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Copenhagen: Maldives, Tuvalu, small island nations lead fight for real action on climate
President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed: ``You can't negotiate with physics!''.
December 15, 2009 -- Klimaforum09 -- The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, stressed the power of people to take action on climate change, when he spoke to a packed audience at Klimaforum09, the alternative climate summit in Copenhagen, on December 14.
“The social movements have the power to save the planet from the effects of climate change. My message to you is to continue the process of movement building after the conference”, the president said.
Mohamed Nasheed used his own personal story to illustrate the point. A few years ago he was in prison because of his work as a human rights activists, but upon his release he became the first democratic elected president of the island nation acutely threatened by the rising sea levels.
Copenhagen: People's summit develops a people-powered response to the climate crisis
December 15, 2009 -- Green Left Weekly -- Just over a week into the December 7-18 United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen (COP15) , thousands of ordinary people from around the world have already participated in what is being billed as the “people’s climate summit”, Klimaforum09, also taking place in the Danish capital. The difference between the two forums could not be more stark.
Outside Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, where COP15 is being held, has a circus-like quality, with delegates battling their way through a gauntlet of protesters and lobbyists. One group carries a banner emblazoned with the slogan “EU: pay your climate debt” and chants “The world is watching”. Inside, registered delegates, government diplomats and NGO members make their way through airport-style security checks to participate in what is increasingly seen as a redundant talkshop.
By contrast, the Klimaforum is open, free and a genuine meeting of different groups, activists, scientists, farmers and artists to discuss a democratic, people-powered response to the climate crisis.
Copenhagen: System change -- not climate change: the Klimaforum09 Declaration
December 8, 2009 -- Democracy Now! -- Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey: ``The global North owes a climate debt to Africa.'' Click HERE for transcript.
A people's declaration from Klimaforum09, Copenhagen, December 10, 2009
Summary
There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more fertile planet and more fulfilling lives to future generations.
Honduras: `The election was a farce, new regime will not be recognised' -- National Resistance Front
By the National Resistance Front against the Coup d'etat
Communiqué number 41
November 30, 2009 -- The National Resistance Front Against the Coup d'etat, to the Honduran people and the international community communicates:
Honduras: Why the resistance will boycott the November 29 election; Zelaya on accord
November 10, 2009 – LeftClick/Latin Radical – Ricardo Salgado, an Honduran analyst of the “
Honduras: Deal to restore Zelaya collapses under weight of US-coup regime's duplicity
Real News Network report, November 5, 2009: `US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it'
See also ``Honduras: Why the resistance will boycott the November 29 election; Zelaya on accord''
By Stuart Munckton
November 8, 2009 -- The accord signed on October 30 to resolve the crisis that has brought Honduras to a standstill since the June 28 military coup has collapsed. The coup leader Roberto Micheletti has continued to refuse to accept the accord’s insistence that elected President Manuel Zelaya be reinstated.
By Graham Milner