CBD: Honoring four activists

From: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/publications/earthonline/endangered-earth-online-no1122.html

Honoring Four Towering Liberation Activists

“The Center owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Desmond Tutu, Sarah Weddington, E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy,” said our Executive Director Kierán Suckling after they recently left the Earth.

 

“Tutu fought for racial justice and an end to colonialism, inspiring the Center to fight environmental racism and join with Native Americans seeking to protect their sacred lands, kindred species and spirits, and sovereignty. Weddington won Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court, guaranteeing American women the right to reproductive freedom and inspiring us to make female empowerment and family planning the core of our Population and Sustainability program. Wilson and Lovejoy fought tirelessly to save plants, animals and fungi from extinction and revitalized conservation science and activism by establishing diversity as their fundamental goal. Our very name is a tribute to their accomplishments.

 

“Passing away together this year-end, Tutu, Weddington, Wilson and Lovejoy remind us, against the institutions of oppression demanding we forget, that the many freedom, equality and justice movements dedicated to repairing our world are not separate. They are entwined branches of a single, very large, very old, unstoppable movement to free all beings from oppression: all species, genders, races, sexualities, cultures, languages and landscapes. The Center is proud to carry the torch of these four thinkers, leaders and activists and the millions more who came before them.”