The Climate Fight is Heating Up, Much Like the Climate 🤬

Written By Priscilla Grim

The New, The Work, The Real World!

Source: Gili Getz

News from Beautiful Trouble

Got a creative intervention for climate action? In September and October, the Get Up Rise Up (GURU) Direct Action Fund will focus this month on actions demanding an end to using Fossil Fuels. Prepare your application now for the October 5th deadline!

Four groups were supported in August. FUDD: femmes unies pour la défense de ses droits (translation: Women United in Defence of their Rights), La Cloche Media Group for their Say No to Illegal Taxation on Roads action, Firebrand for their fight against discrimination of ethnic minorities, and in Uganda, the Albino Charity Organization for their campaign in support of Albino students in Zimbabwe.

We are excited to welcome three new beautiful troublemakers to the team! 

Ashley Waudo (she/her) is our new Impact Amplifier and a Nairobi-based community organizer and project manager. She is your contact for everything Get Up Rise Up (GURU) Direct Action Fund-related. She is deeply committed to changing people's lives through service to others while remaining passionate about movement-building and nonviolent conflict resolution. Ashley has worked with movements to help them realize their POWER! Read more about her work.

Priscilla Grim (she/her) is our new Mass Communications Matriarch, leading and publishing our outward communications. She is a mom, comrade, activist, writer, digital strategist, and Nuyorican based in Brooklyn, NYC. Her involvement with movement media teams has included the Occupy Wall Street social media teams on Facebook and Twitter, The Occupied Wall Street Journal, and the We Are The 99 Percent Tumblr blog. She was recently interviewed by Waging Nonviolence about her incarceration experience after attending the fifth week of action with the Stop Cop City movement. Read more about her work.

Riwa Al Hamwi (she/her) will be working on expanding Beautiful Trouble's proposal and training capacity. She has lived in Germany for eight years and has worked with Syrian women activists on increasing participation and reclaiming spaces in politics, society, and everywhere else. Read more about her work.

News from the Network

350.org announced global days of action—November 3 & 4—to accelerate the worldwide transition to clean energy. Learn more. 

ActionAid launched an international campaign for financial institutions to cut funding for harmful climate activities like industrial agriculture and fossil fuel. Want to join the campaign? Sign the petition.

Africans Rising for Unity, Justice, Peace, and Dignity condemned police brutality in Kenya against protesters who took to the streets to demonstrate against the imposed tax hikes following the recently passed Finance Act, 2023. Read about it.

Center for Artistic Activism and its Unstoppable Voters team put together innovative ways to help you win. Join on October 24, at 3 pm ET, to learn about this engaging work and the potential things to do (together with you?) next year. Check it out.

Real World Examples

Blockades are essential to building solidarity and visibility for causes. We saw this example at the End Fossil Fuels week of action in New York City, activists blocked entry to the Federal Reserve, demanding an end to coal, oil, and gas funding. In the Netherlands, More than 3,000 arrested as massive climate protests blocked a significant motorway for the fifth day. Protestors say they would continue until the Dutch government stops using public funds to subsidize the oil and gas industry.

Hope is a Discipline

In good news from last month, Illinois just ended cash bail. Read about how organizers made it happen.

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In solidarity and hope,

The Team at Beautiful Trouble

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