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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As hundreds gather in front of the Canadian Embassy to demonstrate against harmful tar sands industries in Canada, Sharon Lungo from Ruckus/Indigenous Environmental Network gives background on the issue and the basis for the protest: