Sarah Robyn Farrell

My latest piece on Face the Music, the online zine published by #ClimateLounge is up. I reflect through a digital collage & essay on a personal paradigm shift reflected by music, & how this may connect to broader shifts for sustainable & just futures. facethemusiczine.substack.com/p/02-from-indi…

✊OP-ED ALERT: "We show up for system change with the votes we cast, the protests we attend, the voices we amplify, and the causes we advocate for – in small gestures and grand actions." 🔗Read here: news24.com/fin24/climate_… #MarchForSystemChange

💡OP-ED ALERT: “We as youth are not anti-development in our call for a Just Energy Transition from fossil fuels." 🔗 Read the full article: news24.com/fin24/climate_… #CancelCoal #JustTransition #ClimateActionNow

📣 Our next mass action is almost here! On Human Rights Day, join us for the #MarchForSystemChange in Cape Town. We demand energy justice, water justice, food justice, land & housing justice, and end to gender-based violence, and global solidarity. Let's make our voices heard! 🌍

Sibusiso Mazomba, Sarah Robyn Farrell & Gabriel Klaasen representing the voices of the youth. Their presentation emphasises we cannot seek development and at the cost of all our destruction. SA’s domestic & foreign policy must show a commitment to a #JustTransition

“citizens who consider themselves ill are easier to manage than people who consider themselves maddened by injustice”. An excerpt from my essay in @dailymaverick on mental health, capitalism, and the need to (re)connect with nature bit.ly/3sfH0Vs

"Those of us who hold the privilege to save and invest have more power to wield responsibly than we might realise." How? Take a look at the piece I wrote with @Davidlepage in @dailymaverick on how we can use our investments to call for a better future: bit.ly/442YMIC

Read full story here @dailymaverick dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-0…

🇿🇦South African youth at #COP27, at the South African Pavilion, calling for justice and elevating the #Messages2COP27 from youth and communities in South Africa and the broader African continent ✊💚

🌍 MEET THE ACA REPRESENTATIVES AT #COP27 As COP27 has officially kicked off, we wanted to introduce you to the amazing change makers that are representing African Climate Alliance at this very important, global climate conference in Egypt 👇

4/ @eNCA youtube.com/watch?v=3tdJqY…

3/@GroundUp_News groundup.org.za/article/youth-…

So great to see the pilot Cape Town Climate Week and #MarchforSystemChange covered in various media outlets over the weekend! May these actions continue to catalyze growing collective and government shifts. 1/@WeekendArgus:

How does one celebrate Happy Heritage🍃 when ppl are displaced by climate change! When girls and women face higher impacts. Our systems need to change! Global south is in need for greater adaptation strategies. Time is running out.. we need change now!

Shots from the #marchforsystemchange! An amazing peaceful action 🌍 Proud & grateful for our organising team+coalition! Thanks to all who came out on #heritageday to support the call for gov (+cont grassroots) action to address interlinking climate, social + economic crises! 💚

From inequality to water & food insecurity, to #climatecrisis, we need #systemchange now! The government must prioritise a #justtransition while we come together to build a more just & ecologically resillient South Africa! Join #MarchforSystemChange 24/09 marchforsystemchange.org.za

Press release: Communities celebrate as Court sets aside Shell’s exploration right off the Wild Coast of South Africa ✊🌿🐟 Thank you to the communities and partner NGOs for their incredible commitment to this case. naturaljustice.org/press-release-…

A reason to celebrate indeed!

I’ll be speaking next week Tuesday at The Commons in Muizenberg alongside an incredible lineup of womxn creating #socialchange in creative industries. 💜It’s free and starts at 8pm. Pull through if you’re keen and you can!