Comments on: For New Orleans, for the survivors of Katrina, for climate justice http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Md. Zahid Hossain Khan http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59099 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:23:55 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59099 Grameen Development Society (GDS)
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Phone: 088-0431-2174905, Mobile- 01716952749
Email- gdsbsl@gmail.com

]]> By: Evan Webb http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59082 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:13:23 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59082 thank you very much for this post, Brian. this is absolutely true. no solution that involves injustice is not a solution (“clean coal,” nuclear, ethanol)…

the video report will reveal some clear bias (read propaganda for the state) for anyone who looks out for those things. listen to how the reporter speaks of the situation: “the police had no choice but to use pepper spray.” it was the “protesters” who “provoked the cops.” this rather than saying that the injustice of the proposal is what provoked protesters who had “no choice” but to come and resist (since it was their homes that are threatened with destruction). also notice how the reporter seems to doubt the story of the woman being tasered and pepper-sprayed, while, at the same time, taking the police superintendent’s statement at face value — ‘the cops acted appropriately.’

]]> By: Amy Ortiz http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59058 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:39:03 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59058 This is a really good post. I fully agree that as a movement we need to start understanding and articulating the links between all these systems of oppression and the climate crisis. If we continue to push for false solutions that continue to sacrifice and oppress communities we will NOT solve the climate crisis. The climate crisis will require deep change solutions, more than just lobbying our politicians for Green Jobs.
This struggle won’t be over when we pass tough legislation to cut carbon emissions (which we will). This is a struggle against a insane paradigm where the wealth and profit of a few are placed over the wellbeing of people and planet. Lets continue to advocate for real change and real solutions to this current economic, ecological, spiritual and moral crisis we face.

]]> By: Angelyn http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59056 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:07:09 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/21/for-new-orleans-for-the-survivors-of-katrina-for-climate-justice/#comment-59056 Thanks for remembering us here in Appalachia. It feels like no one will help us fight the coal industry. It’s a fight I have been involved in for thirty years and still the mountains are being blasted away… the watersheds destroyed… The coal industry is a big mean greedy chomping GIANT. Our land is being annihilated, along with our people. I want to paste that link in again right here: http://www.stopmountaintopremoval.org/marias-story.html Thanks for remembering us here in Appalachia. And please spread the word!

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