2023 EarthAction Report
The following projects and campaigns were made possible with your support. Thank You.
2020 Action: Every month, 2020 Action educated and mobilized thousands of US citizens and encouraged them to communicate with US policymakers on critically important peace and environmental issues. 2020 Action just completed our 37th year!
Climate Change: EarthAction’s Climate Scorecard project tracks the ability of leading greenhouse gas emitting countries to commit to and develop plans for achieving short-term (by 2030) and long-term (by 2050) emission reduction targets. It provides regular Global Spotlight Reports on critical aspects of stabilizing our global climate. These include agriculture, power systems, water, and making and keeping greenhouse gas reduction pledges.
The American Friends of the Palestinian House of Friendship: EarthAction helped to raise over $105,000 to support the Palestinian House of Friendship (PHF) in Nablus, Palestine. Programs include: summer camps; a skate park; after school programs and e-learning for kids unable to go to school due to violence; Girl Scouts; older and younger women’s choruses; the Open Gate Music Studio; the Little Free Library in Nablus; a cultural folklore festival in Asira with music, dance, and hand-crafts, and, “The Green Hands Initiative,” where children learn to love the land and to plant vegetables and fruits.
The Elders Project (TEP) in Colombia continued to assist the traditional authorities (Mamos) of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (SNSM) in Colombia. In 2023, Rick Harlow, the Project Director, traveled to Colombia to help coordinate the Black Line Journey for the Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamos pueblos. These activities are of great help to the Elders in their efforts to strengthen their spiritual traditional practices and will continue.
The Elders Project also worked with the Hopi Elders in the southwestern US states. Rick Harlow traveled to Arizona to assist the Hopi in working toward a 1,300-mile pilgrimage to 11 sacred sites that define their ancestral territorial boundaries. TEP will continue working with the Hopi in 2024.
The Indigenous Solidarity Fund continued to support elder wisdom keepers in Colombia and around the Americas. In 2023, the ISF helped to bring together Huitoto wisdom keepers from Araracuara, Amazonas with Lakota elders from North America for weekends of lectures and workshops. The lSF also continued its work helping elders receive needed medical consultations, materials to reconstruct ceremonial structures, and tools to replant their ancestral food crops and medicinal plant gardens.
Other Campaigns With your support EarthAction engaged in many other global campaigns for peace, justice and the environment through our website and social media. We are grateful to all our donors, volunteers, and Board Members who helped to make these campaigns and projects successful. Thank you.
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