Dear Community,

As the climate crisis escalates—driving deadly heat, rising seas, deepening inequality, and ecological collapse—we are uniting in powerful, transformative action. Organizing collectively and taking action is essential as we simultaneously face grave threats to democracy and science.

From June 23–28, WECAN invites you to be part of a critical global gathering, the virtual Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond.

​The Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice will bring together grassroots and frontline women leaders in all their diversity, global advocates, thought leaders, and policymakers to showcase a diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks, campaigns, and movement strategies with which we can accelerate a bold and transformative path to a healthy and just world. This collective work is paramount as we face a growing polycrisis. While global challenges are ever-increasing, so are our power, hearts, and leadership when we gather together. Learn more about the Assembly here.

This is not just an event—it’s a call to action.

Register to join us virtually today.

As we move toward COP30 in Brazil, 2025 is a pivotal year for shaping climate policy, advancing climate justice, and securing the rights of people and the planet. The Assembly is designed as a global public forum—convening virtually to ensure wide and inclusive participation. All are welcome.

🌿 What to Expect:

• 125+ powerful speakers from over 50 countries
• 25 breakthrough panels across 6 days featuring frontline advocates, Indigenous leaders, parliamentarians, grassroots organizers, policymakers, youth advocates, scientists, and feminist movement leaders
• Interpretation in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English
• Strategic campaign updates, visionary solutions, policy analysis, and movement building across climate, gender, and racial justice

📣 Help us spread the word:

Please be invited to share the Assembly with your networks! We hope to reach people worldwide who are passionate about climate justice and taking action for communities and Mother Earth! Toolkits and links to re-share on social media are down below. Please tag WECAN (Instagram: @WECAN_INTL / Facebook: WECAN.Intl / X: @WECAN_INTL) in your posts and reshares! 

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Please feel encouraged to use the following outreach toolkits, which include sample social media posts, graphics, and more!

Toolkit Available in: English  ––– Español ––– Português  ––– Français

Let’s gather, strategize, and boldly take action.

Together, we are building the future we know is possible.

Continue in today's newsletter to see more details about projects and campaigns being led by Assembly Speakers and WECAN partners, Monique Verdin (Houma Nation) from the U.S., and Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé) from Brazil.

WECAN team and Okla Hina Ikhish Holo members hold a banner reading “Food Justice is Climate Justice: Protecting Land, Seeds, and Communities,” in the Gulf South. Photo Credit: WECAN

This May, WECAN staff members traveled to the Gulf South to visit the land sites of one of WECAN’s Food Sovereignty projects Okla Hina Ikhish Holo (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail). This is a powerful Indigenous-led project building climate-resilient systems rooted in ancestral knowledge, land stewardship, and mutual aid.

The project flourishes along re-established Indigenous trade routes, where the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Collective has built farms, gardens, greenhouses, earthen mounds, and community shelters – all supporting an agro-ecological movement that promotes biodiversity, community care, and food justice as key components of climate justice.

Initiated in 2020, we are working to defend, protect, and restore the lands and waters of the Mississippi River Delta and within the ancestral territories of the Chata and Mvskoke. The project is led by WECAN Gulf South Coordinator Monique Verdin (Houma Nation). In the shift from industrial food production, WECAN’s focus on food sovereignty supports community resiliency during cascading crises of climate and colonization. Learn more about WECAN food sovereignty and security projects here.

LEFT: Collecting and sorting beets from the Prairie des Femmes farm as part of the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Project. Photo Credit: Sophia Lovato / WECAN

RIGHT: (From right to left) WECAN Okla Hina Ikhish Holo members Ida Aronson, Jenna Mae, and WECAN Gulf South Coordinator, Monique Verdin, present various maps showcasing land loss and fossil fuel extraction throughout the Gulf South. Photo Credit: Sophia Lovato / WECAN

The Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Collective is reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous agricultural techniques and narratives, promoting native seed saving, conducting workshops, medicine exchanges, and building emergency response hubs equipped with solar power, water storage, and autonomous communication systems. These grassroots solutions are not only addressing immediate food and medicine needs but also laying the groundwork for long-term community resilience in a region that is heavily impacted by fossil fuel extraction and facing accelerated land loss, biodiversity loss, and intensifying climate disasters.

LEFT: Oil and gas refineries in Louisiana. Photo Credit: Sophia Lovato / WECAN

RIGHT: Solar generators at the Prairie des Femmes Farm and Emergency Hub as part of the WECAN

Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Project. Photo Credit: Sophia Lovato / WECAN

Member Jenna Mae leading a farm tour of Land Back Urban Farm in Louisiana as part of the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Project. Photo Credit: Sophia Lovato / WECAN 

Join us for the North American theatrical release of the award-winning documentary, We Are Guardians! WECAN is honored to be one of the co-sponsors for the film's theatrical release. 

We Are Guardians follows Indigenous forest guardians in their fight to protect the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil from destruction. Directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman—and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio—the film uses powerful character-driven storytelling to shine a light on one of the most critical ecological and human rights crises of our time. Watch the trailer here.

We Are Guardians is opening in theaters in more than 50 cities across North America. Find a screening near you at weareguardiansfilm.com.

Experience the beauty of the Amazon Rainforest on the big screen and join the film team for a Q&A discussion, including Indigenous leaders from Brazil – co-director Edivan Guajajara and featured guardian and political leader Puyr Tembé, First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon.

As part of our partnership, Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Founder and Executive Director, will be joining the We Are Guardians directors and guest speakers for the screening at the Roxie Theatre on Friday, June 13 in San Francisco, California.

As part of WECAN's Women for Forests program, we are honored to be partnering with Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé) for the WECAN Reforestation and Forest Protection Program: Indigenous Women Restoring and Protecting Brazil’s Amazon and the Heart of the People in the Tembé and Guajajara territories of Brazil. This project addresses critical environmental and social challenges Indigenous communities face in the eastern Amazon region. Through the leadership and knowledge of Indigenous women from the Tembé and Guajajara communities, this reforestation initiative will restore the degraded lands of the Alto Rio Guamá and Arariboia territories in Brazil. The Indigenous women of the Tembé and the Guajajara communities play a crucial role in leading the restoration of their territories, which extractive industries and large-scale agribusiness have significantly degraded. As guardians of their ancestral lands and community, the Tembé and Guajajara women are vital to preserving biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and ensuring a livable future for the Amazon and us all. 

Please consider supporting WECAN as we continue to uplift the leadership and solutions of women worldwide fighting for climate justice and the defense of the planet for current and future generations.