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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">I put this in with a climate camper comrade, for consideration on this years campaigning work:</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">Following the CJA/CJN! 'System Change not Climate Change' and 'Reclaim Power' actions:<br><br><font size="6"><b>The Peoples Assembly</b></font><br>Bottom-up inclusive initiatives: everywhere </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">We propose CC commits itself to</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">building</font><font size="3"> a</font><font size="3"> bottom-up social movement, following the CJA / CJN</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">general call out for Decentralised Days of Action by (a) working</font><font size="3"> with other parts of the protest movement and (2) co-organising simultaneous</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">Peoples' Assemblies at Town</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">Halls or other public spaces. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">These actions</font><font size="3"> would lay the foundations for </font><font size="3">a </font><font size="3">new society by </font><font size="3">using</font><font size="3"> PAs to bring new ideas and democratic processes to people in their local spaces. </font><font size="3">Within these spaces, and by the joined up nature of the project, </font><font size="3">people will glimpse a new world </font><font size="3">in the </font><font size="3">making. They can then decide where</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">their allegiance really lies (state,</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">capitalism or ... revolution!) </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">CC have the national / regional / local reach, so what's missing</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">is the vision around which we can</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">unite across the localities.</font><font size="3"> We propose that (a) the content from the Klimaforum declaration, together with (b) the development of a working relationship with the wider UK activist community and (c) a democratic, bottom-up, decentralised Peoples' Assembly process could form the vision for a new society. This is what democracy looks like!<br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">Our job would be to secure the space and facilitate large public meetings, where we can present the CJA / CJN! movement's proposals for responses to climate change, and related problems. </font><font size="3">These proposals will reflect our radical politics - but they will also be presented as practical solutions to the converging ecological, social, political and economic crises. These solutions will be presented as they came out of the Klimaforum declaration:<br>
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<div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 40px"><font size="3">•A complete abandonment of fossil fuels within the next 30 years, which must include <br>specific milestones for every 5-year period. We demand an immediate cut in GHG of <br>
industrialized countries of at least 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2020. <br> </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 40px"><font size="3">• Recognition, payment and compensation of climate debt for the overconsumption of <br>atmospheric space and adverse effects of climate change on all affected groups and people.<br>
<br>• A rejection of purely market-oriented and technology-centred false and dangerous solutions such as nuclear energy, agro-fuels, carbon capture and storage, Clean Development Mechanisms, biochar, genetically “climate-readied” crops, geo-engineering, and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), which deepens social and environmental conflicts. <br>
<br>• Real solutions to climate crisis based on safe, clean, renewable, and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as transitions to food, energy, land, and water sovereignty.</font></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What's missing here is a clearer emphasis on the need for a decentralised, democratic, local community (not state / capitalist) political economy, although the last word 'sovereignty' can lead us there. A well planned, decentralised Peoples' Assembly at Town Halls would emphasis this better than any document, and would also build a far greater capacity for UK actions in the future.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Only through engagement and learning will the necessary social and political change become possible, and the Peoples' Assembly can provide the necessary model. Democratic processes and ideas must be brought back to local spaces around the world, and with PAs we can help people everywhere to engage with the complexity of problems and solutions. </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt"><font size="3">Mobilising for Peoples' Assemblies will create a stronger climate justice movement by drawing in the wider community while also making the </font><font size="3">point about democratic processes and presenting bottom-up solutions. Local PAs also have the benefit of being a beacon to actually get ordinary people and locally focused groups talking to each other, sharing info about their concerns and campaigns and thereby strengthening and consolidating the networks that already exist</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">at the local level. A perfect antidote to the general election.</font></p>
</div><br>The People's Assembly at COP15:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGY9ruYpx3o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGY9ruYpx3o</a><br></div><br>