Comments on: Climate Justice Activists confront Carbon Trade Summit with demonstration, direct action

By: Cari

Cari — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:20:58 +0000

I did not see rAN or GP or them like that, to the commenter who heard it from ran, could you share the email or the link? That would do a lot to offset growing criticism of them there.

By: Duff Badgley

Duff Badgley — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:29:07 +0000

I’m so pleased these activists confronted the carbon traders, trying to touch off mass resistance to all false solutions. Will we let them inspire us?

Duff

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Organizing to Win Redux « It’s Getting Hot In Here — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:04:25 +0000

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By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:18:49 +0000

was a success, arrests were evaded, yet actions still occurred. No mainstream enviro groups were there, except EDF and NRDC who were inside trying to help this cap and trade along…. RAN was absent, unfortunately… but I will look for their next email, with a request for funding

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By: Rev. Billy Talen

Rev. Billy Talen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:41:58 +0000

It was an disturbing setting. Our action was in one of those anonymous Wall Street canyons, but we were speechifying and singing and chanting and stilt-walking and trying to stay warm next to a section of Irish meadow, completely realistic, constructed as homage to the Irish potato famine. Thematically we had the obvious comparison of the imperial theft of food from Ireland during the famine and the theft of clean air by this current empire. We had, too, the poignant juxtaposition of the earth (the Irish meadow is about a half-acre) and the utterly glassy and impersonal slab of modernism before us, in which sat the elite conspirators.

I thank the activists who came to town and took us to this spot, to this holy struggle for life.

Rev Billy

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:53:52 +0000

Marie, I learned of this action through the Rainforest Action Network.

By: marie s.

marie s. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:05:45 +0000

This was an excellent action. I noticed there were more people outside than attending the Carbon Trading Summit! But Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth weren’t anywhere to be found. WTF!

Why didn’t GP/RAN etc. rally their peeps to help make it happen? Too nervous about rallying their members to challenge carbon trading and existing false solutions? This is the time for these well-funded groups to take a clear public stand. Instead it took hundreds of New Yorkers and people from out of town – the real grassroots – to organize this.

It was awesome. People got inside and disrupted the lunch of Environmental Defense Fund and Chase Bank and other fat cats. About five activists just walked into a curtained off area of the hotel and told them what we think of their profiteering and betrayal of the future of the planet.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:00:24 +0000

arrests?