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European Commission Position on Carbon Markets Undermines UN Climate Convention

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:05 +0000

Coalition of non-governmental organizations and indigenous peoples’ organizations warns that UN will be sidelined in deal that will lead to massive land grabbing Amsterdam, 10 March 2010 – The proposals from the European Commission on post-Copenhagen climate policy that will be released today [1] will undermine the UN negotiations on climate change, [...]

"The Failure in Copenhagen"

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:24 +0000

On 15 November 2009 in the “Focus” column [of the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet] I advanced the opinion that the climate negotiations in Copenhagen would fail (Read my blog). The reason was that they would not consider all the elements in “the global welfare equation”. They had forgotten about food and the economy...The person responsible for drafting a treaty proposal was Michael Zammit Cutajar, but the spider at the centre of the web was Laurence Tubinan from France, founder of the French Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. read more

International Women’s Day: A long 100 year journey

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

One hundred years ago on 8 March, 1910 in Copenhagen Clara Zetkin proposed an annual International Women’s Day at the International Conference of Working Women. Her motion was unanimously approved by more than 100 women from 17 countries. When the IWD was celebrated the following year, more than one million women and men attended rallies and campaigned for women’s right to work, vote, be trained, hold public office. A majority must equate economic, national growth and gender equality. DN

Lymlar i alla länder, förenen eder!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:34 +0000

Imorgon torsdag hålls en stöddemonstration i Köpenhamn för de sju personer som står åtalade efter demonstrationerna under COP15. Sju åtal är vad som kvarstår av nästan 2000 gripanden. Repressionen har glömt bort sin egen proportionalitetsprincip. Mot de första två aktivisterna inleds rättegångarna den 16 mars. Anledning nog att plocka fram och uppdatera det upprop som [...]

A history lesson for the Climate skeptics

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:23:08 +0000

Rather than hammering back post-after-post-rebuttels against the flurry of post-Copenhagen Climate sKeptics, I thought that the best response would be to provide withoutyourwalls readers with a good overview of the anthropogenic global warming skeptic propaganda machine – so you can share it with others. So here it is – a concise history of the anti-anthropogenic [...]

A Reckoning for Israel

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:20:28 +0000

By John Pilger - 25 February 2010 The farce of the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen in December affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity...It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity...And the best news comes from Palestine. read more

Grow Heathrow ready for take off

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:39:01 +0000

Beginning our new project on the first day in March was always going to be tricky, but even Spring was on side. For Transition Heathrow's latest project we've gone back to the land, turning a neglected scrap in the heart of the third runway into a thriving market garden for the community. After the successful site take on the Monday, in which about 20 people secured our new site, we spent an intense week in the sun clearing and cleaning up the mess left behind by previous tenants. The amount of rubbish was monumental, but by the weekend we felt ready to open the gates and welcomed in the community. The support we've had from the local community, and particularly from those on whose doorsteps we've set up, has been staggering. We posted a wish list of stuff we needed and by the weekend had mostly fulfilled it. From food parcels to blankets, we've been supremely well looked after by our new neighbours. Over the weekend an incredible mix of people came together and spent two days in the glorious sunshine restoring the greenhouses to their former glory. It's hard to describe just how positive the atmosphere was, especially when people were primarily clearing rubbish. We had kids painting tyres to grow potatoes in; mass raking to clear up the broken glass and bender building to establish a beautiful shelter for our front gate. By the end of the weekend we were all exhausted, but exhilarated, by the amount we'd managed to achieve in such a short space of time. This project is definitely a good antidote for anyone feeling overwhelmed post-Copenhagen, or depressed after reading 1,000 comments on the Guardian dissing climate science. Making a tangible difference in a community that has been blighted for so many years by the overhanging threat of airport expansion is wonderfully empowering, and there's plenty for people to do to get their hands dirty. As a good friend of ours said about the project, "people should stop talking about the resistance, and come here and live it instead." For more information email info@transitionheathrow.com or if you want to come and join us for a day's work call the site phone on 07890751568.

No Borders at the UN Climate Summit

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:02:58 +0000

The effect of climate change on migration, is one of the largest aspects of social fallout resulting from rampant capitalism’s destruction of the enviroment. On the 7th-18th December a sizeable group of No Borders activists from Wales and the south west joined thousands of others and travelled to Copenhagen to attend the mobilisations at [...]

Luca Tornatore, Copenhagen Detainee, Petition Online

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:03:39 +0000

Luca Tornatore, Copenhagen Detainee, Petition Online Please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/freeall/petition.html Luca Tornatore isn’t only our friend. He is a scientific researcher at the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste. He is a scientist, one who combines passion and a desire to change the world to his scientific skills. These are the ingredients that pushed him to go to Copenhagen together with hundreds of Italian environmentalists. Luca is in Copenhagen to demand climatic justice, to participate in the Climate Forum and to network with others who believe that the environmental emergency must be faced beginning from a democratization of decision-making and not through delegating the question to those who started the problem in the first place or to those who are worsening it. read more

Faranaaz Parker, Capitalism The 'Real Culprit Behind Climate Change'

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:34:30 +0000

Capitalism The 'Real Culprit Behind Climate Change' Faranaaz Parker “The best thing about Copenhagen is its failure. What I most dread about Copenhagen is that the public relations apparatus will manage to patch together propoganda or some sort of token agreement,” says Joel Kovel, a proponent of eco-socialism. For Kovel and others, including top climatologist James Hansen, who referred to Copenhagen as a “disaster track”, the negotiations – which stalled primarily over emission reduction targets and financing for developing countries -- are a forgone conclusion. “There really is no answer to this process because [countries] are not interested in saving the planet. They want to make money and they want to keep their power. So Copenhagen has got to fail because it’s inevitable but also because it will reveal to the world the need to get to the next stage.” That next stage, according to Kovel, is a world without capitalism. read more

Autonogram for December 2009

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:45:22 +0000

December 2009 Autonogram Greetings Autonogram Subscribers, Here we find ourselves in December, with winter approaching and the days growing shorter. But thankfully this does not just mean the end of the year, but also the start of another, and with that the release of the 2010 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints. Here’s to another year of radical media making, occupying and subverting from California to Copenhagen, and general trouble making and mischief! So without further ado, here’s some recent developments: read more