Climate: Torres Strait Islanders sue federal government over failure to protect their land from rising sea levels

Pabai Pabai (left) and Paul Kabai on the jetty in Boigu, a low-lying island in the Torres Strait. They are taking the government to court, insisting it exercise its duty of care to them and prevent catastrophic climate change and sea level rise.

Pabai Pabai (left) and Paul Kabai on the jetty in Boigu, a low-lying island in the Torres Strait. They are taking the government to court, insisting it exercise its duty of care to them and prevent catastrophic climate change and sea level rise. 

Two Torres Strait community leaders are taking the Australian government to the Federal Court, alleging it failed to protect First Nations traditional owners living on the front line of catastrophic climate change.

In the first Australian climate class action brought on behalf of First Nations people, the Gudamalulgal traditional owners from the remote, low-lying islands of Boigu and Saibai say the government’s failure to reduce emissions will force their communities to become Australia’s first climate-change refugees.

Source: Climate: Torres Strait Islanders sue federal government over failure to protect their land from rising sea levels

Australian government sued over global warming by indigenous Torres Strait Islanders ‘on frontline of climate crisis’ — RT World News — THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON…

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Indigenous Torres Strait Islanders have launched a climate change class action against the Australian government over claims it has failed to tackle global warming, risking residents “becoming climate refugees.” Fonte: Australian government sued over global warming by indigenous Torres Strait Islanders ‘on frontline of climate crisis’ — RT WorldNews

Australian government sued over global warming by indigenous Torres Strait Islanders ‘on frontline of climate crisis’ — RT World News — THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON…

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The Magnitude of the Climate Challenge — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Wibble: With the COP26 climate summit due to kick off in Glasgow on Sunday, here’s a stark warning of what the future holds in store for us all if our global ‘leaders’ fail to come through (as I fully expect them to do). As Sir David Attenborough said recently: If wedon’t…

The Magnitude of the Challenge — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 35, and Ms. Marian Anderson

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

It is crucial that we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us.  This famous Easter Concert, in 1939, paved the way for a more famous speech, given on the very same step upon which Ms. Anderson stood to sing of freedom.   Guess who gave that speech?

 

I believe that attention to shared histories, as in DC, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

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• Tutoring children from Shepherd Elementary school every week
• PAUSE writing club
• Africa Projects – Abayudayan Jewish Co-op Coffee”

The membership of Tifereth Israel Congregation overlaps to an interesting extent with that of the nearby Washington Ethical Society, and cooperates in various annual events with the ethically minded…

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World leaders pledge $400 billion to boost clean energy and renewables — Happy Eco News

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World leaders have promised to make electricity both more sustainable and accessible A group of governments and the private sector on Friday collectively promised more than $400 billion (just over €340 billion) at a high-level summit that called for more urgent action to curb catastrophic climate change . 190 more words

World leaders pledge $400 billion to boost clean energy and renewables — Happy Eco News

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New York City vaccine mandate can stand, judge rules, despite police union request – The Washington Post

Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Lizette Colon ruled that de Blasio’s mandate — which the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York is seeking to overturn — can proceed, reportedly citing a previous state appellate ruling that upheld a vaccine mandate for measles. Source: New York City vaccine mandate can stand, judge rules, despite police union request – The Washington Post

Wet’suwet’en Urgent Update

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The arrest of Chief Dsta’hyl occurred just a few hours ago. The only news are the following tweets and Facebook posts. Supporters are asked to do what they can now. “We need boots on the ground!”

There have been many conflicts and arrests of Wet’suwet’en people by militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There are heightened tensions now as construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline has reached the point of drilling under the sacred headwaters of the Wedzin Kwa river. For background information see: https://landbackfriends.com/?s=wetsuweten

With @jjhorgan releasing the provincial Climate Plan today AND while our People file an appeal on our Climate Change court case – this is…

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