Archive for September, 2009

[ November 6, 2009; December 7, 2009; 12:00 am; ] Climate Justice Fast is an international hunger strike taking place from the 6th of November 2009 to raise public awareness of the desperately urgent need for strong action on the climate crisis. It runs ahead of the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where world leaders will be effectively tasked with deciding the fate [...]

We, the Asian Peoples’ Solidarity for Climate Justice,  are gathered here in Bangkok, Thailand to take our stand in the face of an unprecedented conflict.
It is a conflict over resources, a conflict driven by unfettered profiteering and the slavery of consumption, it is a conflict brought about the domination and ascendancy of private [...]

[ October 13, 2009 to October 14, 2009. ] Plataforma Boliviana Frente al Cambio Climático
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL
13th and 14th of october, 2009
Cochabamba, Bolivia

The Climate Justice Tribunal is an instance of social, indigenous and popular organizations that is independent from the formal justice system. It has been created to be a space or instrument for popular justice that amplifies and brings visibility to the [...]

http://indypgh.org/g20/#
Solidarity to all the activists, students, workers, unemployed, indigenous peoples, the assorted radical people who protested the G20’s negation of political, economic, social, environmental democracy in the world and resisted with courage extraordinary and unprecedented police assault on civil liberties with tear gas, sound cannons, rubber bullets, and arbitrary arrests.
From Pittsburgh to Copenhagen, let’s fight [...]

Shortly after G20 protesters were attacked by police at the University of Pittsburgh, on September 26 about 1,500 people took direct action to shut down one of Copenhagen’s coal fire power plants. The SHUT IT DOWN action plan had been openly announced several months earlier and Danish police had been gearing up for massive use [...]

Climate Activists Drop Banner Over UN Motorcade, Raise Warning of Ineffective “False Solutions” to Climate Change
New York: Early Friday morning, at the end of the first week of the High Level meetings during Climate Week in New York, a caravan of police-escorted limousines and SUVs carrying UN delegates was delayed as they approached the 42nd [...]

Deal or No Deal?
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse
Techno-Fixes Report
Never Trust a COP – call out
Unless You Are Free – Australian radical climate paper
Corner house climate briefings
Transnational Institute climate briefings
Turbulence
A Guide for Indigenous Peoples on False Solutions to Climate Change:
http://www.earthpeoples.org/CLIMATE_CHANGE/Indigenous_Peoples_Guide-E.pdf
Let’s Organize the Global Mobilization!
http://www.ivcumbrecontinentalindigena.org/?p=250
CONFENIAE on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples’ [...]

Environmental activists, some dressed as “Trillionaires for Bad Math” today delivered a “climate bill” to Copenhagen, ahead of schedule. The mock “bill” was delivered at a 3 pm lecture at Columbia University’s School of International Public Affairs hosted by Danish Climate and Energy minister Connie Hedegaard. Hedegaard is the chairperson of the UN climate [...]

Pittsburgh, PA, USA – As groups protest the Pittsburgh International Coal Conference days before the G-20 arrives in the city, additional actions against U.S. climate policy and the fossil fuels industry took place on both the east and west coasts.
In New York City, Climate SOS, New York Climate Action Group andRising Tide North America protested what they [...]

PRECARIOUS UNITED for CLIMATE ACTION (PUCA)
www.euromayday.org
Fighting for Social and Climate Justice. Because Climate Change Makes All Precarious.
The economic crisis has heavily hit the precariat — the sum of those working non-standard, temporary, part-time contracts in services and industry — worse than any other social class. Millions of precarious youth, women, immigrants are being made [...]