The People’s Summit towards COP30 and the Cry of the Excluded are joining forces to strengthen popular mobilization that will mark both September 7th across Brazil and November 15th in the streets of Belém and in cities around the world preparing for the Global Day of Action. In a meeting held with the support of Father Ari Alberti and the presence of Father José Carlos, from the Cry of Salvador, and Margareth Pinheiro Gondim, from the Cry of Marabá, Pará, a pact of mutual support was established between the two initiatives, recognizing that their struggles converge in the defense of peoples, territories, and democracy.
Since 1995, the Cry of the Excluded has denounced the contradictions of a system that concentrates wealth and multiplies inequalities, raising the banner that “life comes first” as the true principle of a just society. This trajectory now meets the construction of the People’s Summit, whose political charter denounces environmental racism, corporate power, and false solutions, while affirming the centrality of climate justice and the sovereignty of peoples in responding to the planetary crisis.
The alliance between the Cry and the Summit seeks to echo these voices both in the streets and in formal spaces of political construction. The territorial consultations promoted by the Cry, bringing the demands of excluded communities and of workers, will be incorporated into the process of formulating the People’s Summit’s convergence axes. These axes, debated over the past months as part of the Summit’s preparatory process, will be consolidated in the November plenaries and will serve as the basis for the final charter to be presented to COP30 decision-makers. In this way, the historical demands that mobilize the Cry are added to the climate justice agenda, broadening the reach of popular voices in the world’s largest negotiation space on the planet’s future.
Organizers of the People’s Summit and the Cry of the Excluded consider this union a decisive step in building a democratic and plural process towards COP30. The Cry is recognized as a fundamental space of resistance and popular pedagogy in Brazil, and its integration into the Summit reinforces the principle that there can be no climate justice without social justice, without confronting the exclusions that mark our history.
Both mobilizations call on social movements, collectives, pastoral groups, and popular organizations across the country to join the process, contribute proposals to the People’s Summit, and participate in the street actions.
Together with the Cry of the Excluded, the People’s Summit reinforces its call: it is time to take to the streets and ensure that the voices of territories and urban peripheries are at the center of decision-making at the Climate Conference.
March in the cities – In a meeting held on Thursday, the 29th, in Belém, representatives of the Political Commission and the Local Committee of the People’s Summit defined details of the march that will take place on September 7 in the host city of COP30. Around 400 people are expected to join, mobilized by social pastorals, social movements, and workers’ unions.
