by Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, December 18, 2009 (updated 12/21) The Copenhagen round of the UNFCCC 15th Conference of Parties has ended in failure It is essential for the future of life on this planet that we achieve a global pact based on sound science and equity soon. But given that the U.S. and its key allies Read More »
PRESS RELEASE * COMUNICADO DE PRENSA For immediate release: December 17, 2009 Contacts: North American Indigenous Delegation Media Liaison +45 5268 5594 Movement Generation Media Liaison +45 2832 8422 (English, español, français, 普通話, portugûes) COPENHAGEN – On the eve of President Obama’s arrival in Copenhagen to attend the fifteenth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Read More »
TAKE ACTION: Please email this letter to President Obama at president@whitehouse.gov on behalf of your organization and CC: letter@movementgeneration.org to let us know your organization has signed on! Dear President Obama, We are here in Copenhagen as the voices of our communities and our organizations that work to protect the rights of low-income communities, indigenous Read More »
by Mateo Nube, December 17, 2009 La Paz, Bolivia, where I was born and spent my first 18 years “could perhaps be the first large urban casualty of climate change,” according to The New York Times. [1] I’ve been tracking the melting glaciers that supply water to the La Paz metropolis for the last few Read More »
EMERGENCY PROTEST & VIGIL SOLIDARITY WITH ACTIVISTS IN COPENHAGEN * CLIMATE TALKS UNDEMOCRATIC & ON VERGE OF FAILURE * US/RICH COUNTRIES REFUSE SERIOUS REDUCTIONS & CLIMATE DEBT * MASSIVE POLICE REPRESSION AGAINST NONVIOLENT CIVIL SOCIETY WHEN: Friday December 18th 4:30-6:00PM WHERE: Danish Consulate,1 California St, at Market St. (Embarcadero BART), San Francisco [view map] Bring candles and friends. “First Read More »