Newsletter
October 2024
As we bear witness to increasingly intense and frequent climate disasters with Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton causing catastrophic damage and devastating loss of life, torrential rainfall and deadly flooding in Nepal, wildfires spreading over 100,000 acres in Wyoming, meanwhile the US has spent $22.76 billion on military aid to Israel & related US operations in the region since October 7th, 2023. It is impossible to ignore the connections between increasing climate disasters, militarism, and the fossil fuel industry as our governments profit off of genocide and ecocide. How do we move forward as disasters continue to worsen while the US and global Northern governments, corporations, universities, and big greens continue to prescribe and fund false solutions rooted in the same systems that got us to this point, capitalism, settler-colonialism, hetero-patriarchy, and white supremacy? We must make space to grieve, heal, and care for ourselves and one another, and simultaneously, we must continue to organize and strengthen our collective power and systems of mutual aid and resilience in the face of increasing climate chaos.
We look to our member organizations, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, a grassroots disaster relief network based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action and Movement Generation’s framework on just recovery, a framework for disaster collectivism in the face of climate chaos. Mutual aid and just recovery are rooted in systems of reciprocity, self-governance, and collective care. To learn more about mutual aid and its history, check out this graphic. To learn more about what Just Recovery means and looks like in practice, click here.
Mutual Aid & Action Items
Visit Mutual Aid Disaster Relief’s website and follow on social media, Facebook and Instagram for further resources.
- DONATE $ for supplies at bit.ly/donatemadr
- Paypal: [email protected]
- Venmo:@MutualAidDisasterRelief
Hurricane Milton
- List of Local Milton Mutual Aid Funds – Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
- Tampa Mutual Aid – Solidarity Not Charity
Hurricane Helene
- Helene Recovery Resources
- Poder Emma/Colaborativa La Milpa – Western NC WNC Helene Mutual Aid Thread
- Asheville Water Support – Tremont Garden
- Sign the Petition: No Evictions in Disaster-Struck Western NC! – EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW
- Hurricane Helene resources & map of connections by Liz Artistry
- AMANESER 2025: Saving Lives in Puerto Rico’s Next Hurricane
Palestine
Lebanon
Sign On Statements
- SIGN ON STATEMENT – Civil Society Groups Blow the Whistle on the EU’s Reckless, Unscientific, Lobbyist-led CCS Plans
- URGENT ACTION! – Tell the US Forest Service to keep genetically engineered trees OFF our public lands! – Comment period ends October 15th. Submit a comment or sign the petition.
- Sign this letter! Urgent Action Alert in support of Nagari Kapa community, West Sumatra, Indonesia | World Rainforest Movement
Hoodwinked News
How did Hoodwinked come to be? Check out our new Our Story page on our website to get the background scoop.
Frontline Climate Week 2024
Hoodwinked was BUSY this climate week. We spanned three boroughs, from the Bronx Environmental Justice Town Hall to Uprose’s Climate Justice Festival in Brooklyn, our small yet mighty team and co-conspirators were out there. On Monday, we got Hoodwinked copies into the hands of financial “experts,” investors, and ESG/corporate sustainability folks as they entered into meetings on carbon trading at a climate finance event. Tuesday, Hoodwinked members were at a day long training with labor organizers on the just transition while others were at The People’s Forum with Climate Justice Alliance for Realizing the Just Transition followed by El Puente and Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora’s event, Saving Lives in Puerto Rico’s Next Hurricane. In between, we stopped by the All Out for Lebanon protest and ended the night with friends at GAIA where we were pleased to see many familiar faces. The rest of the week we were at the Bridges and Barriers Conference, Black Climate Leadership Summit, Climate Justice Alliance Frontline Climate Week, at Indigenous Climate Action events, at the Arrest Netanyahu for War Crimes against Palestine and Lebanon protest, and Grassroots Power: Perspectives on the Impact & Scale of Community-led Climate Solutions. We are incredibly grateful to all of our member orgs and friends of Hoodwinked who helped us distribute books and stickers around New York City. You know who you are!
Did you spot Hoodwinked this climate week? Send us a pic and let us know where you found Hoodwinked at Climate Week 2024!
Corporate Climate Week
Did you see our reel on how Climate Group and Climate Week NYC actively promotes false solutions? If not, check it out here.
Hoodwinked Stickers Infiltrate (Corporate) Climate Week
Hoodwinked in action
This summer Ladanijirah Lightner, an undergraduate intern with the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies at the University of Washington, and her mentor Dargan Frierson used Hoodwinked in the Hothouse as a framework to critically evaluate future energy pathways in the commonly used Shared Socioeconomic Pathways database, which contains calculations of future energy choices based on carbon pricing. Ladanijirah found that many of the future energy scenarios predicted by the database heavily relied on false solutions (such as bioenergy, hydroelectricity, and nuclear power), and therefore concluded that “a radically different approach may be necessary for the construction of justice-based scenarios.” To find out more, check out Ladanijirah’s project poster and this short video describing the research and her experience conducting it.
Have you used Hoodwinked for a research project, class, training, campaign, or other type of project or event? If so, we’d love to feature your work in a future newsletter! Reach out to us at [email protected].
Geoengineering Monitor has a new website. Check it out.Updated technology briefings, improved Geoengineering Map functions and extensive new resources and content in Spanish
False Solutions News
- Climate scientists call on Labour to pause £1bn plans for carbon capture Letter says technologies to produce blue hydrogen and capture CO2 are unproven and could hinder net zero efforts
- Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US
- Op-ed: Is plastic the biggest climate threat? A plastics treaty for the climate and health must address overproduction of plastics and head off the petrochemical and plastic industry’s planned expansion.
- Bringing Transparency to Carbon Credit Projects | DSI and GRAIN
- The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S.
- Whatever Happened to “Net-Zero”? | The New Republic
- Woody biomass is a false climate solution and a massive threat to Indonesia’s forests
- White Mesa Indigenous Community and Supporters Rally Against Uranium Mill – UNICORN RIOT
Climate Justice Wins
- Ancestral land returned to Onondaga Nation in upstate New York | AP News
- Reworld to shut down California’s last MSW incinerator | Waste Dive.
- Anabela Lemos of Justica Ambiental wins 2024 Right Livelihood Award
- ‘Significant Victory’: Court Rules Planned Plutonium Pits for New Nukes Violate US Law | Common Dreams
- Salmon swim freely in Klamath River for first time in more than 100 years: News comes after Iron Gate dam was removed to let river near California-Oregon border return to natural flow
- Marking One Year of the Israeli Genocidal War & Ethnic Cleansing – Union of Agricultural Work Committees
What we’re listening to/watching
Upcoming Events
- Ute Mesa Ute Community Spiritual Walk & Protest; Saturday, October 12, 11 am MDT. Join the spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the White Mesa uranium mill and oppose the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. Happening this Saturday! Learn more at https://protectwhitemesa.org/
- Indigenous Peoples Day NYC – 10th Annual Gathering and Celebration IPDNYC https://ipdnyc.squarespace.com/ , October 13th-14th Randall’s Island, NYC
- Seeds of Sumoud: Palestinian Dignity and the Fight for Food Sovereignty – Monday October 14th, 6-8 PM ET, The New School, NYC
- Charging Forward: Reducing Toxic Materials in Batteries for a Just Energy Transition,” on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 8:00 PDT / 11:00 am EDT in English with Spanish interpretation. GAIA
- Solidarity Economies 101 with New Economy Coalition Thursday, October 24, 2024, 6:00 PM ET – 7:30 PM ET. Interpretation available // Interpretación al español disponible!
Hoodwinked orgs and allies will be at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, October 21st – November 1st.
- 📖 We are pleased to share the English version of IEN’s new UNCBD COP 16 briefer, outlining false solutions and impacts on Indigenous Peoples.
- A new study was just released from Global Forest Coalition on biodiversity offsets, much like carbon offsets that perpetuate the same capitalist extractive system, allowing corporations, conservation organizations and governments to continue business as usual while local communities, the land, and disproportionately women bear the brunt of these false solutions. Read the press release here, Biodiversity Offsetting: A Corporate Social License to Perpetuate Biodiversity Destruction and Gender Inequality.
On Instagram
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- Mona Chalabi: Who Profits from Killing
- Just Recovery: a framework for disaster collectivism in the face of climate chaos
- “As Hurricane Milton hits Florida less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene, our hearts are with the people and communities experiencing climate disasters fueled by the extractive economy and who are further displaced and harmed by disaster capitalism at their most vulnerable moments of recovery. None of this is normal. The instability of the extractive economic system and the urgent calls to rebuild and recover bust open the possibilities to build a Just Transition and to radically shift towards the regenerative, resilient economies that we need. Now is an opportunity to allow our organizing to be guided by a collective strategy, to reground in visions of self-determination and self-governance, and to build our way out of chaos together. Click the link to learn more about #JustRecovery as a framework for post-disaster organizing and to donate to communities hit hard by recent hurricanes in the south.”
- Talia Boyd of IEN discusses the so called energy transition
- The Biden administration is pushing critical mineral mining for the development of EV batteries and other ‘green technology.’ Indigenous lands are rich with minerals and are targeted for mining, forcing them to become sacrifice zones.
- YUCCA, Youth United For Climate Crisis Action protesting at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s annual meeting. “While they golf, eat, and discuss profits we stand outside to hold them accountable for destroying our futures! 20,000 children are displaced every day because of your choices! Which side are you on?”
- Coming Up … Hoodwinked orgs and allies will be at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, October 21st – November 1st. A new study was just released from Global Forest Coalition on biodiversity offsets, much like carbon offsets that perpetuate the same capitalist extractive system, allowing corporations, conservation organizations and governments to continue business as usual while local communities, the land, and disproportionately women bear the brunt of these false solutions. Read the press release here, Biodiversity Offsetting: A Corporate Social License to Perpetuate Biodiversity Destruction and Gender Inequality