[Cja] Week of action newsletter (final draft)
Patricia Manrique
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Sun Nov 21 12:31:04 UTC 2010
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:07:03 +0000
From: chriskitchen at gmail.com
To: cja at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [Cja] Week of action newsletter (final draft)
Oops! Uruguay and Barcelona now back in:
On 12 - 16th October, responding to the Minga Global mobilisation in defence
of 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..
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 and GTL plant 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
- 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
- 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
Uruguay
- Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day
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
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.
- 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/
Catalunya/Spain
- 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:
http://repsolmata.ourproject.org/spip.php?article171
http://revoltaglobal.cat/article3149.html
http://barcelonaentransicio.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/minga-global/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145197678850368&ref=mf
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 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:
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/
On 19 November 2010 20:26, Chris Kitchen <chriskitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Here is the final draft of the newsletter for the week of action. Please let me know if you have any comments/edits in the next 24hours, then I will get the spanish translation done and send it out. There are still two reports in German that I couldn't get translated.
Also - I am really busy at the moment (with our trial starting on Monday!), so if anyone could take on getting the spanish translation done and sending it out I would be really grateful! I have put quite a bit of work into this and would really like to get it done, but have lots of other stuff that also needs doing. Some people have already volunteered to do the final translation so I could give you their contact details. let me know if you can help...
hugs,chris
On 12 - 16th October, responding to the Minga Global mobilisation in defence
of 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..
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 and GTL plant 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
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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/
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 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:
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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