Invitation to 6th (last?!) International Meeting for Climate Justice Action
When: Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 October 2009.
Where: Copenhagen, Denmark. In Christiania in the building Fabriken.
To Register: climatesignup@gmail.com
For more information: climatemeetinginfo@gmail.com
To get a visa invitation: climatevisa@gmail.com
You are invited to the next international meeting of Climate Justice Action in Copenhagen Denmark on the 15th to the 18th of October.
On the 6 December, 2009 the governments of the world will come to Copenhagen for the 15th UN Climate Conference (COP15). This will be the biggest summit on climate change ever to have taken place. Yet, previous meetings have produced nothing more than business as usual. The network has started to mobilize and planning for what to do in Copenhagen. With direct action we will reclaim the power of people and push for climate justice. We will make sure that the most affected and most struggeling people are heard doing the COP15 and we will try to stop the world leaders from promoting false sollutions. We belive that the global movement for climate justice will kick of in Copenhagen in December, and we need collectively to visualize what our future will be when we put people before profit.
Our previous meetings have included a lot of political discussion, setting up various international working groups, developing common ground, and deciding our principles and strategic goals.
Our first common ground was the Call to Action, which can be found on www.climate-justice-action.org.
We are trying to link and unite climate activists from across the world, despite diversity of culture and different locations.
We invite anyone who agrees with our Call to Action, principles for working together and strategic goals to participate in the next International Meeting of Climate Justice Action in October.
Our Strategic Goals are:
• To promote and strengthen the rights and voices of Indigenous and affected peoples (including workers) in confronting the climate crisis. To support reparations and the repayment of ecological debt to the Global South by industrialized rich countries.
• To build a global movement for climate justice that encourages urgent action to avoid catastrophic climate change.
• To highlight the critical role of biodiversity in weathering the climate crisis, and to defend the existence of all species.
• To expose the roles of false and market-based climate “solutions” as well as corporate domination of climate negotiations in worsening the climate crisis.
• To advance alternatives that can provide real and just solutions to the climate crisis.
• To both sharpen our understanding of, and to address, the root social, ecological, political and economic causes of the climate crisis toward a total systemic transformation of our society.
Our network is committed to working with respect, trust and unity towards these goals. We agreed at our last meeting that our principles for working together are:
Unity
– We are stronger together. We will use our common platform to coordinate our efforts and work together whilst recognizing our Diversity. We are an international movement and will practice solidarity.
Respect
– The network is made up of groups with diverse opinions and tactics. We will respect this diversity.
No members of the network will use the network to criticize or disassociate themselves from other members of the network.
Trust
– The network will only make public statements that have been agreed by the network.
Members of the network will not use the actions of other members to further their own aims without previous agreement.
We call on all peoples around the planet to mobilize and take action against the root causes of climate change and the key agents responsible, both in Copenhagen and around the world. And we invite you all to the next international planning meeting in Copenhagen in October.
Again to register email climatesignup@gmail.com (If you need accommodation or translation please let us know in your email) and for more information contact: climatemeetinginfo@gmail.com If you need a VISA, we can send you an invitation letter: please contact: climatevisa@gmail.com The aims and agenda for this coming meeting are being discussed now. To get involved in the discussion please sign onto the process working group: http://our-kitchen.org/mailman/listinfo/process.cja
See you in Copenhagen!
