Tag: 'MG'

  • Towards a Coordinated and Powerful Climate Justice Movement in the US!

    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 [...]


  • Where’s the Change We Can Believe In? Affected Communities Deliver Letter to US Embassy Demanding Real Solutions to Climate Crisis

    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 [...]


  • Emergency Vigil at SF Danish Consulate: Friday, 12/18 4:30-6

    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 [...]


  • Peace, Justice, Development and Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen

    by Diana Pei Wu, December 16, 2009
    i am here in copenhagen. this morning – it is 7 am in CPH, 10 pm back home in Oakland … missing you all. it snowed yesterday, wet snow that did not accumulate much; snow is expected for the rest of this week and weekend. i’m on the first [...]


  • Highlights from Copenhagen

    by Gopal Dayaneni (edited by Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan)
    Here are some highlights on the work of the delegation & my work here so far:
    1) “No Decisions About Us Without Us!”
    They are severely restricting access to the Bella Center for Civil Society as of today, and the restrictions on badges (and the requirement for secondary badges) means that [...]


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