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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">Dear climate justice friends and allies, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light""><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">The
16<sup>th</sup> Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, or better known as COP16, will be held in Cancun Mexico next
week. From November 29<sup>th</sup> to December 10<sup>th</sup> international
leaders will make another attempt to form a binding legal agreement that can
work towards solving the climate crisis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">However,
after the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference or COP15 many climate justice
communities have lost all trust in such negotiating processes. What did we see
at last year’s COP15? Just three days into the conference, a leaked document
(“The Danish Text”) that set predetermined agreements allowing rich countries
to pollute more. Real climate crisis solutions represented by grassroots activists,
organizations and NGO representatives were locked out of the Bella Center. The
introduction of new anti-democratic laws limiting free speech, actions,
mobilizations, and any real development of effective climate justice. A crack
down on legal and democratic rights through major human rights violations
implemented by an overly violent and aggressive police presence in Copenhagen-
something that is becoming far too familiar for the people fighting the false
solutions to the climate crisis. And finally in the early hours of the last
morning of the Copenhagen conference the global leaders came together and
created “The Copenhagen Accord,” a document that abandoned lowering target
carbon emissions and thus openly accepted the deep and utter failure of the
entire conference. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">What
did the global climate activist community learn from this experience? The
conference failed, the governments failed, and the leaders are unwilling to
act. The real solutions and real changes can only happen through the people and
from the ground up! We have not been silenced- we have only grown stronger. The
global climate justice movement is gearing up and we are ready to move forward
with more force once again:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">1,000 Cancuns:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">In
response to the COP16, La Via Campesina invites people’s movements around the
world to mobilize in order to create 1,000 Cancuns: ‘We call on social
movements, popular organizations and all people of the world to organize
thousands of protests and actions to reject the false and market
solutions.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For more information
see: <a href="http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=941:the-people-create-thousands-of-solutions-to-confront-climate-change&catid=48:-climate-change-and-agrofuels&Itemid=75">http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=941:the-people-create-thousands-of-solutions-to-confront-climate-change&catid=48:-climate-change-and-agrofuels&Itemid=75</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Abadi MT Condensed Light""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">Klimaforum10 in Cancun:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light"">Klimaforum
Mexico will be hosting grassroots movements and civil society during the COP16.
They will be providing “<span style="color:#5E6568">space for all people, where
they can gather, debate on constructive solutions, propose and find consensus
towards coordinated international action in the face of the climate crisis.
Where governments fail, the people shall prevail.” Please check </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light""><a href="http://10.klimaforum.org/">http://10.klimaforum.org/</a></span><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light";color:#5E6568"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light""><b>CJA 1,000
Cancuns and COP 16 Report Backs:</b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light""> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light";color:black"><br>
CJA will be in touch with grassroots climate justice comrades on the ground in
Cancun and with those who are planning an action for 1,000 Cancuns. We plan to
report on the climate justice struggles and successes during the conference and
other mobilizations happening at the same time. This information will be
updated and posted on the CJA website regularly. The success of these updated
reports relies on our international solidarity. Will you be in Cancun or would
you like to help with writing report backs? If yes, please take time to write
us an email at <a href="mailto:info@climate-justice-action.org"><span style="color:#0000CC">info@climate-justice-action.org</span></a> so we can get
accurate report backs from you. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Abadi MT Condensed Light""></span></b></p>