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Kumi Naidoo
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President, @fossiltreaty.bsky.social‬ | Global Ambassador - Africans Rising | Human Rights Advocate
Join the International Labour Organization, UNICEF, FAO & UNRISD for a side event taking a deep-dive on the social protection commitments of the Belém declaration. Grateful to be moderating this very important conversation.

📅 12 Nov | 15.00 (UTC−3) In-person only
🔗 Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4p1mbEQ
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The climate crisis is happening now, but those experiencing the worst of its impacts are people who’ve contributed the least to ecological breakdown.

Now at #COP30, we are calling for climate justice and fair finance.​
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📍 Find us in the UNFCCC Exhibit area (blue zone) — grab flyers, stickers, badges, and limited-edition tees 👕

Let’s connect and build momentum toward a fossil-free future! ✊
#FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutFossilFuels #ClimateAction
🌍 Visit the Fossil Fuel Phase Out Hub at #COP30!

If you are at the COP then please come by and visit us.
Join us as we push forward for a fossil fuel phaseout that’s fast, fair, and funded. 💪
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
🌍 Visit the Fossil Fuel Phase Out Hub at #COP30!

If you are at the COP then please come by and visit us.
Join us as we push forward for a fossil fuel phaseout that’s fast, fair, and funded. 💪
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Minister Menezes reminded us that art, imagination, and culture are not accessories to change — they are the change.|

Brazil is showing the world what it means to put culture at the heart of climate justice.

The road to COP30 will be powered by imagination, solidarity, and art that transforms.
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🇧🇷✨ Strengthening the Artivism Movement in Brazil ✨
At the close of the Global Artivism Convening in Salvador, we met with Brazil's Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes
— a true champion of creativity and justice.
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🇧🇷✨ Strengthening the Artivism Movement in Brazil ✨
At the close of the Global Artivism Convening in Salvador, we met with Brazil's Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes
— a true champion of creativity and justice.
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Kumi Naidoo
🎨🌎Artists and activists from around the world gathered in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, for the Second Global Artivism Convening.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Let COP30 mark the turning point — from betrayal to bravery, from extraction to regeneration.” — Kumi Naidoo

Read the full declaration ➡️ drive.google.com/file/d/1byVk...

#GlobalArtivism #ArtForClimateJustice #COP30 #FossilFuelTreaty
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🌍✨ From Tshwane to Salvador, artists and activists are uniting for climate justice!

Over 1,000 changemakers gathered in Salvador, Bahia for the Second Global Artivism Convening — linking art, culture, and climate ahead of #COP30.

@afp.com @apnews.com @reuters.com

#GlobalArtivism
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Global Artivism Convening call on Government Leaders attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil to

🔥 End fossil fuels now
⚖️ Center intersectional justice
🪶 Protect Indigenous & frontline communities
🎭 Invest in culture & imagination

@afp.com @apnews.com @reuters.com

drive.google.com/file/d/1byVk...
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Humanity is headed for 2.3–2.5°C of warming. And the countries most affected are those least responsible.
📉 UNEP’s “Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target” warns that the world is not on track to meet the 1.5°C goal. Even if all current pledges are implemented, we’re headed for 2.3–2.5°C of warming.
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Join us at our events at #COP30 in Belém as we bring together governments & civil society to advance the push for a Fossil Fuel Treaty! 🇧🇷✊🏽

📅 See the full schedule: FossilFuelTreaty.org/cop30
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Tomorrow, I’ll be standing in for my wife Louisa Zondo after the loss of our dearest friend- Xoliswa Kakakna. Join Shawnee Benton Gibson, Omari Maynard, and me for this conversation on love, loss, and liberation.
Grief is not just what happens to us — it’s what can awaken us.

When Grief Becomes a Movement: Stories of Love, Loss, and Liberation
📅Nov 05, 2025 (Wednesday)
⌚10:30–11:45 AM
📍 Salade Arte Cinema do Museu — just a 10-minute walk from Wish Hotel Bahia

#GlobalArtivism
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Grief is not just what happens to us — it’s what can awaken us.

When Grief Becomes a Movement: Stories of Love, Loss, and Liberation
📅Nov 05, 2025 (Wednesday)
⌚10:30–11:45 AM
📍 Salade Arte Cinema do Museu — just a 10-minute walk from Wish Hotel Bahia

#GlobalArtivism
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The Just Transition is no longer only an idea—it’s happening and it is building post-fossil economies.
🔥🌎Breaking news from Belém

💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Louisa should have been here co-chairing the Convening's programme — instead, she is now walking through the sacred work of saying goodbye to her dearest friend, Xoli, and helping arrange her final goodbyes.
At the opening of the Second Global Artivism Convening, we honoured two beautiful souls, our son Riky Rick & our dearest friend, Xoliswa Kakana.

Their courage and creativity keep guiding us toward justice.

Here is a poem to our dear friend Xoli.
🕊️ For Xoliswa — Sister of the Mountain
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
At the opening of the Second Global Artivism Convening, we honoured two beautiful souls, our son Riky Rick & our dearest friend, Xoliswa Kakana.

Their courage and creativity keep guiding us toward justice.

Here is a poem to our dear friend Xoli.
🕊️ For Xoliswa — Sister of the Mountain
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Today is Day 1! 😀
The Global Artivism team has brought together artists, activists, and communities from around the world to inspire the positive change we wish to see — today, and for generations to come. 💫
join us: https://f.mtr.cool/zxyxysvovl
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Tomorrow it begins. 🎨
The #GlobalArtivism Convening gathers artists & activists in Salvador 🇧🇷 — to turn imagination into courage & hope into action.

Join us in person or online 🌎
👉🏾 globalartivism.org

#Artivism #KumiNaidoo #VoicesOfArtivism #PessimismIsALuxury
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
From Nov 3–5, 2025, Take part in a dynamic program of the Second Global Artivism Convening, which celebrates creativity, collective action, and the power of arts in making change.

Join us in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and check out the Full program here: linktr.ee/globalartivi...
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Only 2 days to go until the #GlobalArtivism Convening in Salvador 🇧🇷!
Artists & activists are coming together to turn creativity into resistance & hope into strategy.
Join us — in person or online 🌍
👉🏾 globalartivism.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🎨 For Edgard Gouveia Jr., Program Co-Chair of the Second Global Artivism Convening, Artivism means harnessing the strategies and power of art to tackle the world’s biggest social challenges.

🌍 Join us on from Nov 3–5, 2025.

🔗 Register app.glueup.com/event/the-se...

💻Online participation is free!
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I am currently in Rio, Brazil, and what we have just witnessed here is not policing — it is a massacre.

More than 120 lives taken in a storm of bullets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Oct 29,2025

ttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/favela-reeling-rio-deadliest-police-raid-brazil
‘This was a slaughter, not an operation’: the favela reeling from Rio’s deadliest police raid
Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Kumi Naidoo
The world’s largest conservation network just adopted the strongest multilateral language on fossil fuels in history. 🌏

Join us to unpack what this breakthrough means for nature, justice and the path toward a #FossilFuelTreaty at #COP30!

Register: FossilFuelTreaty.org/events/iucn-motion-42
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What sparks ignite when creativity dares to defy? ✨
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM