[Cja] Climate Justice Action in Belgium is stronger than ever.

Tue Aug 24 23:00:21 UTC 2010

Dear Climate Justice Action-friends,

We have organized under the umbrella of Climate Justice Action Belgium a
Climate Action Camp held in Liege, the Walloon part of Belgium. 

It was highly successful. The movement for Climate Justice in Belgium
becomes stronger and stronger. 

It is true that we are not always able to attend international meetings.
This is for me personally a budget problem. 

I think that many people cannot afford to attend all these meetings.
Meanwhile we are working on. 

We have both in Flanders and in the Walloon part of Belgium a very strong
branch who becomes every day stronger.

We even show the politicians of our country that we can overcome the
language barriers. Where politicians fail, we are required to make our voice
heard.

I believe that CJA should remain a powerful network who wants to build a
climate just world. We have this obligation to the world, but also to  the
people involved who all want to participate in the building of a different
world.

In the streets there is a whole new sound. We are listening to a world in
need. The network must not stop. 

We have to move.

Positive greetings,

Andy Vermaut

Climate Justice Action Belgium

+32499/35 74 95

PS.. If there are people in our country are willing to go, I would go. Give
me a call. If someone could support or help me with my travel expenses, I
would surely come to the meeting in the Netherlands

Van: peter.groenfront at gmail.com [mailto:peter.groenfront at gmail.com] Namens
Peter / GroenFront!
Verzonden: dinsdag 24 augustus 2010 11:49
Aan: climate09-int; cja at lists.aktivix.org
Onderwerp: [climate09-int] The Future of CJA ; dissolve or find a new course

Dear friends, 

The next meeting op Climate Justice Action should, in my view , have just
one agenda point. Dissolve the network of not. 

Climate Justice Action was formed to mobilise for Copenhagen. In 2009 it was
a lively, planet wide network that was powerfull enough to make a stand in
the streets of Copenhagen. In all the stress and rush to prepare for that
event, we forgot to think about the future of the network itself. As a
result many people dropped out after the Copenhagen summit. Discussions at
the last two meetings have focused on finding a cause to keep the network
alive. The standard recipe of global day of actions was brought up.  But
that's not enough to keep people motivated and keep the network alive. 
The meeting in bonn only had 30 people, the next meeting in Holland looks to
be even smaller. Tasks taken up  in Bonn haven't been done. 

Apperently the time and energy to keep the network alive isn't there any
more. Most likely because the network is missing a concrete common goal. A
battle to prepare for. 

I think it is time to face facts, and dissolve CJA as it is at this moment. 

I would be good to keep the mailing list up, to make contacts easier, or
maybey organize a conference on Climate justice in Europe. But to keep
dragging the burden of an international network would be a mistake. It will
drain the time and energy needed elsewhere, and give people the false hope
that we are able to mobilise large amounts of activist for future actions. 

I ofcourse hope to be mistaken, and see lot's of angry people at the next
meeting to oppose my proposal. If not come over to have a drink at the
campfire. I hope anyway to see you all on the barricades , somewhere,
sometime. 

Peter Polder  

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