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Calif. climate activists gear up for Nov. 21
Published November 19, 2015. | By Socialist Action.
Nov. 2015 Oakland climate
BY JEFF MACKLER
— OAKLAND, Calif. — As the 21st United Nations Conference of Parties
(COP21) approaches, climate-crisis activists in the U.S. and around the
world are gearing up for massive protests both before and after the Nov.
30–Dec. 12 UN meeting set for Paris. Some 40,000 government, corporate,
and “civil society” representatives are expected to accomplish little or
nothing with regard to binding agreements to qualitatively reduce carbon
emissions or to rapidly move to a 100 percent sustainable system of
energy production based on solar, wind, geothermal, and other
non-polluting technologies.
In Northern California, over 150 environmental-based, social justice,
faith-based, labor, and socialist organizations have come together to
form the Northern California Climate Mobilization (NCCM), which is
organizing a mass march and rally on Nov. 21 at Oakland’s downtown Civic
Center/Frank Ogawa Plaza.
NCCM organizers hope to significantly surpass last year’s Sept. 21
action of 5000 in Oakland that paralleled the nationally organized
350.org People’s Climate March of 400,000 in New York City.
With an initial budget of $16,000, activists have planned a major
rally that includes leading representatives from a diverse range of
organizations, including May Boeve, executive director of the national
350.org. the heads of the San Francisco and Alameda County central labor
councils, the Sierra Club, Black Lives Matter, and a host of frontline
and indigenous community activists as well as a number of leading
performing bands and poets.
To date, some 60,000 flyers have been distributed in all Bay Area
counties. The Silkwood Affinity Group of the Sunflower Alliance raised
an additional $7000 to place eight-foot billboards at seven key Bay Area
Rapid Transit (BART) stations and on BART trains. Several buses have
been chartered to bring outlying activists from Santa Clara, Sonoma, and
Sacramento counties.
Nov. 21 was chosen by NCCM leaders, as opposed to the internationally
scheduled date of Nov. 29, to maximize participation and avoid the usual
difficulties associated with organizing mass events over the
Thanksgiving weekend.
As compared to last year’s Sept. 21 mobilization here, which was
essentially limited politically to the rather vague entreatments of the
New York City event, NCCM meetings, following some months of discussion
and debate, adopted a rather comprehensive set of points of unity and
demands.
The demands reflect the growing awareness that to win in this
existential struggle to literally save humanity from the horrors of
fossil fuel-induced climate catastrophe, a mass worldwide movement is
necessary, which includes all struggles for social and environmental
justice.
NCCM demands are listed in the box on this page.
Over the past year, NCCM has emerged as a leading united front and
ongoing coalition aimed at the education and broad mobilization of
working people in all their diverse manifestations to challenge the
undeniable evidence of climate catastrophe. With each passing day,
increasing layers of the world population have come to understand that
immediate, drastic, and unprecedented measures are now required to
defend all life on earth from those who would subordinate it to
fossil-fuel interests and corporate profiteers and their governments.
The fact that international and U.S. climate crisis activists and
organizations have called for continued mass mobilizations through COP21
is a crystal clear statement that few, if any, of the organizations
currently engaged in this vital struggle have any confidence in the
ability of world “leaders” to fundamentally change their present
doomsday course. 350.org and other leading groups have already begun
discussions of follow-up mass mobilization in the spring of 2016.
For information about NCCM see: NorCalClimateMob.net or contact:
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Northern California Climate Mobilization Demands
A global agreement to implement dramatic and rapid reduction in global
warming pollution! Keep fossil fuels in the ground! 100% clean, safe,
renewable energy! End all fracking, tar sands mining and pipelines,
offshore drilling, arctic drilling. Stop expansion of the extractive
economy. Wind, solar, geothermal power now. No coal exports or
crude-by-rail bomb trains in Northern California.
A dramatic and rapid reduction in global warming pollution is necessary
to create a world united to repair the ravages of climate change!
Industrial countries and polluting corporations of the global north need
to pay their ecological debt to society and to the global south by
providing funding for developing countries and vulnerable communities
worldwide to adapt to the impacts of climate change and convert to
sustainable economies. A world with an economy that works for people and
the planet!
Billions of dollars for energy efficiency and conservation. We need a
just transition to a sustainable, demilitarized economy based on
renewable energy, clean transportation, and jobs for all at union wages.
Convert water-wasting, polluting factory farms to sustainable organic
agriculture. End corporate personhood; end “money equals free speech”;
end billionaire purchase of elections.
A demilitarized world with peace and social justice for everyone; where
Black Lives Matter; with justice and respect for immigrants and
migrants; where good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities
belong to all. End all forms of oppression and discrimination! No to
environmental racism and pollution of indigenous, low-income, and
frontline nations and communities. Respect all indigenous lands. No
militarized police. No wars. No nuclear weapons or power. A true
ecological approach must integrate questions of justice to protect
biodiversity, honor all life on earth, and lift all people out of poverty.
Photo: Activists at a planning meeting of the Northern California
Climate Mobilization hold a banner advertising their Nov. 21 action.
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