[Cja] Fwd: Oct 12 E-mail to distribute

Wed Sep 8 14:32:20 UTC 2010

hey all,

Here is the email that people can use to contact groups about 12th
October (big thanks to those who put it together!).  Remember, if anyone
finds out more info about stuff being planned, then send it to
info at climate-justice-action.org or update in the crabgrass group.

ciao!
chris

  Hey people!
So, finally the e-mail with all promised contents to send to groups! Thanks
to Selj for the Oct 12 Flyer and Tadzio for the flyer text! Have fun and
don't injure your index finger!
mx
ps--should i send to cja list as well? or someone can...

Dear ,

Hope things are going all right for you.

The last meeting of the Climate Justice Action network was August 28-29, and
one of the main agenda items was mobilising for the October 12th global day
and week of action in cooperation with Via Campesina. There are already many
diverse actions announced worldwide, but at this point we are lacking a
platform that groups can use to connect their struggles.

CJA is trying to create a sustainable, transparent and participatory network
and we need your help and participation to do so!

To highlight the global dimension of the actions, to afford networking and
to support an overview for the movement and media work, we are re-launching
our website. We aim to interconnect actions there with an interactive map
and serve as a platforms for more information about the actions and groups
sponsoring them.

We would thus like to request:

* Do you plan (or do you know of groups planning) actions on the topic of
energy/ climate/ crisis at 12th of October or during the week of 12th of
October?
* Do you want those actions to be included in the context of the global day
of action at the website?
* If you want to be included, please send us 1) a short description of your
action and its aims and 2) a link to more information. Also, photo/video
documentation of actions (after the fact of course) would be amazing!

Please be in contact via info at climate-justice-action.org

We also want to take the opportunity to remind you about the call out for “A
Thousand Cancuns,” especially the global day of action on December 7th.
Please be in touch about this as well if you are planning anything—the
callout is attached.

In solidarity,

Short Oct 12 callout online:
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2010/08/09/global-day-of-action-for-climate-justice-2/

About Oct 12 (also attached):
System Change not Climate Change: take direct action for climate justice!

In 2009, indigenous peoples called for a global mobilisation ‘in defence of
mother earth’ on October 12, reclaiming what used to be ‘Columbus Day’. In
response, Climate Justice Action is coordinating a day of direct action for
climate justice on October 12, 2010.

For years, many had hoped that governments, international summits, even
industries and corporations could stop climate change. Today, after the
disaster of Copenhagen, we are wiser. Today we know that we cannot expect
UN-negotiations to solve the climate crisis for us; that the climate crisis
is the inevitable outcome of a system growing infinitely; that climate
justice means taking action ourselves.

Rewind some 500 years. On the 12th of October 1492, Christopher Columbus’
so-called ‘discovery’ of the Americas kicked off the globalisation of a
system of domination of the Earth and its people in the eternal pursuit of
growth. Today, it is still this system that is causing the climate crisis,
and it has a name: capitalism. Today it is all of us, and the entire planet,
who increasingly suffer the fate that some five centuries ago befell the
indigenous of the Americas and their native lands. Then, it was a continent
and its people that were driven to destruction; today, it is a world and its
people. Today, we are all the global exploited.

But why focus on the fight for climate justice at a time when, all around
the world, people are losing their jobs and their livelihoods? Doesn’t the
‘economic crisis’ trump the ‘climate crisis’? But these crises only look
different when seen from above. Seen from where we stand, they are all
threats to our survival. Whether a tsunami or a bank takes your home –
either way, you end up homeless. We can’t treat these crises as separate:
They are all the result of capital’s need for eternal growth, a growth that
is fuelled by the ever-expanding exploitation of social and natural
‘resources’. Crisis is the standard mode of operation for this system.

To struggle for climate justice is thus at the same time struggling against
the madness of capitalism, against austerity enforced from above, against
their insistence on the need for continued ‘growth’. Climate justice isn’t
about saving trees or polar bears – though we probably should do both. It is
about empowering communities to take back power over their own lives. It is
about leaving fossil fuels in the ground and creating socialised renewable
energy systems; it is about food sovereignty against the domination of, and
destruction caused, by industrial agribusiness; it is about massively
reducing working hours, and starting to live different lives; it is about
reducing overproduction for overconsumption by elites in the North and the
South. Climate justice is the struggle for a good life for us all.

We invite all those who fight for social and ecological justice to organise
direct actions targeting climate criminals and false solutions, or creating
real alternatives. This is an open callout, we are not picking targets. But
it is not a day for marches or petitions: it is time for us to reclaim our
power, and take control of our lives and futures.

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About CJA:
CJA is a transnational non hierarchical direct action network that serves as
a resource base for exchange of experiences and seeks to connect and give
visability to localised struggles. We consider ourselves part of the broader
movements for climate and social justice. Anyone agreeing to and acting in
accordance with our aims and principles can be part of the CJA network by
taking action at the local/regional level. CJA commits to having regular
electronic and face-to-face organisational and strategy meetings to link our
struggles for climate justice. All are invited to become an active part to
the process!
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