Hi John,
I’m Zaki, coordinator of a global network of activists and defenders involved in the #StopEACOP campaign — a fight to stop the world's largest heated crude oil pipeline in Africa.1
For centuries, Africa has powered the world — with our labor, our resources, and our land. Today, as the world races toward a clean energy future, we are at risk of being plundered once again.
Empires were built on the backs of our people, from the mines of the Congo to the plantations of the Caribbean. Yet millions across Africa still live without access to reliable energy. Now, corporations and foreign governments see our lands as the next frontier for lithium, cobalt, and nickel — fueling their green transition while leaving our people in the dark.
But we refuse to let history repeat itself. That’s why we’re building REPower Afrika. It’s a movement for liberation, to not only demand a transition to renewables but to ensure that transition is led by African communities and the workers themselves. It's for a democratic energy system, free from the corporate greed that brought us here.
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With your support, we can break free from a system that treats Africa like an extraction zone — and instead, build a clean energy future that serves our people first.
Thank you for standing with us.
Zaki for 350 Africa
1 - StopEACOP is an intersectional environmental and social justice campaign, fighting against the development of the world's largest heated crude oil pipeline: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). By working against this colossal 1,443-kilometer pipeline, stretching from Uganda to Tanzania, we’re not only trying to save communities, water resources, wetlands and wildlife — we’re also emphasizing the right of African communities to live a life beyond the harms of extraction.