[Cja] European Assembly for Climate Justice: Brussels Nov 18-20 2011

[Susann Scherbarth]

  Come and join!


  European Assembly for Climate Justice: Brussels 18th to 21st November 2011

Following the failure of the Copenhagen climate conference at the end of 2009, and the 
dangerous agreements reached in Cancun one year later (which put the world on track for a 
4 or 5 degree rise in global temperatures) there is more need than ever to build a 
movement for climate justice.

*Come to Brussels from 18th to 21st November, to help build that movement!*

In the run up to the UN climate negotiations in Durban, we will bring together 
environmentalists, trade unionists, people involved in youth, students and women's 
movements, small farmers, and concerned citizens from across Europe for 3 days of actions, 
discussions, workshops and debate. The event builds on the event in November last year, 
which attracted over 250 climate justice activists, and people from social and 
environmental movements from around Europe.
The aim of the Assembly is to build a movement that can put forward socially just answers 
to the climate crisis, in solidarity with those communities in the north and south who 
will be the hardest hit by the impacts of climate change.
See http://www.climateassembly.org for a review of the event.

We will provide a space for environmental and social movements to come together to take 
action, discuss strategies and make plans for building a movement for climate justice in 
Europe. It will also be a space to discuss the real solutions to climate change including: 
the transformation of the energy system away from nuclear power and fossil fuels -- 
towards democratically controlled renewable energy, and energy efficiency; food 
sovereignty; and alternatives to market based solutions to the climate crisis.

The Assembly starts with an action and social event on the Friday evening, followed on the 
Saturday morning by the general meeting of the Belgian movement "Climate and Social 
Justice" (all are welcome, although the meeting will be in Dutch and French), a series of 
workshops on campaigning/action techniques, and an action in Brussels city centre. On 
Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, there will be workshops around the 3 themes: Energy 
production and consumption, Food Sovereignty, and Opposing carbon trading. If you would 
like to offer workshops on any of these themes, please get in touch.
On Saturday evening, we will have a public meeting with international speakers presenting 
their struggles for climate justice. The event will finish on Sunday with a panel 
discussion on how we build a movement in Europe during Durban and in the run-up to the 
Rio+20 summit in June 2012.

There will be space for groups to plan their own climate justice actions to take place on 
Monday 21st.

Holding the assembly one week before the start of COP17 will hopefully allow people who 
will also be traveling to Durban to attend the Assembly. The groups making this call are 
also supporting the international demonstrations on climate change, on 3rd December.

*If you, or your organisation, is interested in helping to organise the Assembly, or if 
you have suggestions for the programme (or if you just want to stay up to date with the 
plans), please get in touch via:
david.heller at foeeurope.org*

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SUSANN SCHERBARTH
Climate Justice&  Energy Programme

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