Rising Tide Activists Occupy Export Credits Guarantee Department Offices to Protest Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline; Attempt at Participatory Democracy Fails
More traffic growth? More roads? Airport Expansion? You must be CHOKING! It's time to take ACTION!
Labout are backsliding on the victories of the 1990's roads protests, and many road schemes, dropped in the 1990s, are back on the road builders' agenda. Meanwhile the Government is also proposing large-scale airport expansion... and all in the same breath as talking about tackling climate change.
This backslide CAN and WILL be stopped by PEOPLE POWER.
We need to ORGANISE NOW!
Climate change: Hot air, fake science and genetically modified trees
International Inaction (Critiques of the COP international climate negotiations, 2001-2003)
Critical Analysis of the 'COP 9' UN Climate Negotiations, By Chris Lang
Published in WRM Bulletin 80, March 2003 www.wrm.org.uy
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been in force since 21 March 1994. For a decade, international climate change negotiators have filled meeting rooms with hot air. Meanwhile, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 11 per cent, according to World Resources Institute.
The Seventh Conference of Parties intergovernmental climate conference in Marrakech continued in the well established pattern of further weakening the feeble Kyoto Protocol and increasing its vast loopholes. The event was marked by protests around the world.
Report back
A report on Marrakech- what happened, what didn>t happen, what it means for climate change
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[Update: Ferhat has now been granted bail... click here for details...]
The prominent human rights defender detained and allegedly tortured in Turkey following his work to mitigate the impacts of the controversial Baku-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has indicated that he will commence a 'death fast ' hunger strike on 12 May 2004 if his application for release is not accepted. Human rights and environmental groups are calling on the international community to intervene urgently to guarantee the safety of the campaigner.
Ferhat Kaya, one of the main activists working on the Turkish part of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, has been badly assaulted and detained by Turkish police for more than two weeks.
Thank you to everyone who wrote letters on Ferhat's behalf. The Turkish authorities have now agreed to grant him bail.
Unfortunately, it has been set at £2000, much higher than we expected and hard for us to raise alone. In view of the urgency of the situation, we are having to ask for assistance from you. If anyone can help us with a financial donation to get our colleague released, it would be a greatly appreciated act of solidarity.
Please send cheques for whatever you can (payable to the Ilisu Dam Campaign) to 14 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, SW1W 8RG.
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Above: A true portrait of BP? Below: the effect of oil in Nigeria
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On the 4th of February 2002 there will be protests at petrol stations around the world making a clear connection between the proposed Iraq war and our addiction to fossil fuels. There are already 160 demonstrations planned for the US alone and the number grows daily.
PROTESTS AROUND WORLD
Feb 4th Day of Action.
NO WAR FOR OIL!
Pickets at over 100 petrol stations in the US and UK. Occupation of the offices of Exxon Mobil in UK. Petrol station occupation in Barcelona. More...
MORE INFORMATION ON THE DAY OF ACTION AGAINST WAR FOR OIL......
All talk and no action..
from - www.climateconference.org
Bonn, Germany: COP6.5. Today in the final session of the latest round of climate talks, climate justice activists unfurled a banner which read “Trading in Pollution is not the Solution”. This was in response to the dependence upon market-based mechanisms in the latest agreements on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.
