[matilda] G8 CLimate Action

[julie w]

PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE!

Friday 8th June 2007
International Day of Direct Action against Climate
Change and the G8.
Direct Action for Climate Justice – Resistance is Self
Defense!

We all know the terrifying statistics: a million
species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on
record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting,
droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30
years to address climate change and only succeeded in
providing trillions in subsidies to the very
industries that are destroying our planet and our
future. And while the G8 continues to line their
pockets, island states disappear and hundreds of
thousands die as a result of the freak weather
conditions caused by their irrational and
uncontrollable obsession with never ending economic
growth.

We have a ten-year window to act. As the megalomaniac
G8 leaders meet in Germany, masked behind a barrier of
fences and soldiers, intent on leading us further
towards catastrophic and irreversible climate chaos,
we must shout, scream and roar ‘no more’. Now is the
time to take direct action and shut them down, them
and their climate criminal industry friends!

The 8th of June International Day of Action Against
Climate Change and the G8 has been called by the
International Rising Tide Network. This is a call for
autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your
town, city, or local area. Use this international day
of action to support local struggles against oil
refineries, gas pipelines, strip mines and coal-fired
power plants. Disrupt the financial backers of the
fossil fuel industry. Organise workshops to spread
sustainable post-petroleum living skills. Find a weak
point in the infrastructure of resource exploitation
and throw a literal or symbolic wrench in the works.
It’s time to visit your local polluters and give 'em
hell!

We already know of actions planned across the UK,
North America, Germany, Canada and Australia and
that’s just the start! By 8th June actions will be
planned around the world. Pass this call out on to all
environmental justice, climate action, radical
sustainability and related movements in all the G8
countries and the Global South.

Rising Tide will create a collection of outreach and
agit-prop materials (including this call out in five
different languages) that can be used by groups around
the world to organise locally. These materials will be
downloadable from www.risingtide.org.uk and
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org.

Direct action and civil disobedience are the rational
response in this time of crisis. Support the 8th of
June International Day of Direct Action against
Climate Change and the G8! Tell us about planned
actions for climate justice being planned in your
community. Contact us - info at risingtide.org.uk and
contact at risingtidenorthamerica.org

In June 2007 the G8 will understand the meaning of
rebellion, revolt and revolution. Their recipe for
catastrophe will be met with our worldwide resistance!

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