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2025 Jubilee convening info

2025 Jubilee convening info

Over the past few months, the Jubilee Convening Krewe has deepened community engagement and undertaken preparations for the upcoming Jubilee Convening on Global Climate Reparations, scheduled to take place in Rome from March 1-8, 2025, during the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year. This convening represents a first step in a broader Global Climate Reparations Campaign.
What is the Jubilee and what opportunities does it offer for our movement?Rooted in a tradition dating back to Pope Boniface VIII’s declaration of the first Holy Year in 1300, the Jubilee is a special year in the Catholic Church dedicated to special graces, renewal, forgiveness, cancellation of debts, and freedom. It offers a time for pilgrimage, reflection, and deeper engagement with themes of Catholic Social Teaching. The theme of the Jubilee 2025, “Pilgrims of Hope,” resonates deeply with our work, as it gives voice to all pilgrims, including those who yearn for a future characterized by climate justice, liberation, and universal solidarity. The Jubilee year will begin on December 24, 2024, with Pope Francis opening the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, and will end on January 6, 2026. 

Jubilees have evolved to reflect the Catholic Church's mission in modern times, and this Jubilee year is particularly significant for our movement and provides a unique opportunity to frontline leaders to engage the Catholic Church more deeply— as “pilgrims of hope”—on the urgent need for Global Climate Reparations and its role in advancing this vision, as Pope Francis calls for debts cancelation, framing is as a question of human dignity and ecological justice. Hence the primary focal points for the Jubilee Convening will be on areas that frontline communities and the Church can move for collective liberation: 1) Debt Abolition & Reparative Climate Justice Investments; 2) Climate Migration; 3) Land stewardship and care for creation.
Too often, racialized capitalism and colonialism pits frontline communities against each other. Black and Indigenous people, in particular, are most impacted by the downstream effects of the climate crisis. Yet our voices are routinely excluded from upstream policy decisions.

Taproot Earth provides the space and resources for frontline groups to come together, discuss what’s happening in their communities, develop a shared analysis of the problem, and engage in consensus decision-making.
We acknowledge that for us to win on climate, everyone needs to be moving in the same direction, where no community is compromised.

This alignment work takes the form of people’s movement assemblies. We see our role as leveraging resources and relationships so that impacted groups are positioned to take on local fights and move from fighting fossil fuels to reimagining and advancing the solutions that enable all of us to thrive.