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Inside this Issue:
Grant Deadline - Action Camp - Now Hiring
International Women's Symposium
Save the Date! Protecting Mother Earth Conference
Carbon Offsets - Rights of Nature - Regaining Our Future
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Greetings and Happy Friday to All!
This edition is packed with opportunities to get involved in the growing movements and organizations that are bringing people from all walks of life together with the purpose of creating sustainable communities based on principles that foster equity and just transition...
Indigenous, non-Indigenous and Communities of Color are coming together to tackle problems rooted in climate and economic justice. Barriers once thought insurmountable are being eliminated as we find our strength empowered by respect, and fostered by traditional knowledge.
Please share this edition with family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances who will be interested in the information and opportunities contained below.
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IEN-WMAN Mining Mini Grant: Application Deadline March 1, 2018
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 The IEN/WMAN Mining Mini-Grants Program offers financial grant assistance to communities threatened or adversely affected by mining in the U.S. and Canada.
This year, we will fund approximately 70 grantees at $3,000 each and 10 grantees at $5,000 each. In order to receive funding at the $5,000 grant amount, we will ask you to provide additional information in Part 2 of the Program application: Download Mining Mini Grant Info & Application
We recognize that mining activity often has detrimental impacts to all aspects of community and cultural well-being and IEN/WMAN encourages projects that strive to protect the environment, ecosystems, cultural resources, and community health from mining impacts. Click to learn more.
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IT TAKES ROOTS DIRECT ACTION & COMMUNITY RESILIENCY CAMP
APPLICATIONS DUE MONDAY FEBRUARY 12th!
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 From climate disaster to mass displacement, our communities are at the frontlines of building resilient resistance and taking direct action to transform our world.
Click here to learn more NOW don't wait!
From March 23 - March 27, It Takes Roots and the Ruckus Society are bringing together leaders from across our alliances for our first of its kind Direct Action & Community Resiliency Camp outside of Orlando, FL.
Desde los disastres climáticos al desplazamiento masivo, nuestras comunidades están en la líneas del frente de crear una resistencia resiliente y tomar acción directa para transformar nuestro mundo.
De 23 al 27 de Marzo, la Alianza Se Necesita Raíces y Ruckus Society estan trayendo líderes de todas las alianzas para el primer campamento de Acción Directa y Resistencia Comunitaria cerca de Orlando, FL.
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NOW HIRING: It Takes Roots Coordinator
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 Accepting applications thru February 2018.
Please note that in response to some questions we have received, we removed the preferred locations to clarify that we are flexible on location, and also added a note that we plan to hire additional positions in 2018 to be part of an It Takes Roots team with this coordinator.
Please help us circulate this job announcement! Click here to learn more.
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Save the Date!
Protecting Mother Earth 2018
June 38 - July 1, 2018
An international gathering on how Indigenous Knowledge can foster climate justice through exploring environmental health, the harms of extreme energy projects, finding solutioin through clean renewable energy and how to uphold the territorial integrity of Mother Earth
Click here to Download a PDF of this flyer.
More information will be available soon. To be notified when details become available, send us an email at pme2018@ienearth.org. Include your name, location, and email address
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Indigenous and Environmental Justice Groups Rally at US Bank Headquarters to Protest the Bank’s Investment in Pipeline Projects
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 Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of Indigenous water protectors, concerned Minnesotans, and activists from around the country rallied today at the U.S. Bank Headquarters to demand that U.S. Bank uphold its promise to divest from oil and gas pipelines, including those by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The rally comes as U.S. Bank drives a massive public relations campaign surrounding the hosting of the Super Bowl at U.S. Bank stadium in Minneapolis. U.S. Bank is at the center of a growing campaign by indigenous, climate and community groups demanding it lives up to its own promises to stop financing fossil fuel projects.
In April 2017 U.S. Bank announced their Environmental Responsibility Policy which stated the bank, “does not provide project financing for the construction of oil or natural gas pipelines.” Since this statement, U.S. Bank joined credit facilities totaling $5 billion with Energy Transfer Partners. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE!
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Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance
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 The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), along with other US-based members of the social, environmental and climate justice communities and global alliances have platforms calling for leaving 80% of the current totality of fossil fuel reserves under the ground and ocean in order to avoid global temperatures rising to no more than 1.5°C.
How will this transition away from fossil fuel extraction be organized within our respective communities? What will the consequences be for people, our communities, humanity, ecosystems, habitat and all life? Issues of climate and environmental injustice and equity cannot be avoided if such questions are to be addressed.
Click here to Read / Download this report.
IEN at COP23- Click here -to learn more! |
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Rights of Nature & Mother Earth
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 Like no other time in human history, we are in a unique position to determine our fate. Recognizing the Earth as a living system of which humans are a part, rather than as human property to be owned and destroyed is a fundamental shift from the climate capitalism embedded in the DNA of trade deals, environmental policies and treaties around the world—including the Paris Agreement. If we are to find a solution to climate change, we must stop treating the Earth as a commodity and putting a price tag on the processes of the natural world.
Current country commitments of the United Nations Paris Agreement add up to a 3+ degree rise in global temperature by 2050, an outcome that will dwarf the ravages of recent global record-breaking hurricanes, fires and droughts. We must do better than the promises of Paris. Climate scientists tell us we need to keep global temperatures to a 1.5 degree rise, something that cannot be accomplished unless we leave 80% of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. The Paris Agreement lacks a plan to accomplish that, and as a non-binding agreement, provides the opportunity for countries like the U.S. to simply walk away.
Click here to download and read this report. (PDF)
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 The 2018 Farm Bill will significantly impact the five million American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States.
To help Native American communities shape this massive legislation, the SMSC commissioned Regaining Our Future to analyze the risks and opportunities for Indian Country in the 2018 Farm Bill.
This report, authored by Janie Simms Hipp and Colby D. Duren of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative, is the most comprehensive analysis ever conducted on Farm Bill issues as they relate to Indigenous populations in the United States.
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