[Cja] Newsletter: October Minga Global/Week of Action for Climate Justice

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On 12 - 16th October, responding to the Minga Global mobilisation in
defenceof mother earth and the Week of Action for Climate Justice,
people around
the world came together to take action.  From Havana to Helsinki, Essex to
El Alto, Montreal to Mendoza, people blockaded oil refineries, marched for
indigenous rights, hung banners above motorways, held public meetings, and
shut down corporate headquarters.  Attention was drawn to the ongoing
struggles in all parts of the world, with calls for climate justice,
indigenous sovereignty, public transport, and an end to fossil fuel
extraction.  The week of action was in solidarity with all the diverse
movements who fight for social and ecological justice.

 This newsletter gives details of some of the things that happened.

The struggles continue..

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 South Africa - Sasol Day of Action

Earthlife Africa Jhb and partner organisations held a day of action to
highlight the continuing climate and
environmental atrocities committed by Sasol. There was a march on Sasol's
headquaters to highlight the fact that Sasol is one of the
worst emitters of GHG on the African continent and produces about 75.4
million tonnes of greenhouse gases annually – about 21% of South Africa’s
total greenhouse gas emissions per year.

In recent months Sasol has claimed to be concerned about the environment and
its impacts on climate change, proposing that the delay of Project Mafutha
is about its GHG emissions and the recent success using Sasol’s fuel for
aviation. In reality however, the delay may be due to the cost of the
project and the difficulty to obtain the coal and not about Sasol’s
environmental concern. Sasol Chief Executive was reported as saying that the
project would require extensive “support” from government.

In addition, if Sasol was truly concerned about global GHG emissions it
would have not gone ahead with its plans to build CTL plants in China
andGTLplant in Uzbekistan.

Makoma Lekalakala, Programme Officer for Earthlife Africa Jhb, states,
“Sasol talks green but their actions show little regard for people and the
planet. It is time for South Africans to hold companies like Sasol
accountable for the damage they are causing to the environment and to our
people.”

Sasol is South Africa’s biggest source of volatile organic compounds which
include benzene, toluene and xylene (all cancer causing substances). In
addition, dust from coal, slag and ash heaps blow across neighbouring
settlements. Earthlife Africa Jhb and partners will continue to highlight
the truths and hold Sasol accountable for the ongoing pollution in Sasolburg
and the surrounding areas.
*website:*
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/10/14/protesters-march-for-environmental-justice

*Cuba*

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*- Solidarity day with Haiti and against militarization, the consequence of
climate change and in support of rights for Mother Earth*.

12th. of  October in Havana, Cuba

For this activity which occurred in the Martin Luther King memorial centre,
a network of popular educators, groups of 100's of people who work in
diverse places and participative spaces in Cuba. We paid homenage to Haiti
with both songs and poetry. The idea for this was to interconnect a day of
solidarity with Haiti with the resistance in Quito, Ecuador and to join with
the Global Minga for Mother Earth, and to show our presence for the COP-16
conference in Cancun. It is because of this that we invited the ambassadors
from the ALBA coalition countries (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua
and various other Carribbean countries) and the students from the Latin
American school for the Americas.

Location:  Casa de ALBA.

*Guatemala*

*- March in Support of the day of dignity and the resistance of peasant
farmers and native peoples*

The National Coordination and Mayan convergence "Waqib' Kej" and their
organizations, call on the Mayan peoples, the Garifuna, and the Xinka in
Guatemala to march on the 12th of October 2010 to commemorate the day of
dignity and he resistance of peasant farmers and native peoples.

The march has the following objectives: to demonstrate our resistance to 500
years since the Spanish invasion, the genocide committed against our people,
the threat which comes from the mega-projects to drive us from our land and
territory.

The 12th of October represents an day to pay homage to and to salute our
martyrs, grandfathers and grandmothers, who gave their lives in the fight
for the defense of our land and territory deciding not to negotiate, not to
compromise nor to sell their dignity.

Also the date commemorates and celebrates the victories and the advances
made in our resistance, opposing the translation corporations (TNCs) and the
Guatemalan state that renders to them.

The mobilization is being organized by The National Coordination and Mayan
convergence "Waqib' Kej", and as such we wish to clarify that we have no
links with other organizations that are not directly associated with us but
which join with us in the mobilization.

We know of another similar action which takes place in our Capital
(Guatemala city) and in other parts of the country but we consider it
important that we clarify that they are quite different to our organization
and as such not related to our movement.

That said, we invite our brothers and sisters to join with us in our march,
in defense of Mother Earth and our Territory, which are being threatened by
mega-projects, with the Guatemalan state's compliance, and we invite the
national media and their coverage of our mrch.

The National Coordination and Mayan convergence "Waqib' Kej"

Ixim Ulew, Kajib´ I’x, Sej

Translated from the original, published in Guatemala, 7th of October 2010
http://waqib-kej.org/portal/2010/10/convocamos-a-marcha-reivindicativa-del-12-de-octubre-de-2010/

 UK - Crude Awakening 500 Climate activists blockaded the UK’s busiest oil
refinery. The action started with an all woman affinity group locking
themsevles to immobilised vehicles, preventing oil tankers
from leaving the refinery to deliver oil to London.  They were joined by
hundreds more who set up a futher blockade.

Terri Orchard, who took part, said:
“We don’t have a hope of tackling climate change if we don’t find a way to
start moving beyond oil. But Big Oil is relentless. From the Gulf of
Mexico to the Arctic to the Canadian tar sands, oil companies are
devastating local environments, trampling the rights of local communities,
and pushing us over the edge to catastrophic climate change.
We are here at the source of the problem, at the UK’s busiest oil
refinery, to stop the flow of oil to London. We’re here to put a spanner
in the works of the relentless flow of oil and to say no more. This place,
this whole industry, must become a thing of the past.”

The Crude Awakening is supported by a spectrum of direct action groups
including the Camp for Climate Action, Plane Stupid, Rising Tide, Space
Hijackers, Liberate Tate, Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, Earth
First! and the UK Tar Sands Network.

*website:* www.crudeawakening.org.uk

- Avonmouth targeted by Bristol and Bath Rising Tide Activists from Bristol
and Bath Rising Tide (1) dropped a
banner reading ‘IMPORT CO2AL: EXPORT POVERTY’ from Avonmouth bridge near
the docks, as part of a global week of action for climate and
environmental justice.

The Royal Portbury Docks contains one of the largest coal import terminals
in the UK. Tracy Jones from Rising Tide said “Fossil fuel extraction
devastates
communities, from villages destroyed by floods in Pakistan to land grabs
in Colombia, and is being resisted around the world. The failure of the
Copenhagen climate summit shows that governments have their hands in the
pockets of corporations and cannot be trusted. It’s up to ordinary people
to take direct action to stop climate chaos.”

*website:* risingtide.org.uk

- Action against RPS group Glasgow in Solidarity with communities in Co.
Mayo and South Lanarkshire

On Saturday the 16th, RPS Group’s offices in Glasgow had its locks and
signage destroyed by people who are outraged in their involvement with the
Corrib Gas Pipeline in Co. Mayo Ireland and the Open Cast Coal mines of the
Douglas Valley, south Lanarkshire, Scotland.

RPS is a large planning, engineering and environmental consistency that
attempts to legitimize these controversial projects. Local resistance to
these projects has arisen for many reasons, including their detriment to the
environment. RPS claim to consult the local communities affected and use
plenty of environmental rhetoric in their reports but in fact work with
governments and big business to justify developments that are ruining
peoples health, lifestyles and their environment.

*website:* coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2185

 <http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2185>
- Action against Ayrshire Power and Peel Holdings UK-wide coordinated
direction actions targeting the headquarters of Clydeport,
Ayrshire Power, and the company that owns them, Peel Holdings.

A 30-metre banner has been unfurled from the iconic Clydeport crane on the
River
Clyde, and the headquarters of all 3 companies have been shut down in
Glasgow and
Manchester. These actions were taken in solidarity with communities
resisting coal
around the world.

Coal mining and burning damages the social, environmental and physical
health of
communities in Scotland and elsewhere. With plans to build a new coal-fired
power
station at Hunterston to burn imported coal, Peel Holdings and its
subsidiaries are
undermining coherent action on Scotland meeting our climate change
obligations. Coal
imported by Clydeport at Hunterston is also linked to human rights abuses of
miners
attempting to unionise in Columbia.

We are calling for an end for the industrial-scale burning of coal for
profit,
whether imported or domestic, and we call for workers and communities to
create a
socialised renewable energy system for a fair and sustainable future.

We have closed down these offices to open up a long-term strategic direct
action
campaign against all links in the industry chain locking us into a
carbon-intensive
future.

*website:*
coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2177

<http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2177>

*Uruguay*

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*- Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day
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518 years after the start of the european invasion, our Indigenous America
resists.
For the defense of our “charrue” land!
We meet on Cagancha square at 17 hs.
We share: proclamation, music and singing, artistic expressions and
reflections.
Artists: Oscar Massitta, Pocho Peralta, Iya Comuna y Basquadé.
Who calls: Adench and Basquadé Inchalá
(Council of the Charrúa Nation)
*Montevideo**, Plaza Cagancha, Uruguay

**website:*

http://www.servindi.org/actualidad/33624
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France - arret total! A hundred of climate activists gathered this afternoon
in front of the Total refinery of Normandy. The aim of the action, that had
been planned since several months, was to shut it down. The activists found
an unexpected help in the workers of the refinery. On strike against the
pensions reform, they have blockaded the refinery and stopped production.
The activists tried to enter the site to show their determination to see it
permanently shut. They are accusing oil industry of contributing dangerously
to climate change.

The activists have tried to get to the site, past the police lines that have
circled a 150 meters perimeter around the refinery, for several hours.
Thirteen protesters on bikes have managed to do so and have joined the
strikers at the entrance of the refinery and made a bike barrier.

At the same time, three activists had entered the Le Havre site of the
Chevron plant, the second largest oil company in the U.S, planning to drop a
banner.

In the morning, a demo had taken place in Le Havre and demonstrators had
lead several protest activities throughout the city (such as replacing
advertisements with messages against Total, a “gardening guerrilla” or
vegetable plantations in the city, the registering of a complaint against
Total…)

One of the participants in the day of action, Emmanuel Verger, says: “We
can’t solve the issue of climate change without finding a way to move beyond
our oil-dependent society.

“Oil companies destroy local environments in extraction zones, they trample
local and indigenous communities rights, and they are pushing us beyond the
threshold of catastrophic climate change.

“ We are at the source of the problem, at the largest refinery in the
country, that is also one of the country’s major greenhouse gas emitter. We
are here to put the brakes on oil production and to say “enough”. We need to
make this place and this industry become history.”

The protesters also express their support of the strikers of the oil
refineries that are currently struggling to keep a fair pensions system:
“Environmental justice won’t happen without social justice, adds Emmanuel.
“Those who exploit workers, threaten their rights, and those who are
destroying the planet, are the same people. We need to move towards a
society and energy transition and to do it cooperatively with the workers of
this sector.

“The workers that are currently blockading their plants have a crucial power
into their hands ; every liter of oil that is left in the ground thanks to
them helps saving human lives by preventing climate catastrophes such as the
recent floods in Pakistan from happening.”

*website:* www.campclimat.org/spip.php?article209

Canada - Environmental Justice Toronto banner drop

Activists from Environmental Justice Toronto risked arrest by walking on to
the Gardiner Expressway to hang a banner saying “Free Alex Hundert,” a
community activist who has been in jail since being re-arrested after
speaking at a public panel at Ryerson University in mid-September.

“Alex Hundert is a strong voice for indigenous sovereignty and environmental
justice. His work with AW at L in Guelph is an inspiration for all who are
working to build a better world,” says Environmental Justice Toronto
activist Brett Rhyno. “All charges against Alex should be dropped.These
arrests, detentions, and false charges are part of a greater attempt to
isolate effective and vocal community activists, and to criminalize dissent
against the violent policies of the G20, policies that perpetuate
environmental degradation, militarization, labour exploitation, and the
theft of indigenous lands.”

October 12 is also the date of a global call for actions in support of
Climate Justice, led by the Global Minga and Climate Justice Action
networks. Globally, environmental and climate justice activists are marking
this day in 1492 as the landing of Christopher Columbus on what is now known
as the Americas, marking the beginning of centuries of colonialism. The
extension of European greed into the Western Hemisphere globalized the
exploitation of the Earth and its indigenous peoples in the endless pursuit
for growth and profit. Today this translates to a neocolonial system of
over-consumption, over-production, and over-extraction of the Earth’s finite
natural resources.

“Only powerful climate justice movements can achieve the structural changes
that are necessary to confront the climate crisis,” says Julien Lalonde,
also from EJ Toronto. “All around the world today, climate justice activists
are working collectively towards ending our addiction to fossil fuels,
replacing industrial agriculture with local systems of food sovereignty and
self-sufficiency, halting systems based on endless growth, and addressing
the historical responsibility of the global elites’ massive ecological debt
to the global exploited.”
*website: *
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/environmental-justice-toronto-activists-drop-banner-gardiner-expressway-demanding-freedom-g20-

- Shell Station Bloackade, Climate Justice London Ontario and the Latin
American-Canadian Solidarity Association (LACASA)A Shell gas station in
London Ontario Canada was closed down by activists from Climate Justice
London Ontario and the Latin American-Canadian Solidarity Association:

"We rode and rallied in the streets, with a vision of liveable environments
for everyone, everywhere.  Through these actions, we followed up the
Thanksgiving weekend by sharing our concerns about threats to native peoples
across the world."

The local rally was organized to join a day of action for indigenous rights,
climate justice, and Latin American solidarity.

At the protest Jonathan O’Glaisne (pronounced O Glaw-shnee) spoke about
capitalist and imperialist interests invading and abusing County Mayo in
Ireland. Jonathan also talked about how corporations like Shell are being
met with wider opposition, as these companies try to exploit more and more
people and environments, across the world. Shell to Sea, for example, has
been challenging Shell in western Ireland, and a Shell station protest in
Kitchener-Waterloo was another noteworthy case of resistance from southern
Ontario. Other solidarity protests within the last month (Sept-Oct 2010)
have taken place in Bristol and in South London, England.

Jonathan has family from the area of County Mayo that Shell has been
targeting. His family had no choice but to leave Ireland due to the
pressures of capitalism and imperialism in Ireland during the aftermath of
the Anglo-Irish trade war between Ireland and Great Britain in the 1930s.”

*website*:

http://london.actforclimatejustice.org/events/october-12th-day-of-action/

http://withoutyourwalls.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/oct-12th-2010-global
-day-of-action-for-climate-justice-protesters-close-down-a-shell-gas-station-london-canada/

- Climate Justice Montreal statement on indigenous struggles

Climate Justice Montreal backed the call to action and issued a statement of
support, highlighting 10 indiginous struggles taking place in Canada:

"These ten Indigenous struggles, which could easily be twenty or thirty
others, are challenging the status quo of fossil-fuel addiction and resource
pillage in this country. Standing up to governments and corporations,
struggling for their mountains, waters and climate, Indigenous communities
deserve the support of everyone who cares about the health of our planet. As
these communities battle to regain control over their lands, they struggle
for us all."

Lubicon Lake (Alberta): www.lubicon.org/
Grassy Narrows (Ontario): www.freegrassy.org
Pimicikamak (Manitoba): www.pimicikamak.com/
Wet’suwet’en (British Columbia): http://on.fb.me/bekx2K
Gwich’in (Northwest Territories): http://www.thebigwild.org/act/peel
Baker Lake (Nunavut)
Barriere Lake (Quebec): www.barrierelakesolidarity.org
Innu (Quebec/Labrador): http://teztanbiny.ca/
Bear River (Nova Scotia): http://www.defendersoftheland.org/bear_river
Defenders of the Land (National): www.defendersoftheland.org

*website*:

http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/28

 Philipines - Philipine Movement for Climate Justice

The Philippine Movement for Climate Justice held Rally/Picket at Malacanang,
Mendiol

*Website:* http://focusweb.org/philippines/content/view/395/52/

 Finland - October 12: Greenwash action in Helsinki, Finland

On 12th October 2010, the international day of climate action, a group of
activists spent the afternoon doing a public greenwashing action in the city
centre of Helsinki, Finland. The police arrested seven people on suspicion
of vandalism.

The action consisted of “GreenWashStream” company representatives strolling
the central commercial streets in Helsinki, offering passers-by free
greenwash coupons which would allow people to cling to their over-consuming
lifestyle with a clean conscience. On the backside of the coupon, one would
find a critique against carbon trading, offsetting and
other false solutions to climate change. While the dynamic marketing team
was handing out coupons, a group of painters used waterbuckets and sponges
to give a shiny “greenwashing” to the billboards and windows of companies
with bad environmental and social reputations. Finally the police were
called and the whole GreenWashStream crew was taken to the police station
for questioning.

This action was aimed to remind people that while industrialised countries
bear the primary responsibility for the climate crisis, carbon trading
companies like GreenStream are diverting our attention away from real
solutions to the climate crisis, such as rapidly reducing emissions in the
industrialised North.

Further, polluting companies claim to reduce their carbon footprint by
funding “sustainable” projects in developing countries. These projects are
often related to energy production, such as modern coal power plants, wind
farms or gigantic dam projects, which have a devastating impact on local
communities. Only by stopping the vicious circle of unnecessary
production, work and consumption can we curb climate change.

*website*:

www.hyokyaalto.org

 Germany - “Berlin fährt frei” (Berlin rides for free)

With the motto “Think global – Act local!” the Berlin based campaign “Berlin
fährt frei” (Berlin rides for free) informed interested Berliners during its
kickoff action on the global action day for climate justice. The “Berlin
fährt frei” campaign puts its action in the context of the global action day
for climate justice.

>From 5 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon humorous small theatre performances and
various information material enlivened the Berlin subway lines and stations
and many passengers. The aim and focus of the action were to criticize the
impact of private motorised transport on the one hand and the motivate a
change to solidaristically, democratically organised free public transport
that is not based on economic growth on the other.

The campaign found much resonance for its ideas: there was not only
unanimous support that public transport in Berlin was too expensive and as
first step we need to hinder next year’s planned price hikes, but one
passenger doubted that the CO² goals of the Berlin Senate could be reached
only with insulation and boiler replacements. A young father remarked that
free public transport would reduce traffic in Berlin and make the streets
safer for his children. There was a particularly good reception of the
colorfully clad campaigners in the S-Bahn (the regional train, which last
had a major crisis due to dwindling security standards), with one passenger
asserting: “It can’t be that public services serve the profit interests of
large concerns.”

Dieter Hartmann, active in “Berlin fährt frei” commented on the positive
feedback from passengers during the action: “It is especially the link
between environmental protection, social justice, democratic control of
common goods and the perspective of a livable city excites people about the
campaign. Only by rethinking our way of life and economy are we able to
fulfill our global responsibility on a local level. We’re quite happy about
the start of the campaign and invite everybody to make Berlin a poster child
for a truly environmental friendly free public transport.

*website:*

http://berlin-faehrt-frei.de/
Peru

*Native organizations prepare for the march on the 12th. of October, Lima, *

AIDESEP, 2nd of september 2010. The national front for sovereignty and for
life - FRENVIDAS meets today in an amplified meeting to coordinate the
national march for the 12th. of October and to duscuss the stepstoward the
organization for indigenous protests; such as, forming into work
commissions. Present at the meeting were social groups, students, women's
groups, workers and collectives.

This protest is a response to the fact that the current Peruvian government
hasn't the slightest intention to change their policy of attacking and
discriminating against indigenous peoples; a president that severs dialogue
and that only receives transnational corporations working in primary
extractive and environmentally damaging industries into his presidential
palace, but doesn'teven allow the indigenous protectors of life even to come
close to him.

FRENVIDAS (The front in support of life) was founded on the 4th of June
2009, as an offshoot of the resistance of the amazonian groups and a
congregation of various social movements, workers, women, youth, students,
village and city dwellers and various collectives.

It has a national executive commission made up from the following
organizations: AIDESEP, CCP, CNA, CONACAMI, SUCHOCOP, COICA, GIU and the
DESC Alliance.
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- Marcha de los Pueblos / March of the Peoples, Lima

The ratifying of an agreement of regional fronts South Macroregion took
place in Tacna and then in Huancayo, around five thousand protesters marched
in the capital of the country mainly to demand that the Peruvian gas is to
supply the domestic consumption. And also against the electoral fraud
against the candidacy of Susana Villaran / Confluence of the Left under the
name of “March of the People”

PLATAFORM OF STRUGGLE:

1.- In defense of Mother Earth.

2.- Constituent Assembly: Multinational and Intercultural Constitution.

3.- Right to sovereign consultation for the peoples.

4.- No to the privatization of natural resources and indigenous territories.

5.- No gas export, gas is for the Peruvians.

6.- Repeal of Supreme Decree No. 003-2006.PCM.

7.- No to the destruction of the National Sanctuary of Megantoni.

8.- For decent employment, salaries and wages.

9.- No to the criminalization of social protest and political persecution.

10.- No to privatization of land up to 40,000 hectares

11.- No expropriation of land in the rural communities of Olmos.

12.- Defense of the Andean peoples’ lands against mining concession.

13 .- No to hydroelectric dams at Inambari Paquitzapango, Salta Pucara,
Langui Languna of Laius.

14.- No to electoral fraud by regional and municipal governments.

Organised and supported by the following:

CONACAMI, AIDESEP, CNA, CCP, FRENVIDAS, TAHUANTINSUYANOS, CGTP, CUT, UFREP,
CONAFREP. FRENTE UNICO DE LOS PUEBLOS DEL PERU, FONAVISTAS, CORECAMIS DE
AREQUIPA, TACNA, MOQUEGUA, PUNO, CUZCO, APURIMAC, JUNIN, PASCO, HUANCAVELICA,
ICA, LIMA, ANCASH, PIURA Y LAMBAYEQUE, RONDAS CAMPESINAS- CUNARC Y CONARC,
FRENTE DE DEFENSA DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES-LIMA, etc.

*website:*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinadelascoronas/5121363818/

http://www.conacami.org/site/

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*Catalunya/Spain*

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*- Global Minga for Mother Earth and her Peoples at Barcelona city*

Who is the call from: Barcelona Transició
Tuesday, 12th october, 17h:  March for an anticapitalist, antifascist and
antiracist 12th of October. Catalunya Square (Telefónica)

“For common struggles, solidarity and tenderness between Peoples”

Tuesday, 12th of October, 17 hs.. March from Catalunya Square (Telefónica)
to Rambla del Raval.

*website:*

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http://repsolmata.ourproject.org/spip.php?article171<http://goog_656828365/>

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http://revoltaglobal.cat/article3149.html

 http://barcelonaentransicio.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/minga-global/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145197678850368&ref=mf
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 USA - People Across the U.S. Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day Through
Climate Justice Education

Indigenous people’s movements around the globe have called for a day of
action for climate justice on October 12, Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  “As we
prepare for the next round of U.N. Climate Negotiations in Mexico next
month, we are voicing our clear opposition to false market-based climate
policies,” said Jihan Gearon, Energy Organizer for the U.S.-based Indigenous
Environmental Network (IEN). “Our actions and those of our allies this
October 12 are part of the growing momentum in favor of real system change.”

In response to the October 12 call, many groups are engaging in educational
workshops to stimulate long-term action for climate justice. The Los
Angeles-based Bus Riders’ Union and Labor/Community Strategy Center and the
Black Mesa Water Coalition on the Navajo Nation in Arizona will hold
workshops on the Cochabamba Peoples’ Declaration on Climate Change and the
Rights of Mother Earth; the San Antonio, Texas-based Southwest Workers Union
will host a community garden workday and ongoing education linking Texas oil
companies Valero and Tesoro to California’s Proposition 23. The objectives
of these educational activities is to build grassroots capacity to address
the climate crisis directly.

These local struggles and others around the globe are linked by a common
commitment to global well-being, human rights and the rights of nature, and
the growing awareness that efforts to mitigate the climate crisis must be
rooted in equity, economic justice, and the dignity of all peoples.

The October 12 events occur following another day of climate action, the
10/10/10 Global Work Party. “However,” says Jihan Gearon, “the call to
action for Indigenous Peoples’ Day is distinct. Native people are not ‘just
getting to work’ to stop global warming. We’ve been caretaking the natural
environment since the beginning of time. Only now that it’s almost too late,
people outside our communities are beginning to get the message.”

“Our approach is not simply to address the symptoms of the problem,” adds
Gearon, “but to attack the root causes.”

“We need decisive action, and not in the form of misleading policies like
the U.N. REDD program (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and
Degradation), said Tom Goldtooth, Director of IEN. “While it pretends to
protect forests, REDD and similar carbon-offset schemes allow continued
destruction of our atmosphere and put our forestland and indigenous people’s
homes, livelihoods, and cultures in continued peril.”

Indigenous Environmental Network is part of a growing coalition of
community-based organizations across the U.S. who affirm that those who must
lead the way to climate stability are those who’ve been most directly
impacted, both by toxic industry and by historic appropriations of land and
resources. Following the Cochabamba World People’s Conference on Climate
Change and the Rights of Mother Earth convened by Bolivian President Evo
Morales this past April, IEN and community-based groups worldwide are
promoting the Cochabamba Declaration, the popular response to the widely
ill-regarded Copenhagen Accord, as offering the most realistic approach to
current ecological and social threats.

*website:*

http://climatevoices.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/people-across-the-u-s-celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day-through-climate-justice-education/
 Bolivia - *March in Defense of Mother Earth**, El Alto***

Convened by the National Council of Qullasuyo Ayllus and Markas, the march
called for the adoption of a Law of Mother Earth in the national and
international agenda and fundamentally affect the Multinational Legislative
Assembly for approval of a law to protect and preserve Pachamama.

 The mobilization went to the Plaza Murillo in the city of La Paz and
included the participation of the National Federation of Peasant Women of
Bolivia Indigenous Native - "Bartolina Sisa”-, the Intercultural Communities
Confederation of trade unions of Bolivia (CSCIB), the farm workers single
Confederation of trade unions of Bolivia (CSUTCB) and the Confederation of
Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB), among others.

The concentration was on the Multifunctional Heriberto Ceja Gutierrez of the
city of El Alto.

*Website: *

https://nacla.org/node/1460

http://www.cscbbol.org/

http://www.csutcb.org/

http://www.cidob.org/

Argentina *- Second Act in front of the consulate of Chile in Mendoza*

Organized by the Coordinator of Native Identities and Field, was a
demonstration because the 518 years of European invasion of Chilean lands
and a petition with signatures demanding freedom of the Mapuche Political
Prisoners on hunger strike in Chile was delivered.

*website:*

http://www.mapuche-nation.org/
 - Information share Argentine Group: Movement for the defense of Mother
Earth

Here in Buenos Aires four people from the
Cochabamba.org.ar<http://cochabamba.org.ar/>group
manned/womanned a stand in the contrafestejo (Indigenous movements against
Columbus Day) in the Avellaneda Park.

The group spoke to about 100 people giving them information about Climate
Justice and the People’s Movement for Defense of Mother Earth.

*website:*
<http://cochabamba.org.ar/>

Cochabamba.org.ar <http://cochabamba.org.ar/>

*Ecuador
*
- *Global march of people's movements and pesant agricultural groups for
people's self-management and the contruction of plurinational states*

Callout from Via Campesina, for the first time different organizations such
as rural farm workers, migrants, refugees, agricultural workers, the
landless movements, and the displaced conducted a global movement together
to reaffirm the identity of Abya Yala (Pre-Columbian term for the Americas).

Meet at Parque El Arbolito, in the city of Quito, Ecuador at nine AM.

*website:
*http://viacampesina.org/sp/*
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