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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 3h

ActionAid is calling on governments to act immediately. Words without action are complicity in genocide. While Israel relentlessly bombs Gaza, states must meet their obligations.

Read more 👉 www.actionaidusa.org/news/gaza-tw...

#GazaCrisis #HumanRights

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 5h

Two years on, Gaza faces relentless bombardment, famine, and displacement.

ActionAid’s partners are risking everything to deliver lifesaving aid, even under fire.

Read more and learn how you can help 👉
www.actionaidusa.org/news/gaza-tw...

#GazaCrisis #HumanRights

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 5h

It's time to #FillTheFund👏

Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 1d

📍Today in Manila, civil society organizations are rallying as the 7th Board Meeting of The Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage ( #FRLD ) opens.

Their message is clear: the Fund is on life support.
💰 Just $399.89M paid in—less than 0.1% of what’s needed.

It’s time to #FillTheFund now!

Photo credits: Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 5h

Two years on. Enough is enough.

We call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, the safe return of all hostages, and uninterrupted humanitarian aid for those in desperate need.

#CeasefireNow #HumanityFirst

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Government shutdown activated.

What’s at stake? Healthcare costs hike. Public services freeze. Constitutional power balance under threat.

Our own Senior Policy Analyst, Kelly Stone, shares how we got here & what’s on the line 👉 www.actionaidusa.org/another-shut...

#Shutdown2025

Another shutdown is on. What does this mean and what's at stake? - ActionAid USA

Last week, the federal government shut down after Congress failed to pass a spending bill to continue operations even in the short term. While we haven’t

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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 1d

We will not let the FRLD become an empty shell. Global North governments must #PayUp their Climate Debt and #FillTheFund now! Anything less is outright theft from communities already paying with their homes, livelihoods, and lives for a crisis they did not cause.

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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 1d

FrLD exists because of decades of inaction, denial, and failure to deliver climate finance obligations while across the Global South peoples drown in floods, reel from super typhoons, starve through droughts, all while those most responsible bankroll bombs, fossil expansion, and support genocide.

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 1d

We're calling on the U.S. to #PayUp on its climate debt! Frontline communities are bearing the brunt of the #ClimateCrisis, which they have done the least to cause. It's time to #PayUp4LossAndDamage👏

Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 1d

$1.2 TRILLION for military budget, only $348M for Loss and Damage? This is the theft of climate justice. We fought for the FRLD. We won’t let it be an empty promise. Global North #PayUp and #FillTheFund now!
@jtalliance.bsky.social @fillthefund.bsky.social

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been one month since the devastating #AfghanistanEarthquake. Thousands lost their lives. Entire villages are gone.

ActionAid is on the ground, delivering food, essential supplies, and urgent care.

You can help families rebuild 👉 act.actionaidusa.org/a/afghanistan-…

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 6d

Missed our lunchtime panel last Friday? Watch the recording: how TIAA's fossil fuel and land-grab investments fuel the climate crisis, and what we can do about it.

Watch and share 👉 facebook.com/share/v/1CHy...

#DumpTIAA #ClimateJustice #LandRights

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve done so much together, and we’re not done. Help us reach new allies: leave a quick 5-star review for us on Great NonProfits. Your story = more power.

Add your voice 👉 greatnonprofits.org/org/actionai...

#GreatNonProfit #Justice

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 7d

It’s Top-Rated season on GreatNonprofits. If ActionAid USA’s work speaks to you, a short 5-star review helps new allies find us.

Add your voice 👉 greatnonprofits.org/org/actionai...
#ClimateJustice #GreatNonprofit

ActionAid USA in District of Columbia, Washington

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 9d

Our food systems are on the brink. Close to 100 orgs call on govts at #COP30:
❌ Move away from Big Ag
❌ Stop methane-cutting tricks that let Big Meat and Dairy off the hook
✅ Transition to #Agroecology

Join 👉 reimaginefoodsystems.org

#StopBigAg

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for coming! In solidarity ✊

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IMBloom @imbloom.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent, powerful forum with Indigenous and Black leadership in defense of forests, regenerative instead of extractive agriculture, & fossil free finance: building grassroots power as we go! Yesterday: learned so much. #TIAADivest
@aausa.bsky.social @tiaadivest.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social

Photo of panelists from "Endowing a Just Food System: Shifting Philanthropic Investments from Extractive to Regenerative Models" panel

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 12d

📣 Happening TODAY from 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM ET: ActionAid-moderated panel on @TIAA’s role in the #ClimateCrisis. RSVP 👉 events.humanitix.com/nycw-finance...

Then join us to turn momentum into action at the #DumpTIAA rally from 1–2:30 PM ET @ 730 3rd Ave 💪✊

#ClimateWeek

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 13d

Don't miss this!

vashok.bsky.social @vashok.bsky.social · 13d

Please join what promises to be a very informative day

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 14d

📣 📣 📣

20,000 marched in NYC for #MakeBillionairesPay ahead of #climateweek 💪 Thank you 👏

Join our ActionAid-moderated panel on TIAA, land & fossil fuels:
🗓️ Friday, September 26
⏲️11:45 – 12:30 ET
📍NYC

Register 👉 events.humanitix.com/nycw-finance...

#climatejustice 🧵1/2

ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 13d

What does 145+ countries’ recognition of Palestinian statehood mean on the ground in Palestine? ActionAid Palestine's Riham Jafari breaks it down to RTE Radio 1

Listen in → www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... ⏱ 4:20

Palestinian recognition dominates first day of UN General Assembly

Riham Jafari, Advocacy and Communications Coordinator of ActionAid Palestine, discusses the recognition of Palestine by over 145 countries. Sean Whelan reports on the latest updates from United Nati...

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 14d

Then hit the streets with us for the #DumpTIAA campaign launch street action🪧:

🕐 Fri Sept 26 · 1:00–2:30 ET
📍 Outside TIAA HQ, 730 3rd Ave, NYC

Your retirement shouldn’t bankroll land grabs or fossil fuels. Join us at lunch, then in the streets. ✊💪

#climatejustice 2/2

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 14d

📣 📣 📣

20,000 marched in NYC for #MakeBillionairesPay ahead of #climateweek 💪 Thank you 👏

Join our ActionAid-moderated panel on TIAA, land & fossil fuels:
🗓️ Friday, September 26
⏲️11:45 – 12:30 ET
📍NYC

Register 👉 events.humanitix.com/nycw-finance...

#climatejustice 🧵1/2

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 14d

This past weekend, 20,000 of us took to the streets of NYC for the #MakeBillionairesPay march ahead of #UNGA and #ClimateWeek, demanding democracy, climate justice, economic justice & migrant justice.

Thanks to everyone who joined us💪

📣 Stay tuned for more!

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 19d

They’re dismantling democracy, torching the climate & cashing in. We’re done.

On Saturday, Sept 20, join the #MakeBillionairesPay March in NYC as we march for climate justice + real democracy.

RSVP 👉 act.womensmarch.com/signup/MBP_S...

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 19d

TOMORROW: Join the Make Billionaires Pay march in NYC or a city near you. We're standing up against the billionaire agenda of tax cuts for the rich, subsidies to Big Oil, and crackdowns on our rights. www.makebillionairespay.us

@350us.bsky.social @climatedefenders.bsky.social @womensmarch.com

In front of apartment buildings painted and graffitied with social justice symbols, a Black woman stands in a crowd holding a megaphone. Above her is a speech bubble that reads, "Make Billionaires Pay! Sept. 20, 2025. NYC and Everywhere. Makebillionairespay.us." At the lower corners of the graphic, text reads, "Park Avenue between 46-49th St," and "NYC at 12."

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 21d

🪧 Billionaires are buying power while our planet burns. Not on our watch.
Join us Saturday, Sept 20th, in NYC for the Make Billionaires Pay March. Massive. Nonviolent. Unstoppable.

Sign up 👉 act.womensmarch.com/signup/MBP_S...

#MakeBillionairesPay #ClimateJustice

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · 22d

🚨"Today, the #UN concluded that Israel has committed genocide in #Gaza. We now need urgent action from international governments. Act now to protect civilians."

ActionAid Palestine's Jamil Sawalmeh sounds the alarm on the devastation & calls for urgent action 👉
www.actionaidusa.org/news/the-for...

The forced reoccupation of Gaza City leaves people with an impossible choice: this is a genocide; there is nowhere left to flee.  - ActionAid USA News

ActionAid responds to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, which has today declared that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

www.actionaidusa.org

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