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 were not [...]
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 Change Conference of Parties, organizations representing [...]
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 peoples, people [...]
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 years. [...]
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 they shut the public out of the climate [...]