Reddit reviews Witchcraft Activism: A Toolkit for Magical Resistance (Includes Spells for Social Justice, Civil Rights, the Environment, and More)
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David Salisbury put out a book in March called Witchcraft Activism - it talks about this sort of thing.
>deleting
I think you mean 'putting out' the fire.
While this is great news, it's worth noting that the Amazon Rainforest is not burning. It's being burned.
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Edit: I'd also like to say a few things about magic, activism, and the current situation in Brazil.
While I know there was a coordinated ritual specifically for something like this to happen, I want encourage people to have a sort of skeptical faith about magic. Did this 100% happen because of a magic ritual? No. Another poster gave a fantastic explanation of the ecology behind this.
By the same token, I don't want to cynically believe that magic had no part in this either, as I'm seeing elsewhere in this thread. We're Wiccans, we have faith in magic to some extent. At the very least, the call for a ritual had brought an awareness to a situation that many in this community wouldn't have known about, or been engaged with otherwise.
As for magic and activism, if we as a community are going to be engaged with things like this, and I think we should, it's important to not let magic be our only means of engagement. One of my favorite Wiccan stories is that of The New Forest Coven's ritual against the Nazis. Not only did they curse the Nazis to push them back, and prevent them from crossing the English Channel, they also took up arms, and joined the local Home Guard, and were ready to fight (or as ready as they could be, given the old age of a number of them) should there be an invasion. We should follow this example. Witchcraft has always been political, from the historic witch hunts, to the burning times myth, and from The Nazi cursing to Aradia.
Finally, the situation in Brazil. If any Brazilians are here that can clarify the situation there, I'd greatly appreciate it, but here's the story as I understand it:
For many decades, Brazil was under the control of a violent military junta, which was eventually overthrown by The Workers Party, I think, as part of the Pink Tide (a series of popular revolutions and elections in central/south America that put in power various left wing governments), a generally left-leaning political party.
The Workers party was dominant for many years, until a handful of years ago, when various workers party leaders, most notably Lula Desilva, were removed from office and/or arrested on supposed corruption charges, in what many called a 'soft coup'. This led to a short lived provisional government of sorts, and elections which led to the election of the Far Right candidate, Jair Bolsanaro, who in addition to threatening the civil rights of Brazil's indigenous people, LGBT community, religious monitorities (I think there's a fairly sizeable Wiccan movement down there?), ethnic monitorities, etc. Bolsanaro has also said he intends to bulldoze the amazon rainforest. That's why these fires are happening.
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Some resouces
Brazil, the Amazon, and climate change:
Wicca, activism, and politics:
How you can help:
join an organization some international groups include:
Also consider looking at organizing for other causes, impacted by climate change (food distribution/security, indigenous rights, labor rights, etc.) Hell, start a community garden! The sky's the limit!
If anyone knows of any other ways to organize/groups to join, please let me know!
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Hope this was helpful! Blessed Be!