<div class="negativespace"><p><b><span class="caps">CJA</span> Meeting in
Bonn May 29-31 2010 </b></p><p><br>
<b>Key Decisions</b><br>
</p><ul><li>Letter of support for 1000 Cancuns</li></ul><p>
Decision: write an open letter supporting La Via Campesinas call for
1000 Cancuns,, will spread to our allies and networks.<br>
Decision was made after long discussions about the capacity to mobilise
during this time, but there was agreement that our allies need support
quickly and there is the possibility to commit to actions in a separate
call out at a later date. No decision was made after long discussions
about the purpose of and capacity to mobilise during this time, but
agreed to send support for regional processes, spread the call in our
networks and begin to see what we could organise. Would not commit to
specific actions at this stage. <br>
</p><ul><li>Global day of action October 12</li></ul><p>
Decision: will send a call out for actions on October 12. In order to
make it a global day of action, <span class="caps">CJA</span> has
appointed a working group to write a four page story to link struggles
around the world. Work will be done in two groups media/story and
materials/networking/mobilisation. <br>
Decision followed a discussion about whether actions should occur over
the course of a week, or on October 12. Decided to stay with 12 October
(noting that some actions would happen on 16th Oct). Other groups have
planned events around the same time in October, will look into
supporting allies during this time. The group felt that there were
strategic problems with organising with <a href="http://350.org">350.org</a>, on 10th Oct, partly due
to the 1010 campaign. <br>
</p><ul><li>New <span class="caps">CJA</span> mailing list and crabgrass network</li></ul><p>
Decision: abandon Climate09 mailing list and create a new list for <span class="caps">CJA</span> network. This will be complimented by a new
crabgrass network where most work will be organised. <br>
After discussing the challenges the network is facing in terms of
decision making, and what tasks need to be achieved in the future, it
was decided that the current structure is not the most effective. <br>
</p><ul><li>Other Decisions</li></ul><p>
<i>Finance</i><br>
Decision: Person previously handling finance has now taken over a
transparency role along with a second person. Finance role has been
handed over. <br>
</p><p><i>Decision making between meetings</i><br>
Decision: we should avoid making decisions on anything that can wait
until next meeting. Working groups should be encouraged to make
decisions within their remit. When decisions do need to be made a form
will be completed explaining relevant information, sent out to the list,
and as much time as possible will be given for people to respond.<br>
</p><p><i>Process group tasks and planning the next meeting</i><br>
Decision: a process group is needed for the email account, circulation
of minutes, checking working groups are doing their tasks and producing
the news letter. The task of planning the next meeting will be
delegated to a separate group. <br>
Building theory on climate justice in Europe</p>
<p>Decision: create thematic groups to look at developing what climate
justice means in Europe. Groups will be created on crabgrass for
discussion and we will look to our allies for help where we do not have
theoretical capacity.</p>
<p><b><span class="caps">SATURDAY</span> <span class="caps">MAY</span> 29
2010</b><br>
Program</p>
<p> Feedback from Bolivia Break Update from Workshop Break
Discussion around working groups Cancun mobilization</p>
<p>List of represented countries and activities:<br>
</p><p> Germany: looking at how to link various local struggles, current camp
in Bonn and two future camps near open mines. <br>
The Netherlands: groups are targeting coal power stations.<br>
France: Climate camp 22 July 1 August in Normandy, focusing on
Total. <br>
Ireland: Will have a camp in August<br>
United Kingdom: Coal action near Bristol; lock on to a coal line,
solidarity bike ride targeting Shell, future camp in Scotland in August
targeting <span class="caps">RBS</span>.<br>
Paraguay<br>
Brazil<br>
Turkey<br>
Canada<br>
Denmark: Nordic climate camp 14-20 July<br>
</p><p><i>Feedback from Cochabamba</i><br>
</p><p> Conference made up 17 working groups, each on a different theme<br>
Estimated 30,000 people attending<br>
Lots from Latin America, some from North America, less from Europe.
Few from Africa and Asia<br>
Cross between a social forum and a summit<br>
Lots of different types of people attending, lots of info stalls etc.<br>
Worries at the start about the outcomes from the conference being<br>
pre-determined by the organisers<br>
WGs wrote their statements over 3 days which were then combined into<br>
a 11 page final document<br>
Most people felt that interventions and the process meant that the<br>
summit was legitimate and that the outcomes were generally good.<br>
18 Mesa was a WG that was excluded from the conference. It<br>
discussed issues around extractive industries, mega projects etc. some<br>
of the contradictions between the discoures and actions of the<br>
Bolivian government. Were complications about whether it would be<br>
seen as against the conference/bolivian government. Produced its own<br>
document<br>
Was a blockade of San Christobel mine during the conference. Sumato<br>
offices (which own the mine) were also occupied. Was solidarity<br>
action at head offices in London.<br>
Main goals of the conference were:<br>
1) global referendum on climate change<br>
2) declaration of rights of mother earth<br>
3) international court for ecological crimes<br>
4) process for recognition and repayment of ecological debt<br>
<span class="caps"></span></p><p><i><span class="caps">CJA</span> Workshop in Cochabamba</i><br>
</p><p> There was a discussion about climate justice in each country, where
the movement came from, and how the concept developed since the 1990s. <br>
Questions: who are the allies and obstacles in the fight for climate
justice and how to mobilize for a global day of action. <br>
Participants filled out a form about their actions and where they came
from, then they were placed on south-side up map. Someone has all the
contact details and information from the approximately 70 participants. <br>
Broke into small groups to discuss the implications of the Bolivian
process. There was debate over how <span class="caps">CJA</span> can
relate to events such as this one.<br>
</p><p><i>Discussion around <span class="caps">CJA</span> working groups</i><br>
</p><p> Right now the network is an unstructured group without active working
groups. <br>
Do we want it to be more than just the big meetings? <br>
Need to decide what <span class="caps">CJA</span> is and what it will
do. <br>
Should working groups be created as they are needed? Or having
something longer lasting?<br>
</p><p>Finance:<br>
</p><p> Previous person handling finance has some documents about the working
group because he will be taking over a transparency role. <br>
There was 3,500euro in the <span class="caps">CJA</span> account a
week ago, but there was a 2,000euro payment to the Bonn camp, some of
which may be a loan. <br>
The finance role was taken over and second person was added to the
transparency role<br>
Discussion about the need to move the account to a country where the
currency is Euros.<br>
</p><p>Process:<br>
</p><p> Although process has traditionally been responsible for planning
meetings and circulating minutes, we are unclear what the role of this
working group is. <br>
It is clear that we need to have a bigger discussion about <span class="caps">CJA</span> structure.<br>
</p><p>Communication:<br>
</p><p> The group has not been highly active. <br>
Some people have been working on a new website, but need more people
to make this happen quickly and effectively. <br>
Question of what to do with Climate09 email list. <br>
We have an announcement list but have only sent one update on it.<br>
Will continue this discussion.<br>
</p><p>Legal:<br>
</p><p> 16 20 people imprisoned after COP15. <br>
The longest time spent in prison was 2 months. <br>
The people`s kitchen from COP15 donated their extra money to legal
support. <br>
250 people who were preventatively arrested are pressing charges
against Danish police.<br>
While there is a good case it is felt that there is almost no public
awareness or media. <br>
There are 4 trials remaining two of the trials are at the end of
August. <br>
There has been a case won by legal support and the judge ruled that
the Rahnilsgade raid was the legal but the way the police carried it out
was not. The police are appealing this ruling. <br>
<span class="caps">CJA</span> has been asked to attend a press
conference needs to be discussed.</p>
<p> Decision to add to the agenda a wider discussion about <span class="caps">CJA</span> structure.<br>
</p><p><i>Cancun Mobilization: Nov 29 Dec 10 2010</i><br>
</p><p> Klima Forum at COP16: similar idea in Cancun based on the same ideas
of alternative civil society summit. <br>
Concerns raised about this: top-down, doesnt take into consideration
local realities, not an appropriate model for the Mexican reality.
Should the model be imposed from Denmark to Mexico or have their own
regional processes. <br>
Letter went out from Via Campesina criticizing the Klima Forum and
calling for 1000 Cancuns. Pushing for a decentralised strategy of
protest. <br>
Klima Forum is pushing for centralised actions in Cancun. <br>
Two central questions:<br>
How can <span class="caps">CJA</span> relate to the call for 1000
Cancuns and how do we have the capacity for decentralised actions?<br>
Decision to write an open letter. We agreed that we want to send the
letter and support the call for many Cancuns, and looking into the
possibility of <span class="caps">CJA</span> action (non-committed). We
will run it by our allies.<br>
Agreed that a group would create a draft of the letter and present the
ideas the next day.<br>
</p><p><i>Day of Direct Action for System Change not Climate Change October 12
2010</i><br>
</p><p> There was a <span class="caps">CJN</span> debrief meeting at the end
of Copenhagen. A recommendation was made by <span class="caps">CJN</span>
to the network for a day of action sometime in the autumn.<br>
At the Amsterdam gathering <span class="caps">CJA</span> responded to
this recommendation and decided to call for a day of direct action for
system change not climate change.<br>
The date of 12 October was chosen by <span class="caps">CJA</span>
based on the awareness of an existing call for action from Global Minga.<br>
CJAs call will not be the same, but a separate call recognising the
Global Minga call. <br>
What are groups in different countries able to do?<br>
London: Local London Climate Camp group discussed extractivism at
their last meeting raw materials (coal, palm oil, soya) being produced
in the south. All of these are major contributors to climate change,
and also a source of oppression between the North and the South. Don`t
want to impose austerity, but directly target products that are
contributing to the problems (i.e. soy being fed to livestock in the UK)<br>
Idea of tackling a few big trade ports do we have the capacity to
shut down Rotterdam for example <br>
The date may not be the most ideal, but something will happen. <br>
Turkey: <span class="caps">ESF</span> happening in Istanbul 1-4 July.
Will approach people there. <br>
France: October 16 targeting the largest oil refinery. If enough
people attend, will be the first mass direct action, and also the first
direct action against climate change in France. <br>
Denmark: concerned about the effectiveness of a global day of action.
Maybe interested in a week instead. Maybe a surprise event will take
place. <br>
Brazil: Jubilee South is planning a week of action from 7-17 June in
order to include all relevant dates such as 9-11 June when IFIs have
their annual meeting. <br>
Other events: India Conference on Monsanto and Climate Justice;
Italy interest in the global day of action on the 12th; Barcelona
targeting oil companies extracting in the amazon; Ireland interest in
the idea of a global day of action; Ecuador migration/climage justice
action on October 12. <br>
</p><p>What will <span class="caps">CJA</span> do for the global day of action?
<br>
</p><p> Will it be a day or a whole week? Do we want to work with <a href="http://350.org">350.org</a>?<br>
Discussion about 10/10, there are political differences, need to
discuss this more.<br>
We affirmed that we will do an action on October 12 for its political
implications. Agreed that we would have some sentence in the letter that
recognises the need for regional specificities in the action. <br>
Planning work will being tomorrow.</p>
<p><b><span class="caps">SUNDAY</span> <span class="caps">MAY</span> 30
2010Ά</b></p><p><i><br>
Cancun Letter<br>
</i> Working group feedback on structure of the letter:</p>
<p> Introduction about Bonn being a failure, COP15 failure, <span class="caps">UNFCCC</span> failure, social movements over government
solutions and success of Cochabamba. <br>
Support regional processes and la Via Campesina call for 1000 Cancuns <br>
Do we want the letter to include a commitment to action or not?<br>
Plug the action planned for October 12. <br>
</p><p>Recap on the <span class="caps">LVC</span> letter:<br>
KlimaForum, alternative summit seen by allies as being liberal NGOs
removed from social movement reality and working too closely with the
Mexican government. <br>
There is more social power in Mexico city than in Cancun.<br>
Criticizes KlimaForum and proposes 1000 Cancuns and some kind of
sounding board for discussion between Cancuns on the day. <br>
Need to decide if we will support <span class="caps">LVC</span> call
for 1000 Cancuns and decide if we will commit to a day of action.<br>
Split into groups to discuss possibilities for actions, and what can
we do if we dont support 1000 Cancuns?<br>
</p><p>Group 4:<br>
Think we should mobilise for Cancun, had action ideas of decentralised
<span class="caps">ETS</span> actions and interfering with our local
representatives being able to attend Cancun. <br>
</p><p>Group 2: <br>
There are political reasons not to do actions at this time. <br>
Might be more productive to do actions in October for the global day
of action and not focus on the summit again. The power of the summit
works in the region where it happens but not necessarily in Europe where
the process is more removed. <br>
Lack of capacity to have actions is a reason to say no. There does
not seem to be the energy for actions. <br>
October actions could include solidarity with social movements in
Mexico. <br>
The letter supporting <span class="caps">LVC</span> still works
without promising action. <br>
<span class="caps">CJA</span> can still spread the word about 1000
Cancuns without making a promise for action. <br>
</p><p>Group 1:<br>
Should use Cancun to mobilize against political and financial
institutions. October day of action could focus on production issues. <br>
Could have peoples assemblies during 1000 Cancuns to concretize
system change.<br>
</p><p>Group 3:<br>
Capacity for action is a concern. <br>
If it is decentralized, need to discuss how to knit a narrative
together. <br>
Could use What does Climate Justice mean in Europe paper as the
background. <br>
A real Cancun will put climate justice into action not only a
negative response to the issues. <br>
This could be used as an opportunity to network with new organisations
focusing on other things. <br>
Need to build more alliances otherwise our actions are coming only
from <span class="caps">CJA</span> and which will lead to mobilization
problems.<br>
</p><p>Groups Discussion:<br>
Small actions can still be very meaningful. <br>
By responding LVCs call we are responding to a major ally who we
should support. <br>
There are actions like shutting down the <span class="caps">ETS</span>
that dont require a lot of capacity and wouldnt be very big but the
benefits would outweigh the costs. <br>
We can respond more broadly by not focusing any the summit but rather
showing how we think about climate justice and effectively link action
to the 1000 Cancuns.<br>
Solidarity can be shown at any time; its not necessary to have to
have a specific day or time for action.<br>
Saying that we will do something at some point is better than
promising to do something and then not doing it. <br>
Problem with how to follow-up COP15 and mobilize the same kind of
support again. There was a lot of momentum for COP15, where will this
kind of energy come from for Cancun?<br>
If we want to represent 1000 Cancuns it should be decentralised,
direct action against something we oppose such as false solutions. <br>
Not necessarily referring to mass action, but something. We might not
have consensus on whether we should act, but we can leave the letter
open or leave it until the next meeting to discuss again. <br>
Putting off a decision makes it difficult to go back home and tell
people what was decided at the meeting. It is easier to go back and ask
people to get involved with a specific action. The longer we wait the
less capacity we will have for action. <br>
<span class="caps">LVC</span> needs a show of support now for the
respect of local processes. We can discuss the specific use of the word
action later. <br>
There was so much attention on <span class="caps">CJA</span> at the
COP15 so not doing anything would be problematic and we do have the
capacity to kick-off mobilisation in a lot of countries in Europe. <br>
Agreement on sending the letter as soon as possible, but there are
still capacity concerns about using the summit mobilise <span class="caps">RTNA</span> has supported the call but has put their own
twist on it, this is something we could also consider.</p>
<p> Recap: It is important to send support but there is a concern about
making false promises and COP15 was a major event that could mean we
are missing an opportunity if we dont mobilise for COP16. <br>
The letter will definitely send support and indicate that we will be
doing actions in some way, somewhere.<br>
Question whether more feedback is needed before the letter is
completed, keeping in mind the fact that there has already been a
working group about it, the information has been fed back, it was
discussed and anyone who is concerned can join the next meeting.
Agreement that we trust the group to write the letter. <br>
We all agree to spread the 1000 Cancuns idea to our own networks in
Europe and around the world.<br>
</p><p><i>What to do on Global Day of Action October 12</i><br>
</p><p> Ideas on the significance of the day: do we want to connect our
struggles explicitly to Columbus Day? Do we want to represent the idea
that it was not only a tragedy for Latin America but also transformed
Europe through the extraction of raw resources?<br>
Global Minga may have already done most of the background work for us
on this.<br>
Idea of connecting the action to the extraction of natural resources,
but will this message be picked up by the media? <br>
Do we need to create a communication strategy or an action plan?<br>
Decision to divide into two groups: Story-telling/media and
mobilisation/materials/networking<br>
What working groups do we need to take us forward for the next 4
months?<br>
</p><p>Mobilisation/Materials/Networking group<br>
Question is how to make this a global day of action instead of
different actions happening in different parts of the world. <br>
Need a live tool that will connect us all. <br>
Questions to be answered: how will we make mobilisation tools? How
will we mobilise among our networks, who contacts whom? How do we use
the website to mobilise? Do we want to create an online toolbox
(something to download that will help with mobilisation and coordination
before and during the action)? Is this working group permanent? Can we
use October 12 to mobilise for 1000 Cancuns? Can we do October 12 and
1000 Cancuns at the same time?<br>
Need to organise a print out poster, delegate to other countries, have
ready for next meeting or have it decentralised and translated. <br>
Need a list of names that are responsible for printing in each country
and need someone to design the poster. Need to have a section where you
can fill in whatever you are doing in your area. Need to have a unified
graphic so that decentralised actions can be unified. Need a branding
process so that other people can see that the actions are connected in
different parts of the world. <br>
Do we want to have a stencil included? Are we making a materials
toolbox? <span class="caps">CJA</span> already has a lot of resources,
so maybe we can collect them and put them back on the website. We can
include links to external websites that are relevant. <br>
Should do outreach to other contacts. To do this, it would be nice to
have a list of who our contacts are and who we do and do not engage
with. We should make a list so they can be contacted locally in
different countries. <br>
We should start by contacting ourselves, meaning that we should
contact the network or organisations that we have already worked with
and make contact with them again. There is a list on the website already
that we can use for this. <br>
Then we should create contacts with new allies and link up with groups
doing different things in our local areas. <br>
<span class="caps">ESF</span> Istanbul will be important for this. <br>
Should we use an online tool that has already been created like an
open website for communication?<br>
<span class="caps">CJA</span> is essentially creating a framework for a
global day of action for other climate related groups to use for
mobilisation. <br>
</p><p>Story/Media Working Group<br>
The story will take the climate issues away from science and make it
political. <br>
Essentially a four page story for people who want to link up. <br>
In addition to a one page version for the press. <br>
Could be adapted to other formats like cartoon video, etc
<br>
Need to make sure it is relevant to local communities find examples
of people in the global south taking actions we can relate to.</p>
<p> Defined three key parts of the story: <br>
Colonial history: explain how climate justice is linked to October
12/Columbus Day. <br>
Continued expansion of colonialism and capitalism has created a series
of crises. Tying colonialism to the multiple crises we now face.<br>
The 12th symbolises the rise global climate justice movement as a
response to crises (the hopeful bit).</p>
<p> Talked about making it relevant to the local context. Within the
story we will illustrate the shift from historical colonialism to global
Empire. Idea that we are all colonised now, not just about South
America.</p>
<p> Series of tasks: <br>
1) The creation of the story (big 4 page version). After third draft
will go to a collective who will pass on suggestions and criticisms.
Comments will go back to the writing team to create the final draft. <br>
2) Create a shorter version for media<br>
3)Create a Bonn press-release <br>
4)Create a list of amenable journalists European-wide<br>
5) Make online tools for journalists (press packs)<br>
6) Media training closer to the action. <br>
7) Linking <span class="caps">CJA</span> media teams with national media
teams. <br>
There was some disagreement about creating a completely new identity
for the action itself, and whether it should be independent from <span class="caps">CJA</span>.<br>
Relationship of <span class="caps">CJA</span> to other activities
happening during this week<br>
Started as a single day of global action that was discussed widely at
Cochabamba. It became clear that lots of groups had actions planned
around October 12. To be most effective tried to find a way to knit all
of the activities together into a week of action.<br>
Indigenous groups are supporting the idea, plus Rising Tide, <a href="http://350.org">350.org</a>
and <span class="caps">LVC</span>. <br>
There has been no concrete work done on making this a cohesive week of
action but there was a lot of energy and positive response to making
this happen. <br>
Knitting these different days together is our prerogative. <br>
A number of questions need to be addressed: what would it mean for <span class="caps">CJA</span> to do this? How can we create a narrative? Who
do we want to work with?<br>
We may work with groups whose politics we do not fully agree with, but
we can offer a proposal to adopt a common climate justice frame. The
people they mobilise are the ones we really want to talk to. <br>
There are some people in other organisations who have similar ideas as
<span class="caps">CJA</span> but dont know how to radicalize. We need
to reach out to these people.</p>
<p> Consensus that conversation could begin between <span class="caps">CJA</span>
and our obvious allies, for example <span class="caps">LVC</span>,
Jubilee South etc
<br>
Still need to create an exhaustive list of who our allies actually are
so this needs to be completed before we can begin developing a common
framework. <br>
The question of working with other groups was deferred to our next
meeting when we have already done some work with our allies on creating a
common framework of climate justice.<br>
<span class="caps"></span></p><p><i><span class="caps">CJA</span> Working Structure</i></p><p><br>
What is working, what is not working?<br>
What needs to be done for the two projects that we took on?<br>
How can we organise for this?<br>
Do we need to reactivate the same working groups?</p>
<p> Working groups are generally non-existent at the moment. <br>
There is a lack of structure outside of official international
meetings<br>
People are not informed about what certain people are doing with the <span class="caps">CJA</span> name. <br>
Some think that the weaknesses of the network are not a technical
problem but a social problem. <br>
Need for continuity, but maybe because there has been no concrete
project there have been no mandates, and therefore no structure or
activity. <br>
Need some kind of decision-making structure</p>
<p> Discussion about the problem of the Climate09 list but recognised
that it is impossible to answer any of the questions about the list
until we have assessed what structure we need to do our tasks. <br>
Split into small groups to discuss how we need to organise.</p>
<p> Agreement that a new general list would be created for <span class="caps">CJA</span> work. <br>
Everyone on Climate09 would be invited to join that list. <br>
Climate 09 will be abandoned, not destroyed but no longer used by <span class="caps">CJA</span>. <br>
The new list will be unmoderated but there will be a list of
guidelines that people will be kicked off the list for abusing. <br>
Overall we will try to move all of our work onto the crabgrass
network. <br>
Four people will make the crabgrass network. <br>
Someone will set up the new list. <br>
The announcement list will be kept for sending out a newsletter twice
every three months. <br>
Appointed someone to do the first news letter and someone will
coordinate translations.<br>
<span class="caps"></span></p><p><b><span class="caps">MONDAY</span> <span class="caps">MAY</span> 31 2010</b></p><p><br>
Question of how are we going to make decisions between meetings:
agreed that we will not make decisions on anything that can wait until
the next meeting.<br>
We will do our best to empower working groups so that few working
group tasks have to passed to the whole group. <br>
Agreed that we would create a submission form: on this form explain
why this decision falls outside the groups remit, justify why the
decision needs to be made, and why it cannot wait. Have to state the
longest possible amount of time required for this decision to be made.
Must be submitted on the new email list and need to point toward where
relevant decision making tools and documents are on crabgrass. <br>
Affirmed that we do have a process group and outlined their tasks:
email account, circulation of minutes, checking working groups are doing
their work, producing the newsletter. The task of the next meeting will
be delegated to a small group at every meeting and will not be the
direct task of the process group.<br>
What does Climate Justice mean in Europe Discussion<br>
</p><p>30 min general discussion of the document<br>
We need to build up a discourse that captures our interpretations of
climate justice discourse, to avoid it being abused by other forces. We
have to take these ideas to other groups as well to build a shared
position that is common and strong enough that when another entity says
it is something else, it doesnt have weight. <br>
The discussion paper was a start in this direct, but we need to
develop these issues, and come to an agreement with other organisations.<br>
The understanding of climate justice could change in the public
discourse after other campaigns like tck tck tck took it on without
criticizing false solutions. We need to make it clear that there is a
struggle around defining this term. <br>
We have individual understandings of climate justice, but we may not
all share them. <br>
We already have common ground statements that we have produced. <br>
But we have been recycling things from the Durban group and Bali
principles; need to move beyond the bullet points and have a realistic
sense of where we are and what our long term objectives are. <br>
Questions are about how to provide support from a European context,
rather than a definitional debate.<br>
We will talk about each section, and how to support demands and
implement them in a European context. <br>
Are there any key areas we are missing out on? Green jobs, austerity,
just transition, energy sector, transport.</p>
<p> Process: Look at the key demands, the organisations we can work
with and then what steps we can take to move forward in those areas. <br>
What is <span class="caps">CJA</span>? <span class="caps">CJA</span>
does not exist to produce policy documents. It is an action-based
network that tries to get more people involved in largely disobedient
action addressing climate justice. <br>
There were no conclusions to this initial discussion so we moved on to
work in small groups on the themes below. <br>
</p><p><i>Energy, Fossil Fuels and Resources</i><br>
Part I Narratives and Principles: discussed de-growth critique of
capitalism, critique of the energy systems (not favouring one technique
over the other), some discussion on the theme of energy sovereignty. <br>
Discussion needs to be Europe focused but not Eurocentric; thinking
about Europes role in the world energy system. <br>
Part II Action and solidarity: need to map and support other
existing struggles on the issue of energy, resources and fossil fuels;
needs research into picking specific action targets and not just energy
systems</p>
<p> There is a problem with a lot of campaigns that already exist being
understood as technical protests in favour of technical solutions. <span class="caps">CJA</span> understands this as a political problem not a
technical problem.<br>
Need to develop a master narrative about energy systems in Europe.
This master narrative would look to explain energy in terms of demands
created by economic systems. Capitalism is the problem, and the reason
why we have the energy crises. <br>
Look to shift toward the positive in saying that whats required in
the way we organise our daily lives and production. What we look to
develop is an energy strategy for a different society. <br>
Emphasised that we need to map the struggles in this sector but as <span class="caps">CJA</span> we need to support a number of these struggles,
not limiting it to a specific energy system and use this as a way to
tie protests over energy into the master narrative. <br>
The third phase of this would be an educational role of working with
these groups or campaigns to illustrate the structural causes and
consequent solutions.<br>
</p><p><i>Transport</i><br>
Transport is an area where our strengths could be utilized one of
the areas where we can have a positive contribution and communicate a
vision of a better society and not be seen as a green austerity
movement. <br>
Discussion broke down into following topics:<br>
1) cars and roads<br>
2) public transport<br>
3) transport of goods <br>
4) air travel<br>
Looked into demands, strategic targets and who are our allies.<br>
For example the car industry: could be difficult due to opposition
from workers in the car industry. 1/7 workers in Germany is in the car
industry for example. <br>
Could work with local transport campaigns, demanding free public
transport for example.<br>
Looked into modal shifts from air travel to rail, there were
possibilities but also problems. One of the problems is the expansion of
high-speed rail is highly problematic. <br>
Air transportation: push to expand regional airports due to saturation
of hub airports. Lots of local opposition to these expansion plans
could find allies.<br>
</p><p><i>Borders and Militarism</i><br>
Discourse is not as developed as in other areas such as transport. The
discourse is still developing, needs more theoretical work. <br>
Discussed migration and what it means in Europe. <br>
There is an issue about linking struggles from a theoretical
perspective. There is much in common, but need to approach the issue
from an actionist rather than theoretical perspective. <br>
There are lots of links (our friends are involved in these networks).<br>
It is not possible to have the next <span class="caps">CJA</span>
meeting in a no-border camp because it is already being planned, but can
develop common tools with no-border network. <br>
Discuss what a campaign in this area could do in terms of outreach
with people who are involved in refugee campaigns. <br>
We can do joint actions with no-borders and anti-militarist groups,
but can we lend our name to join such joint actions?<br>
How do we take these discussions forward? <br>
Realised the necessity to continue strategic discussions and that this
was crucial for developing the <span class="caps">CJA</span> network as
there is a need for a network like <span class="caps">CJA</span> to
take on these questions. <br>
Investigated the possibility of something like strategies for climate
justice conference/gathering. Need a meeting to discuss gaps in the
paper and theory in general.<br>
Outlined a series of thematic threads emerging within this. We are not
referring to a conference that will happen in the future, but building a
working process that leads to that event and beyond. </p><p><br>
There are a series of thematic threads that have names attached to
them for who will get the ball rolling in each section<br>
1) Climate debt <br>
2) Food and agriculture <br>
3) Energy systems <br>
4) Borders and military <br>
5) Transport<br>
6) Possibility of housing <br>
7) Green/climate Jobs </p><p><br>
Proposal that we should set up crabgrass for pursuing these thematic
discussions. These will go onto the agenda for the next <span class="caps">CJA</span> meeting. We need to look into each of the themes
and also cover the themes that havent been covered such as climate
debt, and food and agriculture. <br>
Each of these thematic threads should aid to produce a strategy document
for the basis of the strategy meeting. <br>
This will be included in the newsletter. <br>
We should recognise that we may not have the theoretical or strategic
resources to develop some of these ideas such as on the issue of
no-borders network or energy within Europe. We could go to the allied
networks under the general themes and develop a framework for developing
strategy with other groups. <br>
Climate Justice in Europe paper needs to get the perspectives from the
network and movements in other continents. It would be good to get
input from other groups on strategic work.</p></div>