Paris

Paris Is Burning

June 5, 2017 James P. Hare, www.rosalux-nyc.org Educate! Climate Change, Paris, Paris Agreement, Trump Administration

By James P. Hare for Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - With Trump’s decision to formally withdraw from the Paris Agreement, he has put an end to months of apparent indecision. This withdrawal does not dissolve the agreement, which still includes nearly every nation on the planet, but it is hard to imagine how an already weak agreement can be expected to slow—not to mention reverse—greenhouse gas emissions without the participation of the United States. Seeing this decision as anything other than a nail in the coffin of the global climate regime is nothing but wishful thinking. For an administration that has promoted a seemingly unending series of bad policies—from healthcare to immigration to militarism to the unceasing transfer of wealth from working people to the wealthy—this may be its worst. When future generations look back at the harm done by this president, they may remember this as his greatest crime. This is not to minimize the damage of his other policies or of the racism, xenophobia, and misogyny that drove his campaign and brought him into the White House, but climate change is the ultimate issue. It will affect everyone while exacerbating existing inequalities, and we only have one chance to get it right.

Violent Clashes Break Out At May Day March In Paris

May 3, 2017 Ross Domoney, www.roarmag.org Resist! March, May Day, Paris

By Ross Domoney for ROAR Magazine - Heavy clashes erupt at May Day demonstrations in Paris ahead of a historic election that will see the neoliberal Macron square off against the neo-fascist Le Pen.

Banlieues Debout Movement Targets Police Brutality, Economic Hardship

August 27, 2016 Ericka Schiche, www.occupy.com Resist! France, Nuit Debout, Paris, police brutality

By Ericka Schiche for Occupy - The banlieues, suburbs existing beyond the Périphérique on the outskirts of Paris, are part of a complex socioeconomic and cultural world which is seldom viewed outside the context of its issues and problems. It is a place only its working class residents truly know, and their stories often do not mirror the scenes in La Haine. With his 1960 black and white short film "L'Amour existe," referenced by Luc Sante in his book The Other Paris, Maurice Pialat introduced the banlieue not as the regressive dystopian zone it is frequently described as these days, but simply as a place to live and enjoy life.

Chaos Erupts In Paris As Riot Police Unleash On 50,000-Strong Labor Protest

June 15, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Labor, Paris, Protests, Reform

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - French police unleashed tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators Tuesday as tens of thousands packed the streets of Paris in an outpouring of opposition to the government's anti-labor agenda. The CGT labor union, which helped organized the march, hoped Tuesday's mobilization would be the largest since protests launched over new labor standards, which allow employers to more easily fire workers and create precarious, lower paid positions in place of permanent contracts. "I’ve been to all the demos since March because I want to live in dignity, not just survive," Aurelien Boukelmoune, a 26-year-old technician, told AFP in Paris. "I want the reforms to be withdrawn, pure and simple. Only then will it stop. For the government's sake, they should withdraw the law, otherwise we'll block the economy."

At Least 40 Injured, 58 Arrested In Paris Anti-Labor Reform Protests

June 15, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Labor, Labor protest, Paris, Protests, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of RT - At least 40 people, including 29 officers, were injured as protesters against France’s highly unpopular proposed labor law clashed with police in Paris. Police made 58 arrests and deployed tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators. Twenty-nine officers and 11 rioters have been injured during clashes in the heart of the French capital, police said.

7 Policemen Injured 17 People Arrested At Pro-Kurdish Rally In Paris

February 10, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Paris, Protesters Arrested, Protests

By Staff of Routers - A protest in Paris against Turkey's deadly military operation in the town of Cizre turned violent leaving seven police officers wounded and 17 pro-Kurdish activists detained. Similar rallies took place in some other European cities. The demonstrations followed media reports that Turkish forces killed about 60 people in the basement of a building in the southeastern Kurdish town of Cizre. Around 150 pro-Kurdish activists initially gathered at the Turkish embassy on Avenue de Lamballe, on Monday, Le Parisien reports.

Anti-Nuclear Climbers Defy Paris Protest Ban, Four Arrested

December 16, 2015 Staff, www.nukeresister.org Resist! COP21, Paris, Protesters Arrested, Protests

By Staff of The Nuclear Resister - Four anti-nuclear activists defied the state of emergency ban on public protest in Paris on Wednesday, December 2, climbing up the steel cables beneath the modern Arche de la Defense to hang banners. French environmentalists joined German climbers from the action group Robin Wood in the ascent as the COP 21 climate talks were underway. They first deployed small banners reading “Don’t Nuke the Climate – Stop EPR” (referring to the latest French reactor design). Police were quickly on the scene, including 20 from a specially equipped mountain brigade in town for the event.

Post-Game Thoughts On The Paris Talks

December 15, 2015 Ezra Silk and Margaret Klein Salamon, www.theclimatemobilization.org Resist! Climate Change, COP21, Paris

By Ezra Silk and Margaret Klein Salamon for The Climate Mobilization - The Paris climate talks are over, and the postmortems on the final agreement are flooding in. Here’s our take: After 21 years of negotiations, we finally have an agreement that the majority of nations are expected to ratify. This is a critical breakthrough in terms of shared global understanding of the crisis. We are grateful that world leaders have agreed to make an effort to collectively tackle the climate crisis.

Paris Deal: Epic Fail On A Planetary Scale

December 13, 2015 Danny Chivers and Jess Worth, www.newint.org Educate! Climate Change, Climate Justice, COP21, Paris

BY Danny Chivers and Jess Worth for the New Internationalist. After two weeks of tortuous negotiations – well, 21 years, really – governments announced the Paris Agreement. This brand new climate deal will kick in in 2020. But is it really as ‘ambitious’ as the French government is claiming? Before the talks began, social movements, environmental groups, and trade unions around the world came together and agreed on a set of criteria that the Paris deal would need to meet in order to be effective and fair. This ‘People’s Test’ is based on climate science and the needs of communities affected by climate change and other injustices across the globe. Does the deal pass the test? The 15,000 people who took to the Paris streets today to condemn the agreement clearly didn’t think so.

Painted Massive Sun On Paris Streets Demands Renewable Energy Policy

December 12, 2015 Willa Frej, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! COP21, Paris, Renewable Energy

By Willa Frej for The Huffington Post Climate activists gathered Friday morning to give COP21 negotiators a little encouragement and send a message to the French government: get France to commit to producing 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Environmental group Greenpeace commissioned 80 activists from Germany, France and Belgium to paint a large, yellow sun on Paris' Etoile -- the roundabout that encircles the Arc de Triomphe. They used washable paint that isn't environmentally harmful, Greenpeace said.

Activists To Defy Protest Ban With Giant Civil Disobedience

December 11, 2015 Martin Lukacs, www.theguardian.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, COP21, Paris, Protests

By Martin Lukacs for The Guardian - As negotiators try to finalize a UN climate pact being hailed as dangerously insufficient, a network of groups will express their outrage and pledge continuing action in the new year with massive civil disobedience at an iconic French site. Organizers hope to send a message that leaders should not try to claim the agreement is a success - with industrialized countries refusing to commit to a fair share of emissions reductions, putting the world on a path toward a catastrophic 3 degrees of warming.

Indigenous Rights Taking Back Seat To Trade Investment

December 11, 2015 Brandi Morin, www.aptn.ca Resist! Climate Change, COP21, Indigenous Rights, Paris

By Brandi Morin for APTN - Indigenous delegates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) conference are left waiting outside negotiating rooms in Paris to learn the fate of their rights currently on the cutting board. Those rights related to climate change are in the hands of delegates and trade experts whose main interests lie in economic initiatives expected to be birthed following the signing of an international treaty to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. Negotiations are heading into the final stages at COP21 with the aim of creating a Paris Agreement to replace the failed Kyoto Accord.

Artists And Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” In Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests At Louvre

December 11, 2015 Lucky Tran, www.hyperallergic.com Resist! Fossil Fuels, Paris, Protests

By Lucky Tran for Hyperallergic - PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry. Beginning around 12:30pm outside the museum, performers dressed in black held up umbrellas with letters spelling out the phrase “Fossil Free Culture.” Another, smaller group managed to gain access to the museum’s atrium beneath its famous glass pyramid.

Whose Lives Matter? Crisis Of Solidarity At Climate Talks

December 11, 2015 David Ciplet, www.truth-out.org Educate! Climate Change, Paris

By David Ciplet for Truthout - The medical anthropologist Paul Farmer once wrote that "the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." For many in the United Nations climate negotiations in Paris this week, this idea is at the heart of disagreement on a pathway forward. Those least responsible for causing climate change are suffering first and worst from its impacts. Climate change is not primarily an institutional, technological or scientific problem; it is a crisis of solidarity between nations and peoples globally.

Civil Society Urges Ministers To Up Game In Final Push

December 10, 2015 Rvoorhaar, www.climatenetwork.org Resist! Climate Change, Paris

By Rvoorhaar for Climate Action Network - A new streamlined draft agreement for a comprehensive climate deal has been released in Paris, with the French presidency urging for the finalisation of the deal by tomorrow. Members of the Climate Action Network (CAN) have called on countries to choose the strongest possible options in the final hours of the Paris Climate Summit in order to better protect vulnerable communities and speed up the transition to renewable energy.

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