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Climate Change & Multinationals - A View from Colombia - Speaker Tour 10-15 Nov

greentea | 09.11.2009 21:20 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | Liverpool | South Coast

World leaders and activists are preparing to descend on Copenhagen to discuss climate change, but have we fully understood its structural causes? Colombian social movements argue that multinational oil and mining corporations, especially BP and other British based companies, have destroyed their environment, their human rights and social fabric. This raises vital questions linking environmental justice with international solidarity.




As Colombian communities struggle to defend their territories against corporate plunder, what can be done to build links with those affected by the seemingly unquenchable thirst for profit? How can corporations like BP be made accountable? And how do we connect our common concern to stop climate disaster with the issue of the global North’s ecological debt to the South?

CLIMATE CHANGE AND MULTINATIONALS – A VIEW FROM THE GRASSROOTS IN COLOMBIA

‘CONSCIENTISATION’ TOUR 10th – 15th November 2009

TUESDAY 10TH NOVEMBER – LIVERPOOL
A public meeting on OIL, THE ENVIRONMENT & HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA
with ISAAC MARÍN
7:30 PM AT EL RINCÓN LATINO, ROSCOE STREET, LIVERPOOL
Organised by Colombia Solidarity Campaign (Merseyside)

WEDNESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER – BRISTOL
What Does Climate Justice Look Like? Copenhagen and the Energy Crisis: The Case of BP in Colombia
6.30-9pm At the Department of Law, University of Bristol, Old Council
Chamber in Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ
Organised by Colombia Solidarity Campaign

THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER – BRIGHTON, SUSSEX
Visit by Isaac Marin, leader of Amazonian pueblos where British Petroleum is
implicated in assassinations and displacement.
5-6 pm University of Sussex, Falmer, Arts C Room C133 and
6:30-7:30 pm. Cowley Club,12 London Road, Brighton,
Organised by Sussex Colombia Solidarity and Latin America Research Group, University of Sussex

SATURDAY 14TH NOVEMBER – LONDON
3pm-6pm School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) room tbc
University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Organised by Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Latin American Workers Association, Polo Democratico UK and Bolivia Solidarity Campaign.

SUNDAY 15TH NOVEMBER – CAMBRIDGE
Fossil Fuel extraction: Human Rights, Climate Justice and Multinationals in Latin America
3.30-7pm
The Humanitarian Centre, Fenners, Gresham Road, Cambridge
Organised by Cambridge Action Network

Isaac Marín is a grass roots campesino leader from Eastern Colombia. His
first organisational and political space was with the National Association
of Peasant Farmers (ANUC), holding several positions at the regional level
for a period of 12 years. He is a founder member of the group Corporación
COS-PACC, a civil organisation with national reach since its inception into
social and political life 7 years ago. From this space, they contribute to
the construction of different political and organizational processes with
rural communities, neighbourhoods, student groups, women’s associations,
environmentalists, trade unions and organizations defending human rights.

Alongside these movements COS-PACC work to defend their territory and the
enforceability of political, social, cultural and environmental rights of
the communities and the Colombian people.

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