[Imc-climate-organising] Callout on climate protests in leadup and during Copenhagen
ned haughton
naughteco1 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 17:37:40 PST 2009
Takver: Brilliant, send it.
Oleg: you can create your own username at the site: go to
http://www.climateimc.org/en/user/register
cheers
ned
Oleg Izyumenko wrote:
> Hi Takver,
>
> I've been a very passive (lurking) member on this list since the
> founding of Climate Indymedia. I think I can start contributing more
> now, with original posts covering protest actions in Southern Sweden
> (that's where I am from) - we are preparing a big demonstration in
> Malmö this Wednesday, which coincides with the EU ministerial summit
> there, and with posts from Copenhagen where I will be together with
> the international youth delegation. I've been going to climate
> negotiations regularly in the past year, taking part in actions and
> blogging about them (mostly in Swedish on www.CoolaNer.nu
> <http://www.CoolaNer.nu> and sometimes in Russian on
> community.livejournal.com/CoolClimate
> <http://community.livejournal.com/CoolClimate> ). Now I hope to blog
> more for the IMC, if you remind me my username and password, please :-)
>
> If my account was removed from the IMC since some time ago, then I'd
> like to register a new one, with a username /Oleg326756/
> /
> /
> Thank you in advance! Look forward to work with you in Copenhagen!
>
> /Oleg
> /
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM, takver <veracity at takver.com
> <mailto:veracity at takver.com>> wrote:
>
> I propose that I send the following email to IMC-communication and see
> what happens :)
> Takver
>
> ========================
> Climate IMC: callout on climate protests in leadup and during
> Copenhagen
>
> Copenhagen climate negotiations are approaching. Momentum is
> developing
> by climate activists and the global justice movements for actions
> before
> and during the negotiations - in Copenhagen and around the world.
>
> Naomi Klein has compared Copenhagen 2009 to Seattle 1999 - an
> important
> point of change - Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
> http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2009/11/copenhagen-seattle-grows
>
> Indymedia was an important component of the protests against the
> WTO in
> Seattle, in being the voice and the news from the streets.
>
> Ten years later and blogging software is commonly used. Photos and
> videos can be uploaded to a variety of free community and commercial
> hosts. Mainstream news internet sites often allow comments, and
> sometimes source news from their readers. There are now a number of
> citizen journalism sites, but none yet with the breadth of the global
> indymedia network.
>
> Indymedia has become a niche for social justice blogging and activist
> news, still important, but only one node of many. Our greatest
> strength
> is our focus on the local and global, and the network that brings us
> together to work in solidarity.
>
> On global projects I think we presently lack energy. The global
> features
> working group activity is much quieter than a few years ago. I think
> other global working groups may be the same.
>
> So, I propose we give some focus to climate actions and the climate
> movement in the build up to and during the Copenhagen climate treaty
> negotiations (COP15).
>
> * Feature climate Actions and issues on your local IMC
> * When you publish a local story, republish either a lead-in or
> the full
> story on Climate IMC with attribution to the original story
> * Co-ordinate coverage for regional actions (USA- Nov 30) and global
> actions (Dec 12) for Climate IMC and www-features
>
> Climate IMC, born November 2005, has never quite completed the
> new-imc
> process, probably for lack of energy. Up to the present it has
> been held
> together by 4-5 people from disparate locations in the english
> speaking
> world. Just recently we have had a request for the site to be more
> open
> for speakers of spanish, and the languages module has been
> enabled. But
> this will take effort of more than the few people currently involved.
>
> How you can help Climate IMC: http://climateimc.org
> 1. Contribute lead-ins or full stories on climate activism
> published on
> your own IMC
> 2. Contribute original stories to Climate IMC
> 3. Join Climate IMC to help moderate the site, write stories, collate
> and publish features
> 4. If you have language skills, particularly spanish, help with
> article
> translation and moderation of comments posted in that language.
>
> I expect most people to help through 1 and 2, but the Climate
> collective
> welcomes new members prepared to work 3 and 4. If you wish to join
> Climate IMC, send an email to imc-climate-organising list, with some
> roll call information:
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-climate-organising
> * Who you are,
> * what local IMC you are from,
> * what skills you have,
> * why you want to get involved.
>
> ====
> Copenhagen may provide an opportunity to reinvigorate our network. But
> we are nolonger alone with a diversity of voices speaking out
> through a
> multiplicity of sites. The global justice movement has grown in
> the last
> 10 years. Lets see if we can use our network to make Copenhagen a
> tipping point for increased climate justice and global
> justice.
>
> --
> Takver - http://www.takver.com/soapbox/climate/
> one of Climate IMC, Australia IMC, www-features working group.
>
> "Every day we delay action on climate change, we increase the cost,"
> Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Australia
> “The world is upheld by the VERACITY of good men [and women]: they
> make
> the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and
> nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such
> society.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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