Busy Week! Climate Change Action Jan 13
In addition to Thursday's action, the Church will be at Wednesday's demo for Climate Justice!
"Wednesday, Jan 13, 12 noon: Rally and protest action outside of the 2nd Annual Carbon Trading Summit
Following closely on the heels of the failed UN Copenhagen climate conference, the Second Annual Carbon Trade Summit will convene in New York City, bringing together representatives of some of the most polluting industries, industry associations, carbon financiers, banks, government officials and corporate "big greens." Participants will include executives from JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy, and many more. See http://www.iglobalforum.com/conference_live.php?r=22&p=home
Here they will discuss how to take advantage of the emerging carbon markets. Under a veneer of greenwash, they will be determining ways to ensure that marketable allowances for greenhouse gases (a.k.a., "cap-and-trade" schemes) remain the centerpiece of global climate policy.
Never before in history has the need for a grassroots resistance movement been more urgently needed. Climate scientists now tell us we are on course for 4 to 7 degrees of warming in the coming century, a death sentence for much of life on this planet, including human populations starting with the most vulnerable. If the climate movement is going to have any chance for success, it must confront the true source of this emergency. Placing the future of life on the altar of market fundamentalism is a path to annihilation."
...and we hear the Social Ecology Workshop will be there too...hot! hot! hot! -M
"Wednesday, Jan 13, 12 noon: Rally and protest action outside of the 2nd Annual Carbon Trading Summit
Following closely on the heels of the failed UN Copenhagen climate conference, the Second Annual Carbon Trade Summit will convene in New York City, bringing together representatives of some of the most polluting industries, industry associations, carbon financiers, banks, government officials and corporate "big greens." Participants will include executives from JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy, and many more. See http://www.iglobalforum.com/conference_live.php?r=22&p=home
Here they will discuss how to take advantage of the emerging carbon markets. Under a veneer of greenwash, they will be determining ways to ensure that marketable allowances for greenhouse gases (a.k.a., "cap-and-trade" schemes) remain the centerpiece of global climate policy.
Never before in history has the need for a grassroots resistance movement been more urgently needed. Climate scientists now tell us we are on course for 4 to 7 degrees of warming in the coming century, a death sentence for much of life on this planet, including human populations starting with the most vulnerable. If the climate movement is going to have any chance for success, it must confront the true source of this emergency. Placing the future of life on the altar of market fundamentalism is a path to annihilation."
...and we hear the Social Ecology Workshop will be there too...hot! hot! hot! -M
Action Photo Gallery Is Up!
http://www.revbilly.com/galleries/protest-against-commercializing-the-sk...
With a word from the Rev:
Maybe at the peak there were a hundred of us, gathered at the Irish Hunger memorial down by the Hudson. The implacable anonymous modernist facade shadowed over that half acre of long grasses and hedges and ruined stone cottage. The British ships' sailing off with the food that might have saved many of them from the blight is one of the cruel sum-ups of the policies of empire. That was poignantly fitting for our little rally against the neo-liberal carving up of the sky in the board rooms above us.
NY Carbon Trading Conference Protest
http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/01/14/protesters-condemn-ny-carbon-trading-...