The year 2020 was full of twists and turns, to say the least. But that hasn’t stopped activists around the world from calling for change for a more sustainable future. On this International Women’s Day, we’re bringing you a look back at 10 women activists and women-led events that shaped the past year.
Fasten your seatbelts, and let’s take a world tour of the struggle to stop climate change, by womxn !
Jane Fonda speaks during a Fire Drill Friday rally near City Hall on February 7 in Los Angeles, California. The Fire Drill Friday rallies and protest organized by activist and actor Jane Fonda move from Washington to California.
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A member of an environmental group walks past the 60 container vans that have been loaded with garbage that will be sent back to South Korea at the Mindanao International Container Port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.
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Greenpeace show solidarity with Australia, urging the Australian government to ‘act for the climate now’ at the Australia embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Greenpeace Austria brought the raging fires in the Amazon into the heart of Vienna. Most of these fires are caused by illegal slash-and-burn agriculture, among other things for cattle grazing, and backed by the dismantling of environmental protections by President Jair Bolsonaro’s government and the international markets’ demand for meat, animal feed, minerals, and timber. Greenpeace demands a stop of the trade pact and the adoption of a new and strong EU forest law to ensure that nothing sold in Europe is linked to forest destruction.
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Greenpeace US Activists in New York City demonstrate against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s radical anti-environmental agenda in front of the United Nations Headquarters.
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Some Greenpeace volunteer holds sign at the Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.
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Fishmeal and fish oil factories in West Africa are putting at risk food security and livelihood of up to 40 million people. These factories swallow enormous amounts of fresh fish, that the local population need, to feed fish in aquaculture industries, pigs and chickens and even pets in Europe and Asia.
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People supporting Greenpeace India’s campaign, Clean Air Nation, which promotes clean air and a healthy future for all, gather at Chennai’s Marina beach.
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50 activists from Greenpeace broke into the Tricastin nuclear power plant in southern France in order to demand its closure. They gained access to several points at the Tricastin nuclear power plant to draw attention to an aging and dangerous nuclear power plant.
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18-year-old environmental activist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig poses on an ice floe in the Arctic as part of the most northerly climate strike at 82.2° North. A Greenpeace team is in the Arctic to document the impact of the climate crisis and investigate marine life in the region.
Discussion
This is a great list of books on environmental protection issues, coming out on Women's Day. It is getting to be an important issue to stir the minds of people to read more about how our planet is being destroyed by mega-corporations that operate under the banner of "feed the people" in rich nations and destroy the environment in the process and cause more poverty and eliminate good traditional food sources for the poor world over. It is time, that more such good reads are made popular to make people more aware of the important issues of protecting our planet, the Wildlife, Flora, Fauna and Fish!