Sunday, August 16, 2009

The Climate Action Camp is over... And it was great.

More than 400 people participated in (at least a part of) the camp, the atmosphere was great, and the actions were all very successful. There were actions against the nuclear central in Doel, against the meat industry, against the Lange Wapper bridge in Antwerp etcetera. During the day of mass action against coal, between 150 and 200 people succeeded in entering the terrain of ABT, a huge coal terminal, and blocked its activities for one day. The basis is laid for a strong mobilization towards Copenhagen, where we plan massive actions to stop the ineffective and procapitalist solutions to the climate crisis governments and corporations advocate.
 
Here you find a couple of videos about some of the actions:


 

Video on the first three days of the camp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDVEm8QbRcY

 

on the mass day of action:

http://www.indymedia.be/nl/node/34352

http://ourmediaindymedia.blogspot.com/

 

Action against Lange Wapper bridge in Antwerp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYwyWhpcPIg

 

Action against meat industry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-e1Z-TOEeY

 

Clown action against nuclear energy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzUWhrT2KFA

 

Clown action against nuclear energy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cp0qJPdrZg

 

NOS-video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwyR0jwsLvY

 

ATV-video on the beginning of the camp:

http://www.atv.be/v3/newsdetail.aspx?mid=&id=13210

 

ATV-video on the direct action against coal hub ABT:

http://www.atv.be/v3/newsdetail.aspx?mid=&id=13254

 

RTBF-video on the direct action against coal hub ABT (Friday 7 August, 19h30):

http://mediaserver.rtbf.be/sites/rtbf-media/themes/rtbfmedia/iPlayer/MediaPlayer.php

 

Screening of the “The World acoording to Monsanto”, with info about the action STOPGMO





**ENGLISH**

Sunday 30th of August 17.00 hr:

Screening of the "The World acoording to Monsanto", with info about the action STOPGMO

The World acoording to Monsanto
(English spoken with Dutch subtitles)
How much outrage can a single multinational corporation inspire? How much damage can they inflict? The breathtaking new film, The World According to Monsanto, features a company that sets the new standard. From Iowa to Paraguay, from England to India, Monsanto is uprooting our food supply and replacing it with their patented genetically engineered creations. And along the way, farmers, communities, and nature become collateral damage.

The film is the work of celebrated award-winning French filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, whose three years of work on four continents exposes why Monsanto has become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology. Combining secret documents with accounts by victims, scientists and policy makers, she guides us through a web of misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption. And we learn how the company systematically tricked governments into allowing dangerous genetically modified ( GM) foods into our diet— with Monsanto in charge of determining if they're safe.

After the screening Farm de Hartstocht will provide local food. Someone from Sociaal Initiatief will explain about STOP GMO, an initiative of angry citizens to bring together forces for food and agriculture without genetic manipulation (see Dutch website http://www.stopgmo.weebly.com, or mail  info@sociaalinitiatief.nl). Mensen van A SEED zijn er om vragen te beantwoorden over soja en genetische manipulatie in de landbouw en voedselketen.

Organisation: Sociaal Initiatief, organic food coop VOKOMOKUM, Stadslandbouw Amsterdam, A SEED Europe, m.m.v. Boerderij De Hartstocht

Location: Plantagedok, Plantagedoklaan 8, Amsterdam.

The program follows the monthly pickup afternoon of organic food coop VOKOMOKUM. The VOKO is a group of people who organize themselves in a collective buying organic food, because they like to get their food in a fair and social way. Want to know more? Check www.vokomokum.nl or pass by on a last sunday afternoon of the month. The afternoon program is:
15.00 Cafe open
15.30 Orientation new members VOKOMOKUM
15.00-16.00 Pickup time  VOKOMOKUM orders
16.00-16.30 Open meeting VOKOMOKUM

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www.gentech.nl and ASEEDs gmo campaign need you contribution! Please help keep these (critical) information sources up and running and make your donation into St. A SEED Europe account (IBAN: NL34 INGB 0004394963, BIC: INGBNL2A) - thank you!

Gentech & duurzame voedselketen
GMO & sustainable food chain

A SEED Europe
Plantage Doklaan 12a
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Honour Aung San Suu Kyi






Dear friends,
Please activate images! Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced today, but it's the Burmese generals who jailed her who have committed the real crimes. Join the call for justice for the Burmese people by signing the petition to put the generals on trial.

Sign The Petition!

Today, the ailing Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another year and a half in detention by a Burmese kangaroo court.

Suu Kyi's treatment is just the tip of the iceberg of the brutality of the Burmese regime -- spanning 40 years of murder, torture, mass rape, and slave labour.

It's time for the world to put the Burmese generals on trial. Avaaz is launching a call for the UN Security Council to investigate the regime for crimes against humanity -- a judgment of guilt could lead to prosecution of top generals by the International Criminal Court. Click below to join the call and see a mock up of a banner that we plan to drop in front of the UN calling for action:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/jail_the_generals

Over the next two months the UK and the US hold the powerful Presidency of the United Nations Security Council - both President Obama and Prime Minister Brown have spoken passionately about Burma, so now is our best chance in years to get the Security Council to act.

But the US, UK and other Council members are still dragging their feet -- concerned about challenging China, a key sponsor of the Burmese regime. If a global outcry demands it, they will try harder to get China to agree, as happened when the Council decided to allow prosecution of another China-sponsored regime in the case of Darfur, Sudan.

Calls for investigation and prosecution of the Burmese Generals have been growing. The pressure is building on Obama and Brown as already dozens of US and British legislators have called for an inquiry. And a recent Harvard University report by top global jurists reveals that the UN has already quietly documented the forced recruitment of tens of thousands of child soldiers, more than one million refugees and internally displaced persons, numerous cases of killings and torture, mass rape and the forced displacement of 3,000 ethnic minority villages -- as many as reported in Darfur. Let's join them in this call to hold the regime to account:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/jail_the_generals

The Avaaz community has stood with and supported the Burmese people through cyclone Nargis, through the massive repression of democracy activists in 2007, and this year over 400,000 of us have called for the release of political prisoners. Today, if enough of us act together, we have a chance to call upon the highest body under international law to finally end the tyranny. Sign the petition and send this on to friends and family to send a clear message to the UN Security Council that the world expects them to lead:

With hope,

Alice, Ricken, Brett, Graziela, Paula, Paul, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team.

Sources:

For the politics behind the guilty verdict visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8177328.stm

Read the Harvard report here: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/hrp/newsid=59.html

For a United Nations Official's appeal to the Security Council visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28iht-edpineiro.html

See the Sudan Commission of Inquiry process here: http://www.unausa.org/Document.Doc?id=253

For the UK MPs call for Commission of Inquiry visit: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=38487&SESSION=899

For the US Senators call for a Commission of Inquiry visit: http://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/Obama UNSC COI Final 6-15-2009.pdf


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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Can one young person change climate change?






Dear friends,

Avaaz Climate Action Factories have been set up to urgently kick-start stalled global climate negotiations - and they're working! World leaders are taking notice, but without additional funds, these live-in warehouses of highly skilled youth advocates will be forced to close in a month. Donate now to keep them open and together we'll secure a binding climate deal in Copenhagen this December!


Delivering a global climate petition to UK PM Gordon Brown.

Stripping for the climate at the G8 in Italy.

Targeting Merkel and Obama at the Brandenburg gate.

Successfully demanding a green recovery on Capitol Lawn in Washington DC.
As the world heads to the final UN climate summit in Copenhagen this December, global talks to stop the climate crisis are stalling. The leaders of the biggest polluting countries are refusing to cut carbon emissions enough to avert catastrophe.

One big reason: these leaders are besieged daily by lobbyists from the powerful oil and coal industries. To counter them, we urgently need to field our own relentless and spirited lobbying effort.

We can't afford to hire corporate lobbyists, but we might do even better. Avaaz has recruited dozens of talented and experienced youth leaders to work day and night in key capitals to press leaders to avert the climate crisis - and they're already having a major global impact. It costs just $50 per day ($5 per hour) to support one climate activist to passionately organize stunts, phone calls, press visits and other actions to convey all our voices where it matters most. We urgently need at least 5000 Avaaz members to keep the action factories going until the December summit by adopting and funding a youth activist for just an hour or a day. Click to pitch in:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/climate_action_factories

The global movement to confront climate change needs an emergency infusion of passion, energy, and nimble, politically-focused action. This effort is designed to unleash one key source of renewable political energy: the youth climate movement. And it's working!

So far, 37 talented youth leaders have spent their summer waking hours on this effort. They've personally lobbied Gordon Brown, been a constant presence in the halls of the US Congress, staged Obama and Merkel superhero stunts at the Brandenburg Gate, helped impact Japan's climate targets and made front pages of major news media around the world. Now, it's up to us to continue feeding them, renting work space, and buying their train tickets so they can go wherever they're needed most -- all the way to December's major climate summit. Click here to donate:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/climate_action_factories

There are just five months left until the long-awaited final world summit on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark in December. This is the big moment - either our leaders will agree to a fair, ambitious and binding global treaty that sets tough legal limits on carbon pollution for each country, or they will fiddle while the planet burns. Youth movements have played a key role in progressive change throughout history, let's help unleash their power to take on the oil and coal lobbyists and reach our leaders with a voice of urgency and conscience.

With hope and determination,

Brett, Iain, Taren, Ricken, Anna, David, Sarah, Leon, Kalen and the rest of the Avaaz and Climate Action factory teams

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