FFF Democratic Republic of the Congo

Welcome to Fridays For Future everyone Democratic Republic of the Congo!

'Everyone is welcome, Everyone is needed!'

Demands

- Save #Virunga Campaign: The Democratic Republic of Congo is a potential solution to the climate and environmental crisis threatening the entire planet. Notwithstanding its solution potential, fossil fuel companies such as PERENCO, Sympion Power& Red, winds Exploration and production LLC, Alfajiri Energy Corporation and the country's political-administrative authorities, including the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Minister of Hydrocarbons, have for some time been committed to auctioning off a vast part of the Congo Basin for oil and gas exploitation. This comes at a time when the DRC has signed a $500 million agreement at COP26 to halt and reverse deforestation in the Congo Basin. Wary of this commitment, the DRC is now bidding for the sale of 27 oil blocks and 3 gas bocs, then homes to be conserved for the sake of local communities, biodiversity and the global climate. The blocks up for sale cover some of the planet's last intact forests and protected areas, rich in biodiversity and home to local communities estimated at nearly 5 million inhabitants. Two of these blocks are located in the Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Africa's oldest national park founded to protect exceptional biodiversity. 85% of the park's land is under oil reserves that are being sold as concessions, paving the way for exploitation and the complete destruction of the park, which is a major latent environmental and climatic danger for our planet.


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About us:

We are a local group within Fridays For Future Everyone Democratic Republic of Congo.

We welcome all race, sex, sexual identity, profession, age, etc.

We work with the principle of local autonomy to make decisions and take action in our area.


Our Goal

The goal of this work group is to provide a place for people in our area to meet up and learn about the climate. To create political actions together, e.g. meet ups and demonstrations, both online and offline.


Basic principles

This local group uses Vision Proposal and GDPR Declaration of Understanding as guidelines. Please sign it to join the local group.

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Meetings:
planning underway


Useful Documents

Vision Proposal (Code of Conduct)
GDPR Declaration of Understanding (Core Values)

Responsibilities include

  1. Post on social media, both coming events and counting reports.
  2. email with reminder about large, weekly strikes and other things we feel affect our climate.
  3. Reach out to new members and show interest. Offer training and set up buddies and affinity groups.
  4. Reach out to all people, and groups who are climate and not climate who could work with climate.
  5. Keep the Action Network, this, page updated.
  6. Align the list, petitions, map and Action network.
  7. Update the map.
  8. Create an economic system to assist with costs.
  9. Answer social media and emails
  10. Out reach to media.
  11. Create a place to chat, with messenger, slack or mattermost and use the social tools, and agree GDPR, Vision Proposal and Conflict Transformation. This creates a safe place

More information:
'Everyone is welcome' will normally need to exclude the excluders. Excluders often use propaganda methods. Even shrinking the boundaries so that some who were included are then excluded is also an excluding process.

Proposal for how to work when separation needs to occur:

Australia has Fridays for future and School Strike 4 Climate. In the case of School Strike 4 Climate the people are in ‘school’, normally under 18. School strike 4 climate are often supported by Fridays For Future local group and their ‘own’ parents.

If there is a need for a work group to be ‘separated’ by sex, sexual identity, race, age or another reason this is allowed and it is preferred that this shows in the name of the work group. This shall reduce confusion for outsiders.

Work groups are best sized at 6 people and work poorly beyond 12 people. Therefore if a sub group feels they need for ‘separation’ then this need not be seen as discrimination. As this is filling a potential ‘need’. For example, some people may need to have smaller groups to work with to gain their own strength of voice. This is only discrimination if they are ‘stopping’ another work or local groups from forming or working.

As an example of separation need can be in age ‘youth’. Youth is encouraged to be the age group 19-29 (sometimes 25) years. There are many names eg FFF youth town/country xxx or Youth Strike for Climate town/country xxx. Also, if we start from 19 years, it means school children are not directly exposed to issues which can be difficult to cope without the support of adults and their own parents.


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