{"id":43673,"date":"2021-10-05T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=43673"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:49:34","slug":"event-faiths-4-climate-justice-action-green-faith-olympia-olympia-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/event-faiths-4-climate-justice-action-green-faith-olympia-olympia-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Faiths 4 Climate Justice Action, Green Faith Olympia (Olympia, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Join with members of Green Faith Olympia for a gathering of interfaith prayer, climate action, song and a tree prayer on Monday October 18th at 5pm at the Peace and Healing Park (9th Ave SE and Adams).<\/p>\n<p>Find other locations for events and register at <a href=\"https:\/\/greenfaith.org\/faiths4climatejustice\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">https:\/\/greenfaith.org\/faiths4climatejustice\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two weeks before global climate negotiations, people of diverse religions will rise to send a message: destroying the planet is against our religions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenfaith.controlshift.app\/local\"><strong>Join us!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><b>SUNDAY, 17 OCTOBER<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>At temples, mosques, and churches around the globe, we\u2019ll call for climate justice and care for the vulnerable by ringing our bells, singing, praying, meditating, calling the Azan, sounding the shofar \u2013 whatever is true to our tradition. We\u2019ll also unfurl banners on our sacred buildings that make it clear: the time to act is now.<\/p>\n<h4><b>MONDAY, 18 OCTOBER<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Dressed in religious garb, we\u2019ll take our faiths into the streets and to our leaders\u2019 doorsteps.\u00a0 We\u2019ll deliver our demands to political and financial leaders, hold prayer or meditation vigils outside government and bank offices, sing hymns about the climate, or take action rooted in our deepest values.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h5>Co-sponsors<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"styled-subtitle\">Co-sponsors are religious organizations and spiritual communities worldwide who publicize Faiths 4 Climate Justice to their communities.\u00a0We invite diverse religious institutions, congregations, schools, and other groups to sign on as co-sponsors. Co-sponsors commit to recruit action hosts and participants for the global day of action and organize 1 or more local actions.\u00a0We provide co-sponsors with tools, resources, and one-on-one support for recruitment and action organizing. Co-sponsors, if interested, can serve on a planning team in preparation for the mobilization.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4><b>Organized by<br \/><\/b><b>the GreenFaith International Network\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrcc.org.au\/\">Australian Religious Response to Climate Change<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iser.org.br\/\">Instituto de Estudos da Religi\u00e3o (ISER \u2013 Brasil)<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithcommongood.org\/\">Faith &amp; the Common Good (Canada)<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AIECChile\/\">Alianza Interreligiosa y Espiritual por el Clima (Chile)<\/a>, GreenFaith India, GreenFaith Indonesia, GreenFaith Kenya,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncfnigeria.org\/\">GreenFaith Nigeria, hosted at Nigerian Conservation Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/safcei.org\/\">Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ircu.or.ug\/\">Inter-Religious Council of Uganda<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faithfortheclimate.org.uk\/\">Faith for the Climate Network (United Kingdom)<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfaith.org\/\">GreenFaith (USA and global coordinator)<\/a>, GreenFaith Zambia, GreenFaith Zimbabwe<\/p>\n<p>As people of faith, we believe that the Earth and all people are sacred. We are calling for an immediate end to new fossil fuel projects, deforestation, and related financing,\u00a0a massive commitment to green jobs to reduce climate pollution and end poverty for millions, and climate reparations from wealthy countries to equip vulnerable nations for a better future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,40,127,141,13,131,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43674,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43673\/revisions\/43674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}