Climate Justice & Decolonisation Documents from Faith Based Organisations
Kia ora koutou,
Joy Kennedy from Stream B has kindly provided a number of resources for those who may be interested in the work that Faith Based Organisations are doing with respect to climate justice and decolonising the climate movement.
She has provided a brief description of the documents below, and they are linked here for your interest!
The Storforsen Appeal was from a meeting of Indigenous and Religious leaders on the Future of the Arctic in Storforsen, Sweden in 2015 just prior to COP21 in Paris.
The Canadian Council of Churches' Expression of Reconciliation was to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2016
The Canadian Interfaith Conversation Statement on Truth and Reconciliation was also for the TRC in 2016.
The Interfaith Liaison Committee Message to the High Level Segment of COP25 in Madrid, delivered to the Plenary on the last day.of the COP.
Positionality Activity Sheet
In Module 3, we will start to generate ideas and actions that we can all take to decolonise our climate movements - whether we are employed in climate organisations, grassroots activists within the movement, or individually in our own personal activism and change-making practice.
Deeply understanding our own positions, and incorporating a deep practice of exploring our positionality is foundational in determining what actions we can take, and how we can most effectively and appropriately take action on climate change.
Following on from our Positionality session with Haylee Koroi in Workshop 2, we encourage you to spend some time delving deeper into your own positionality and whakapapa (genealogy - both in terms of ancestry, but also what has brought you to this place, and to this work). You can now access an extended Positionality Activity Sheet on the Module 2 page, or at the button below. This includes two activities for you to further reflect on your positionality, including some additional prompts to the discussion questions from Workshop 2.
While exploring our positionality should be an ongoing reflective practice, so it is not something you can “complete” in one sitting - we encourage all participants to take a look at this activity sheet, and spend what time you can reflecting on the questions in preparation for Workshop 3 next week.
We hope you find this sheet useful, and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!