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We are officially in Youth Month with Youth Day just a few days away. But even with such an important commemoration coming up, there doesn’t seem to be much to look forward to. With rolling load shedding happening across the country, record highs for youth unemployment and a health minister put on special leave for corruption charges in the middle of a global pandemic, there isn’t much to celebrate.
This week, the focus turns to planning the restoration of ecosystems on World Environment Day on
Saturday 5 June. The day will also launch the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration which will run until 2030. The mission: revive billions of hectares of forest, farmland, ocean floors and everything in between.
To learn more about ecosystem restoration, browse through the United Nation’s playbook “
A practical guide to healing the planet”.
There are hundreds of official events starting on Monday 31 May and ending on Saturday 5 June. From restoring urban spaces to implementing “climate-resilient reforestation”, the line-up has something for every interest in every region of the world.
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Protester facing police at a Black Lives Matter protest in London, UK – June 6, 2020. Photo: Viktor Kadiri / Shutterstock.com
The Movement for Black Lives not only exposed the brutality of US policing, it has stimulated conversations on systemic racism and coercive state power everywhere. For the tenth edition of its flagship
State of Power report, the Transnational Institute has brought together two brilliant thinkers on racial capitalism today.
Achille Mbembe is a groundbreaking philosopher, whose many books since the mid 1980s have exposed how coloniality has shaped democracy, identity and modernity.
OlúfẹÌmi TáÃwò is an emerging thinker, writer and activist whose theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition and anti-colonial thought. He has written extensively on climate justice.