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current responsibilities for driving the displacement of peoples and communities—and honour its obligation to them. That means ending the hostile environment of walls and fences, detention centres and prisons that are used against racialised, migrant, and refugee communities." The group argues that the climate justice movement should ensure that migration is an inherent right rather than something people are compelled to do as a result of droughts, floods, and tornados that the victims of these disasters "had no role in creating". One of the group's key demands, outlined in an open letter published in Red Pepper in May, 2019, was the ending of the UK's
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same project that sought to control and exploit nature. This is the origin of the ecological collapse we are witnessing today." Group members explain that while climate change is perceived in
Western discourse as part of a projected future, climate injustice is in fact already occurring and impacting communities in the Global South and marginalised communities in the Global North, citing examples such as
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Wretched of the Earth issued an open letter in May 2019 asking
Extinction Rebellion to reconsider strategies that would be harmful to black, brown, and indigenous activists and to rethink the way its activist tactics build on white privilege. This open letter posits that efforts to combat climate
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Claudia Jones, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Berta Cáceres, Franz Fanon and many others."
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