Paris

Victory At Ende Gelande Opens Road Of Disobedience For Paris

September 9, 2015 Labofii, www.labofii.wordpress.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Environment, Paris

The raucous rattle of a low flying helicopter shakes me awake. It must be the Police. The sun hasn’t risen yet and the tent’s sides still smell of morning dew. I doubt I was the only one in this field who didn’t sleep deeply last night. Today is the day of action we have been waiting for Ende Gelände (Here and no Further) – 1500 people have pledged to enter RWE’s Garzweiler open cast coal mine, and block the gargantuan “bagger” excavators with their bodies, thus shutting down Europe’s largest source of CO2 emissions. This is direct action as it should be. It’s not just a symbolic gesture that tells a story and makes an injustice visible, but an action which targets the very source of the problem and stops it in its tracks.

Thousands Show Support For Migrants At Paris Rally

September 8, 2015 France24, www.france24.com Resist! Immigration, Paris

By France24 - Around 8,500 people took part in the demonstration in Paris's Place de la République, according to police figures, with many waving Syrian flags. "We are all descendants of immigrants,” one placard said, as the crowd chanted, “Open the borders!” Smaller rallies were held in other towns and cities across France, with around 10,000 people demonstrating in total. French public opinion has been divided over how to handle the growing number of asylum-seekers, amidst a rise in support for the anti-immigration National Front party and high unemployment. But the crowd at Place de la République - the same square where tens of thousands gathered after the deadly terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in January - was a demonstration of the shock many French people felt this week at the widely publicised photo of the drowned Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach.

Call Issued For Mass Climate Action Before Paris Meeting

August 27, 2015 Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com Resist! Climate Change, Direct Action, Paris

By Emma Howard in The Guardian - Desmond Tutu, Vivienne Westwood, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky are among a group of high-profile figures who will issue a mass call to action on Thursday ahead of the UN’s crunch climate change conference in Paris in December. They call for mass mobilisation on the scale of the slavery abolition and anti-apartheid movements to trigger “a great historical shift”. Their statement, published in the book Stop Climate Crimes, reads: “We are at a crossroads. We do not want to be compelled to survive in a world that has been made barely liveable for us ... slavery and apartheid did not end because states decided to abolish them. Mass mobilisations left political leaders no other choice.” Bill McKibben, founder of environmental movement 350.org, which has launched the project with the anti-globalisation organisation Attac France, described the move as a “good first step” towards Paris.

Shutting Down A Coal Mine On The Road Through Paris

August 21, 2015 Morten Thaysen, www.globaljustice.org.uk Resist! Coal Mining, Environment, Paris

By Morten Thaysen in Global Justice - The view is breath-taking and strangely beautiful as we reach the edge of the giant open cast coal mine. The surrounding landscape has turned from fertile cabbage fields to a gaping wound in the ground with no signs of life. In that moment as hundreds of my fellow activists dressed in white boiler suits storm down the slopes towards the giant machines carving out the mine, I know we are achieving something great. We’re shutting down one of the biggest coal mines on Earth. Last weekend I took time off work to blockade a giant coal mine along with more than 1500 other activists from 45 countries to deal a blow to the corporate fossil fuel industry and push for the change that the UN climate negotiations are failing to bring.

The Road To Paris Climate Conference: Our Beds Are Burning

August 19, 2015 Climate Mama, www.climatemama.com Organize! Climate Change, Paris

By Climate Mama - The difference today, in 2015, is that we have a massive, building wave of public pressure demanding and creating action on climate change. While we did have public pressure in Copenhagen the lead up to Paris is infinitely more powerful; and a wave that can’t be stopped. The “Road to Paris” is being paved with hard work and action, and the road beyond Paris with bonds that will be unbreakable. We will be bringing you regular updates and ways to engage in the coming months. Today, join us, raise your voice, and sign petitions to world governments from two of our allies, demanding climate justice and climate action, now! The results of these petitions will be delivered to governments in Paris this coming December.

The People’s Test On Climate 2015

June 27, 2015 People's Test On Climate, www.peoplestestonclimate.org Resist! Climate Change, Paris, wealth inequality

By People's Test On Climate - Governments and the Paris Summit outcome will be judged on this fundamental litmus test. But Paris will not only be about a long series of negotiations under the UNFCCC. Paris will not only be about what our governments achieve – or fail to achieve. Paris will also be the moment that demonstrates that delivering concrete actions for the global transformation will come from people and not our politicians. We see Paris as a beginning rather than an end – an opportunity to start connecting people‘s demands for justice, equality, food, jobs, and rights, and strengthen the movement in a way that will force governments to listen and act in the interests of their people and not in the vested interests of elites. Paris will launch us into 2016 as a year of action – a year when people’s demands and people‘s solutions take center stage.

Will The Climate Justice Movement “Seattle” The Paris Talks?

June 9, 2015 Canadians, www.canadians.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Paris, Seattle

By Canadians - While the New York Times editorial board says, "The Paris [climate summit] may well be the world’s last, best chance to get a grip on a problem that, absent urgent action over the next decade, could spin out of control", most are already bracing for another massive failure by the political elite at what is being disparagingly described as the "Conference of Polluters". Rising Tide North America is calling for a series of mass actions across the United States and Canada. They note, "From September to the end of November, Flood the System envisions an escalating series of direct actions and demonstrations targeting the economic and political systems at the root of the crisis, inspired by recent movements led by low-wage workers, immigrants, and communities responding to police brutality."

Remembering The Paris Commune: Workers, Women Arise

January 30, 2015 John Merriman, www.truth-out.org Educate! Commune, History, Paris, Women

Who were the Communards? British journalist Frederic Harrison assessed the Communards in Paris, writing, "The 'insurgents' ... are simply the people of Paris, mainly and at first working men, but now largely recruited from the trading and professional classes. The 'Commune' has been organized with extraordinary skill, the public services are efficiently carried on, and order has been for the most part preserved." In his view, the Commune, while being "one of the least cruel, has been perhaps the ablest revolutionary government of modern times." The average Communard was the average Parisian: young, between twenty-one and forty years of age, with the largest number men aged thirty-six to forty.

Chomsky: Paris Attacks Show Hypocrisy Of West’s Outrage

January 20, 2015 Noam Chomsky, www.cnn.com Educate! Charlie Hebdo, Chomsky, Freedom of Expression, Paris

After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket shortly after, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared "a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity." Millions of people demonstrated in condemnation of the atrocities, amplified by a chorus of horror under the banner "I am Charlie." There were eloquent pronouncements of outrage, captured well by the head of Israel's Labor Party and the main challenger for the upcoming elections, Isaac Herzog, who declared that "Terrorism is terrorism. There's no two ways about it," and that "All the nations that seek peace and freedom [face] an enormous challenge" from brutal violence.

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