<b>Hello, Buenas Tardes, BonJour. </b><br><br>See below for <a href="http://occupycop17.org/2011/12/10/occupycop17-supports-international-day-of-action-for-human-rights/" target="_blank">OccupyCOP17's statement of support</a> of a day of <a href="http://dec10.takethesquare.net/" target="_blank">Action for Human Rights</a> for December 10th. <br>
<br>An all-night vigil was held for Climate Justice with <a>a community that was evicted because of the COP17</a> UN Climate Conference. <br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
<br></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">#OccupyCop17 letter of support for Madrid's callout: </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">International Day of Action for Human Rights</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">A Statement on Intergenerational Rights</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Let
us not forget that the victories that will define 2011 in the pages of
history began in Africa. That story of 2011 should end here. 2011 took
us from Tunisia to Durban, South Africa – where Mandela cast his first
vote and Gandhi held his first public meeting. Draw a line on the map
from Tunis to Durban and think of all the languages you have crossed,
all the diversity, all the wisdom, all the gods. There is a continent
bridging </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">t</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">hose two cities – dreaming.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> We are all in that dream.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">2011 started with the demand for freedom, and ends with the demand for justice.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">As
our planet rampantly burns its insides and warms, history will view
these years as a window closing. We have a chance to escape the
catastrophe we are creating for our children. But there is no freedom
without justice, and no justice without rights.</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For
our rights thrive, we must be guardians of their principles. Freedom is
bigger than us – it is the architecture our dreams inhabit. It does not
belong to us anymore than a house built of stone belongs to its
inhabitant. Rights belong to the generations that will come after us.
Justice grows like a garden, we water it with our wills. As each day
passes, a window is closing and with it the justice that we will pass on
to the future inhabitants of this world. Justice loses its meaning if
it is stolen from the future.</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Here
in Africa, the well of hope is drying. People are being forced away
from the land of their ancestors and have been sent wandering with
nothing, into a darkening world.</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Our
planet is changing, and with it the story of human rights. Here in
Africa, the river beds are already drying and the seedlings that we
watered for the future, are wilting. We do not rob water from the cups
of others, we divert the streams. Climate change is the tyranny of the
present over the rights of the future. In Africa, the future is already
here.</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Human
rights are universal, they exist not only to everyone who is alive –
but to everyone who will ever live. No one is free until everyone is
free.</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">#OccupyCOP17</span><br><a href="http://dec10.takethesquare.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">dec10.takethesquare.net/</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
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-- <br>Kevin Buckland<br>Art Ambassador, <a href="http://350.org/" target="_blank">350.org</a><br><a href="mailto:kevin@350.org" target="_blank">kevin@350.org</a><br>skype: change.of.art<br>Twitter: change_of_art<br>Durban: 0719038165<br>
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