by Bee Moorhead | Feb 22, 2020 | Latest Posts
What Can Be Done Comments of Texas Impact founding director Lin Team at the first annual Texas Interfaith Advocacy Days, February 16-18, 2020, at University Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas We may think times are bad now, but it comforts me a bit to remember...
by Bee Moorhead | Jan 30, 2020 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Human Migration, Human Rights
Two recent rulings highlight the complex drivers of global migration and our responsibility to welcome the sojourner. While the US Supreme Court affirmed the Trump Administration’s cold-shoulder approach, the United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its...
by Bee Moorhead | Jan 13, 2020 | Human Rights
On Friday afternoon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas would become the first state in the US to reject refugee resettlement under the Trump administration’s new policy allowing states and local governments to opt in or out of refugee resettlement....
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 20, 2019 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy
The 2019 United Nations climate negotiations, COP25, are over—and they did not go well, despite being the longest negotiation session since the first COP 25 years ago. However, the annual COP event is actually just one aspect of the ongoing international climate...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 11, 2019 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, TXIPL Website
Today I attended a training led by GreenFaith, an environmental faith-based organization, currently based in the USA but looking to go international. In the midst of busy negotiations and meetings, around 40 people of faith took time out of their schedules to sit with...
