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At the European Social Forum in Istanbul a call was made by the climate
justice participants including the coming trials against Climate justice
activists in Copenhagen within four weeks. See below. You find this and
other statements from ESF I Istanbul with pictures at
www.aktivism.info/socialforumjourney.
The trials are historical. If the accused are sentenced any organizers of
political activities that may result in civil disobedience can be
criminalized. It is of general interest to all popular movements to jointly
protest. The trials are grotesque leaving juridical traditions of individual
responsibility for acts behind replacing this with vague collective
responsibility. You can find back ground material about the trials at "The
Whole World On Trial" http://www.aktivism.info/socialforumjourney/?p=1109.
There are more recent material in Danish in newspapers as Information and
Arbejderen.
It would be especially important to know how the accused would like us to
act in solidarity and which organizations are interested in doing something.
It is of importance also for the coming prote4sts in Cancun at COP-16 to set
an example and not allow repression become totally arbitrary. Summit hosts
often look at each other.
In hope for strong collective protests in Denmark and internationally
Yours
Tord Björk
Friends of the Earth, Sweden
From the climate justice network
³System change, not climate change!
A just transition towards a good life for all²
6th ESF Istanbul, 3rd July 2010
The newspapers may speak of financial and economic crises, but when we look
around ourselves, we don¹t see derivates and financial markets what we see
is the destruction of communities, of our social and natural environments,
of our relations to each other. What we see is capitalism destroying us.
Against this destruction, and the austerity that follows in its wake, people
are resisting, people are fighting back, people are beginning to create the
new worlds we know to be necessary: from Ghana to Greece, from Copenhagen to
Cochabamba, from Bangkok to Brussels. We from climate and social justice
movements gathered at the European Social Forum in Istanbul, are a part of
and inspired by these global processes of resistance and creation, but also
realise that we need to fight where we stand: to create another world, we
also need to create another Europe and tear down the walls of the fortress
that surround it.
Against those who try to create divisions between social and ecological
justice, we assert that they do not contradict each other. They are and have
to be complementary. Our vision is of a good life for all, not a nightmare
of authoritarian eco-austerity.
Against those who oppose people¹s desire to have good and well-paid jobs and
to move beyond the madness of infinite growth on a finite planet, we are
calling for a just transition in the way we work, in the structures of
production and consumption. While there are many things we need more of,
there is much we need less of. For example, we need to stop the destructive
energy production practices involving coal, oil, nuclear and hydropower, or
to end the madness of building individual cars for everybody. At the same
time, we need to expand community-controlled renewable energies, food
sovereignty as well as public services that contribute to our goal of a good
life for all, like free public transport, health, housing and education.
This would create millions of socially and ecologically useful jobs.
This is what we mean by just transition, by climate justice: it does not
mean having the Œright¹ position on what is being negotiated at UN-climate
summits. It¹s not about parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere.
Although it is important to change our individual behaviours, climate
justice is about fundamentally changing our model of production and
consumption of food, goods, energy, of our entire lives. It is about finally
making amends for the ecological debt we owe the rest of the world.
We in Europe are only now starting on the road towards climate justice,
creating and resisting in many different ways, such as direct action, the
building of local alternatives, civil disobedience or public campaigning to
name a few. There are many opportunities already such as:
- 26/8: solidarity actions coinciding with the trial in Copenhagen of
Tash Verco and Noah Weiss
- Summer 2010 : Climate and No Border camps are happening all over Europe
- 29/9: European trade union day of action
- between the 10th and the 17th of October, different networks are
calling for action on climate justice: the 12th will be a day of direct
action for climate justice; the 16th a day of action against Monsanto
- From the 29th of November to the 10th of December, the 16th UN-climate
summit will be held in Cancun, Mexico: we will be creating a Œthousand
Cancuns¹ to protest their false solutions and point the way towards real
climate and social justice
-
www.groenfront.nljustice participants including the coming trials against Climate justice
activists in Copenhagen within four weeks. See below. You find this and
other statements from ESF I Istanbul with pictures at
www.aktivism.info/socialforumjourney.
The trials are historical. If the accused are sentenced any organizers of
political activities that may result in civil disobedience can be
criminalized. It is of general interest to all popular movements to jointly
protest. The trials are grotesque leaving juridical traditions of individual
responsibility for acts behind replacing this with vague collective
responsibility. You can find back ground material about the trials at "The
Whole World On Trial" http://www.aktivism.info/socialforumjourney/?p=1109.
There are more recent material in Danish in newspapers as Information and
Arbejderen.
It would be especially important to know how the accused would like us to
act in solidarity and which organizations are interested in doing something.
It is of importance also for the coming prote4sts in Cancun at COP-16 to set
an example and not allow repression become totally arbitrary. Summit hosts
often look at each other.
In hope for strong collective protests in Denmark and internationally
Yours
Tord Björk
Friends of the Earth, Sweden
From the climate justice network
³System change, not climate change!
A just transition towards a good life for all²
6th ESF Istanbul, 3rd July 2010
The newspapers may speak of financial and economic crises, but when we look
around ourselves, we don¹t see derivates and financial markets what we see
is the destruction of communities, of our social and natural environments,
of our relations to each other. What we see is capitalism destroying us.
Against this destruction, and the austerity that follows in its wake, people
are resisting, people are fighting back, people are beginning to create the
new worlds we know to be necessary: from Ghana to Greece, from Copenhagen to
Cochabamba, from Bangkok to Brussels. We from climate and social justice
movements gathered at the European Social Forum in Istanbul, are a part of
and inspired by these global processes of resistance and creation, but also
realise that we need to fight where we stand: to create another world, we
also need to create another Europe and tear down the walls of the fortress
that surround it.
Against those who try to create divisions between social and ecological
justice, we assert that they do not contradict each other. They are and have
to be complementary. Our vision is of a good life for all, not a nightmare
of authoritarian eco-austerity.
Against those who oppose people¹s desire to have good and well-paid jobs and
to move beyond the madness of infinite growth on a finite planet, we are
calling for a just transition in the way we work, in the structures of
production and consumption. While there are many things we need more of,
there is much we need less of. For example, we need to stop the destructive
energy production practices involving coal, oil, nuclear and hydropower, or
to end the madness of building individual cars for everybody. At the same
time, we need to expand community-controlled renewable energies, food
sovereignty as well as public services that contribute to our goal of a good
life for all, like free public transport, health, housing and education.
This would create millions of socially and ecologically useful jobs.
This is what we mean by just transition, by climate justice: it does not
mean having the Œright¹ position on what is being negotiated at UN-climate
summits. It¹s not about parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere.
Although it is important to change our individual behaviours, climate
justice is about fundamentally changing our model of production and
consumption of food, goods, energy, of our entire lives. It is about finally
making amends for the ecological debt we owe the rest of the world.
We in Europe are only now starting on the road towards climate justice,
creating and resisting in many different ways, such as direct action, the
building of local alternatives, civil disobedience or public campaigning to
name a few. There are many opportunities already such as:
- 26/8: solidarity actions coinciding with the trial in Copenhagen of
Tash Verco and Noah Weiss
- Summer 2010 : Climate and No Border camps are happening all over Europe
- 29/9: European trade union day of action
- between the 10th and the 17th of October, different networks are
calling for action on climate justice: the 12th will be a day of direct
action for climate justice; the 16th a day of action against Monsanto
- From the 29th of November to the 10th of December, the 16th UN-climate
summit will be held in Cancun, Mexico: we will be creating a Œthousand
Cancuns¹ to protest their false solutions and point the way towards real
climate and social justice
-
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