Sign Petition to Obama to Stop Obstructing a Real Deal!
admin : December 9, 2010 10:03 am : allposts, copenhagen, Featured NewsReposted from Jen Soriano of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
December 8, 2010
Joaquin Sanchez and Sunyoung Yang escorted out for speaking up. Photo by Diana Pei Wu
Things are POPPIN off in Cancun – negotiations officially end Friday, and as the climate negotiation clock ticks UN officials are feelin the pressure to come up with something that resembles anything like an agreement.
The problem is, that as they try to save face by buckling down inside their militarized fortress – a luxury labrynth of a Golf resort called Moon Palace – they are kicking out anyone who disagrees with their narrow corporate agenda in the process.
Similar to the barring of several civil society organizations including Friends of the Earth from last year’s Copenhagen sham, this year COP16 enforcers have kicked out 4 of our youth delegates for chanting, and they’ve just this morning removed Tom Goldtooth Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network and key player in the debate on REDD and REDD+ from the grounds while stripping him of his accreditation.
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Social Movements Bring Hope as COP16 Falters
admin : December 8, 2010 5:16 pm : allposts, copenhagen, Featured News
By Joshua Kahn Russell
Reposted from www.itsgettinghotinhere.org
December 7, 2010
Thousands of community activists around the world take action to promote Local Solutions to the Climate Crisis
The tone inside the conference center at the U.N. Climate Negotiations in Cancun has been a bit dismal this past week. Yet despite the reduced expectations inside, this morning the international peasant movement La Via Campesina gave us a new injection of hope and vision with a vibrant march of thousands of small farmers, Indigenous peoples and community activists through the streets in Mexico. It kicked off today’s international day of action – “1,000 Cancuns” – where grassroots organizations across the world demonstrated local resiliency and real solutions to the climate crisis. 30 coordinated events took place in the U.S. and Canada today, anchored by the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. Read More »
Photo by Allan Lisner
update by Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, Movement Generation
As we prepare for a powerful day of action, MG joins with more than 100 groups in Grassroots Solutions for Climate Justice North America to say:
Our communities are our homes! Our local organizing campaigns offer real solutions: local agriculture for food sovereignty that will slash greenhouse gas emissions, affordable mass transit instead of expanding highway systems and automobile culture, local clean energy policies to create a just transition off fossil fuels, all grounded in values of sustainability and health for ourselves, our communities, and the planet.
On this Road from Detroit to Cancun and beyond, we are building a powerful movement for climate justice that will liberate the rivers, honor the earth, free the people, and unplug the empire!
Read more for a look at some of what is happening inside & outside!
Blog by Mari Rose Taruc, Asian Pacific Environmental Network & Grassroots Global Justice Delegation to Cancun (12/4/10)
Day 1, Cancun by Air
Spanning the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic & swooping from the black Gulf of Mexico, I land in Cancun Mexico at night. Exiting the plane, the first sign I get of the UN climate conference is a life-sized China-bashing poster: “80% of China’s electricity is generated by dirty coal… The world’s leaders need to free us from dirty coal and its poisons.” Read More »
December 7 San Francisco Climate Justice Action!
admin : December 3, 2010 1:57 pm : allposts, calendar, copenhagen, Featured News
While the US Government Stalls in Cancun, Community-based Solutions are Cooling the Planet
December 7, 2010
3:30-5:30 pm
17th and Folsom, San Francisco’s Mission District
Frontline communities, those first and most impacted by the climate crisis, are addressing the root causes of climate disruption and leading the way toward a healthy, safe, and just future.
Join us to work on a healthy solution in the Bay Area.
Push for a public park in the Mission on publicly-owned land currently used as a parking lot. We’ll build a garden, celebrate community-based activism, and enjoy speakers, theater, and music!
Featuring the headRush crew!
More information about the 1000 Cancuns Day of Action on December 7 on Grassroots Solutions for Climate Justice: North America.