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MOANA NUI 2011 CONFERENCE (MOANA NUI means "BIG OCEAN") Join the Moana Nui Facebook Group This conference is a collaboration between The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and Pua Mohala I Ka Po, Hawaii NOVEMBER 9 - 11, 2011 SEE FULL PROGRAM here ~ VIEW POSTER here

KEYNOTE: Walden Bello (Philippines) Member, Philippines House of Representatives, Akbayan (Citizens' Action Party), Senior Analyst, Focus on the Global South

Jon Osorio (Hawaii), Director of Hawaiian Studies University of Hawaii, Manoa

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot, Philippines) Tebtebba Foundation Former Chairperson, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Lori Wallach (US) Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

RECENT EVENTS

Appetizers, drinks, and live music by Mahal, featuring traditional Filipino instruments. Special thanks to hosts: David & Sue Warner and caterers: Acre Gourmet & Cocola Bakery Invitation committee: David & Sue Warner Jerry Mander Randy Hayes Lynne & Bill Twist Annie Leonard Paul Little Bing Gong & Eleanore Despina Rodel Rodis & Edna Austria Ken Wilson Alleluia Panis Claire Greensfelder Bill & Vangie Buell Beth Rosales Jeff Campbell Anuradha Mittal Marsha Bonner Paul Haible (partial list) We hope you can join us to support IFG's indigenous rights work to promote equitable, democratic, and ecologically sustainable economies.

NUCLEAR ROULETTE & CHERNOBYL Wednesday, July 19, 2011 - 8-9pm EDT www.talktainmentradio.com Join Harvey "No Nukes" Wasserman for NUCLEAR ROULETTE & CHERNOBYL with Dr. Janette Sherman and Gar Smith, author of IFG's latest publication "Nuclear Roulette," at the SOLARTOPIA GREEN POWER HOUR

UN Human Rights Council- The Five Year Review & The Future of Human Rights Saturday, June 25 · 10:00am - 4:00pm University of San Francisco School of Law Kendrick Hall 2199 Fulton St., Rm. 102 San Francisco, CA SCHEDULE:   10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Panel I -The Universal Periodic Review of the U.S.A.: After Adoption an Analysis of Success by Stakeholders & Necessary Next Steps to Secure Realization of Human Rights at Home Through Treaty Review & Ratification Joshua Cooper, Director, Four Freedoms Forum Connie de la Vega, Human Rights Advocates

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March 18: Japan’s Nuclear Disaster: An Evening of Anti-Nuclear Activism watch video from the event

Where: David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 When: 7pm - Friday, March 18, 2011 Co-Sponsors: IFG Earth Island Institute Green Action David Brower Center INOCHI/Plutonium Free Future Center for Safe Energy DOWNLOAD FLYER

Rally to Stop the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement Friday, January 14 12:00 noon Outside Rep. Pelosi's office Federal Building Annex 90 7th St. (7th and Mission) San Francisco, CA For more information: korusfairtrade@gmail.com The Korea-US FTA will be the second largest trade agreement since NAFTA. Not only will it cost tens of thousands of jobs and weaken worker rights, the FTA strengthens the rights of corporations over public interest laws intended to protect our health and the environment.   We must let Representative Pelosi and Congress know that we oppose the corporate free trade agenda! Sponsored by: San Francisco Labor Council California Fair Trade Coalition Citizens Trade Campaign Eclipse Rising/Hobak International Forum on Globalization Korean Americans for Fair Trade Oakland Institute AFL-CIO Speakers Kim, Kyung Ran--Director of External Relations, Korean Federation of Trade Unions (KCTU), South Korea Anuradha Mittal--Oakland Institute Christine Ahn--Korean Americans for Fair Trade and others News Coverage: ABC7 Bay Area News: Korea free trade agreement draws protests in SF. Protesters demonstrated their unhappiness with Obama's effort to ratify a free trade agreement with Korea.

Korea free trade agreement draws protests in SF January 18, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In December, the U.S. and South Korea reached a tentative agreement on lowering trade barriers between the two countries. The agreement ends tariffs on 95 percent of industrial and consumer trade over the next five years, but opponents fear it's a bad deal for workers in both countries. Outside the Federal Building at Seventh and Mission streets in San Francisco, California Fair Trade Coalition Director Tim Robertson beat the drum against the proposed free trade agreement with Korea. "It's bad for workers, it's bad for the environment," he said. Robertson says it'll kill U.S. manufacturing jobs while growing jobs in China. "The deal allows for up to 65 percent of Korean products to be sourced from China," he said. Robertson says the agreement gives China a backdoor to ship more goods to the U.S. But on his trip to Korea in November, President Barack Obama said the agreement would create jobs at home. "For America, this is a jobs strategy, because with every $1 billion we sell in exports, 5,000 jobs are supported at home," he said. The deal calls for South Korea to cut its tariff on U.S. made cars in half, from 8 percent to 4 percent and eliminate it completely in five years. The U.S. tariff on Korean autos would remain at 2.5 percent, until the fifth year when it too would be cut completely eliminated. The U.S. International Trade Commission estimates the tariff cuts will increase exports of American goods by $10 billion. While the president was in Korea, protests over the agreement rocked the capital city of Seoul. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions says the deal puts corporate profits ahead of standards for labor and wages. But in Silicon Valley, senior software specialist with Korean company Kotra, Eric Kwon, says the trade agreement will benefit Silicon Valley. "Korean companies, many Korean companies are looking for American engineers hiring into the Korea or also opening U.S. operations here too," he said. Kwon says the Bay Area is well-known for its software. While Korea has good hardware, like televisions and cell phones, he says the agreement will increase trade for both. Obama plans to call for ratification of the free trade agreement when he delivers his State of the Union Address, which is scheduled for a week from next Tuesday. For more information, contact: Tim Robertson, Director California Fair Trade Coalition 2017 Mission St., Suite 200 San Francisco, CA  94110 (415)255-7291 The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays - January 14, 2011 at 6:00pm Click to listen (or download) Listen at 29:50 mins.

Cancun, Report Back January 12, 2011 Pacific Room at Tides Center Climate talks in Cancun reach agreements. What next?  Hear from four organizations who were on the ground in Cancun advocating change and supporting other organizations’ goals.   Representatives from the International Forum on Globalization, the Ruckus Society, La Via Campesina, and the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative will report back with a Q + A to follow.

Texas’ ex-Commissioner of Agriculture and national radio personality, Jim Hightower, poked fun at the world’s biggest polluters and discussed what’s at stake in the upcoming UN Climate Conference in Cancun with climate justice leader Genaro Rendon of the Southwest Workers’ Union and Victor Menotti of the International Forum on Globalization at a public event on November 11 in San Antonio, Texas. 

Hightower mixed humor with progressive politics, urging grassroots organizing as the only way to ensure a just transition to clean economy, and calling most politicians “as confused as goats on AstroTurf” about climate solutions.  The Texas Drought Project organized the event as part of a speaking tour for IFG and other Texas climate campaigners, with a special appearance by the Climate Reality Tour which was biking through on its way to Cancun.

After damaging mid-term elections dimmed prospects for US climate policy, Menotti was invited to explain the challenges Texas climate campaigners face in the context of global climate justice. “You all working in the belly of the beast can play a very important role in this emerging global movement,” he told progressive leaders from the state that is home to the gas and oil industry in the country most responsible for today’s unfolding climate crisis.  
 
Menotti later left Texas for Mexico to finalize collaborative action plans with forest and farming community leaders.  They are mobilizing thousands of their members to Cancun to demand cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that are believed to be deepening a decade-long drought which is killing the corn crops of Mayan communities who surround Cancun.  See more here about IFG's activities in Cancun.

Festival: 13th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival)
Locations: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University
Festival Dates: October 22-31, 2010
For more information: www.unaff.org
E-mail: info@unaff.org
Phone: (650) 724-5544

60 documentaries from 60 countries

The 13th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) October 22-31, 2010 Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University celebrates the power of documentary films dealing with human rights issues, environment, racism, women’s issues, universal education, war and peace. This year’s theme is POPULATION – MIGRATION - GLOBALIZATION.

Victor Menotti, IFG Executive Director, joined the discussion panel after the advance screening of "Climate Refugees," Sept. 15, World Affairs Council, SF

Professor Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Howland Ehrlich, coauthors of The Population Explosion (1990) join IFG's Executive Director Victor Menotti on Monday's panel discussion "Climate Change Impact on Population."  We hope you will join us!   MONDAY October 25 VIII session (FREE ADMISSION) Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Encina Hall 616 Serra Street 4:00 PM THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND (New Zealand/Papua New Guinea) 5:20 PM Panel "Climate Change Impact on Population" co-presented with Freeman Spogli Institute 6:30 PM Reception with the filmmakers View full film festival schedule

Linking local leaders with international allies to drive global decisions IFG recently convened another landmark meeting near Cancun, where the world’s governments will soon meet to pick up the pieces from Copenhagen’s frustrating failure to forge a global climate deal. UNFCCC’s COP 16 could yield some useful decisions to set real ecological limits on the global economy, but only if the Obama Administration drops its proposed “new paradigm” for global climate governance, insisting that the world abandon the current Convention’s strong principles for ecological integrity and social equity. IFG has reconnected with old allies who turned out for the 2003 WTO Ministerial in Cancun—and invited in many new ones—to help inform and inspire a diverse “movement of movements” to act for global change.  We’re linking our international allies with local leaders from the regions’ indigenous, forest, and farming communities, as well as urban youth, progressive labor, responsible business, and thoughtful government officials.  All have vowed to mobilize their members.  Cancun’s local media coverage of our activities explained what’s at stake.

Indigenous and Peasant Farmers in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, near Cancun

Victor Menotti, Executive Director of IFG, flanked by Victor Sumohana, ex-President of the PAN Party of the state of Quintana Roo (to Menotti's right) and Alejandro Ramos, ex-President of the PRD Party of the state.  Independent of their parties, both political leaders showed great support for IFG's initiative in the region.

Why Cancun cares. How Mexico is mobilizing Communities in and around Cancun see climate change as an urgent issue. Why? Mayan corn crops are failing due to a decade-long drought, despite the region’s recent floods, fires, landslides, and hurricanes that are also destroying Mayan tropical forests. Increasing ocean temperatures and acidification are bleaching the Caribbean coast’s rare coral reefs, while extreme weather is accelerating the erosion of its endless white sand beaches. IFG is working with these constituencies to help draw the links between these very real local impacts on rural and urban economies and the global decisions governments must make at the UN climate talks. Click HERE to see more. How COP 16 can protect forests, plus the people who protect forests Foremost among IFG’s priorities for Cancun is the formal recognition and full implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities in any and all decisions, especially those aimed at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (or REDD). Mexico's forest community's success with

MAKE BIG OIL PAY!

On the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - in solidarity with Gulf Coast communities. Join Mobilization for Climate Justice West for 2 days of resistance.

Sun Aug 29, 1-4pm
Big Oil and Creative Nonviolent Action Mass Teach-In
Frank Ogawa Plaza, near 14th St. & Broadway (12th St BART), Oakland, CA USA

Mon Aug 30, 11:30am
March and Nonviolent Direct Action
Justin Herman Plaza (Embarcadero BART), SF, CA USA

Plus 2 lead-up events Sat Aug 21 & Sun Aug 22 (more info)

State Department Consultations on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

US Ambassador Susan Rice announced in April that the US was formally reviewing its position and solicited comments; only the US and Canada have yet to adopt UNDRIP, and some believe the US wants to do this before the UNFCCC’s December 2010 COP 16 in Cancun. As part of this formal review, the State Department is holding consultations with Indian and Alaska Native nations and NGOs to discuss the upcoming review process and receive comments. The State Department wants to receive comments from Indian and Alaska Native nations, NGOs and individuals. Message from the Office of the Spokesman, July 7, 2010

July 7, 2010: Tribal Leaders Consultation
1 pm, Department of State, Washington, DC

July 8, 2010: Meeting with Nongovernmental Organizations
10 am, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Members of federally recognized tribes can participate in the July 7th Consultation either in person or by conference call.

RSVP to declaration@state.gov by July 2, 2010, and include "RSVP - July 7th Tribal Consultation" in the subject line. Please indicate if you will be attending in person or participating via conference call.

Anyone can submit written comments to the State Department by July 15, 2010.

By email to: declaration@state.gov

By mail to:    S/SR Global Intergovernmental Affairs
U.S. Department of State
2201 C St. NW, Ste. 1317
Washington, DC 20520

President Obama’s trade representative will host trade talks from June 14-18 in San Francisco to advance the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a new framework among eight (8) nations: Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States. (More on TPP)

Global Exchange and the California Fair Trade Coalition Present
A Special Forum:

June 14th, 2010, 7-9PM
SEIU Local 87
240 Golden Gate Ave. (Golden Gate @ Leavenworth) San Francisco

For more information please call the CFTC at 415-255-7291 or tim@citizenstrade.org
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THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP NEGOTIATIONS
What it is and what it means for the future of U.S. trade policy

The election of President Obama promised to be a crossroads for U.S. trade policy. Nevertheless, after campaigning as a trade reformer, initial moves by the administration suggest continuity with Bush-Clinton-Bush-era free trade policies.

On June 14, trade ministers from around the world will be in San Francisco to attempt to negotiatie a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which marks the defining moment on U.S. trade policy for the Obama Administration. The choice is stark: a new kind of trade agreement that lifts standards around the world or the expansion of NAFTA-style agreements to Asia and beyond. If the TPP is successfully negotiated, we will have an established Obama trade policy for years to come, for ill or for good.

Please join Global Exchange and the California Fair Trade Coalition as we host a forum of experts from across civil society to explore the opportunities and threats posed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.

with
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange, moderator
Lori Wallach, Public Citizen-Global Trade Watch
Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization
Zeke Grader, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations
Bill Hing, University of San Francisco School of Law
Ellen Shaffer, Center for Policy analysis on Trade and Health
Amy Kapcynski, UC Berkeley School of Law
Alberto Saldamando, International Indian Treaties Council (invited)
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute (invited)
Tim Robertson, California Fair Trade Coalition

IFG's Victor Menotti Speaking in Point Reyes June 9th at 7:45pm

IFG's Maude Barlow in SF on June 3 at City Arts & Lectures

Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians
In conversation with Alan Snitow, Director of Thirst
8pm Thursday, June 3, 2010  |  Herbst Theatre

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International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Executive Board Member, Maude Barlow, just completed serving as the first Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly, where she helped to draft a global protocol to establish water as a human right. "This notion that we'll have water forever is wrong. California is running out. It's got twenty-some years of water." Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, Barlow talks about how our misuse of water may actually be changing the hydrological cycle and contributing to global warming. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a group that works to protect fresh water from trade and privatization around the world. Barlow holds several honorary doctorates and has written or co-written 16 books including the international best seller Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

Alan Snitow was the News Director for eight years at the Bay Area's Pacifica Radio station, KPFA-FM, winning the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award for Best Local Newscast. His films include the award-winning Thirst and he co-authored a book by the same title.

Maude on KPFA Radio June 2, 2010
Interview starts at 38:38, and ends at 27:57

0 Events May 2010 Events

Come Join IFG at:

"Planet or death! We shall overcome!"
Cochabamba People's Conference on Climate Change Report Back & Discussion

Wednesday, May 26th
6:30-8:30pm
522 Valencia St. (Btw 16th St. and 17th St.)
San Francisco, CA

Between April 19-22 approximately 33,000 people representing social movements from all over the world converged in Cochabamba, Bolivia for The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Convoked by Bolivian President Evo Morales, the conference put forward a People's Agreement and a proposal for a Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth in response to the deeply flawed Copenhagen Climate Change Accord recently forged at the COP Summit in December. Arguing that the proposals put forward in this accord "have led us to discuss climate change as a problem limited to the rise in temperature without questioning the cause, which is the capitalist system," the People's Agreement has become a new galvanizing point for the international climate justice movement.

Please join the Center for Political Education for a panel report-back and organizing strategy session with activists who attended the conference.  We will be joined by Alberto Saldamando with the International Indian Treaty Council, Colin Rajah with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Jason Negron-Gonzales with Movement Generation, and Evelyn Rangel-Medina with the Ella Baker Center, amongst others.

Following the report-back, we will have an organizing session to discuss and plan next steps after the conference and leading into the Mexico Climate Summit in November.  Bring your questions, ideas, and inspirations for moving the climate justice movement forward!

$5-$10 Donation Requested.  No one turned away for lack of funds. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

IFG Executive Director, Victor Menotti at Peoples' Conference in Bolivia

Voluntary Standards for re-engineering the planet?: Are you out to lunch?

March 26, 2-3pm  Tides Foundation, Pacific Room 1014 Torney Ave. San Francisco, CA 94129-1755 With: Pat Mooney, Executive Director of ETC Group (Ottawa) Victor Menotti, Executive Director of IFG Download the report   It may sound crazy, but from March 22-26, a group of scientists, corporations, think tanks, academics as well as some NGOs are meeting in Asilomar, working to establish "voluntary guidelines" for geoengineering. Geoengineering refers to large-scale intentional plans to modify the Earth's systems to fix climate change through techniques like dumping iron in the ocean or shooting sulphates into the stratosphere, genetically engineering biomass and turning forests into charcoal soil. The five-day event was convened by the Climate Response Fund, a new "non-profit" organization run by Margaret Leinen, well-connected with the San Francisco-based ocean fertilization firm Climos.  The leading sponsor is the State of Victoria in Australia, where the world's largest reserves brown coal lie. The conference has been controversial from its inception and an international group of non-governmental organizations have issued an open letter saying it is the wrong people, discussing the wrong topic at the wrong time. Download and sign the letter. Come find out more about why civil society is concerned about geoengineering: What are the technologies at play? Who is backing geoengineering? What critical international and national meetings are happening on these schemes? And what we should be doing about them?

Conversations from the Frontline of the Climate Justice Movement

Bay Area COP 15 Report Back

Join us for a special anniversary event on

Monday, November 23rd 2009
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

TEN YEARS: FROM SEATTLE TO COPENHAGEN
The WTO Shutdownand what it means for a
UN Climate Deal in Copenhagen



Fifty thousand peaceful protesters on the streets of Seattle stunned the world on November 30, 1999 when they shut down the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) attempt to launch a new round of world trade talks aimed at expanding global corporate power over peoples. Ten years later, the WTO remains on the ropes due to a sophisticated global network of activists—spanning from Indian peasant farmers to South African HIV/AIDS activists to Brazilian workers—who have kept the WTO from concluding its negotiations. Though maybe less visible today, global justice networks are morphing into new movements to turn crises like global climate change into opportunities for political transformation. We will also discuss one current process toward global economic transition: the United Nations’ summit to seal a climate deal next month in Copenhagen, where the “spirit of Seattle” is again being invoked to inspire actions. Please join us in recalling Seattle’s popular victory through reflections with those who made history happen, and all who see more change to come.

with

Jerry Mander, Victor Menottii, and Claire Greensfelder, IFG
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
Paul Hawken, David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit, local author-activists
Jia Ching Chen, youth-of-color organizer
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange
Tim Robertson, California Fair Trade Coalition

First Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin St (Geary @ Franklin)
San Francisco

For more information please call IFG at 415-561-7650
www.ifg.org
info@ifg.org

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 24TH: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA JOINS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION

On Saturday, October 24th, the International Day of Climate Action, join thousands around the world at over 4400 actions in 178 countries in calling for climate justice at the Copenhagen climate talks. Join us as the Bay Area converges next to Justin Herman Plaza (Embarcadero BART) at 3pm to tell our leaders that the world needs climate justice action now!

IFG's Jerry Mander to speak at the Climate Action Rally in Pt. Reyes Station, CA Transition West Marin will hold a Climate Action Demonstration, Rally and PowerDown challenge. There will be a march starting at Third St. and Route 1 with signs at noontime demanding 350 ppm be adopted. The PowerDown will be a challenge to the community to not use any fossil fuels for one day (or to reduce as much as possible), encouraging stagecoach (bus), carpool, bicycles, electric bike and walking. The teach-in features Jerry Mander, Steve Kinsey and other speakers, who will speak on global warming,the significance of 350 ppm and peak oil.

Be part of a Human Billboard:
Join hundreds of people to create a giant visual message, spelling "350" and holding a giant parachute banner. Aerial pictures will be taken and the 350.org folks will in turn post them up on the mega screens in Times Square in NYC on the same day and the photos will be delivered to US and world government leaders.

Action Station: Sign a giant postcard or make a phone call to send a loud message to your representatives and to Obama. Sign up to participate in nonviolent civil disobedience and/or legal protest on Nov. 30, the final Global Climate Justice Action Day before Copenhagen!

SF Bike Action: 2pm
Bike the SF Shoreline! Get your bikes ready for underwater pedaling! Pull out your floaties and snorkel masks! Sign up to be one of 350 bicyclists to ride along SF’s future post-climate-changed shoreline as part of this Global Day of Climate Action. When you sign up, you’ll have the option of receiving a number, being contacted with updates, and getting a “The Tide is Rising” flag or Patch to keep. This action will start at 2pm from Plaza lawn a few hundred feet to the south of Justin Herman Plaza, at the foot of Market St. between Steuart St. and The Embarcadero, on the south side (toward Mission St). Look for the yellow flags and banners!

Public Education Actions at Bay Area BART stations and transit hubs: Morning/Early Afternoon

Join or start an event at your local station! Pass out flyers on climate justice, plan a guerrilla poetry reading, plan an art build…the possibilities are endless.

If you can volunteer to help, please show up at 1:30

Why now?
From December 7-18, 2009, the world’s leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide what to do about climate change. Sadly, if these leaders reached an agreement today, it wouldn’t be strong enough to do much good.

Scientists tell us that the maximum level of CO2 our atmosphere can safely bear is 350 parts per million. Beyond that, our earth and its species are at imminent risk of catastrophic changes we’ll never be able to stop — meaning billions of people will die. Today, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is already at 390 worldwide — and it’s rising at 2 parts per million per year. In order to bring our climate back to the safe zone and avoid catastrophic consequences, we need a global agreement to make massive emissions cuts now. But we can’t wait for politicians to do the right thing. There’s only one way we can achieve that: we need to turn the political heat way up — and push back the corporate and big business lobbyists pushing false solutions (like clean coal and carbon trading) so they can keep polluting and keep profiting. Climate change is so serious, we can’t afford half measures or anything less than addressing the root causes. Climate Justice means that those most responsible for climate change (rich countries and climate polluting industries) must be made to take responsibility and those least responsible (developing countries and low income communities and communities of color) must not be the most impacted.

The good news is “street heat”—public pressure and protest—works. Over 1500 actions are planned in over 110 countries for Oct. 24th. Join the growing global movement creating “street heat” for climate justice in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate talks.

Click here to check the call-out rap from Alliance for Climate Education

Update on News from Niger Delta / Suit Against Shell Oil

Ken Saro-Wiwa (Greenpeace)

Oronto Douglas, Co-Founder of Nigerian Environmental Rights Action
Speaking THIS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 12pm - 1pm at

International Forum on Globalization
1009 General Kennedy Ave. 2nd Floor, Conference Room, San Francisco

Recent headlines don't tell the real story about attacks by the Nigerian military on communities in the oil-producing Niger Delta, nor about how Royal Dutch Shell will appear before a federal court in New York to answer charges in connection with the execution of Nigerian author/activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nigeria's former military regime. Please join IFG in welcoming Oronto as our "African Scholar in Residence".

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