Loading ...Reclaim Power - Push for Climate Justice - 16th December
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On the 16th of December, at the start of the high-level ‘ministerial’ phase of the two-week summit, we, the movements for global justice, will take over the conference for one day and transform it into a People’s Summit for Climate Justice. Using only the force of our bodies to achieve our goal, our Reclaim Power! march will push into the conference area and enter the building, disrupt the sessions and use the space to talk about our agenda, an agenda from below, an agenda of climate justice, of real solutions against their false ones. Our action is one of civil disobedience: we will overcome any physical barriers that stand in our way – but we will not respond with violence if the police tries to escalate the situation.
Our goal is not to shut down the entire summit. But this day will be ours, it will be the day we speak for ourselves and set the agenda: climate justice now! We cannot trust the market with our future, nor put our faith in unsafe, unproven and unsustainable technologies. We know that on a finite planet, it is impossible to have infinite economic growth - 'green' or otherwise. Instead of trying to fix a destructive system, we are advancing alternatives that provide real and just solutions to the climate crisis: leaving fossil fuels in the ground; reasserting peoples' and community control over resources; relocalising food production; reducing overconsumption, particularly in the North; recognising the ecological and climate debt owed to the peoples of the South and making reparations; and respecting indigenous and forest peoples' rights We want to generate a sense of excitement, we want our actions to resonate around the world, and the way to do that is through countless individuals, groups and movements declaring their intention to take part. Get in touch if you want to invite someone to report on the Reclaim Power! action and the issues at the heart of our protest Reclaim Power! Pushing for Climate Justice is organised by Climate Justice Action, a transglobal movement network. For more information, regular updates on our meetings and actions, and for news about the global struggles for climate justice, go to http://www.climate-justice-action.org and follow @actforclimate
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