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Date(s) - 01/12/2023
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
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Report Back on COP27: Peace for Climate Justice
UUJEC Board Member and COP 27 Delegate representing the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Cindy Piester will offer her observations following her participation in this major climate summit. UUJEC deals with a broad range of economic-justice issues and Cindy saw some of these same issues writ large at COP. As in the past, the dominance of fossil-fuel-rich interest prevailed to the detriment of global and intergenerational climate justice. Although this is a significant challenge, Unitarian Universalists have a long and storied history of having taken on the major issues of our times. Facing the climate challenges ahead can and will be done—and Cindy urges UUs to lean in and help to build the successful avenues of change that are needed to bring true climate justice.
Cindy Piester works nationally and internationally on climate and militarism as Outreach Director of Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. She is also a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF US); WILPF’s International Environmental Working Group; and Women, Peace, and Security. She was one of ten women chosen from WILPF’s many member nations to represent them as a delegate to the COP 27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
As mentioned, Cindy also serves as a board member of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community. She joined the board with the goal of focusing on redirecting public funds from militarism and wars toward mitigating climate change, a goal that she continues to pursue. She has also been working on military emissions and military emissions reporting.
In 2010, following several years working as part of the alternative media on behalf of peace, justice, and human rights, she was the recipient of the Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions’ Earth Charter Award for Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace. In 2011, as part of a three-woman team, she released an online documentary on U.S.-committed war crimes that was a contributing factor in the Center of Constitutional Rights (CCR) requesting a thematic hearing with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Unfortunately, the IACHR refused to hear the case, as was their prerogative.
Cindy is driven by the urgency of the climate crisis and the dire need for climate justice. Last year, she wrote an Action of Immediate Witness (AIW), CODE RED for Humanity, that failed by only a single vote. She hopes to submit an updated version again this year and asks for your GA votes in June 2023. She can be contacted at cindympiester@gmail.com.
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