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Reports pouring in from n30 day of climate justice action! Compilation here!

Mobilization for Climate Justice | 01.12.2009 01:22 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | World

Today, on November 30, one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen open, and on the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protest in Seattle in 1999, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience are taking actions place in cities around the North America.



Today, on November 30, one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen open, and on the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protest in Seattle in 1999, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience are taking actions place in cities around the North America.

Reports are now starting to come in from:

More updates are coming in from Bangor, Boston, New York City, Burlington, Seattle and other locales - you can read all the details at the Mobilization for Climate Justice (MCJ) website.

Donations are needed for arrestees! You can donate here via paypal!

Also, check out an interview interview with MCJ's Ananda Tan and David Solnit on today's broadcast on Democracy Now!

With the corporate media unlikely to give major coverage to such actions, we need you to spread the word! You can see the combined and growing photo gallery here and follow updates on facebook or twitter.

MCJ is a broad and diverse coalition of organizations working for social, environmental, economic and racial justice is calling for urgent action on the global climate crisis, based on equitable, democratic and science-based solutions.

As world leaders gather in Copenhagen, the people hit hardest by this crisis and the least responsible for its cause - working class, Indigenous and people of color communities around the world - have been systematically excluded and are demanding a voice at the table.

Meanwhile, the world's major corporations have been dominating international and domestic climate policy - as they did in the international trade policy arena. Carbon-trading and carbon offset projects have already allowed these polluters to avoid cutting emissions and expand their markets into poor countries, accelerating corporate take-over of the world's resources at the expense of local and Indigenous communities.

"We cannot allow the world's largest corporate polluters to continue robbing our children's future," stated Carla Perez of Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, who will be marching with her daughter in a parade of children and the Raging Grannies. "US corporations have been holding real climate solutions hostage, while burdening our communities with ongoing attacks on our health and livelihoods."

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check out the html version of this, with links and such

01.12.2009 01:36

it's here:
 http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/

Mobilization for Climate Justice

Climate good, development bad

01.12.2009 09:07

People in the Third World want development. That means, they want to engage in processes that emit CO2. They would be happier to engage in processes that reduce CO2 emission but not at the expense of growth. The UN is now saying that population growth is a threat to the planet. No guesses for which populations they are worried about/ They are wary of claims that Global Warming will impact on them more than anyone else.

It seems to many that Western attachment to Global Warming is essentially racist. It is about preventing economic development and greater independence.

SImon Hinds

Re: climate good, development bad

01.12.2009 12:54

It is Western industrialised society who have contributed the most to global emissions, but it is the poor in the global south who will be affected most by climate change.

Kia

Stop climate change, stop development

01.12.2009 19:43

I’m sure that poor nations would be happy with alternative energy that works. And systems to reduce/cut/stop emissions - if the West pays for it. What they won’t do without being forced is to stop development. Africa, India and China have been experiencing growth.

But, poor nations cannot develop and stop CO2 emissions at the same time. Now the UN is saying that global population must be cut because of climate change.

To convince poor nations, the West produces research that claims the poor will be affected by climate change the most. They claim extreme weather like droughts and floods and sea level rises is hitting poor countries. Yet, we heard nothing of this in the 1930s, when average temperatures were the highest over the last century.

For Westerns who don’t like the idea of development in poor countries and want to see their population drop, climate change is a god-send.


 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/22/world/main5409165.shtml
India: Poor Nations Won't Slow Development
Developing Countries Need Access to Clean Technology; Industrialized Countries Should Pay for Climate Change, PM Says

AP) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development in negotiations for a new climate change deal.

The issue of how to share the burden of fighting global warming has divided the developing and industrialized worlds as they prepare to negotiate a replacement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol at a December summit in Copenhagen.

"Developing countries cannot and will not compromise on development," Singh told an international conference on technology and climate change….

Simon