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Assembly for Climate Justice: Brussels 18th to 21st
November 2011</h1>
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<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
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baseline;">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.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
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to help build that movement!</b><br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climateassembly.org">http://www.climateassembly.org</a> for a review of the
event.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">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.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">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.<br>
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.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">There will be space for groups to plan their own
climate justice actions to take place on Monday 21st.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">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.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px;
margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;"><b>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:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david.heller@foeeurope.org">david.heller@foeeurope.org</a></b></p>
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