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Author: Jim Crosthwaite
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Kanchana back in Melbourne
JCJ president Kanchana Weerakoon will be back in Melbourne from 6th to 30th April, for the first time since 2016. She’s keen to talk with groups about two topics. First, the seven Youth Journeys run so far as a great model for action on climate/peace/justice. Second, her experiences with urban small-scale gardening. Public meetings will be announced soon. Want to book some of Kanchana’s time with your group? Send us a message on the Contact page.
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2018 Carteret Islanders Ongoing Support
JCJ partnered with concert pianist Elyane Laussade to raise funds to aid the Carteret Islanders. They needed help building a new life in Bougainville, as their homelands of small atolls are threatened by rising sea levels. The money helped power their administration building and fuel their tractor to distribute cocoa seedlings to their farmers. Cocoa farming allows the islanders to make a living on their new land.
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Flying over winter?
We encourage you, or your flying friends, to contribute to a Journeys for Climate Justice (JCJ) project. Australians love to travel – but emissions from flying contribute to climate change. Carbon offsetting is a weak response.
Journeys for Climate Justice (JCJ) offers a great alternative to carbon offsetting for those who fly and want to pay for their emissions.
- We fund transformational projects that are led by locals in the Asia Pacific, especially training future environmental leaders.
- We promote 100% renewables, and we link South Asian activists and those in Australia opposed to coal mining.
Please check out our Donate page.
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JCJ Supports a Documentary on Climate Justice
CJ is encouraging supporters to help fund a documentary on climate justice in Bangladesh and West Bengal. Filmmakers Samantha Hunter and Sarah Dodamead will depict the effects of climate change and the hardships imposed upon the lives of the local people.
“We want to raise awareness of the social injustices of climate change, how those most severely impacted upon are often those who have contributed the least to the problem.
“We want to make those in the carbon-intensive developed world recognize that they have a social responsibility not only to drastically reduce their GHG emissions, but to support those most affected to be able to adapt and cope.
“Through this documentary, we hope to build solidarity between the Global North and the Global South on the issue of climate change”.
JCJ is contributing directly, but we would love to see you help to boost the funding we can offer. Please go to our Donate page. Long-standing JCJ supporter Pat Kirkby is on the advisory board for the project.
Samantha (left) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and alumni of Florida State University, and Sarah (right) is a Critical Language Scholarship fellow and undergraduate at the same university.
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2016/17 Youth Climate Adaptation Photo-voice Workshops
JCJ supported a ‘Climate Photo-Voice’ project. This used visual storytelling to document, share, and showcase grassroots responses to climate impacts across urban communities in Bangladesh, China and Australia. Photo-voice workshops are an ideal mechanism to drive awareness and behaviour change. Over two years, Australian photographer Micheal Chew partnered with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) to run workshops in Dhaka, Bangladesh with around 100 youth aged 15-30. In 2019 and 2020, successful exhibitions were held in Dhaka and Melbourne, Australia to showcase the results.
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Kanchana speaking on “Climate Journeys for all”
Come and hear powerful and positive stories about action on climate change in Asia. Kanchana Weerakoon’s talk is proudly sponsored by JCJ, Transition Darebin and Darebin Climate Action Now.
Please join us at 7.30pm on Wednesday 2nd November at Lentil as Anything, Thornbury.
Registration on Eventarc is essential. Entry by donation to a JCJ project in Sri Lanka or Bangladesh. Why not eat first in the restaurant (pay what you can) – but note food is not allowed in the Commonground event room.
Please download the flyer here – weerakoon_darebin-event-ajfcj_02,
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Winter travel and acting on climate change
JCJ is launching a special appeal to travellers leaving southern Australia for warmer parts. Check out our great projects that will have real impact. Why not support them with money you would otherwise put into carbon offsets? See our Donate page. Please also pass on our print-ready brochure to your friends who are travelling – JCJ projects and alternative to offsets – June 2016.
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2016 Carteret Islanders support
JCJ supported the relocation of the Carteret Islanders through contacts at Friends of the Earth. The Carteret Islanders are some of the world’s first refugees from rising seas and coastal erosion, as the atolls have a maximum elevation of 1.5m above sea level. There are approximately 2,700 people living on the islands who are undertaking a voluntary relocation program, moving to the larger island of Bougainville, PNG. JCJ’s support was used to purchase cocoa seedlings to start a means to earn income on their Bougainville plot of land.
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Action 2016!
JCJ has joined with Darebin Climate Action Network and Victorian Climate Action Network to support the environment in this election year. Come along to our Core Group meetings to find out how you can be involved in projects in Australia beyond! We meet fortnightly near the Victoria Market. Phone Helen on 0400 929 368 for more information.
