Hey all!<br><br>I've started the newsletter summary of the week of action (see below). I'll re-arrange it all (UK will not be the first!) and make a summary of a few paragraphs once all the actions are completed. Also, will try and talk to the website people (hi website people!) about getting a cool page up on the website alonge with photos, audio and video. Oh and if you haven't already seen the new look website, check it out:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org/">http://www.climate-justice-action.org/</a><br><br>There are still some reports that need translating to English. Then we will also need to translate the newsletter into other langauges. Maybe: German, Spanish and French? obviously others would be great too! If anyone could help with any of this it would be really appreciated. Be awesome if we could get this all done before the end of the Month (very soon!)<br>
<br>Also if there are any actions that haven't been reported, would be great to get them up on the website: <a href="http://global.climate-justice-action.org/main">http://global.climate-justice-action.org/main</a> <br>
<br>and if anyone knows of any of via campesina actions agianst monsanto on 16 Oct (or the one in Ecuador?) that would also be cool.<br><br>ciao ciao!<br>chris<br><br><br>
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Still to add (need translation):<br>
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German:<br>
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<a href="http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/3">http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/3</a><br>
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<a href="http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/12">http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/12</a><br>
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<a href="http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/31">http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/31</a><br>
<br>Spanish:<br>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Reports | Barcelona:</b> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://repsolmata.ourproject.org/spip.php?article171" target="_blank">12 de octubre en Barcelona. Se exige Juicio a Goni y se denuncia impactos Repsol en Bolivia</a> | <b> </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://revoltaglobal.cat/article3149.html" target="_blank">Centenars de persones es manifesten per un 12 d’octubre anticapitalista i antiracista</a> (revolta global) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkR7iAuiOiQ" target="_blank">Día de la Resistencia , 12 Octubre Barcelona</a> (video) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/405897/index.php" target="_blank">(12-0 a BCN) 500 persones contra el colonialisme i la hispanitat</a> (Barcelona indymedia) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/premium/publica/publica?COMPID=54021649412&ID" target="_blank">La vanguardia</a> (mainstream + vid) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/12-doctubre-2010-com-sempre-res-celebrar" target="_blank">12
d’octubre de 2010, com sempre, res a celebrar</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://actesbaixrepublica.blogspot.com/2010/10/12-doctubre-com-sempre-res-celebrar.html" target="_blank">actes baix republica</a> | <b>Spain: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.librered.net/?p=243" target="_blank">Protestas en el Estado español contra el Día de la Hispanidad</a> | <b>Minga Global 2010: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/minga-global/" target="_blank">Barcelona Llamada 2010</a><b> | </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://minkandina.org/mingaglobal/" target="_blank">Minga Global</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://revoltaglobal.cat/breve591.html" target="_blank">Manifestacion Barcelona</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://global.climate-justice-action.org/main" target="_blank">Global Week of Action for Climate Justice</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156687981024158" target="_blank">Global Day of Action for Climate Justice</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://intercontinentalcry.org/global-minga-in-defense-of-mother-earth-october-12-2010/" target="_blank">Intercontinental Cry</a> | <b>Minga
Global 2009: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://movimientos.org/defensamadretierra/" target="_blank">Ultimos noticias</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.revoltaglobal.cat/breve346.html" target="_blank">Marxa per la dignitat dels pobles (Barcelona)</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaxsvy_mensaje-de-alberto-pizango-a-la-mad_news" target="_blank">Mensaje de Alberto Pizango a la Madre Tierra</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaxsvy_mensaje-de-alberto-pizango-a-la-mad_news" target="_blank"><br></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>America Latina</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Colombia: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://congresodelospueblos.org/sitio/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=28" target="_blank">Congreso de los Pueblos</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKU4zNwp-AA&feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank">Saludo a el congreso de los pueblos</a> (video) | <b> </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rYKD3WQH2U" target="_blank">MARCHA DEL CONGRESO DE LOS PUEBLOS BOGOTÁ</a> (video) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4MkJ58P7RQ" target="_blank">Marcha congreso de los pueblos con CRIC</a> (video) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cric-colombia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=384:lectura-estrategica-del-congreso-de-los-pueblos" target="_blank">Lectura estratégica del congreso de los pueblos</a> | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cric-colombia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=383:proclama-la-palabra-del-congreso-de-los-pueblos-de-colombia-propuesta-de-pais-para-una-vida-digna-" target="_blank">Proclama, la Palabra del Congreso de los Pueblos de Colombia, “Propuesta de país para una vida digna”</a> | <b>Peru: </b><a rel="nofollow" title="Perú: Anuncian marcha nacional por el medio ambiente, los recursos naturales y la democracia" href="http://agenciachaski.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/peru-anuncian-marcha-nacional-por-el-medio-ambiente-los-recursos-naturales-y-la-democracia/" target="_blank">Marcha nacional por el medio ambiente, los recursos naturales y la democracia</a> | <i><b> </b></i><a rel="nofollow" href="http://alternativaprensa.blogspot.com/2010/10/convocatoria-12-octubre-marcha-de-los.html" target="_blank">Marcha de los Pueblos, Lima, Peru</a> (album de fotos en <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12962&id=100001639542732" target="_blank">facebook</a>) | <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ekInqg3uYU" target="_blank">2010-10-12 ¡No Hay Presidente, Hay Ratas en Palacio!</a> (vid) | <b>Argentina: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.taringa.net/posts/noticias/5543889/La-marcha-de-los-pueblos-originarios-llego-a-Plaza-de-Mayo.html" target="_blank">La marcha de los pueblos originarios llegó a Plaza de Mayo</a> | <b>Chile: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ww4report.com/node/9178" target="_blank">Mapuche prisoners end hunger strike</a> | <b>Bolivia, Guatemala, Chile: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ww4report.com/node/9191" target="_blank">Otros reportajes aqui: Día de la Raza</a></p>
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<h1>UK</h1>
<h2><a name="12be9fd190b09d7a_12be9f0bdc679416_crude-awakening"></a>- Crude Awakening</h2>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<br>
from leaving the refinery to deliver oil to London. They were joined by hundreds more who set up a futher blockade.<br>
<br>
Terri Orchard, who took part, said:<br>
“We don’t have a hope of tackling climate change if we don’t find a way to<br>
start moving beyond oil. But Big Oil is relentless. From the Gulf of<br>
Mexico to the Arctic to the Canadian tar sands, oil companies are<br>
devastating local environments, trampling the rights of local communities,<br>
and pushing us over the edge to catastrophic climate change.<br>
We are here at the source of the problem, at the UK’s busiest oil<br>
refinery, to stop the flow of oil to London. We’re here to put a spanner<br>
in the works of the relentless flow of oil and to say no more. This place,<br>
this whole industry, must become a thing of the past.”<br><br>
The Crude Awakening is supported by a spectrum of direct action groups<br>
including the Camp for Climate Action, Plane Stupid, Rising Tide, Space<br>
Hijackers, Liberate Tate, Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, Earth<br>
First! and the UK Tar Sands Network.<br><br><p><strong>website:</strong> <a href="http://www.crudeawakening.org.uk/">www.crudeawakening.org.uk</a></p><br><br><h2>- Avonmouth targeted by Bristol and Bath Rising Tide</h2>activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide (1) dropped a<br>
banner reading ‘<span>IMPORT</span> CO2AL: <span>EXPORT</span> <span>POVERTY</span>’ from Avonmouth bridge near<br>
the docks, as part of a global week of action for climate and<br>
environmental justice.<br>
<br>
The Royal Portbury Docks contains one of the largest coal import terminals<br>
in the UK. Tracy Jones from Rising Tide said “Fossil fuel extraction devastates<br>
communities, from villages destroyed by floods in Pakistan to land grabs<br>
in Colombia, and is being resisted around the world. The failure of the<br>
Copenhagen climate summit shows that governments have their hands in the<br>
pockets of corporations and cannot be trusted. It’s up to ordinary people<br>
to take direct action to stop climate chaos.”<br><br><p><strong>website:</strong> <a href="http://risingtide.org.uk/">risingtide.org.uk</a></p><br><h2>- Action against <span>RPS</span> group Glasgow in Solidarity with communities in Co. Mayo and South Lanarkshire</h2>
<br><p>On Saturday the 16th, <span>RPS</span> 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.</p>
<p><span>RPS</span> 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. <span>RPS</span>
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.</p><p><strong>website:</strong><a href="http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2185"> coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2185</a></p><h2>- Action against Ayrshire Power and Peel Holdings</h2>
<br>UK-wide coordinated direction actions targeting the headquarters of Clydeport,<br>
Ayrshire Power, and the company that owns them, Peel Holdings.
<p>A 30-metre banner has been unfurled from the iconic Clydeport crane on the River<br>
Clyde, and the headquarters of all 3 companies have been shut down in Glasgow and<br>
Manchester. These actions were taken in solidarity with communities resisting coal<br>
around the world.</p>
<p>Coal mining and burning damages the social, environmental and physical health of<br>
communities in Scotland and elsewhere. With plans to build a new coal-fired power<br>
station at Hunterston to burn imported coal, Peel Holdings and its subsidiaries are<br>
undermining coherent action on Scotland meeting our climate change obligations. Coal<br>
imported by Clydeport at Hunterston is also linked to human rights abuses of miners<br>
attempting to unionise in Columbia.</p>
<p>We are calling for an end for the industrial-scale burning of coal for profit,<br>
whether imported or domestic, and we call for workers and communities to create a<br>
socialised renewable energy system for a fair and sustainable future.</p>
<p>We have closed down these offices to open up a long-term strategic direct action<br>
campaign against all links in the industry chain locking us into a carbon-intensive<br>
future.</p><p><strong>website:</strong><br>
<a href="http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2177">coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2177</a></p><h1>France</h1>
<h2><a name="12be9fd190b09d7a_12be9f0bdc679416_arret-total"></a>- arret total!</h2><br>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.
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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…)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>“ 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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p><p><strong>website:</strong> <a href="http://www.campclimat.org/spip.php?article209">www.campclimat.org/spip.php?article209</a></p><h1>South Africa</h1>
<h2><a name="12be9fd190b09d7a_12be9f0bdc679416_sasol-day-of-action"></a>- Sasol Day of Action</h2><br><p>Earthlife Africa Jhb and partner
organisations held a day of action to highlight the
continuing climate and<br>
environmental atrocities committed by Sasol. There was a march on Sasol's headquaters to highlight the fact that Sasol is one
of the<br>
worst emitters of <span>GHG</span> 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.</p><p>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 <span>GHG</span> 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.</p>
<p>In addition, if Sasol was truly concerned about global <span>GHG</span> emissions it would have not gone ahead with its plans to build <span>CTL</span> plants in China and<br>
<span>GTL</span> plant in Uzbekistan.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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<br>
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.</p><b>website:</b> <a href="http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/10/14/protesters-march-for-environmental-justice">http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/10/14/protesters-march-for-environmental-justice</a><br>
<br><h1>Canada</h1>
<h2><a name="environmental-justice-toronto-banner-drop"></a>- Environmental Justice Toronto banner drop</h2><br><p>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.</p>
<p>“Alex Hundert is a strong voice for indigenous sovereignty and
environmental justice. His work with AW@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.”</p>
<p>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. Gloabally, environmental and climate justice activists are
marking this day in 1942 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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p><b>website: </b><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/environmental-justice-toronto-activists-drop-banner-gardiner-expressway-demanding-freedom-g20-">http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/environmental-justice-toronto-activists-drop-banner-gardiner-expressway-demanding-freedom-g20-</a><br>
<br><h2>- Shell Station Bloackade, Climate Justice London Ontario and the Latin American-Canadian Solidarity Association (<span class="caps">LACASA</span>)</h2>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: <br>
<br>
"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."<br>
<br>
The local rally was organized to join a day of action for indigenous rights, climate justice, and Latin American solidarity.
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p><br><p><strong>website</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://london.actforclimatejustice.org/events/october-12th-day-of-action/">http://london.actforclimatejustice.org/events/october-12th-day-of-action/</a></p>
<p><a href="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/">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/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<h2>- Climate Justice Montreal statement on indigenous struggles</h2>
<br>
<p>Climate Justice Montreal backed the call to action and issued a statement of
support, highlighting 10 indiginous struggles taking place in Canada:</p>
<p>"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 plane<font size="2">t. <span>As these communities battle to regain control over their lands, they struggle for us all."</span></font></p>
<p><br>
Lubicon Lake (Alberta): <a href="http://www.lubicon.org/">www.lubicon.org/</a><br>
Grassy Narrows (Ontario): <a href="http://www.freegrassy.org">www.freegrassy.org</a><br>
Pimicikamak (Manitoba): <a href="http://www.pimicikamak.com/">www.pimicikamak.com/</a><br>
Wet’suwet’en (British Columbia): <a href="http://on.fb.me/bekx2K">http://on.fb.me/bekx2K</a><br>
Gwich’in (Northwest Territories): <a href="http://www.thebigwild.org/act/peel">http://www.thebigwild.org/act/peel</a><br>
Baker Lake (Nunavut)<br>
Barriere Lake (Quebec): <a href="http://www.barrierelakesolidarity.org">www.barrierelakesolidarity.org</a><br>
Innu (Quebec/Labrador): <a href="http://teztanbiny.ca/">http://teztanbiny.ca/</a><br>
Bear River (Nova Scotia): <a href="http://www.defendersoftheland.org/bear_river">http://www.defendersoftheland.org/bear_river</a><br>
Defenders of the Land (National): <a href="http://www.defendersoftheland.org">www.defendersoftheland.org</a><br>
</p>
<p><strong>website</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/28">http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/28</a></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<h1>Philipines</h1>
<h2><a name="philipine-movement-for-climate-justice"></a>- Philipine Movement for Climate Justice</h2>
<p>The Philippine Movement for Climate Justice held Rally/Picket at Malacanang, Mendiol</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<h1>Finland</h1>
<h2><a name="october-12-greenwash-action-in-helsinki-finland"></a>- October 12: Greenwash action in Helsinki, Finland</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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<br>
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<br>
with bad environmental and social reputations. Finally the police were
called and the whole GreenWashStream crew was taken to the police
station for questioning.</p>
<p>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<br>
solutions to the climate crisis, such as rapidly reducing emissions in the industrialised North.</p>
<p>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<br>
production, work and consumption can we curb climate change.</p>
<p><strong>website</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hyokyaalto.org/">www.hyokyaalto.org</a></p>
<p><br>
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<h1>Germany</h1>
<h2><a name="“berlin-fährt-frei”-berlin-rides-for-free"></a>- “Berlin fährt frei” (Berlin rides for free)</h2>
<p>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. <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>The
campaign found much resonance for its ideas: there was not only
unanimous support that public transport in Berlin was to 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.” <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><b>website:</b><br>
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<p><a href="http://berlin-faehrt-frei.de/">http://berlin-faehrt-frei.de/</a></p>
<h1>Peru</h1>
<h2><a name="marcha-de-los-pueblos-march-of-the-peoples-lima"></a>- Marcha de los Pueblos / March of the Peoples, Lima</h2>
<p>12 Oct 2010 – Marcha de los Pueblos / March of the Peoples, Lima, Peru (album de fotos en facebook)</p>
<p>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”</p>
<p><span class="caps">PLATAFORM</span> OF <span class="caps">STRUGGLE</span>:</p>
<p>1.- In defense of Mother Earth.</p>
<p>2.- Constituent Assembly: Multinational and Intercultural Constitution.</p>
<p>3.- Right to sovereign consultation for the peoples.</p>
<p>4.- No to the privatization of natural resources and indigenous territories.</p>
<p>5.- No gas export, gas is for the Peruvians.</p>
<p>6.- Repeal of Supreme Decree No. 003-2006.<span class="caps">PCM</span>.</p>
<p>7.- No to the destruction of the National Sanctuary of Megantoni.</p>
<p>8.- For decent employment, salaries and wages.</p>
<p>9.- No to the criminalization of social protest and political persecution.</p>
<p>10.- No to privatization of land up to 40,000 hectares</p>
<p>11.- No expropriation of land in the rural communities of Olmos.</p>
<p>12.- Defense of the Andean peoples’ lands against mining concession.</p>
<p>13 .- No to hydroelectric dams at Inambari Paquitzapango, Salta Pucara, Langui Languna of Laius.</p>
<p>14.- No to electoral fraud by regional and municipal governments.</p>
<p>Organised and supported by the following:</p>
<p><span class="caps">CONACAMI</span>, <span class="caps">AIDESEP</span>, <span class="caps">CNA</span>, <span class="caps">CCP</span>, <span class="caps">FRENVIDAS</span>, <span class="caps">TAHUANTINSUYANOS</span>, <span class="caps">CGTP</span>, <span class="caps">CUT</span>, <span class="caps">UFREP</span>, <span class="caps">CONAFREP</span>. <span class="caps">FRENTE</span> <span class="caps">UNICO</span> DE <span class="caps">LOS</span> <span class="caps">PUEBLOS</span> <span class="caps">DEL</span> <span class="caps">PERU</span>, <span class="caps">FONAVISTAS</span>, <span class="caps">CORECAMIS</span> DE <span class="caps">AREQUIPA</span>, <span class="caps">TACNA</span>, <span class="caps">MOQUEGUA</span>, <span class="caps">PUNO</span>, <span class="caps">CUZCO</span>, <span class="caps">APURIMAC</span>, <span class="caps">JUNIN</span>, <span class="caps">PASCO</span>, <span class="caps">HUANCAVELICA</span>, <span class="caps">ICA</span>, <span class="caps">LIMA</span>, <span class="caps">ANCASH</span>, <span class="caps">PIURA</span> Y <span class="caps">LAMBAYEQUE</span>, <span class="caps">RONDAS</span> <span class="caps">CAMPESINAS</span>- <span class="caps">CUNARC</span> Y <span class="caps">CONARC</span>, <span class="caps">FRENTE</span> DE <span class="caps">DEFENSA</span> DE <span class="caps">LOS</span> <span class="caps">RECURSOS</span> <span class="caps">NATURALES</span>-<span class="caps">LIMA</span>, etc.</p>
<h1>USA</h1>
<h2><a name="marcha-de-los-pueblos-march-of-the-peoples-lima"></a>- People Across the U.S. Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day Through Climate Justice Education <br></h2><p><br>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.”<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.”<br>
<br>“Our approach is not simply to address the symptoms of the problem,” adds Gearon, “but to attack the root causes.”<br><br>“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.”<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br></p><p><b>website:</b><br></p><p><a href="http://climatevoices.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/people-across-the-u-s-celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day-through-climate-justice-education/">http://climatevoices.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/people-across-the-u-s-celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day-through-climate-justice-education/</a><br>
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