Danish National Court rules mass arrest to be illegal!Friday, 27 January 2012 | Climate Collective - Copenhagen
The Danish police broke the law when they detained
thousands of climate protesters on December the 12th and four other
dates during the COP15 in Copenhagen. The National Court of Denmark
confirms the ruling of the City Court of Copenhagen and declares all
five mass-arrests during the COP15 illegal .
In addition the court ruled that article of the European human rights
convention was violated on December the 12th as the police degraded and
mistreatted the arestees. Thus compensation of up to 9000 Danish Kroner
should still be awarded to the ones who filed complaints in due... Read More
Stop the activity of mining & slaughtering in Bima, solidarity for civiliansFriday, 06 January 2012 | WALHI/ Friends of The Earth Indonesia
On December 24, 2011, the Indonesian National Police and Military opened fire on civilians, members of Anti-Mining People’s Front (FRAT) during a peaceful protest at the Sape Harbor which started four days ago. Those civilians rejected the presence of a gold mine, PT. Sumber Mineral Nusantara (SMN). 3 people died and 9 people were critically injured. This marked as the peak of conflict between the government and business corporations against citizens throughout the year of 2011.
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@COP17 in Durban: NO REDD+ TEACH-INThursday, 01 December 2011 | IEN and CTW
Friday, 2 December 14:00 to 17:00 at the Chemistry Building: CC1 (room size 309)
University of KwaZulu-Natal - King George V Avenue, Glenwood, Durban
"Africa says NO to a new form of colonialism!"
The purpose of this Teach-In is to share the truth about Reducing Emissions Deforestation and Forest Degradation with grassroots and community-based groups and facilitators.
Will be organized using participatory workshops using popular eduction dynamics, multimedia and games.
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Pronunciamiento en defensa de la Pachamama y de la vidaThursday, 24 November 2011 | Accion Ecologica
Las comunidades, organizaciones, colectivos y personas, reunidas en el Encuentro de Pensamiento Ecologista los días 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2011, convocamos a una MINKA POR LA VIDA Y DE RESISTENCIA. Una minka fundamentada en la revaloración, recuperación, mantenimiento y transmisión de nuestra sabiduría ancestral, con la comprensión de los diferentes procesos de vida, que nos hermanan con los espíritus del agua, las plantas, los animales, los cerros…
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Día Mundial de la Soberanía Alimentaria para Enfriar la TierraThursday, 24 November 2011 | La Via Campesina
Llamamiento a la acción y a la movilización masiva
Apelamos a todos los movimientos y organizaciones campesinos, trabajadores rurales, sin tierras y a todo el movimiento por la soberanía alimentaria para que se unan a nosotros en un día mundial de acción masiva el 5 de diciembre de 2011, durante la movilización de la sociedad civil de la COP17 en Durban (Sudáfrica).
La humanidad se enfrenta a una crisis alimentaria, económica y ecológica arraigada en el sistema capitalista neoliberal de producción,... Read More
International Day Against Monoculture Tree PlantationsMonday, 12 September 2011 | WRM and CEPEDES
Dear friends,
We would like to invite you to support the following action, which is being launched as part of the activities for the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations.
This action is being coordinated by our friends at CEPEDES in Brazil, who have been working for years to support and coordinate resistance to the expansion of monoculture eucalyptus plantations and the pulp mill owned by Veracel Celulose.
This transnational company (a joint venture of Brazil’s Fibria and Swedish-Finnish pulp and paper giant Stora... Read More
Broad Coalition Asks California Governor Brown To Reconsider Cap-and-TradeThursday, 28 July 2011 |
SAN FRANCISCO - July 28 – A broad coalition of over 40 nonprofit groups concerned about the effectiveness of California’s climate change plans is pressing California Governor Jerry Brown to reconsider the proposed cap-and-trade program. The coalition, which includes groups from around the nation and the world, with the largest number based in California, is urging Brown to reduce greenhouse gas pollution where it makes the most sense for public health instead of where it is cheapest for heavy industrial polluters.
Margaret Jordan, of the Richmond Progressive... Read More
Peasant farmers and Indigenous Peoples call against biofuel project in PhilippinesSunday, 03 July 2011 | PCFS, APC, KMP and IBON Int'l
Peasant farmers and Indigenous Peoples are calling for international attention to the urgent situation of land grabbing, militarization and the pending destruction of local small farm lands to make way for the establishment of 11, 000 hectares of monocrop sugar cane plantations and processing facilities for a biofuel project in the municipality of San Mariano in Isabela, Philippines.
Take action now to support their efforts! Sign the online petition that will be sent directly to government authorities and chief executive officers of the companies involved in the biofuel... Read More
Letter to the Brazilian Government against market mechanisms and REDD+Friday, 17 June 2011 | FASE
Brasilia and Bonn, June 09th 2011
Ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado
Itamaraty Minister André Corrêa do Lago
Dear Sirs,
We, organizations and social movements that fight for climate justice and are members of the Belem Letter group, we have followed the national policies on climate change and the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol.
We were very worried about the outcome of the decisions of Cancun that... Read More
ACT NOW! Prevent carnage of peaceful resistance to scandalous POSCO projectFriday, 17 June 2011 | Environment Support Group
To help prevent this violence please sign a petition to the Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Odisha urging them to back down their support for the controversial POSCO project and withdraw the police forces and the state of terror that has been unleased. Please access the petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/posco/petition.html
An earnest is made to all public spirited people, especially intellectuals, writers, social activists within and outside Odisha, to immediately rush and join the human barricade at Govindpur and Dhinkia... Read More
Lubicon Lake Nation: Immediate Action NeededSaturday, 21 May 2011 | Friends of the Lubicon Alberta
Please help demand that the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) and Plains Midstream meet Lubicon community needs now. The Lubicon community require the following:
* ERCB to attend Lubicon community meetings to effectively answer community members' questions
* independent environmental assessment reporting to community
* Lubicon fly-over of the spill-affected area to survey immediate damage to traditional territory
* health response team stationed in Lubicon community immediately to respond to those who... Read More
Revoke the illegal clearance to the POSCO projectThursday, 05 May 2011 | POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity
New Delhi, 4 May 2011
The ‘final forest clearance’ by the MoEF to the controversial POSCO project in Orissa on 2 May 2011, is a shocking assault on Indian democracy. It makes it clear that all talk of ‘inclusive democracy’ and ‘inclusive development’ by the government is a sham, to be abandoned whenever politically expedient. The central government’s order is based itself on the blatant lies of the government of Odisha, giving short shrift to facts, provisions of law, and democratic processes. The UPA government that misses no... Read More
Stop the Belo Monte Monster Dam!Tuesday, 22 March 2011 | Amazon Watch
- Sheyla Juruna, Indigenous People of the Xingu River Basin
Sign the petition here: http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/ stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam
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On International Women’s Day: An invitation to sign the position on Women and REDDSaturday, 05 March 2011 | Women for Climate Justice Network
REDD+ as currently designed will contribute to a global land grab of communities' and Indigenous Peoples' lands and territories,which will particularly affect women, states a position signed by women and organizations that denounces REDD as another false solution for climate change.
The position, which follows at the end of this message, is the result of intensive discussions in the Women’s Caucus during the COP 16 UNFCCC meeting in Cancún in December 2010. After several days of debate, the Caucus agreed that while the position would not be disseminated as a... Read More
Indigenous Protesters Taken Hostage In GuatemalaThursday, 03 March 2011 | San Miguel Ixtahuacan Defense Front
On February 28, 2011, approximately 50 Indigenous men and women from Mayan communities affected by Goldcorp's Marlin Gold mine in San Marcos, Guatemala, were attacked and taken hostage by a group of individuals said to have "strong ties" to the Vancouver-based mining company. Update: According to latest reports, all the Mayan's were released sometime last night. Please see the comments below for more details.
For Immediate Release
San Miguel Ixtahuacan, San Marcos, Guatemala, February 28, 2011.
by San Miguel Ixtahuacan Defense Front
TO THE NATIONAL... Read More
STOP THE WTO’s DOHA “DEVELOPMENT” ROUND AND OTHER “FREE TRADE” NEGOTIATIONSFriday, 11 February 2011 | Our World Is Not For Sale
When the WTO was established in 1995, its stated purpose was to increase prosperity and employment, reduce poverty and inequality, and promote sustainable development around the world, through greater “free trade”. After more than ten years, it is now clear that the WTO has not delivered on these goals. Indeed, it has had exactly the opposite results. Under the guise of “free trade”, WTO rules are being used to take away peoples’ basic rights – to safe and secure food supplies, decent livelihoods and access to essential services such as water, health... Read More
We also shouted push! Take action in solidarity with the accused COP15 activists on the 29 of SeptSunday, 19 September 2010 | Climate Collective
During the climate summit in Copenhagen, more than 2000 people were arrested preventively and held in custody while they were trying to have their voices heard. These people along with thousands of other people from around the world were trying to set a different and more just political agenda in the climate debate. Climate Justice Action, a global network of social movements and groups, was mobilizing and calling for a protest and people’s assembly to challenge the farcical political negotiations at the COP15. They demanded just solutions to the climate crisis, solutions... Read More
The people create thousands of solutions to confront climate change!Wednesday, 01 September 2010 | Via Campesina La Via Campesina invites people's movements to mobilize around the world
Social movements from around the world are mobilizing for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
The COP 15 in Copenhagen demonstrated governments' incapacity to tackle the root causes of the current climate chaos. At the very last moment, the US undemocratically pushed through the so called "Copenhagen accord", in an attempt to move the debate out... Read More
Call for Solidarity actions with the accused COP15 activistsWednesday, 11 August 2010 | The Climate Collective
On the 18th of August there will be a solidarity demonstration in Copenhagen to mark the trial of the first two people accused of 'organizing' the protests around the COP 15. We urge everyone to spend the day or the following days on demonstrations and statements of support and solidarity – demonstration and manifestations outside Danish embassies, press work and articles - all are welcome and appreciated.
During the climate summit in Copenhagen, around 2000 people were arrested preventively and held in custody while they were trying to get their voices heard.... Read More
Global Day of ActionMonday, 02 August 2010 | Climate Justice Action
Call for a global day of direct action for climate justice
The disaster that was the climate summit in Copenhagen highlighted one thing above all: That we cannot expect UN-negotiations to solve the climate crisis for us. Governments and corporations are unable (even if they were willing) to deliver real climate justice. Only powerful, global climate justice movements can achieve the structural changes that are necessary, whether it is ending our addiction to fossil fuels, replacing industrial agriculture with local systems of food sovereignty, halting systems based on endless... Read More
SIGN ON to the No REDD Statement!Tuesday, 20 July 2010 | Durban Group for Climate Justice
Affiliates from the Durban Group for Climate Justice request urgent solidarity in a statement rejecting schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). The REDD Statement recognizes the need to support the growing voices opposing REDD and REDD-like projects and draws attention to the dangers of REDD including land grabs and the inclusion of REDD in the carbon market.
No REDD! No REDD Plus!
Global Sign-On Campaign against Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
As part of a mounting global civil society... Read More
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