Loppuvuonna 2010 tulee myös kuluneeksi 200 vuotta Meksikon itsenäisyystaistelun ja 100 vuotta Meksikon vallankumouksen alusta, mikä kiihdyttänee yhteiskunnallista keskustelua ja kansalaistoimintaa. Myyttinen vuosi lietsoo puhetta radikaalista yhteiskunnallisesta muutoksesta, jopa vallankumouksesta.

Meksikon ruohonjuuritason kansanliikkeisiin ja näiden taustoihin voi tutustua uudella Toinenmeksiko.org-sivustolla, joka tarjoaa tietoa myös maan ihmisoikeustilanteesta sekä alkuperäiskansojen kulttuureista ja kamppailuista. Sivusto tulee seuraamaan ilmastonmuutokseen ja ilmasto-oikeudenmukaisuuteen liittyvää keskustelua ja kansalaistoimintaa Meksikon paikallisten liikkeiden näkökulmasta. Arkisia havaintoja ja lyhyempiä huomioita Etelä-Meksikon tilanteesta löytynee http://toinenmeksiko.wordpress.com -blogista.

Tervetuloa tutustumaan valtavirran tiedonvälityksessä pimentoon jäävään Meksikoon!

www.toinenmeksiko.org
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The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement – lehtisen voi ladata täältä.

Aktivistit häiritsivät Business Europe -ryhmän kokousta Brysselissä keskiviikkoaamuna. Kun suurteollisuuden edustajien ilmastokonferenssin piti alkaa Euroopan komission päämajan viereisessä Charlemagne -rakennuksessa yhdeksältä aamulla, olivatkin aktivistit lukinneet itsensä oviin estäen sisäänpääsyn. Lisäksi aulassa oli ilmapallojen avulla nostettu kattoon ärsyttävää meteliä pitävä torvi. Lisää englanniksi. ]]> http://www.hyokyaalto.org/2009/11/ilmastolobbareita-hairittiin-brysselissa/feed/ 0 http://www.hyokyaalto.org/2009/05/our-climate-is-not-your-business/ http://www.hyokyaalto.org/2009/05/our-climate-is-not-your-business/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 20:38:13 +0000 admin http://www.hyokyaalto.org/?p=39 Call to Action

Our future is at stake. Climate change is happening, and NOW is the time to take action against the forces driving it!

While the preparations and mobilisations for the COP15 are underway all over the world, a sinister meeting is under way. On May 24^th – 26^th 2009, again in Copenhagen, corporations, climate criminals, capitalists and their allies, will meet for the World Business Summit on Climate Change (WBSCC).

The very people representing the business elites and multinationals who played the majority part in creating the mess of crises we’re in will now be converging under the guise of a green social conscience to champion business-friendly and marked-based mechanisms.

The Danish Government has already stated that the WBSCC will have a special place in the COP15 negotiations, so the scenario is the same people who’re the cause of the crisis will be asked to solve it — through the same false market mechanisms as we saw with the failed Kyoto Protocol and other greenwash deals,  commodifying more of our commons for the sake of profits!

With some of the biggest emitters (DONG, SAS etc.) as a parts and sponsors of the WBSCC, it is hard to imagine that they would have the future of the planet and of its peoples in mind..

But we will not stand idle by as their show goes on!

So for three days, while business elites will discuss how to spin more profits of the COP15 and put pressure on governments, how to develop and implement false and market based solutions, we’ll be in Copenhagen: Starting off on the 24^th with a massive demo that will aim directly at the summit, displaying our dissent to their world order while trying to shut down their party!

We invite you to come to Copenhagen, to join the May 24^th demo and to take autonomous action on Sunday and on the days that follow, targeting the summit or the corporate crooks involved therein whereever they might be found!

We will surround them and disturb them as much as possible, letting them know once and for all, that OUR CLIMATE IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!

Demo + Action, May 24^th h.14.00

@ Christianshavn Torv

Copenhagen, Denmark

Accommodation, convergence center and other facilities are being arranged. For more information write to notyourbusiness.cph[a]gmail.com or check out www.climateaction09.org

See you in Copenhagen!

A call-out for common actions against the construction of a new nuclear power station in Belarus

26 April, the day of Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Present-day Belarus is a post soviet country, on which territory a regime, police state in form and neoliberal in essence, fortified its position. For already 14 years the country is run by one and the same person Alexander Lukashenko, a populist at the beginning of his governing and openly pursuing antisocial reforms now. The freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly is not about our country. These basic values as well as the political opposition are suppressed. Peaceful gatherings dispersions, political trials, preventive detentions all this has become a norm of political practice in Belarus.

A few years ago the ruling top started to consider another venturesome project, the construction of a nuclear power station (NPS). Lukashenko took a decision regardless of the public wishes and common sense. The decision was made with the active support of the international nuclear lobby. The construction is to be undertaken by a Russian corporation Rosatom. It is to be held in a seismically active zone, in a dozen kilometers away from Lake Naroch the largest lake in Belarus, which is ecologically unique for our country and is a tourists and holiday-makers attraction. On the construction will be spent $4 billion, which otherwise could be outlaid for alternative energy means development.

But the above-listed points pale before the fact that Belarus shared 70% of radioactive contamination after Chernobyl nuclear accident. But the government and the president are absolutely not concerned about that.
They want to create a delayed-action bomb in the country, where one third of the territory is unfit for farming and berries/mushrooms gathering.

We, Antinuclear resistance, an anarchy group, come out against nuclear power engineering on the whole and against the NPS construction specifically in Belarus. A part of political forces in Belarus, including opposition, supported the NPS construction. Unlike them we do not believe in NPS safety irrespective of the political regime, within which it is functioning and being constructed. Our activity is based upon non-authoritarian principles, we do not cooperate with any political parties on a regular base, but with ecological organizations and grassroots initiatives.

On 26 April, the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, an annual demonstration Charnobylski Shlah (The Chernobyl Path) takes place in commemoration of the accident and the people who fell the immediate and lingering victims of it. Starting with the year of 1996 anarchists take part in the demo with ecological and antinuclear slogans. But nowadays the demonstration, instead of just mourning and commemorative event, is gaining a protest mood: in the country, where dozens of thousands people have died as a result of the nuclear accident aftermaths and hundreds of thousands have acquired accident-caused illnesses or become handicapped, a new NPS is to be constructed! And that is done according to the common regulations of an authoritarian police state not asking the peoples opinion, but just confronting them with the fact.

On 26 April we will again take a most active part in the Charnobylski Shlah (The Chernobyl Path), well try to pass along to everyone our clear antinuclear position, will inform as many people as possible of the approaching danger. But now it is not enough! As an instrument of struggle against the state lawlessness we rely on the international support. We urge anarchists, environmentalists, antiauthoritarians of the world to carry out solidarity actions on 26 April 2009. We call for a decentralized day of action of any form, which could help people learn something about our problem and stop the impudent authority and their sponsors from IAEA. If you already take actions on 26 April on your local problems concerning nuclear power engineering, please put on your list the demand for abolition of the NSP construction in Belarus. You are also welcome toparticipate in The Chernobyl Path in Minsk and other actions in Belarus.

Together we will be able to stand up for the right for life on a clean and ecologically safe planet!

If you have any intention to make solidarity actions with the Belarussian antinuclear movement or participate in the demonstration in Belarus please contact us:
antiatombel@riseup.net

Spread out the call out through any accessible for you information channels.

(source: http://avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2169)

(Alkuperäisteksti: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20)

Ensin traderit spekuloivat kodeillamme, töillämme ja rahoillamme katastrofaalisin tuloksin. Nyt keinottelun kohteena on ilmastomme ja maapallon elämän tulevaisuus – ja jälleen kerran hallituksemme kannustavat mukana.

Fossiilipolttoaine-firmojen ja rahoitusyhtiöiden kehittämä päästöoikeuksien järjestelmä on oikea silmänkääntötemppu: sen varjolla ne voivat jatkaa kasvihuonepäästöjen pumppausta ilmakehään ja tahkoavat samalla hurjia windfall-voittoja.(*)

Samalla Britannian hallitus yrittää oikeuttaa Heathrow’n kolmannen kiitoradan ja Kingsnorthin hiilivoimalan rakentamisen väittämällä että uudet päästökauppasuunnitelmat taianomaisesti neutraloivat niiden tuottamat päästöt.

Hallitus antaa päätösvallan ilmastostamme samoille ihmisille ja järjestelmille, jotka saivat aikaan talousromahduksen. Sillä välin toimivat ja oikeudenmukaiset vaihtoehdot jätetään huomiotta.

Meidän on tehtävä loppu tälle hulluudelle.

Olemme rakentaneet leirin sekä Heathrown kiitorataa että Kingsnorthin hiilivoimalaa vastaan. Nyt on aika leiriytyä vastustamaan sitä, mikä   on kummankin taustalla: absoluuttinen usko rajoittamattomiin markkinoihin ja loputtomaan talouskasvuun.

Huhtikuun 1. päivänä G20-maiden johtajat saapuvat Lontooseen. Ilmastokriisin aikanakin heidän reaktionsa  talouslamaan on tarjota hätälainoja autoteollisuudelle, kampanjoida kulutuksen lisäämiseksi ja lunastaa kuiville heitä, jotka aiheuttivat tämän sotkun. Juuri näillä lääkkeillä ilmastokriisi vain pahenee.

Lisätietoja: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

*Windfall-voitot ovat energiayhtiöiden ansiotta päästökaupan takia saamaa voittoa. Päästökauppa nostaa sähkön hintaa sähkömarkkinoilla huomattavasti tuotantokustannuksia enemmän.