Copenhagen, step up the pressure

Copenhagen: One World – Keep Us Safe! BPSDB

from Avaaz.org
With 4 days to go and leaders arriving tomorrow, planet-saving negotiations are failing to deliver. Hopes now rest on a tidal wave of public pressure from ALL of us — as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said at our summit vigil, “We expect a Real [...]

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The Copenhagen Climate Science “Challenged”

BPSDB The Copenhagen Climate Challenge was signposted by a hand-written piece of paper and a small picture of a happy-looking person in a sun hat declaring: “Global warming: Hurrah!” Copenhagen climate summit: Behind the scenes at the sceptics’ conference
This is of course the CFACT sponsored, ICSC hosted Climate Science [...]

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Days of doubts and fears

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is out of this admiration that I am joining a small group of people who will be participating in a rotational solidarity fast [...]

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The Climate Justice Fast Seven

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BPSDB These are the six inspiring activists who have committed to a
water only Fast (hunger strike)
until there is a Just Settlement in Copenhagen,
at least 43 days, and possibly beyond…
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Anna Keenan
Anna began fasting on November 6 at the UN climate talks in Barcelona, along with Sara Svensson, and will continue fasting throughout and perhaps [...]

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Climate Justice Fast, ripples and waves

A drop of water blood BPSDB
Mother
Are you crying?
Forgive us our sins
For we know not what we have done
Forgive me
So I can give the last drop to my brother
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Because he is your son
And I am not your daughter.

Maybe I forgot
Your daughters feed the world.
They say I am
Mother, how did it happen
Your wounds?
Martha, participant
CJF Solidarity Rolling [...]

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Die Mauer (Berlin Wall), the CJF and climate action

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What does the fall of the ‘die Berliner Mauer‘ (the Berlin Wall) on Nov 9, 1989 and the end of the Cold War got to do with the Climate Justice Fast (CJF)?
What can the Wall teach us about the effectiveness of political action in general, and a hunger strike in particular?

Everything!

The reason lies in the [...]

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Climate Justice Fast is to be … indefinite

BPSDB This morning two amazing women, Anna Keenan and Sara Svensson, gave a press conference in Barcelona about the Climate Justice Fast. Nothing I might say could compare to their words and actions. I can’t embed the webcast, so please click the link below and hear why they are putting their health and lives on [...]

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Climate Justice Fast begins Nov 6th, how will you be helping?

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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.
Gandhi

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On Nov 6th activists will be beginning a 40 day fast for climate justice, including people in India, the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Bhutan, The Philippines, Germany, [...]

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Zen and the art of planetary maintenance II: Impossible love

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One of the great challenges in any social justice activism is that the ultimate goal is, practically speaking, impossible.  Whether we are talking about ending poverty or human trafficking, stopping climate change or saving the whales, any sort of realistic analysis says that they are unattainable goals that are beyond ridiculous.
Needless to say contemplating the [...]

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