Newswires: Copenhagen, COP15

Copenhagen Climate Summit | Europe | Environment / Climate Change

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires including the keywords: Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen, Christiana, COP15...

Well yeah, of course its totally

Well yeah, of course its totally obvious how the sKeptics have gotten their ’shit tigether’ post-copenhagen and gone the offensive – of course, thats what happens when your funders [exxon mobil etc.] demand it. So, rather than hammering back post-after-post-rebuttels, I thought maybe the best response would be to provide withoutyourwalls readers with a good [...] more >>

A Reckoning for Israel

Source: Mostly Water

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 more >>

Grow Heathrow ready for take off

Source: Plane Stupid

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. more >>

No Borders at the UN Climate Summit

Source: Without your walls - blog

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 [...] more >>

Hackney Solidarity Network / Reel News Film and Discussion Night Sunday March 14th 7-10pm

Source: Hackney Solidarity Network

Hackney Solidarity Network / Reel News Film and Discussion Night Sunday March 14th 7-10pm Films including "Copenhagen: System Change Not Climate Change!", Peoples Assemblies in Argentina 2001/2, discussion and a proposal for a Peoples Assembly in Hackney on April 4th! We will be showing all or some of Reel News' just finished film from COP15 "Copenhagen: System Change Not Climate Change!" (Reel News, 80:00) at the usual venue the MOTH Club Valette Street, Hackney read more more >>

Luca Tornatore, Copenhagen Detainee, Petition Online

Source: Interactivist Info Exchange

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 more >>

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

Source: Interactivist Info Exchange

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 more >>

Autonogram for December 2009

Source: Interactivist Info Exchange

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 more >>

Bookmark/Search this post with:

delicious | digg

digg |

reddit |

newsvine | furl

furl |

google |

yahoo |

technorati

Most recent articles

more headlines
with summaries
feedback

Germany: Day of action for the §129a Militant Group trial, 13 December 2008

from various sources, updated 12 December 2008: Decentralised action day for the militant group trial, December 13th 2008. Get involved with your own actions on the day of decentralised actions for the Militant Group Trial. On September 25th the trial against three activists from the radical left began in the Berlin court.

They are on trial for supposedly attempting an arson attack on Army vehicles on the grounds of MAN, a traditional weapons manufacturer. They are also charged with supposed membership of the clandestine Communist Militant Group (MG). The MG, which has been in existence since 2001, has claimed more than 20 arson attacks on installations of the state and capital and has also engaged in a militancy debate producing theoretical texts.

The three Berliners are thereby charged with attempted serious arson, as well as membership of a “criminal organization” under paragraph §129. more

Public Forum on "Policing the Crisis" @ The Common Place, Leeds, 14 May 2009

from the commonplace, 8 May 2009: A public forum with speakers on:
- the G20 in London where the cops battered us into containment pens, battered us when we tried to break out, and then battered us again when they decided they had finished with "containment" and now wanted "dispersal"...
- the recent pre-emptive mass arrests in Nottingham where 114 climate change activists were arrested, searched, questioned and bailed with outrageous conditions before they had done anything to Ratcliffe power station +++ and the policing of dissent in Leeds
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7:00pm @ The Common Place, 23 Wharf Street, Leeds