 semaines, avec une grande variété de ressources et d’actions (Toronto – Traité No13 avec les Mississaugas de Credit) – Décoloniser l’action climatique, voilà le thème du 4ème Mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS,…
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Decolonizing climate action underscores KAIROS Climate Action Month
September 1, 2022
4th annual event covers 5 themes in 5 weeks with rich supply of resources & actions (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – Decolonizing climate action will underscore KAIROS’ 4th annual Climate Action Month, which launches September…
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Week 1 – The Season of Creation
September 1, 2022
As Climate Action Month begins, we take time to join people around the world for the start of “the Season of Creation.” The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox churches began this initiative last decade and was joined by the…
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5 semaines, 5 regards, un mois pour apprendre et agir Du 1er au 30 septembre
August 30, 2022
Le thème pour 2022 : décoloniser l’action climatique.Le Mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS en 2022 met l’accent sur l’écoute des peuples et des communautés trop souvent ignorées quand on parle de la crise climatique. Pour cette quatrième édition du Mois…
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Prier, plaider, apprendre, réfléchir : 4 événements pour le mois du climat
August 24, 2022
Décoloniser l’action climatique pour souligner le mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS en septembre (Toronto – Traité No13 avec les Mississaugas de Credit) – Pour le mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS en septembre, nous présentons quatre événements en ligne, pour prier,…
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