Friday, September 10: Forests, Fires and Finance and Our Future

This year's burning season across the Brazilian Amazon is growing in intensity. Year after year of drought and fires in California reflects the direct result of Amazonian destruction due to deforestation, fires, mining, and agriculture. California has deeply felt the impact of not receiving critical moisture and vapor that we need to keep our climate in balance. The future of the planet depends on rejecting climate colonialism driven by financial institutions. It's our collective responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon.

Online:

• Watch What You Need To Know About The Amazon's Burning Season

• Sign a petition to tell Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, to stop investing in Amazon destruction and develop binding policies on Indigenous rights and deforestation!
• Read Forests, Fires, and Finance: How Financial Institutions Are Fanning the Flames.

In-person:

• Here in San Francisco, on the 6th Day of Global Action, we'll be teaming up with Youth vs Apocalypse and Rainforest Action Network to talk about Fires, Forest, Finance, and our Future! How are the destructive projects in the Amazon affecting the next generation, who is financing them and how do we also feel the impacts of the Amazon destruction here in California? Join us at BlackRock at 3 pm PDT as we rise up with the future generations, register now!