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We’re excited to share our 2025 Highlights - what a year! Thanks to partners, collaborators, allies and Friends of the Earth for walking with us. A joyous and peaceful year end for all. groundwork.org.za/wp-content/upl… @FoEint @corporateeurope

Bhopal India 3/12/1984 Toxic gas explosion Union Carbide pesticide plant 1000s died 100s of 1000s live with illness & intergenerational harm. 41 years on Union Carbide & Dow Chemicals walk free Survivors do not Bhopal, Chemical harm is not accidental #EnvironmentalJustice

Waste 4 Just Transition SA 2025 NDCs lack objectives 4 methane reduction. They should! Landfills, a major methane source risk public health & environment in vulnerable communities. #JustTransition #COP30Brazil #noburn #supportSAWPA no-burn.org/NDC3-south-afr…

As COP30 begins, do you rememeber what you were doing on this fateful day of 10 November in 1995 when Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogonis were hanged for their nonviolent campaing against the oil company Shell - for defending their most basic rights?

"Our Light, Our Power" groundbreaking project places advocacy for a just transition at the heart of SA social movements. Communities shape a renewable energy future, VEM ABM SDCEA lead the way to energy democracy. #JustTransition #EnergyDemocracy youtu.be/RxwSPdQezwE

VACANCY! Action Appointments is recruiting a Human Resources Officer for groundWork, based in Durban. For more information, visit the link below: actionappointments.co.za/vacancies/grou… #Hiring #groundWork #HumanResourcesOfficer #EnvironmentalJustice #NonprofitRecruitment #Durban

Fossil fuels drive climate change, they also damage human health, destabilize communities, and put our future at risk - from cradle to grave. Every organ, every body: climateandhealthalliance.org/cradle-to-gr... #CradleToGrave #HealthNotFossilFuels #JustTransition #PublicHealth #ClimateAction

📷 17 Sept: Civil society organisations welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling - it denied Eskom authorisation to build a 3000MW gas-to-power plant in Richards Bay. SDCEA & groundWork hail the judgement a victory for affected communities who weren't adequately consulted.

Swapping fossil fuels for renewables means nothing if land is grabbed, workers are abandoned, & communities are excluded in the process. Just transition must be implemented on the basis of sound #EnvironmentalJustice principles. #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #ACJC

Download your copy of our Q2 June Newsletter here: groundwork.org.za/wp-content/upl… Featuring 25th Anniversary Exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery and associated events. Read about the ban on HPP terbufos, from intervention by the SA people’s Tribunal on Agrotoxins.

The first issue of this year’s legendary groundWork Newsletter (Volume 27 No1) is out. Download your copy here: groundwork.org.za/.../upl.../202… It features the launch of the 2024 groundWork Report titled Systems Change for a Just Transition.

Download the latest groundWork Report here: groundwork.org.za/systems-change…

groundWork plans to phase out on X, connect with us on @groundworksa.bsky.social. However we still post key content for our Africa and AJTN allies and partners who are active on this platform.✊✊✊

Not to be missed: Join groundWork on Saturday 3 May for our legacy exhibition walkabout with Curator Vaughn Sadie of Light Place. #environmentaljustice #exhibitionwalkabout #dbnart

Not to be missed: Join us on Friday 2 May of the legacy Exhibition entitled groundWork: 25 Years of Activism for Environmental Justice #environmentaljustice #exhibitionopening #dbnart

Friends of the Earth Africa statement in Solidarity with Palestine foeafrica.org/palestinian-li…

You're invited to join our webinar this week 👇 🗓 Wednesday, 23 April 2025 💻 Online Event: Community Participation That Works – Stories from the Ground 🤳 Register at bit.ly/MM-CP 📧 Do you have a query? Email us: comms@myceliumcolab.com

You are invited to join groundWork for the launch of our flagship annual research report on the state of climate justice in South Africa. The research for the #groundWorkReport2024 is conducted by community activists who live on the fence lines of the big fossil fuel polluters.

Welcome back Asad! Friends of the Earth appoints new chief executive: friendsoftheearth.uk/latest/friends… via @friends_earth

Don't miss this, join the live stream on YouTube - link in article. Pesticide poisons on farms Poisons in the streets: People’s Tribunal puts government, agrarian feudalism on trial in South Africa groundwork.org.za/pesticide-pois…