From Copenhagen to a solution, “swarming” might save the planet!
New video being launched in London which explains why Copenhagen hadn’t got a chance of presenting a real solution because it touches the infinite growth model of a transnational power base, being anti-consumerism etc. The film then takes a leap into the past presenting what really [...]
|
||||||
|
Plastic waiting chairs await me in the spacious immigration offices built for streams of millions of European poor from Italy, Spain and other nations at war. The huddled masses arrived flea-bitten and seasick in their millions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These fine buildings are reminiscent of the best [...] “While the corporations continue to believe in the strength of global supply chains. Editorial: Yes we know the British don’t really live in Europe, rather Europe lives off the British coastline, but wait I digress. Back to the negotiations in Copenhagen and now in Bonn… Are [...] 
Part one of three A short sequence of three videos of a speech given in English by Pablo Solon in Vancouver Canada in the run-up to the Conference in Cochabamba Bolivia where I shall be next week. The Structural Causes of Climate Change What follows is a discussion of structural problems in the relationship between national economies and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The emphasis is on the role of transnational capital itself, independent of national political economics. It is argued that in order to prevent further environmental degradation, pollution and climate change, the [...] Editor’s note: As someone who shall be going to a conference this month in Bolivia I would like to alert you all about the “Awkward Squad”, countries that think the UN is important and who prefer not to rubber stamp back-door discussions and ‘agreements’ and wait to die so that the no-so-awkward squad can squirm their [...] Currently, the movements are debating the question whether this will be simply a top-down jamboree designed to celebrate compañero Evo’s empowerment by the indigenous movements as their new spokesperson; or whether it will be a space genuinely organised by movements from below where we discuss strategies and tactics for the upcoming global fight for climate justice – or will it be something in between? More concretely, I think that from an ‘actionist’ (i.e. street-based activist) perspective, I think we spent a lot of time and energy in the run-up to Copenhagen to create alliances with, and design actions accessible to, our friends and comrades in groups that had been working within the summit for a long time. In doing so, we went significantly outside of our own comfort zones, our activist ‘politics as usual’. I think that it is now time for our allies to make the same moves, to focus their attention away from these failed summits, and towards a more ‘movementist’ strategy. The danger, in other words, is that the new diagonalism draws our activist energies towards a process that we know to have failed, while neglecting our ‘core competencies’: not only ‘shutting stuff down’, but also ‘creating other worlds’ – the latter doesn’t really happen at UN-summits… [...] The task of collectively taking over the key means of production and decommodifying the major processes through which goods are produced and humans reproduce their existence are immense. The tasks of technology transfer as part of a wider process of reparations combined with degrowth are perhaps even bigger tasks. We are certainly not yet ready, especially in northern countries, where the major emissions cuts have to be made. [...] |
BlogrollConyunturaDeudaEnergíaMERCOSURVidéo |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 densidad regional - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
Comentarios recientes