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N30 + 10 years - Remembering and celebrating "The day the political landscape changed forever"
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Monday November 30, 2009 12:24 by dunk fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk BCN > Geneva > Copenhagen
As we still fight WTO in Geneva today, as we prepare for COP15 in Copenhagen “The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation. 10 years ago today, The Battle in Seattle: yeah, didn't we - shut it down - didn't we Today we are broadcasting from Seattle, Washington, where delegations from 130 countries are meeting this week for a historic round of trade talks at the World Trade Organization. Tens of thousands of activists from all over the world–from labor groups, to environmental activists, to farmers, to women’s groups, to many others representing a wide range of civil society–have also converged on Seattle for what the Wall Street Journal has said will be “the mother of all protests.” The Battle in Seattle: French Farmer Jose Bove Leads Protest at Mcdonalds (N30) http://www.democracynow.org/1999/11/30/the_battle_in_se...armer “Shut McDonalds Mcglobalization” of agriculture around the world—a phenomenon they said has been brought about by the decisions and policies of the World Trade Organization. Unions Take to the Streets in Seattle: A Conversation with United Steelworkers of America (N30) http://www.democracynow.org/1999/11/30/unions_take_to_t...ts_in Thousands of steelworkers marched yesterday in Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization’s trade policies. The steelworkers have been some of the most militant and vocal of all the unions that have converged on Seattle. The Battle in Seattle - follow on audio stories from Democracy Now: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 - The Battle in Seattle—Tens of Thousands of Protesters Shut Down the Inaugural Sessions of the World Trade Organization A thing born once in Seattle amidst tear gas and protest… Indymedia Many things grew out of those days in Seattle, one of them has grown from strength to strength and is perhaps the best metaphor like tool we can use to understand the new ways of doing things: Networking, building up and using efficient, open and honest tools of communication: Indymedia. (infos at http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/about.shtml ) The bi lingual film “i“ or ”Eye of the storm”, made by IMC-Argentina, is a beautiful film which shows the birth and growth and magic of “a global network” . It focuses on the rise of Indymedia and how participative media grew during the economic and social crisis in Argentina. (watch trailer at http://ithefilm.com/ ) Independent media films about Seattle N30: This Is What Democracy Looks Like This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO’s power to arbitrally overrule nations’ environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protestors from all around came out in force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world is determined to deny the little people. watch film at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-20072061863625...1122# Showdown in Seattle The Seattle IMC made their own film after N30 entitled Showdown in Seattle and they should be watched to get a fuller picture. The film has been broken into 5 parts Pt 1 – Seattle Prelude Pt 2 – People Unite Police Riot Pt 3 – Occuppied Seattle Pt 4 – Unwilling Cautives Pt 5 – What Democracy Looks Like Full video is stored on Archive.org - http://www.archive.org/details/ddtv_186_a_showdown_in_s...attle The Battle of Seattle - from indy street reporting to Hollywood blockbuster Democracy Now - Battle in Seattle: With A-List Cast, New Film Re-Creates Historic Protest Against WTO (September 18, 2008) http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/18/battle_in_seattle..._list In November 1999, tens of thousands of global justice activists, environmentalists, union members and anti-capitalist activists helped shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was a watershed moment for the movement against corporate globalization. The story of the Seattle protests has now been turned into a fictionalized film featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. We speak to the film’s writer and director, Stuart Townsend, as well as David Solnit, one of the key organizers of the WTO protests and co-founder of the Seattle WTO People’s History Project. film website: http://www.battleinseattlemovie.com/ watch film online (via chinese type youtube) - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUxMDg1MDg=.html fuller report with links etc at - N30: The day the political landscape changed forever http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/n30/ From WTO in Geneva to COP 15 in Copenhagen.... the Social and Climate justice caravan and the battle to change the world. Two important summits take place at the end of 2009 in Europe: the 7th conference of ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva and the UN climate summit in Copenhagen (COP15). With a week between them, 60 activists from the global South will travel across Europe through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and Denmark. They will draw attention to the consequences neoliberal globalization and climate change have on their lives and show how to fight against them. Together with local activists, they look for alternatives to free trade and the privatisation of resources, and unite the North and South in their fights for another world. So outlines the Social & Climate Justice Caravan, which is already busy in Geneva... http://www.climatecaravan.org/ From rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets of Seattle to the streets of Geneva today. Thousands protest WTO in Geneva - Property Damage and Tear Gas (2 days ago) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/11/442437.html Up to 4-5000 people today marched in Geneva protesting ahead of the WTO meeting in an International Demonstration as part of a week of action and debate around the WTO Ministerial which runs from 30th November to 2nd December. Related links> Euronews - They (Anti-capitalism protesters) accuse the WTO of not doing enough to tackle climate change, claiming it is a mouthpiece for the interests of multinational corporations. http://www.euronews.net/2009/11/28/geneva-ravaged-by-an...tors/ http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2009/11/anti-wto-riots....html Seattle Grows Up In the lead up to the massive COP15 goings on in Denmark next month, a recent article "Seattle Grows Up" from Naomi Klein reported; A decade ago, in a New York Times comment piece published after Seattle was shut down, I wrote that a new movement advocating a radically different form of globalisation "just had its coming-out party". What will be the significance of Copenhagen? I put that question to John Jordan, whose prediction of what eventually happened in Seattle I quoted in my book No Logo. He replied: "If Seattle was the movement of movements' coming-out party then maybe Copenhagen will be a celebration of our coming of age." The Seattle activists' coming of age in Copenhagen will be very disobedient (klein article - alternative title) The climate conference will witness a new maturity for the movement that ignited a decade ago. But that does not mean playing it safe http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009...hagen Related video from Democracy now: Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/23/naomi_klein_on_c...t_why Well, the latest column I wrote for “The Nation,” is about this line that you can draw from Seattle to Copenhagen. I call the column “Seattle Grows Up,” because I think we’re also seeing an evolution of a movement that can to world attention on the streets of Seattle. I think there has been a profound deepening of the coalition between groups that are primarily focused on poverty, on development, on debt, and environmental groups that have traditionally been focused on environmental issues. We saw that in Seattle, the beginnings of that coalition, with the famous “Teamsters and Turtles” coalition. Now we are seeing something much deeper. Ok, so thats a quick trip down memory lane, happy birthday INDYMEDIA... Back to Jim Page to finish the story which has only begun... Didn't We November 30th, '99
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The Battle in Seattle - the democracy now radio archive show
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Tens of Thousands of Protesters Shut Down the Inaugural WTO Sessions
Hundreds
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Anti-WTO demonstration in Geneva (euronews- no comment)
that go back 10 years to the birth of the indymedia network, cover its growth, its usefullness, it being attacked (Genoa) and its continued evolution:
"i" the prequel ( www.ithefilm.com )
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=783868934426854...4159#
This is the 14 minute prequel to the feature documentary film "i" .
“i” is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists — Indymedia. The feature-length documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval. look forward to i the film.
"i" - In the eye of the storm (Indymedia Argentina prequel)
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24 minute video to accompany "i" about the birth, growth, usefullness of and attack on the INDYMEDIA network in Genoa from Undercurrents:
Globalisation and the Media (Undercurrents vid - 24 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HRt1bH_dw
Globalisation and the Media (Undercurrents vid about Indymedia)
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Globalisation and the Media
Meanwhile today in the US, to mark N30:
Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis.
more info: http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/n30-day-of-action/n...rces/
+ http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/11/30/november-30gl...isis/
Most recent TWITTER updates : http://twitter.com/climate_justice + http://twitter.com/RisingTideNA
N30 - mobilise for climate justice
N30 - day of action for climate justice
The Battle of Seattle 10 Years Later: Organizers Reflect on 1999 Shutdown of WTO Talks and the Birth of a Movement
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/30/the_battle_of_se...years
WTO Chief Pascal Lamay: Free Trade and Interdependence Help Promote Freedom, Human Rights and Civil Liberties
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/30/wto_chief_pascal...trade
Democracy now celebrates the anniversary and keeps on investigating
The Seattle Times - Five days that jolted Seattle (
The city's WTO riots marked a turning point from a decade of expansive ideals to an era of just hoping we get by.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010379....html
article with embedded vids and many sub groupings
The Seattle Times - Photos captured from the events surrounding
the conference in Seattle Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 1999.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/wto/gallery/in....html
Guardian - Todays fanatic, tomorrow's saint
It's popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives of activists past and present tell us otherwise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov...brown
Good article about from Seattle to today from activist. Found in LEFT TURN, notes from a global intifada;
http://www.leftturn.org/?q=node/1356
found via: http://twitter.com/ussf/status/6207202119 (US social forum tweet)
find related stuff at the SEATTLE + 10 channel on TWITTER - http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23seattleplus10
From Seattle to Detroit: 10 Lessons for Movement Building on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown
By Stephanie Guilloud
An article written for the Project South Fall Newsletter
http://www.projectsouth.org/
For five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, organizers, workers, and community members participated in a public uprising using direct actions, marches, rallies, and mass convergences. Longshoremen shut down every port on the West Coast. Global actions of solidarity happened from India to Italy. Trade ministers, heads of state, and corporate hosts were forced to abandon their agenda and declare the Millenium Ministerial a complete failure. We said we would shut it down, and we did.
“The fact is that the Social Forum and Peoples Movement Assembly process actually started in Seattle. The Social Forum took off from the experience of the 'Battle of Seattle' when the Brazilian organizing committee formed in 2000 and held the first World Social Forum in 2001. Ten years later, we come back to where this started. What has been accomplished in the last 10 years? How have our social movements developed to build the power towards real social systemic change in the US? How do we map the new forces and what is the power of the social movement assembly?”
– Ruben Solis, Southwest Workers Union, participant in the Seattle shutdown, and one of the founders of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
As one of the founders and leaders of the Direct Action Network and a resident of Olympia, Washington, I offer personal and political reflections on the WTO shutdown as a major turning point in my life as an organizer and in our lives working to build movements in the US. As an organizer with the US Social Forum process and a co-lead to develop the People’s Movement Assembly, I carry these lessons with me on a daily basis. I offer these stories with humility and a sense of responsibility. When I refer to “we” in this brief article, I refer to my community of young people in their early twenties, living in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, and the Bay Area, who, with many others, mobilized, organized, and implemented the direct action strategies we had planned for months. ...
1)Know your history: Seattle was a turning point
2)Claim your victories and evaluate your mistakes.
3)Make your enemy known: Mass demonstrations are not spontaneous
4)They came out of the bars: Infrastructure and preparation allows for spontaneous action
5)Surprise only works once: Evolve our tactics and strategies
6)It’s not about a leader. It is about leadership.
7)Strategy, please: Action-hopping is not movement building
8)Leadership development, thank you.
9)Guilt slowed us down: Solidarity is action
10)Know your vision: Learn lessons in order to move forward.
Economic Crisis, Climate Crisis, Social Crisis: It’s Time to Change Course!
http://www.anti-omc2009.org/spip.php?article8
From 30th November through 2nd December, a WTO ministerial conference will be held in Geneva, a week before the climate summit in Copenhagen. Concerning both trade and the climate, policies that have been pursued in the past have failed catastrophically. Yet our leaders have not questioned them!
The WTO and “free” trade: two big failures
Thirty years of neoliberal globalisation policies and fifteen years of the WTO have done nothing but increase poverty in the South and inequality, unemployment and job instability in the North. In the end, these policies have plunged us into the worst capitalist crisis since 1929. The WTO promises to get us out of it… by beating the same drum: “liberalise” trade. This would benefit no one except transnational capital; it would impose fierce competition that would further accentuate pressure on jobs, working conditions, social security and public services.
Trade versus the environment
Those same policies have also had disastrous consequences on the climate. They have bankrupted millions of small farmers by promoting industrialised agriculture, even though the latter – highly dependent upon fossil fuels – is a major source of greenhouse gases. They have caused disastrous deforestation in the largest rainforests, the planet’s lungs and the habitat of indigenous communities. They have created a globalised production network with high energy-consuming means of transportation, simply in order to exploit labour to the highest degree. Unfortunately, in Copenhagen the players will be the same, and the same interests and false “market solutions” will be on the agenda, though their failure is patently obvious. Twelve years after Kyoto, the CO2 emissions of developed countries have risen to higher levels than ever before.
Tempted by the Titanic?
Neither the socioeconomic crisis nor the environmental crisis will be resolved by the same logic that created them. The current economic system has brought about poverty, inequalities and wars; it has thrust us into the worst crisis since World War II. Today we are confronted with the ever more pressing need to give up on the absurd idea of infinite growth on a finite planet. But our leaders, whether in thrall to the well-to-do or debilitated by tunnel vision, are not looking for a way out. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, the interests of society and the environment must trump blind profit. We can live well – and actually live better – if we do away with the unsustainable waste of a system in which the pursuit of profit forces us to either seek unlimited growth or go bust trying.
Hundreds of representatives of grassroots movements from all over the world will be in Geneva and then in Copenhagen to demand a radical change of direction. Let’s all meet in Geneva and…
Mobilise against the WTO, because building a better world is an urgent issue! Demonstration: Place Neuve, Saturday 28th November, 2p.m.
Other action will be taken during the summit.
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Climate and social justice caravan - participants in the fight for survival
http://www.climatecaravan.org/
reader - http://www.climatecaravan.org/images/Caravan_bulletin_0...9.pdf
People who travelled to participate peacefully in the demonstrations, on behalf of their communities at home:
Filippino campaigner at WTO protest in Geneva 28 Nov 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUBFdSV1WTg
Wilfredo Marbella from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) describes the impacts of WTO policies in his country
South Korean farmer at WTO protest in Geneva, November 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ27n7oT7iY
Haesook Kim is a member of La Via Campesina, international peasant movement in South Korea. She describes why she is at the WTO protest in Geneva on 28 November 2009 and the impact that WTO rules is having on agriculture at home
more people from abroad videos from
The World Development Movement: Justice for the World's Poor (WDMUK) - http://www.youtube.com/user/wdmuk
WTO section - http://www.youtube.com/user/wdmuk#p/c/AA573A53CA344BCC
WTO Geneva - fight to protect people and planet
WTO Geneva - fight to protect people and planet
Climate and social justice caravan - reader (excellent 23 pages on trade and climate justice)
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Filippino campaigner at WTO protest in Geneva
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South Korean farmer at WTO protest in Geneva
birthday salutations are starting to ripple around the IMC family network:
IMC-UK - November 30th: Happy Birthday Indymedia!!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/11/442558.html?c=on...37979
(with a link back to this post)
IMC-DENMARK - 30. november: Tillykke, Indymedia!
http://indymedia.dk/articles/1382
November 30th: Happy Birthday Indymedia!! (A lovley big pink b-day cake from London Town)
Looking Back Five Years to the Battle of Seattle (Imc-santa cruz 204 report)
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13076/i...x.php
At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we had not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices.
audio - FRSC's Look Back to the Historic Anti-WTO Protests of Five Years Ago (Free Radio Santa Cruz)
listen - http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/6/wto_99...x.mp3
from - http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13060/i...x.php
AUDIO: This Is What Democracy Looks Like (Audio from the video)
listen - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/this_is_what_democra...e.mp3
from - http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13061/i...x.php
Democracy one way, WTO other way - famous banner drop Seattle '99
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/6/wto_99_2004mix.mp3
FRSC
Looking Back Five Years to the Battle of Seattle (Imc-santa cruz 204 report)
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13076/i...x.php
At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we had not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices.
audio - FRSC's Look Back to the Historic Anti-WTO Protests of Five Years Ago (Free Radio Santa Cruz)
listen - http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/6/wto_99...x.mp3
from - http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13060/i...x.php
AUDIO: This Is What Democracy Looks Like (Audio from the video)
listen - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/this_is_what_democra...e.mp3
from - http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13061/i...x.php
Democracy one way, WTO other way - famous banner drop Seattle '99
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/6/wto_99_2004mix.mp3
FRSC
a few more vid links via this TWEET - http://twitter.com/NihiloZero/status/6220845136
RIP WTO N30
- 35 mins IMC vid
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=554337784275373...8969#
Breaking the Spell
BREAKING THE SPELL - An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists (particularly those from Eugene) who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation. Rather than attempting to cover every situation at the WTO, Breaking the Spell has covers a few scenes film in depth. It is filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60 Minutes, it captures a moment when world history was up for grabs. Rather than attempting to cover every situation at the WTO, Breaking the Spell has several moving montage sequences combined with a few scenes that cover one or two situations in depth. [63 min.]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=907382760839987...1128#
related -
N30 Black Bloc Communique
http://flag.blackened.net/global/1299bbcommunique.htm
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TWITTER #N30 channel at http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23n30
Find links, vids, articles, thoughts as they come in, heres a few:
- KBCS audio reports - The WTO Protest, Then & Now: The Radio Series
http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=specialreports
- The Battle of the Story of the "Battle of Seattle"
http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/battleofseattleakpress
- The Seattle WTO People's History Project
http://www.realbattleinseattle.org/
- The World Turned Out in Seattle
WTO+10: Ten years later, what has been the legacy of the 1999 Seattle protests?
by Anuradha Mittal
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/the-world-turne...attle
Democracy now headline -
Dozens Arrested in Climate Justice Actions Across Nation
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/1/headlines#6
Reports are now starting to come in from:
* Chicago, Illinois: Activists target Carbon Trading @ Chicago Climate Exchange – 12 arrested
* Denver, Colorado: Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Department of Public Health and Environment in Coal Protest
* Greensville, SC: Blockade of shipment of generator to Cliffside Coal Plant, 4 arrested
* New York City, NY: Occupation of the Natural Resource Defense Council Office with James Hansen exposing their ties to industry
* San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Climate Justice Action at Bank of America; 200 Rally with at least 23 Arrested
* Whitby, Ontatio: Sit-in for Climate Justice at Finance Minister’s Office
* Washington, DC: Downtown march targets major polluters and lobbyists
Many more updates are coming in from Boston, Palm Beach, Bangor, Burlington, Seattle and other locales
N30 CLIMATE JUSTICE MOBILISATION
http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/n30-day-of-action/r...tion/
IMC-NYC - Reports pouring in from n30 day of climate justice action! Compilation here!
Rundown of the climate justice protests & direct actions across North America on the WTO anniversary
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/12/108480.html
Today, on November 30, one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen open, and on the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protest in Seattle in 1999, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience are taking actions place in cities around the North America.
EARTH FIRST - November 30: Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis (USA, Canada & UK)
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/23426
GRIST - Prelude to COP15: Climate Justice actions sweep the US before Copenhagen talks
http://www.grist.org/article/actions-speak-louder-than-...mobil
More updates as they come in on RisingTideNA TWITTER
http://twitter.com/RisingTideNA
Last massive US eco direct mobilisations:
The largest act of civil disobedience to happen in the US this Monday!!! (feb 2009)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91326
+ http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/us_di...tion/
Great to see that the spirit of action is taking off, again, in the US.
Might it spread like wildfire and assist in the massive shut down of US emissions, hope so, expect so!!!
Round up of N30 Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis (USA, Canada & UK)
N30 Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis - Climate resistance atlas (you have to love it)
N30 Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis - Climate resistance atlas - splat map, I make it 13 so far
And NYC is shut down - N30 Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis : in the streets
And this office is shut down - N30 Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis : in the buildings
Well things have definately changed, despite from how disapointing things looked from outside, we, those there on the streets of copenhagen, have come even more energised and full of hope due to experiences in copenhagen. The highlight was the peoples assembly, a communication space based on hierarchial organisation, a model that can and already is being, replicated globally, as we built our movements of resistance and struggle.
For links to all that stuff:
Cambiando el mundo despuis CPH | Changing the world after Copenhagen – fotos, vids, audios, commenteries – VIVA PACHAMAMA
http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/viva-pac...mama/
Also there was an exciting declaration, the KLIMAFORUM DECLARATION, which has already been signed up to by the kilkenyy based transition group FUTURE PROOF - http://futureproofkilkenny.org/
KLIMAFORUM DECLARATION – System Change – Not Climate Change
The KLIMAFORUM DECLARATION was presented by Ms. Mathilde Kaalund-Jørgensen and Mr. Juan N. Rojas, as members from Civil Society’s Climate Forum Speaking on behalf of the Klimaforum09, in the Tycho Brahe Hall at the UNFCCC Plenary on the 18th of December 2009.
The declaration communicates the diversity of the wide range of grassroots movements that were present in Copenhagen and had been in communication for some time. Together through the declaration, global struggles for climate justice have made a list of very strong basic demands. It is very hearthening to see the wide range of groups from all around the planet that have signed up to support its demands, that group is presently over 500 and growing.
http://www.klimaforum09.org/Declaration
I am hunting around for more info about this at present, I leave you with the audios from the Peoples assembly
Be great to hear ideas from Ireland about how local assemblies are happening there, or might happen, and see if more groups are willing to sign up to the KLIMAFORUM DECLARATION.
From that, who knows, there is a call for peoples assembly to try to set up a legal framework to safeguard PACHAMAMA, mother earth, in Bolivia next april:
- Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra
Cochabamba, Bolivia 19 al 22 de Abril 2010
http://cmpcc.org/2010/01/06/convocatoria/#more-1
- For a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth -
http://www.movementgeneration.org/for-a-universal-decla...earth
KLIMAFORUM DECLARATION – System Change – Not Climate Change (Social movements @ Copenhagen, december 2009)
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/PEOPLES_ASSEMBLY.mp3
THE PEOPLES ASSEMBLY
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/POST_HORIZONTAL_PROCESS_FEEDBACK.mp3
POST HORIZONTAL PROCESS FEEDBACK SESSION
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/other_bits.mp3
RECLAIM POWER SOUNDSCAPE
The Caravan reader is a very well put together document containing many reports and stories from groups that took part, about their struggle against "free trade" and how they are being affected by climate chaos already.
alternative a4 cover of the caravan reader found at http://www.climatecaravan.org/images/Caravan_bulletin_0...9.pdf
Caravan reader