🚨COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE IS NOT WORTH A CELEBRATION. So we disrupted the opening party of the Belgian Presidency of the EU. #Zieonsdoen ✊🍉 🎥: @joachim_blomme , @thomas.maddens
#ShutDownElbit If you want to take action: link in bio. Join us by sharing the video and to demand the shut down of ElbitSystems. 🎥 @joachim_blomme
Why do we need to change? The fast fashion industry is a highly exploitative industry both damaging for the climate and human rights. As an activist, it is one of my main priorities to make sure I do not contribute to this industry. A sustainable fashion brand that is on track to representing the future of fashion is Armedangels. They prioritize the environment and worker’s rights in the supply chain, and they also have their own second-hand stores and upcycling programs. Fast fashion is one of the most damaging industries in the world, and we need strong players to change that from within. Let’s build this community around slow fashion and sustainability, in which we make fast fashion irrelevant! @armedangels #detoxdenim #madetomakeadifference #armedangels #touchsomethinggood #ad 🎥 @thomas.maddens
I will not be attending COP27 in Egypt this month. #COP27 will be held in a dictatorship that is systematically suppressing activists. This conference is becoming a smokescreen with the purpose of hiding the real human rights crisis in Egypt, concealing the violations and killings of thousands of activists who have been standing up for their human and environmental rights over the past years. It has also become clear that Egypt has no real ambition to push the climate negotiations forward. Protests are criminalized and scientific reports are labeled as ‘fake news’. In the last few of weeks, a lot of petitions and demonstrations have risen up from the climate movement against the Egyptian government, because our fight against the climate crisis is the same fight for human rights. I call on all climate activists and government delegates to unite under one key message at COP27: unless political freedoms and the rights of civil society advocates are safeguarded, there can be no real climate justice. I am in a position in which I’m able to decide not to physically partake in the conference. That is for me, from my specific place in society, at this time. I do think it is extremely important to continue putting pressure on both the Egyptian government and on world leaders. I will be supporting the activists who are attending the conference and putting pressure on the negotiations where I can, from Belgium. For that, we are putting final touches to our project with @unicefafrica – which will be showcased in various places (both live and virtual) at COP27. It will serve as an amplifier for the work done by youth on the front lines of the climate crisis in South Sudan and East Africa. The climate crisis is a human rights crisis, and we must urgently start addressing it as such. 📸 @joachim_blomme
Happy birthday to my lifelong companion. Everybody go wish @luka_dwvdh a happy birthday 🥳❤️ • • • • Captured by @kellybalch
Life update 🧭🗺 It’s been quite overwhelming for me lately to keep up with social media. Both on a personal level, and a work level, I have been juggling complex and difficult things. I constantly find myself feeling like I’m running out of time. I’m sure some of you relate to that? A month ago, I started an internship for Climate Action Network Europe at their Brussels headquarters. Parallel to office hours, I work in my primary role of an activist and pursue my degree at university. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been running a sprint for the past three years, while actually this is a marathon. It’s made me realize I need to spend more time just being. Reading the books I want to read. Having the conversations I want to have. Fighting this crisis on different fronts with different people. I’m granting myself time to be fully present. Chasing sunsets, climbing mountains, sharing deep moments with my partner and the people I love, feeling the waves of the ocean. All while focusing on the big projects that need my full presence. Not a worn-out version of me, chasing a million different things. I hope you get to do that too. The change we want to see is about sustainability, but also about resilience, rest and care. I’ll see you less here in the coming weeks, but as always. my email inbox remains open for the revolution 👇🏼 [email protected] • Captured by @kellybalch
Thousands of people on the streets for climate action! We demand climate Justice. We demand systems change. We demand a radically different world. #klimaatmars #climatestrike
Free Palestine
Free Palestine
Free Palestine
Changes 🧭 I’ve entered this new season with a lot of gratitude for @youth.for.climate. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, while simultaneously understanding that it is time for me to pursue my work, priorities and dreams in different places. I’ve been with YFC since day one, when we were just four people on a couch, with too many beers and a hell of a big dream. Today it is part of a global movement that has grown into a powerful political force. A few months ago, I decided to no longer continue working within YFC, and started contributing to new and exciting projects with other actors. I’ve learned a lot in the past years as a young activist. I’ve celebrated victories and learned from my many mistakes, and I’m starting to understand where I think my contribution can be the greatest. I want to continue supporting the movements and activists who are not as privileged as me, when it comes to access to platforms and arenas. I want to keep growing and learning, being the imperfect activist that I am, and working for change with the people that I admire and love. We need massive policy and systemic change, and I want to be a part of pursuing that in the most radical and inclusive way. I can’t wait to share more information with you soon on the upcoming projects which I’m thrilled to be a part of. I look forward to taking what I have learned so far — and beginning again. 🏔
Dear prime minister @alexanderdecroo — you’re missing the point, once again. If you want to stop pointing fingers, you need to start implementing solutions. Act beyond the privilege of thinking we still have time. Tap the link in bio to see the reality of the climate crisis, right now. 🎥 edit: @thomas.maddens #COP27 #Belgium #climatecrisis #climatejustice
In the run-up to @cop27_egypt in November, I will be part of a delegation of African and European activists who will travel to South Sudan with @unicef to highlight the consequences of the climate crisis on an international platform. There are incredible grassroots organisations in South Sudan working every day, with young people, to address the crisis that affects them directly and dramatically. Our goal is to connect with young people in and around the Horn of Africa to work together to develop strategies to affect the outcome of COP27 in Egypt. The region is one of the least responsible for global warming, and yet, one of the most affected by its consequences. Internationally, very little attention is paid to the extreme drought and massive floods that are ravaging South Sudan and currently leave 8 million people, more than half of them children, in acute humanitarian need. This crisis is being invisibilized, which is why we as privileged white European activists collectively need to pass the mic to activists and people on the frontlines, and prioritize contributing to an international coalition of movements while holding Europe accountable for their destructive, extractive and oppressive policies. We need to work together globally. Global north countries are responsible for 92% excess emissions. Today, most policymakers around the world are actively maintaining a system that is fundamentally built on exploitation of people and the planet. It is therefore crucial that issues of human rights, racism, colonialism and global justice are centered in the climate debate and highlighted on international platforms such as COP27.
In the run-up to @cop27_egypt in November, I will be part of a delegation of African and European activists who will travel to South Sudan with @unicef to highlight the consequences of the climate crisis on an international platform. There are incredible grassroots organisations in South Sudan working every day, with young people, to address the crisis that affects them directly and dramatically. Our goal is to connect with young people in and around the Horn of Africa to work together to develop strategies to affect the outcome of COP27 in Egypt. The region is one of the least responsible for global warming, and yet, one of the most affected by its consequences. Internationally, very little attention is paid to the extreme drought and massive floods that are ravaging South Sudan and currently leave 8 million people, more than half of them children, in acute humanitarian need. This crisis is being invisibilized, which is why we as privileged white European activists collectively need to pass the mic to activists and people on the frontlines, and prioritize contributing to an international coalition of movements while holding Europe accountable for their destructive, extractive and oppressive policies. We need to work together globally. Global north countries are responsible for 92% excess emissions. Today, most policymakers around the world are actively maintaining a system that is fundamentally built on exploitation of people and the planet. It is therefore crucial that issues of human rights, racism, colonialism and global justice are centered in the climate debate and highlighted on international platforms such as COP27.
Our lives depend on the ecosystems we are destroying. If we want a future for humanity, we need to stop cutting our own lifeline. @jonitoarguelles
Thank you the @guardian for featuring me as a Climate Hero! Subscribe for weekly updates on the good, bad and hopeful environmental news on their Down to Earth newsletter The link is in my stories and bio!
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Deel #ShutDownElbit en contacteer ons via de link in bio.
Deel #ShutDownElbit en contacteer ons via de link in bio.
Deel #ShutDownElbit en contacteer ons via de link in bio.
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WATCH • SHARE • AMPLIFY Last month I had the opportunity to work together with a group of young @unicef reporters to document the situation of the climate crisis in South Sudan and East Africa. These are the stories of the people living on the front lines of the climate crisis. This is their warning to the world. And these stories need to be seen and heard. Pledges at climate conferences are not enough. Resources and solutions must reach all affected communities. We need more solutions for climate change mitigation, adaptation and loss and damages. They must be binding. Affected countries should not go into debt for a crisis they didn’t create. Young people need a seat at the table. Climate justice is the only way forward. This film was made possible by @UnicefAfrica and @UnicefSS Young Reporters: @wendyahonda Hans Richard Najma Nor Omar Production: A Mad Production Director / Editor: @ThomasMaddens Producer: Anuna De Wever DP / Editor: @JoachimBlomme Line Producer: Ellen Andries Drone Imagery: Charlotte Hallqvist UNHCR #cop27 #climate #climatechange #nature #environment #globalwarming #climatecrisis #climateaction #sustainability #earth #sustainable #climatechangeisreal #climateemergency #green #climatejustice #water #ecofriendly #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #zerowaste #gogreen #pollution #eco #love #foreverychild
