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Joint MEDIA RELEASE: 12 December 2009, Copenhagen
THOUSANDS TO RALLY IN COPENHAGEN DEMANDING SYSTEM CHANGE
First Week Of Climate Talks A Predictable Failure
At the end of the first week of the climate talks at Copenhagen, thousands of activists from the Climate Justice Action and Climate Justice Now! networks are joining the climate march under the banner of ‘System Change Not Climate Change’ to denounce the climate negotiations as a predictable failure. The protesters are demanding radical changes in economic and political systems in order to address the climate crisis.
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Stop the expansion of monoculture tree plantations !
Throughout the world, millions of hectares of productive land are rapidly being converted into green deserts presented under the guise of “forests”. Local communities are displaced to give way to endless rows of identical trees – eucalyptus, pine, oil palm, rubber, jatropha and other species - that displace most other forms of life from the area. Farmland, which is crucial for the food sovereignty of local communities, is converted to monoculture tree plantations producing raw materials for export. Water resources become depleted and polluted by the plantations while soils become degraded. Human rights violations are rife, ranging from the loss of livelihoods and displacement to repression and even cases of torture and death. While communities suffer as a whole, plantations result in differentiated gender impacts, where women are the most affected.
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A bloody World Environment Day in the Peruvian Amazo Indigenous organizations call for support from the international community
On April 9, local communities began what they call an "indefinite strike" throughout the Peruvian Amazon region to protest the Peruvian Congress' failure to review six government decrees that endanger the rights of indigenous peoples. These decrees were issued by the Presidency in the framework of the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement signed with the United States, and pave the way to opening up the Amazon region to socially and environmentally destructive industries such as mining and oil exploitation.
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Declaration of Heredia on Climate, Forests and Plantations
Heredia, 28 March 2009
We, organisations of civil society from every continent, have met in Costa Rica between 24 and 28 March to share experiences, visit peasant communities, think and present proposals on the question of climate, forests, and plantations.
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REDOIL Press Release
Alaska Natives call for strongest possible climate protection at Anchorage Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change.
For immediate release: April 20, 2009
Contact:
Faith Gemmill, REDOIL Executive Director, 907-750-0188
Faye Gallant, REDOIL Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Program, 207-232-4226
Shawna Larson, REDOIL/ACAT Mining Organizer 907-841-5163
Anchorage, AK - Alaska Natives will be joining with allies from around the world to call for the strongest possible protective language in a statement to be released Friday at the Indigenous People's Global Summit on Climate Change. The statement will be a formal position of indigenous peoples regarding climate policy, the result of a week of intensive negotiations and information sharing, to be used at the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
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