GreenFaith

[1] Focusing on grassroots activism, it encourages faith leaders worldwide to invest in green energy, divest from fossil fuels, and publicly advocate for climate justice on a religious basis.In 2021, Harper condemned COP 29's lack of addressing corporate responsibility for climate change and advised faith leaders:"First, clergy need to name what is creating this problem ... For religious leaders, this means ... getting comfortable saying things like: “ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and other oil and gas companies are systematically destroying the planet — and financial giants like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, BlackRock, and Vanguard are bankrolling the destruction.” ... We must make it clear that these companies, their shareholders, our government, and those working for these institutions must change ..."[15]In 2005, Hurricane Katrina "marked a surge of activity" for GreenFaith, as its ensuing environmental disasters "cast a spotlight" on the effects of climate change on vulnerable communities.In October 2021, Roman Catholic association Sisters of Mercy of the Americas protested fossil fuels and the climate emergency outside Bay View Academy in Riverside, Rhode Island.The sisters cited their support of GreenFaith's Washington D.C. protests calling for green energy, commending the marches' leadership by Native American activists.[21] In October 2022, GreenFaith members in Charlotte, North Carolina held a peaceful protest outside of the Bank of America's headquarters, urging a Just Transition to renewable energy.[4] In November 2022, it organized religious leaders to call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, representing more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, ahead of that year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt.[24] About 10,000 protestors were expected, including Goldman Environmental Prize winners Nalleli Cobo and Sharon Lavigne, UN youth adviser Ayisha Siddiqa, and climate scientist Peter Kalmus.In the letter they condemn the displacement of 100,000 people, the state brutality against protestors who "walk in fear of abduction", habitat destruction, water pollution, failed crops, reduced life expectancy as in Shell Oil's Niger Delta rilling, and human rights abuses.
Jane Fonda speaks at Washington, D.C.'s Fire Drill Fridays protest, 2019.
GreenFaith activists, in collaboration with Extinction Rebellion , protest BlackRock on May 31, 2022. Among those arrested on this day was director Fletcher Harper.
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