The Cochabamba Global Convergance call out: Local assembly and listening points

Greetings to all those working for global climate justice

The COP15 process was a disaster, all are agreed. It is up to us, global social movements to organize and bring about change, now!. The next very important step starts in 4 days time in Cochabamba, Bolivia: World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (april 19 monday -22 thursday). There is a call out for a Hemispheric convergence (from american to global) the creation of local physical spaces during these dates in an attempt to further horizontalize the process, allow for more people to participate, to act as local gathering points to:

1 – listen to/ watch output from Cochabamba
2 – create local assemblies to discuss global/ local issues, strategies etc…
3 – participate via local assemblies with groups in cochabamba via Mayfirst collective who will be “organising virtual interactive meetings”

See end of post for technical details or view original call out from Alfredo Lopez alfredo at mayfirst.org: Join us at Cochabamba/USA event April 20!

The idea of more people / groups / networks participating together in a singular point in time in their local area, is perhaps a vital mechanism / space / system that we, social movements, have not utilized to its full potential. If we push it, we might really feel that WE ARE WINNING.

Last December in cold Copenhagen much things happened. Since, most people only think about the disaster of the official COP15, but for more of us who were there on the streets, magical things happened that have filled us with hope and on which we are building. 100,000 marched in Copenhagen on the Saturday demanding SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE. This PEOPLES ASSEMBLY in Cochabamba is but the second step!

During those cold days of activity on the streets of Copenhagen, RECLAIM POWER was the main CJA (climate justice action) demo. We succeeded in our aim, partly (due to police violence not allowing people inside the centre out- gaurdian vid here), which was to create an open, horizontal space for a PEOPLES ASSEMBLY. We managed to make a live radio stream of that assembly thanks to indymedia and dissident island (  THE PEOPLES ASSEMBLY | POST HORIZONTAL PROCESS FEEDBACK SESSION + Joyfull insights | RECLAIM POWER SOUNDSCAPE ), but only a few people listened. If we can improve this area of COMMUNICATION, perhaps we can really radicalise our battle, lets try next week. Full streams from Cochabamba in both Spanish and English can be viewed also at http://oneclimate.net/bolivia

Climate Camp UK is sending a few people to Bolivia. They will be using Twitter to link to news, reports, info, multimedia uploads and blogs before, during and after the conference: http://twitter.com/WPCCC. Also, you can follow what’s going & feedback to climate camp people in Bolivia here: ning, blog and facebook.

We have had initial discussions about setting up these “listening nodes” to plug into the MAYFIRST network in Dublin, Ireland (via seomra spraoi) and in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain (transition, el clima no esta en venda, decreixament groups). We will add more as we hear of them. A previous similar experiment was tried during the 2007 world social forum in Kenya: Indymedia radio support for WSF 2007 from Kenya + Indymedia.org

This is step 2… paso a paso, hasta la victoria…

VIVA PACHAMAMA

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(Peoples assembly @ Copenhagen 2009 – the first step…)

(oneclimate.net covered Copenhagen and will stream out in Spanish and English from Cochabamba)

Cambiando el mundo despuis CPH | Changing the world after Copenhagen – fotos, vids, audios, commenteries – VIVA PACHAMAMA

El Pueblo unido jamás será vencido

(The people united, will never be defeated)

Slowly getting back to the “normal world” after hectic, v intense time @ CPH, followed by switch off time in nature and wandering to reflect on it all, and to prepare for next chapter…

Lentemente, volviendo al “mundo normal” despuis estas dias tan loco y intenso @ CPH ( copenhagen), siguendo con tiempo solo en la natura y viajando por reflechir sobre todos, y por preparar por la proximo capitulo en esta historia…

Esta articulo tiene algunas de los links principales por fotos, video, audio, articulos y mas despuis nuestras luchas en los callers frios de Copenhagen

This article has some of the principal links to photos, video, audio, articles and more from our struggles in the cold streets of Copenhagen

VIVA PACHAMAMA

(long live mother earth)

(video – Peoples assembly)

HANDEL MACHT KLIMA-Karawane Tagebuch

Freitag, 11.12.09: Kopenhagen

PHOTOS FROM THE EASTERN ROUTE

´Don´t buy the lie´ war das Motto vom heutigen Anti-Corporate-Day. Als Sammelpunkt dient der Nytorv Platz in der Innenstadt, Ziel ist die Störung von Lobby-Arbeit durch dänische Konzerne. Farbige Bänder kennzeichnen die Gruppen: Eine Gruppe will versuchen, in die Gebäude zu kommen, eine Gruppe soll sie schützen. Die Noise-Group macht sich mit Samba-Band auf den Weg, die Visibility-Gruppe soll Sichtbarkeit mit zum Beispiel Plakaten oder Graffities kreieren. Momo hat ein blaues Band, aber was es heißt, weiß sie nicht. Irgendwie enden alle ab als Noise-Gruppe, vielfach durchschnitten und teilweise gekesselt durch Polizeiketten. Das eine Mal hilft Dreistigkeit, um durchzukommen. Das andere Mal werden Dunk und Suria von Polizisten in den Kessel hineingezogen und gestoßen, der Rest ihrer Bezugsgruppe steht noch draußen und kann es nicht fassen. Dunk nutzt die Präsenz mehrerer Kameras, Suria über die Situation bei sich zu Hause und ihre Gründe für ihr Kommen zu interviewen. Die Polizisten stehen dumpf daneben und geben irgendwann auf – allerdings nur, um dann den Rest der Bezugsgruppe mit zu kesseln. Aber nicht für lange, dann verziehen sie sich lieber.

So geht es noch länger weiter – ist ganz lustig.

ANARCHY ON THE STREETS OF GOLD