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Brixton Justice, Climate Justice, Global Justice
A celebration of Brixtons Radical Roots
12th December | 2pm-4pm
Windrush Square, Brixton
After Party Upstairs @ The Dogstar 4pm-9pm
Come join us for an exciting afternoon of activities including an exhibition, speakers and 'Bash the Bankers piñata'
Speakers on:
§ The Cochabamba Peoples’ climate Justice Summit
§ Making a transition to a new & socially just economy
§ Sara Callaway - international coordinator of the Global Women's Strike
§ Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Shelter Project & Dark Mountain
§ Brixton’s radical history and links to social justice struggles today
§ Camp for Climate Action and Anti-cuts movements
Brixton is famous as a community of resistance for its vibrant history of direct action against racial and other forms of social and structural injustice. We have a history of battles against enslavement of peoples all over the world. This exhibition will relate the struggles in Brixton to global issues of climate justice; including the pillage of natural resources, environmental racism, disasters caused by climate change, growing inequity, discrimination, marginalization of the poor and a new age of austerity to pay for the banker’s bailout.
Plus: Bash the Bankers! Smash our piñata piggybank
Followed by an evening at the Dogstar, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
Let us use our response to the call for ‘1000 Cancuns for Climate Justice' to rekindle Brixton unity and community resistance for global justice!
top photos of Brixton Windrush Square by Dave Fisher
Thousands of Cancuns for Climate Justice! Thousands of Solutions from the Grassroots!Cancun in Brixton | 1000 Solutions | Cop -16
Hi! As you all know, we are organizing an event in response to an international call out by La Via Campesina, a global movement representing small farmers, landless workers, fisherfolk, rural women, youth and indigenous peoples.
Details of the event are below - please note the change of Date!
Brixton is famous as a community of resistance for its vibrant history of collectively taking direct action against racial and other forms of social and structural injustice. Our response to the 'Thousands of Cancuns for Climate Justice' aims to rekindle Brixton unity in community resistance for global justice. If you would like to get involved in the preparations then send us an email. We are meeting the Monday, December 6th to finalize our plans.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 12th 1 - 6pm
A range of speakers TBC on subjects from:
We are organizing in response to a call out by La Via Campesina during Cop-16, the UN meeting to discuss the climate crisis in Cancun, Mexico. Our response to the 'Thousands of Cancuns for Climate Justice' call aims to rekindle Brixton in community resistance for global justice. Please come to our planning meeting on Monday November 1st.
Monday, November 1st, 7-9pm
Loughborough Centre, 105 Angell Road (corner of Barrington road), SW9 7PD
Our first public meeting was attended by approximately 18 people. We decided to do an event in early December to address the following themes: 1) The People’s Agreement of Cochabamba, 2) COP16 in Mexico 3) The radical history of Brixton. We will do this by relating issues of contemporary social, economic and environmental justice, both local and global struggles.
We created three working groups: 1- research & exhibit working group, 2- event working group, 3- outreach &letting people know working group. Please email this address and we will put you in touch with one of these working group meeting even if you didn't sign up for the working group on the night. Our next meeting is Nov1st.
Thanks to Kerima for the taking these comprehensive notes:
Brixton Community Base - Planning Meeting - Monday 11 October 7-9
The meeting was called to organise an event at the beginning of December to coincide with the COP16 in Cancun in response to a call out by La Via Campesina for international support for Climate Justice and the Rights of Mother Earth. We aim to highlight their own local struggles for climate justice and show solidarity with Via Campesina attending COP16 in Cancun.
It is important to highlight the fact that governments are incapable of tackling the root causes of climate change and acting outside of the `business as usual` framework. Therefore, local people acting in solidarity with each other across the world need to take the initiative in finding solutions that guarantee climate justice and land and food security.
We heard three speakers. Vinay from Hexayurt described how climate chaos will cause a massive refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale and we will not have the resources to cope. This is likely to lead to conflict and starvation and so on as large numbers of people have to move out of areas that become uninhabitable. Kerala in India is a good example of what a sustainable society could look like. It is currently the most sustainable region in the world. The Precautionary Principle is a good argument to adopt against the geo-engineering solutions offered in response to climate change. In fact, the Precautionary Principle ought to be adopted as a matter of human right.
Chris reported back on visit to Cochabamba’s ‘World People`s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth’, which took place on the tenth anniversary of the water wars (resistance to privatisation of water and takeover by Bechtel) in April 2010. 192 countries agreed on a number of points for negotiation at the next round of climate talks including a recognition of the rights of Mother Earth, the stabilisation of the temperature rise to 1C, the rejection of carbon transfer mechanisms, the protection of forests without recourse to market mechanisms and with the full participation of the forest peoples and a recognition of the universal right of access to water.
Kofi spoke of the radical history of Brixton, colonialism, the slave trade and how the industrial revolution intervened dramatically in local developments resulting in new struggles. From the 1940s growing Caribbean presence in the area, new struggles against racism emerged as people fought to protect themselves and build communities. A number of well know activists and writers lived or stayed in Brixton area including CLR James, Walter Rodney and Olive Morris. Olive Morris particularly deserves more recognition- a young community activist concerned about the policing of Brixton and the negative impact particularly on young black people and also involved in the Squatters` Movement – reclaiming and making use of spaces. At the heart of environmental justice movement is the building of networks and reclaiming of space in order to make more sustainable and effective use of it. How do we engage the local young people in this?
We then had a lively conversation. Not enough is taught in schools – if at all – about how social movements which envisaged alternative and more egalitarian societies in all countries have been suppressed and what`s more the knowledge of their existence is suppressed. People from poorer countries have had and do have other alternative aspirations to the consumer path. Celebrity culture which many young people aspire to is a way of avoiding discussions about class. We must be aware of language and make our project accessible.
After small group discussions and we proposed a public event which will include an exhibition and a people`s assembly which will relate current struggles for Climate Justice to the radical history of the local area. It will express solidarity with the aspirations of the World People`s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
Three working groups set up and people encouraged to join one of them: group to look develop exhibition, group to organise venue, group to organise publicity etc
Please contact us at this email globaljusticebrixton@gmail.com to get involved in one of these groups.
Other groups are organizing around this callout by La Via Campesina including one in Barcelona.
Read the call out and list of demands on the Climate Justice Now site.
And the original call out on the La Via Campesina site.
Thousands of Cancuns for Climate Justice!
Thousands of Solutions from the Grassroots!
Brixton Justice, Climate Justice, Global Justice!
We are organizing a series of events to struggle for climate action for global justice in response to a call out by La Via Campesina, an international peasant movement representing small farmers, landless workers, fisherfolk, rural women, youth and indigenous peoples, with 150 member organizations from 70 countries on five continents, Global Justice Brixton is organizing an event to coincide with the COP-16 in Cancun, Mexico. Social movements from around the world are mobilizing for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will, as a follow up to the Copenhagen COP15, take place in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
Come to the meeting the organizing meeting to find our more and get involved.
Monday, October 11th, 7-9pm
Brixton Community Base
Talma Road
London SW2 1AS
Tel: 020 7326 4417
All are invited to get involved in working together with us in equality, mutual respect and principled unity towards a main event in early December 2010. We invite you to join us in organizing events (including your own) in December. This event will contribute to an ongoing process of strengthening our Brixton community contributions to local, national and international struggles for grassroots peoples' empowerment to eventually win global justice for all!
We are also having a smaller pre-meeting: Monday October 4th, 7-9pm at the Loughborough Centre, 105 Angell Road (corner of Barrington road) SW9 7PD
