Part of Green Faith’s  Faiths 4 Climate Justice global action and sponsored locally by Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle, join people of faith and people of conscious to form a socially distanced Human Prayer Chain for Climate Justice along Wade Avenue in Raleigh. The prayer chain begins at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh (UUFR) and will extend as far down Wade Avenue as we have souls to take us! At 6 pm local clergy will lead a short Outdoor Prayer Vigil for Climate Justice at UUFR. Bring signs. Parking at UUFR and Community United Church of Christ (814 Dixie Trail). More information and register here.

The Haw River Water Walk is an Indigenous-led, 300-mile ceremonial walk from the headwaters of the Haw River, along the Cape Fear and down to the Atlantic Ocean. The 300-mile, 11 day walk will happen in relay form, with small teams walking no more than 1-5 miles per day. We welcome volunteers to join us from 1 day to the full 11 days. Crystal Cavalier-Keck, the honorable Sharon Day and Great Grandmother Mary Lyons will guide small teams of walkers in the tradition of the Nibi Walks. We will walk from the Haw’s headwaters to where the river empties into the Atlantic Ocean – with an embodied prayer for the river’s renewed health. More information here and register or volunteer here.

Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth, and a key path forward for the climate movement is to center Indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground. Check out the recording of the Indigenous Resistance to Carbon Report Webinar featuring Love Sanchez, Taysha Martineau, and Kanahus Manuel, as well as report authors from Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International, where they review the report’s main findings and  discuss the critical importance of Indigenous rights in campaigning. Link here.

“It’s with a heavy heart we receive the news that the U.S. has tragically failed once again to honor our treaties and protect the water that sustains all life on Mother Earth. The Line 3 fight is far from over, it has just shifted gears. Do not think we are going quietly into the night, we will continue to stand on the frontlines until every last tar sands pipeline is shut down and Indigenous communities are no longer targeted but our right to consent or denial is respected.”

~Indigenous Environmental Network

From Honor the Earth:

The Top 10 times Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline has failed our communities, environment, and Indigenous Rights.

From Tara Houska with Giniw Collective