Posts Tagged "Ecological Justice"
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G7 Jubilee People’s Forum
G7 Jubilee People’s Forum and Public Actions Training and networking for Jubilee 2025 and beyond Français ci-dessous Calgary, Alberta June 12-15, 2025 Join us June 12-15 for the People’s Forum in Calgary at Ambrose University! The People’s Forum will be a…
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Jubilee Book Study – The Serviceberry; Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dive into a transformative journey with our book study on The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This engaging series intersects with the themes of Jubilee 2025, exploring the profound connections between economy, ecological…
KAIROS 2025 Easter message
April 14, 2025
Let’s renew our commitment to the Earth and all of Creation Dear Friends, This Easter season, we invite you to take a few moments to watch the KAIROS Easter video. Please share it with your family, friends, congregation, community, or…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Spirited Reflections
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Listening to the Land
Listening to the Land is a 4-month journey through 6 transformative modules, between March and early July. Sessions will take place in various locations within the Kichi Sībī watershed (Ottawa area) on designated Saturday mornings. We will meet at the…
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From Ecological Debt to Ecological Hope
The Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology (ORCIE) invites you to our webinar, From Ecological Debt to Ecological Hope, as part of ORCIE’s engagement in the Jubilee 2025 campaign “Turn Debt into Hope.” Join us to hear from religious…
From grief to action: “Listening to the Land” workshop series in Ottawa (Kichi Sībī watershed) opens for registration
March 3, 2025
KAIROS is pleased to announce a new project for 2025 titled Listening to the Land. This project will take place from March 22 to July 5 in Ottawa (unceded Algonquin territory). Listening to the Land is an interactive workshop series…
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Finding hope in a tough year for climate action
December 20, 2024
“Betrayal,” “outrageously inadequate,” “embarrassing,” “shameful,” “deeply disappointing” – these are all words used to describe this year’s UN Climate Conference – COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. COP29 was slated to be the finance COP, where we expected to see progress…
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This Christmas, we invite you to be part of the change we all long for – a world of hope, justice, and dignity.
December 10, 2024
Hope, again, is not naive optimism or despairing pessimism: it is an active, nonviolent and shared struggle for justice and peace. -Zoughbi Zoughbi, Director at KAIROS partner organization Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center. At KAIROS, we are Indigenous Peoples,…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights
Jubilee 2025: A Call for Global Debt Justice
December 4, 2024
In 2025, KAIROS will lead a Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee campaign, in step with a global debt relief effort, inspired by the Jubilee tradition from the Book of Leviticus. Rooted in faith, Jubilee calls for the release of debts, liberation from…
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Community Dialogue on Sustainable Futures in Unama’ki-Cape Breton
December 3, 2024
On November 5, KAIROS and the Climate Change Task Force – Unama’ki/Cape Breton (CCTF) co-hosted a community dialogue on sustainable futures and just transition in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The dialogue was convened as part of KAIROS’ Strengthening Voices for a…
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KAIROS MOMENTUM
KAIROS Great Lakes St. Lawrence presents it’s biennial fall get together on line. This year we are inviting KAIROS national representatives to update us on KAIROS work being done in the fields of Migrant Justice, Indigenous Rights, Ecological Justice and…
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See, Act, Learn for Climate Justice: Video Launch and Discussion
Join us for a screening of Coming Together for Climate Justice on Loss and Damage and learn more about how loss and damage funding supports climate justice. Hear from ecumenical and global partners attending COP29 Climate Conference and learn how…
Now available! Powerful new short video on loss and damage released in time for COP29
November 7, 2024
We are pleased to announce the release of a powerful new video titled Coming Together for Climate Justice on Loss and Damage. This short video dives into the urgent and pressing issue of Loss and Damage funding for vulnerable communities…
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Media Advisory – Loss and damage event
November 7, 2024
Loss and damage event to urge greater Canadian ambition at COP29, Nov 18 Webinar will feature short film premier screening and advocates at COP29 What See, Act, Learn about Climate Justice, a 60-minute webinar will feature the premier screening of…
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Join your community for Candles for COP
November 5, 2024
For the Love of Creation invites groups across Canada to host Candles for COP – candlelight vigils in their communities from November 15 to 17, marking the first weekend of the COP29 climate conference, held November 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan….
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Why We Say No: Ecuadorian Indigenous women and rights defenders bring message of concern to Canada amid high-stakes trade negotiations
September 26, 2024
Toronto, September 26, 2024– Four women leaders on the front lines of increasingly dangerous efforts to protect rights and the environment in Ecuador will visit Canada next week to speak out against intensifying trade talks aimed at expanding Canadian resource…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Global South, Human Rights
Proudly supporting Indigenous women leaders and human rights defender delegation from Ecuador
September 23, 2024
“This is why we say No!” is the call to action that is mobilizing four courageous Indigenous women leaders and human rights defenders from Ecuador to come to Canada, September 28-October 6. They take this journey to share their concerns…
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Environmental Racism legislation passes into law!
June 28, 2024
At long last, legislation to address environmental racism has been passed into law! Bill C-226 passed third reading in the Senate on June 13 and received Royal Assent on June 20. The bill is an Act respecting the development of…
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KAIROS reviews Budget 2024
April 23, 2024
While the federal government offered some good news in Budget 2024, which it announced on April 16, it also presented disappointments for KAIROS’ program areas. We are told that Budget 2024 is an attempted balancing act of spending increases…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, Migrant Justice
BC-Yukon KAIROS launches Table Talk Toolkit
April 2, 2024
Human conversation is the most ancient and easiest way to cultivate the conditions for change—personal change, community and organizational change, planetary change. If we can sit together and talk about what’s important to us, we begin to come alive. Margaret…
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Strengthening Voices for a Just Transition – a project uniting generations for equitable and sustainable futures
March 5, 2024
We are pleased to announce that KAIROS has received a grant from the Catherine Donnelly Foundation to support its Strengthening Voices for a Just Transition project in 2024. This project aims to nurture a cohort of changemakers to help…
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This kairos moment
January 29, 2024
When you have KAIROS in your name, it tends to lead you to think about kairos moments – the question of what time it is, not from a chronological perspective but from a significance perspective. What time is it in…
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Loss-and-damage agreement could be climate justice game changer—if done right
December 12, 2023
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Love Letters: To the Earth – From the Earth
On the occasion of COP 28, Green Exodus is hosting Love Letters: To the Earth – From the Earth, three guided letter-writing sessions Nov. 20, 27 and Dec. 4, from 6:30- 7:30 pm on Zoom. Each one will be different; come for…
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Love Letters: To the Earth – From the Earth
On the occasion of COP 28, Green Exodus is hosting Love Letters: To the Earth – From the Earth, three guided letter-writing sessions Nov. 20, 27 and Dec. 4, from 6:30- 7:30 pm on Zoom. Each one will be different; come for…
No climate justice without peace, no peace without climate justice
November 17, 2023
In the last couple of years, there has been a growing recognition of the intersecting impacts of climate change, gender, conflict and economic injustice. This climate-conflict-gender nexus is a necessary lens through which peacebuilding efforts must now be considered. In…
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Centering Voices from the Global South
November 13, 2023
This week’s theme, Decolonizing Climate Action: Centering Voices from the Global South recognizes that that the voices of those most impacted by climate change are often ignored or face barriers to participate in climate decision-making. KAIROS and its partners recognize…
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The African People’s Climate and Development Declaration 2023
September 16, 2023
World leaders gathered in Nairobi, Kenya from September 4 to 8 for the Africa Climate Summit to discuss regional interests ahead of COP28. Civil society raised concerns that Western and corporate interests hijacked the Summit in their push for false…
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