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Emiko Newman
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Climate Emergency Unit | BC Climate Emergency Campaign Coordinator

🌿 Fighting for a liveable planet
🌿 Social justice = climate justice = racial justice
🌿 Liberatory futures for all
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Reposted by Emiko Newman
climateunit.bsky.social
📢 We won! A Youth Climate Corps is in Budget 2025.

Years of youth organizing secured a $40M two-year commitment. A meaningful start, but only the beginning.

👉 Read our response & stay with us as we push for what comes next: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
democracynow.org
As Hurricane Melissa batters Jamaica, climate justice activist @mikaelaloach.bsky.social says "this has been caused by the climate crisis, by fossil fuel companies." She also suggests naming storms after oil company executives to highlight their role.
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.

Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social

👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
climateunit.bsky.social
Across Canada, more and more voices are calling for a Youth Climate Corps. With the federal budget set for November 4, the call is growing louder.

📢 Join the 200+ organizations urging Mark Carney’s government to fund a Youth Climate Corps in Budget 2025.

🔗 Learn more: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca
October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bcpolicy.bsky.social
The final LNG Unpacked webinar is Oct 23 @ 12pm!

Our co-executive director @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, @emikonewman.bsky.social and Ismail Askin @workersolidaritybc.bsky.social on how LNG expansion is impacting the cost of living, jobs, workers and bills.

REGISTER NOW
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October 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bcpolicy.bsky.social
The final LNG Unpacked webinar is Oct 23 @ 12pm PT!

Our co-executive director @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, @emikonewman.bsky.social, Ismail Askin @workersolidaritybc.bsky.social on how LNG expansion is impacting the cost of living, jobs, workers and bills.

REGISTER NOW
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October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
bcclimateemergency.bsky.social
The final webinar in our LNG Unpacked series is Oct 23 @ 12pm!

Join guests Iglika Ivanova @bcpolicy.bsky.social & Ismail Askin @workersolidaritybc.bsky.social to learn about how LNG expansion is impacting cost of living, jobs, workers, and our bills.

REGISTER: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
bcclimateemergency.bsky.social
By approving Ksi Lisims, the BC gov has chosen the side of the fossil fuel industry at the exact moment global markets are shifting to renewables.

Piece by Dr. Melissa Lem (@cape-bc.bsky.social), Kai Nagata (@dogwoodbc.bsky.social) & Emiko Newman (BCCEC).

bcclimateemergency.ca/in-the-news-...
Opinion: BC’s massive carbon bomb approval is an act of arson — BC Climate Emergency Campaign
By Dr. Melissa Lem, Kai Nagata, and Emiko Newman.
bcclimateemergency.ca
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
wildernews.bsky.social
We joined hereditary leaders from Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan, the City of Victoria and Stand.earth to speak at a press conference to kick off the fall session of the BC Legislature.
We’re calling for respect for First Nations rights and title and real climate action, not more subsidies for polluters.
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
thenarwhal.ca
Sleepless nights, diesel smells and smoke that “smells like burnt plastic.” Some Kitimat, B.C., residents say LNG Canada’s startup is making life unbearable. @writermjs.bsky.social reports thenarwhal.ca/kitimat-lng-...
Noise, smoke from LNG Canada plagues residents of Kitimat, B.C. | The Narwhal
Residents near LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., say the constant noise and toxic smoke is ‘hell’ — and threatens serious health impacts
thenarwhal.ca
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
climateunit.bsky.social
Governments & fossil fuel companies call LNG “low-carbon.” But LNG Canada will unleash 36M tonnes CO₂/yr, equal to 9.5 coal plants or 8M cars. Far from a "clean" energy source.

🎧 Listen to the full episode & more stories that dig deeper into the climate crisis: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
September 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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zeteo.com
"These big great leaders are watching what Netanyahu can get away with in Gaza.”

Booker Prize–winning author Arundhati Roy tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the parallels between Modi’s India and Netanyahu’s Israel in their mistreatment of Muslims under their rule.
September 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
bcclimateemergency.bsky.social
On Oct 1 at 7pm is the 3rd webinar in our LNG Unpacked series, focused on the health impacts of LNG.

We're so excited to be joined by Dr. Bethany Ricker and Dr. Rachel Grimminck of @cape-bc.bsky.social & Zachary Dale from @cane-aciie.bsky.social

REGISTER:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
thetyee.ca
“Together, we can demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.”

#canpoli
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side | The Tyee
For people, for peace, for the planet. An invitation to join the Sept. 20 mass day of action.
thetyee.ca
September 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
scribeuk.bsky.social
'We know the planet can be saved from unspeakable horror. We’ve done it before.' Beautiful extract from HUMAN NATURE by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, published today, in @theguardian.com Long Reads today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
lithub.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
350canada.bsky.social
🚀350 Canada and Sacred Earth have just co-launched a brand new campaign to demand a People’s Power Grid: an East-West Grid that provides affordable, reliable, renewable electricity to people from coast to coast to coast. Take action now at 350.org/ppg

Watch Serena Mendizabal's video to learn more 👇
August 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
aljazeera.com
An Al Jazeera journalist is among 15 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least three other journalists were killed in the attack.
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
aljazeera.com
The attack also killed Reuters photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, as well as journalists Mariam Abu Daqqa & Moaz Abu Taha.
Al Jazeera journalist among 20 killed after Israel bombs Gaza hospital
The attack also killed Reuters photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, as well as journalists Mariam Abu Daqqa & Moaz Abu Taha.
bit.ly
August 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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zeteo.com
UN-backed experts declared famine in Gaza for the first time.

“The Gaza famine is the world’s famine,” UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said. “For humanity’s sake, let us in.”

Watch Fletcher’s unfiltered interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, from earlier this summer: zeteo.com/p/un-humanit...
UN Humanitarian Chief: ‘I’ve Started Therapy’ After Witnessing ‘Death’ and ‘Trauma’ in Gaza
Mehdi sits down with top UN official Tom Fletcher, who has traveled to conflict zones across the world but says ‘nothing was as bad as going to Gaza.’
zeteo.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
climateunit.bsky.social
🚨 One month away from a historic mobilization for justice, peace & a livable future. We demand: people over profit, Indigenous sovereignty, status for all, an end to war & an end to fossil fuels.

🔗 Join us Sept 20: drawtheline.world

#drawtheline #migrantrights #indigenousrights #climatejustice
August 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
bcclimateemergency.bsky.social
The ICJ's recent opinion makes it crystal clear. The #BCgov has a legal obligation to act on #climatechange.
📝Open letter urges Premier Eby to strengthen (and meet!) BC's climate targets & end fossil fuel approvals - or face consequences. Read the letter 👉 wcel.org/ICJforBC
#ClimateJustice
August 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
sierraclubbc.bsky.social
📢 34 organizations from across the province are calling on #BCgov to take stronger action to reduce #climate pollution — after a groundbreaking opinion from the world's top court.

Read the letter 👉 wcel.org/ICJforBC

#ICJ #ClimateICJAO #ClimateLaw #ClimateJustice
August 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Emiko Newman
climateunit.bsky.social
🔥 Wildfires have displaced tens of thousands, destroyed communities, & burned 7.3M hectares this year in Canada.

Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk.

📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
As wildfires rage across 🇨🇦 – a unifying experience from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and so many places in between – one thing is clear:

Approving new fossil fuel infrastructure is a willful act of arson.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’
More than 470 Canadian fires classified as ‘out of control’ as scientists say climate change exacerbating the burning
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM