[www-features] Proposed: Thousands march for immediate Climate Action

[Amy L. Dalton]

i see this has been posted:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/925562.shtml

thanks for the great story.


takver wrote:
> A feature from Australia for the global site - there is a new collective
in Melbourne, and a new Indymedia Australia site launched in conjunction
with the Climate Emergency rallies.
>
> Takver
> one of Sydney IMC, Melbourne IMC (new and old), Climate IMC
>
>
> Header: <a href="http://indymedia.org.au/">Australia</a>: Global Warming
TITLE: Climate Emergency: Thousands march for immediate Climate Action
Image: http://indymedia.org.au/files/img_8901.jpg
>
> ===ABSTRACT===
>
> Thousands of people around Australia rallied for emergency action on
Climate Change on June 13, calling for 100% renewable energy by 2020 and
demanding that Australia must make the shift from fossil fuels to wind,
solar and other available renewable technologies. The <a
> href="http://www.climaterally.org/">National Climate Emergency Rally</a>
was held in capital cities around Australia, with people siting down
outside Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's city office in Sydney and a sitdown
protest in front of the Melbourne Town Hall where the ruling Australian
Labor Party were holding their State conference.
> <p>
> <b><a href="http://climateimc.org/">Climate IMC</a> | <a
> href="http://perth.indymedia.org/">Perth Indymedia</a> | Melbourne <a
href="<a
> href="http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/National_Climate_Emergency_Rally_Melbourne_June_2009">National
Climate Emergency Rally Melbourne June 2009</a> -
> Greenlivingpedia">Greenlivingpedia Report</a>, <a
> href="http://indymedia.org.au/2009/06/13/national-climate-emergency-rally-in-melbourne">Photos
1</a>, <a
> href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/sets/72157619603895083/">Photos
2</a>,
> <a
> href="http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/takver/videos/climate_emergency_rally.mpg/view">Rally
Video</a>, <a
> href="http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/takver/videos/Climate03_DamienLawson.MPG/view">Damien
Lawson video</a> | Sydney <a
> href="http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/climate-emergency-sitdown-protest-outside-prime-ministers-sydney-office">Report</a>,
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xdK8IxC9vE">Youtube Video</a> |
<a
> href="http://indymedia.org.au/2009/06/14/brisbane-climate-emergency-rally">Brisbane
Report</a></b></p>
>
>
> ===Main Body =====
> <p>
> The co-ordinated rallies ocurred in all capital cities and some regional
towns and the demands included:
> <p>
> <ul>
>  <li> 100% renewable energy by 2020. Australia must make the shift from
> fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy from wind, solar and other
available technologies.
>  <li> Green collar jobs not job cuts. We can renew our economy by
> creating hundreds of thousands of 'green jobs' and supporting workers to
make a fair and just transition to sustainable industries.
>  <li> Don't pass the Carbon Pollution law. We need climate policies that
> make the big polluters pay and not allow big companies to go on
> polluting. The CPRS won't reduce Australia's greenhouse pollution.
>  <li> Logging and clearing vegetation are major contributors to climate
> change as forests and woodlands are important carbon stores.
> </ul>
> <p>
> This follows a <a
> href="http://indymedia.org.au/2009/06/14/key-environment-groups-dump-acf-over-carbon-trading">break
in the environment movement over carbon trading</a> where several
environmental groups such as Greenpeace Australia, Friends of the Earth
Australia and the Wilderness Society have refused to follow the
> Australian Conservation Foundation qualified endorsement of the Federal
Government proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), and have
put forward a <a
> href="http://www.foe.org.au/resources/publications/climate-justice/Plan%20B%20Report_Lores_FINAL.pdf/view">Plan
"B"</a>, an agenda for immediate climate action.
> <p>
> Many activists criticised the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
(CPRS) as giving too many free concessions to the fossil fuel industry,
with minimal direction of capital to renewable energy projects. In other
words, Business As Usual.
> <p>
> In December 2009, governments of the world will meet in Copenhagen to
forge a critical new global climate change agreement. The Climate
Emergency Rally sought to motivate people at the grassroots to pressure
politicians to secure strong global action to cut emissions in time to
avoid catastrophic climate change.
> <p>
> At the Melbourne protest a woman from Tuvalu, Emeretta Cross, spoke on
the rising seas threat to her country and other low lying nations and
spoke of the need of acting for the children and their future. Damien
Lawson, National Climate Justice Co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth,
spoke on the need for a campaign of popular civil disobedience if
politicians continue taking no action or ineffectual action to rapidly
decrease carbon emissions.
> <p>
> Read more on the <a href="http://www.climateactioncentre.org/">Climate
Action Centre</a> website which organised the protest in Melbourne. <p>
> <p><b>Photos and Videos</b></p>
> <ul>
> <li><a
> href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/sets/72157619603895083/">Climate
Emergency Rally June 2009</a> - Takver's Flickr site
>
> <li><a
> href="http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/takver/videos/Climate03_DamienLawson.MPG/view">Climate
Emergency: Damien Lawson calls for Civil Disobedience Campaign for
action on Climate Change</a> - Engagemedia video by Takver
>
> <li><a
> href="http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/takver/videos/climate_emergency_rally.mpg/view">Climate
Emergency: thousands march in Melbourne calling for action</a> -
Engagemedia video by Takver
>
> <p><b>Other Reports</b></p>
> <ul>
> <li>Greenlivingpedia - <a
> href="http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/National_Climate_Emergency_Rally_Melbourne_June_2009">National
Climate Emergency Rally Melbourne June 2009</a>
> <li>Greenleft Weekly - <a
> href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/798/41126">Thousands rally for
100% renewables by 2020</a>
> </ul>
>
>
> --
> Takver
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make
> the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and
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