Reports pouring in from climate justice day of action on 10 year wto protest anniversary

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Monday November 30, 2009 · 9:08 PM PST

2009/11/30 · 21:08

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. Reports are now starting to come in from all over...more details within!

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Monday December 01, 2008 · 12:26 PM PST

2008/12/01 · 12:26

As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened today in Poznan, Poland, a group of grassroots climate activists came to the Washington DC office of Environmental Defense to voice some complaints about their role in the shaping US proposals at the negotiations.

ED is one of the largest environmental organizations in the world and has been central in promoting the approach of carbon trading as a solution to climate change, a policy which has been publicly endorsed by Obama.

Dr. Rachel Smolker of Global Justice Ecology Project read a statement, which said in part, "My father was one of the founders of this organization, which sadly I am now ashamed of. So far they have utterly failed, serving only to provide huge profits to the world’s most polluting industries. Instead of protecting the environment, ED now seems primarily concerned with protecting corporate bottom lines. I can hear my father rolling over in his grave."

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Should Carbon Trading Be Central to Climate Strategy

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Should Carbon Trading Be Central to Climate Strategy

Yes, it's the only way to get business on board

2 votes

Yes, but only with substantial oversight and reforms

6 votes

Perhaps, but a carbon tax or other policies are better options

7 votes

No, it hasn't worked and rewards pollutors

6 votes

No, carbon offsets and trading are a joke!

13 votes

Huh, what the heck is carbon trading?

1 vote

Thomas Friedman gets pied on Earth Day

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 4:21 PM PDT

2008/04/23 · 16:21

NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, was pied while giving a keynote speech on Earth Day in Providence, RI. His talk, titled "Green is the new Red White and Blue", was about how corporate environmentalism (putting a price on the atmosphere, and investing in biofuels and techno-fixes) can restore America to its "natural place in the global order."

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 11:27 PM PDT

2008/04/02 · 23:27

Yesterday was "fossil fools day" an international day of protest against the dirty energy industry for their promotion of climate change and resource wars, the protest was called for by Rising Tide and many other groups. Globally 100 fossil fools protests took place on April 1.

Although the actions were by no means due to his adivce, it's worth noting that Al Gore suggested such tactics last summer.

Around a hundred actions -- include about a dozen involving civil disobedience -- took place around the world.

In North Carolina, protesters who had chained themselves to bulldozers at a coal plant under construction were tasered by police despite being immobilized while "locked-down" to bulldozer.

With the only a few years to turn our emissions around and the growing focus on civil disobedience, the movement to stop climate change appears is heating up.

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Would you ever participate in civil disobedience?

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Would you ever participate in civil disobedience?

Absolutely!

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Been there done that...

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Not for this law abiding citizen!

2 votes

Have and will again (and again, and again)

1 vote

My probation officer wouldn't allow it.

0 votes

I'm waiting till the PATRIOT act is repealed.

1 vote

I'm saving myself for the perfect moment.

5 votes

Civil disobedience slows progressive movements down.

2 votes

UN Climate Meetings in Bali: Climate Justice or Carbonacracy?

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Thursday December 13, 2007 · 4:35 PM PST

2007/12/13 · 16:35

Far from Bali, home in the United States, it appears the US environmental movement is so desperate that we can do little but focus on getting something, anything from our country's negotiators at the UN Climate meetings, who appear to be bent on utter inaction.

Yet the appearance of unmovable obstructionism hides a deeper truth.

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