For when you have time for viewing and thinking – recordings of recent webinars that may be of interest/use to our readers.
The future of climate activism
Across the world, 80-89 percent of people want their governments to “do more” about climate change. The Trump Administration has taken a u-turn on climate action — leaving the Paris Agreement, cutting programs and funding, deleting climate data, and rescinding rules that reduced emissions — pledging to “drill, baby drill.” Protests denouncing the administration’s actions have gained traction, but the deluge of executive orders, DOGE layoffs, and funding cuts has meant that climate action is just one issue in a laundry list of issues that includes preserving democracy, voting rights, freedom of speech, and others. At the same time, 41 anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced in the past three months, proposing harsher prison sentences and bigger fines for activists.
Speaking are:
- Dr Dana Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity, American University
- John Paul Mejia, National Spokesperson, Sunrise Movement
- Amy Westervelt, Executive Editor, Drilled Media
Theresa Riley, Covering Climate Now’s audience editor, moderated.
Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration, co-founded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine, encouraging more and better climate coverage.
Decolonising public health globally
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In 2023, the Indigenous Working Group (IWG) of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) opened discussions on the importance of decolonisation to global public health. Since then, the IWG has built this conversation through widespread engagement with community, international, regional, and governmental stakeholders, hosting online webinars, including decolonising public health for systems change, education, and training and drafting key policy documents. There is ongoing work building relationships and Indigenous representation across global health organisations and forums. This webinar for Global Public Health Week 2025 highlights the Indigenous Working Group’s progress and future possibilities in decolonising public health globally. This webinar is chaired by Adrian Te Patu (Aotea, Kurahaupo), Indigenous Working Group Chair. The panel: Emma Rawson-Te Patu (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngai te Rangi, Raukawa, and Ngāti Hauā), president of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, and Alejandro Bermudez del-Villar (US), vice president of global Indigenous Systems, Programs, and Platforms at Cedar Rock Alliance and Global Coordinator of Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance and IWG member.
Trade, Trump and the election
As Trump’s America First policies make trade a significant issue this election, voters deserve to know where Australia’s parties and politicians stand on issues of trade justice as we look for options beyond just neoliberalism and Trumpism. How our parliamentary representatives vote on trade can have major impacts on human rights, workers’ rights, and environmental sustainability.
The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET) is a network of community organisations and individuals that has campaigned since 2000 for a fairer and more democratic global trade system, based on human rights and environmental sustainability.
See AFTINET 2025 Trade Justice Policy Scorecard.
See Croakey’s archive of articles on global health
