#cop 30

A very dear friend of mine is an Indigenous activist who is part of an Indigenous and BIPOC delegation of activists to the UN Climate Conference, COP 30! However they are struggling to secure housing due to the exorbitant price gouging surrounding these conferences and the absolutely massive cuts in funding and grants for Indigenous and environmental orgs made by Trump.

If you are able to donate, they would really appreciate it and it would make a huge difference!

They need 350 people to donate $20 by Monday or they will lose what might be their only opportunity to secure housing for less than, I fucking kid you not, the going rate of $35,000 (for about 10 people, for two weeks, in Brazil), which would force them to leave most of their delegates behind.

"Constantly fighting in colonial spaces is exhausting. For many of us, we already have to combat the dehumanizing narratives thrust upon our Peoples before we even get to open our mouths. Narratives that try to keep us confined to tokenized roles like blessings or performances instead of listening to our actual advocacy. Because confronting how much you need to change is uncomfortable; demanding systemic reform for the sake of our planet is impolite. Just stand there and look sacred or diverse for a picture you didn’t consent to but don’t you dare open your mouth to speak truth because what you have to say is unpalatable to the colonizers in control. We reject that kind of objectification. When we stride through the white-washed hallways where they didn't want us to even tentatively tread, we mean business. No matter who it makes uncomfortable. One of the tactics used to keep out grassroots organizations is exorbitant price gouging. However, thanks to the hard work of some dedicated organizers, there are some more affordable housing options available. However, the slots are limited and going fast. While we have secured some funding, if our delegation isn’t able to raise $7,000 more dollars by Monday, we’re back to square one and may need to leave some of our delegates behind. We have applied to multiple grants, but even if we are selected as awardees, we won’t get the funding quickly enough, making direct grassroots crowdfunding our only option to secure housing. Please support us by sharing this post and donating if you are able. https://lnkd.in/gQ3EPXz6 Needless to say, advocating at UN conferences is not fun. We’re not going on vacation. We’re going to COP because there is no substitute for intervening in Earth-destroying policies where their creators plot. [Note: Extremely literally. Big Oil sends thousands of representatives to COP each year, many of them undercover, and petrostates have used the last two COP conferences to make massive oil deals. x, x] If we can just find 350 people to donate just $20, we’ll be able to meet our intermediate goal. Keep your fingers crossed that philanthropy will smile upon SustainUS and make crowdfunding for the additional costs obsolete. For now though, this is really the only option we have. We understand that not everyone agrees with the idea of even attending spaces like COP, and we respect those choices. We all have different roles to play, and for us, we feel like this is one of our responsibilities. Thank you so much for reading this far. Hang in there everyone."

-via Sheelah Bearfoot, September 4, 2025

You can donate here!!

🥳 Câlins du jour 😉

Et pendant ce temps là, E.Macron au Brésil....🤔

King Charles and Prince William come together for a rare joint engagement at London museum

9 October 2025

By REBECCA ENGLISH, ROYAL EDITOR

The King and Prince of Wales are tonight undertaking a rare joint public engagement brought together by their shared passion for the environment.

King Charles and Prince William are at the Natural History Museum in London for 'Countdown to COP30,' which brings together organisations and individuals tackling the global environmental crisis and nature loss issues ahead of the United Nations' annual climate change summit in Brazil in November.

Father and son arrived together in the State Bentley from Buckingham Palace where they had met up together beforehand. 

Kensington Palace have also tonight confirmed that the heir to the throne will attend the COP30 Leaders Summit on behalf of the monarchy in Belem on November 6.

He will already be in Brazil for his fifth annual Earthshot Prize Awards in Rio de Janeiro that week.

A piece I did for one of the Global Citizen’s actions!

The idea was to work with the message, in portuguese, “Protect The Amazon”.

My idea was to make a flag that looks like a money bill, but also ressembles Brasil’s flag, with the work on the middle of it.

Around it, there are lines inspired on indigenous graphism, red like urucum, and in the exterior, sketches of animals, to show their vulnerability.

I hope you gays like it and it’s a good work for the matter in case!

Desenho que eu fiz para uma das ações do Global Citizen. A proposta era trabalhar a frase “Proteja a Amazônia”, então eu resolvi fazer uma bandeira em forma de nota de dinheiro, mas que também lembrasse a bandeira do Brasil.

O globes ✨ no centro, em volto de linhas e contenções inspiradas no grafismo indígena, vermelhas como urucum.

Nas extremidades, rascunhos de amimais, para mostrar o quanto eles são vulneráveis.

Espero que gostem e que esteja digno do assunto em si.

Até maises galeirers!

Ps: a escolha de música foi motivada por Paulo André Barata tocar muito lá em casa, em Marabá. Ele cantava uma Amazônia que eu não via, só imaginava (eu via quando a gente ia passar uns dias em Cametá).

If Trump wants to bury his head in the sand and pretend it’s still the 1950s, fine. Combating the climate crisis is so much bigger than just him.

I’m not saying that Trump’s attitude won’t have consequences, but just remember that every single one of us can play a role in combating climate change. You can take action as an individual and you can also pressure your state and local officials to take action.

Even a small step forward is still a step forward and every step counts.

They hate our people, they dehumanize us constantly, they hate to be surrounded by proof of the inequality imperialism creates because how can you pretend to be the good guys when natives are constantly protesting in front of you? How can you pretend you just "care so much about the enviroment" while being surrounded by not pretty gardens but a florest, how you "are not xenophobic and just wants all latinos, mena and Africans out of your country because the ones there are vaguely bad" when you go to one of their countries and have to actually talk to us? Actually talk to people who are tired of them pretending our land, our people are theirs to take. That we are just numbers on a screen.

So we have the German chanceler saying that German is beutifull and economic free and how thankfull he is to not be in Belem anymore cause he doesn't actually ever hangs around the poor sides of his own country, he never cares about people protesting and being "economic free" means not only being part of the imperial core but also not doing land reform, not actually doing shit to deal with the homeless crisis of Germany except by blaming imigrants.

They want to have meetings in fancy conference rooms about money they will barely donate and pat their backs they don't want to step in the dirt, to look at the trees, to see a river. The Amazon is pretty in photos where it's not hot, there is no mosquitos and can give them money and recourses because is also theirs, it belongs to humanity not to the actual people living and breatjing in there (who clearly must all be brainless savages).

And now we can clearly see what has always been said with fancy speeches and unfortunately most people who didn't care still don't. The brazilian right was trained to beg for more imperialism, to think that being exploited is good because the ones in power say they are helping while calling you an "allien" and treating you at best like an exotic pet, they give you money (for less than you work was worth) while making you move the furniture of your house to inside their trucks. And the imperial core right was trained to belive we are less and that taking for us is their right.