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Funding movements on the ground to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

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"Calling climate justice, it's about time
'Cause our Black people on the frontline
Ain't you seeing what I'm seeing
Hurricanes and fires blazing, flooding in Savannah basin"
Check out Fossil Free University grad Louis VI on @NPR for his new climate mixtape https://t.co/LC3YDHnzTT

[Covering Climate Now 🦋 @coveringclimate.org @CoveringClimate]

Increasingly sophisticated fossil fuel PR campaigns are making climate disinfo more difficult for journalists and the public to spot. This explainer looks at 5 of the industry’s go-to disinfo tactics. By @amywestervelt and @kylepope for @guardian… https://t.co/QbJPLH2DVC

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The fossil fuel industry's propaganda tactics are well-funded and becoming more sophisticated, but the stories don’t change much from year to year. Must read on how to spot their top five narratives in order to better combat them.
https://t.co/8VJujGH7Sj

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Read our latest Dispatch from the Frontlines by
@jamieclimate of Fossil Free Media as he reflects on the importance of changing the narrative and spotlighting different storytellers to help mobilize strong movements to take on the fossil fuel industry. https://t.co/bs9B03DZdf

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Thank you The Outside for interviewing our Executive Director @KatieRedford86 and Deputy Director Annie Plotkin Madrigal to share why there is an urgent need to change our collective approach to climate philanthropy.
Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/I9PD0Nw0Ij

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Our grantee partner, the Descendants Project, recently won a lawsuit to protect their historic Black community and ancestral gravesites in Louisiana from a massive industrial scheme.

Listen to a recent interview with their co-founder Joy Banner on @NPR : https://t.co/EDUiif8Hxb

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Our sister organization, Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef), has announced a #COP28 Legal Protection Center to offer legal resources to coalitions and climate activists planning to attend COP28 this month.

Download the guide before you go: https://t.co/Hxqqcz4nLg

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In this Dispatch from the Frontlines, Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup reflects on unlikely alliances across generations & identities, working together to build movement power to defeat KXL, & the challenges ahead for communities now fighting carbon pipelines https://t.co/c3UpIRhfNa

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Congrats, @janekleeb! 🥳🥳🥳

[Katie Redford @KatieRedford86]

Thrilled that @equation_cmpgn board member @janekleeb won the #ClimateBreakthroughAward to expand her fight against the fossil fuel industry. We were proud seed funders of Jane's work and hope more funders follow and fund the frontlines to win! https://t.co/la2yXVjeif

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"Every new coal, natural gas and oil project collides with the scientific reality that the world needs to cut its greenhouse gas emissions..But for people on the ground, these projects aren’t symbols of global battles — they have tangible impacts..." https://t.co/1XFqTLoIxy

[Honor the Earth @HonorTheEarth]

"There is just this continuous pattern that Indigenous communities and communities of color bear all the risk when we have these extractive projects." –Bay Mills Indian Community President Whitney Gravelle #ShutDownLine5 #EndFossilFuels #NoGreenColonialism https://t.co/ndlQfCs7jY

[The Descendants Project (Louisiana) @project_descend]

A must read. @CapitalBNews reports on how "A new data set outlines the threats in 70,000 U.S. census tracts.
Black neighborhoods make up some of the most at risk."
Read the whole article from Capital B here: https://t.co/ZE9VqG4ack

[The SAGE Fund @SAGEFundrights]

"We need rapid & transformat'l change to address the climate crisis, & the only way in history that has ever happened w/ the scale & speed that the science says is necessary, is thru mass mobilization and movements led by organizers where the harms are most directly experienced."

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Our @KatieRedford86 spoke with @RockefellerFdn on the tools that have the power to disrupt & dismantle the fossil fuel industry, but are under-the-radar in mainstream climate funding strategies.

Read the full interview: https://t.co/b9ZsVgpRqr #RFBellagio #BellagioPerspectives

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This powerful strategy could help protect the river against the MVP, which threatens everything that she loves.

Read the full story and sign-up for Dispatches from the Frontlines to get stories from leaders fighting for a fossil-free future in your inbox https://t.co/lYwDnvRcV5

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Every month, we share stories from the leaders who are fighting – and winning – the battle for a fossil-free future.

This month, @MosnukheNomp @7Directionsof recounts her organizing journey to demand that Indigenous rights trump corporate rights in the efforts to #StopMVP.

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For Crystal, the Haw River is sacred to her tribe, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. It is also the lifeblood of her community.

In NC, she initiated and drafted a bill, that if passed, will ensure entities who damage the river will pay for restoration and civil penalties

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“People often can’t even believe there is a pipeline going through the Great Lakes. It seems crazy that we just have this heart attack waiting to happen.”

-President Whitney Gravelle of our grantee partner of Bay Mills Indian Community in @guardian https://t.co/09vfGiK7JY

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

BREAKING: @IEA’s Net Zero Emissions scenario reaffirms that governments must stop approving new fossil fuels – and close some fields early – to protect a livable planet.

https://t.co/dRcNnzB9eK

#EndFossilFuels #KeepItInTheGround