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Klimaforum on the Youth and Future Generations day: a disappointment.

COA Admin December 3, 2010 0 Comments

by Moisés Flores Baca Note: I started writing this entry before Graham Reeder his about the Klimaforum, so I apologize if I repeat something he already mentioned. I think I speak not only of behalf of my fellow COA COP16 delegates, but also on behalf of many other delegates from other youth organizations when I say that yesterday the 'alternative' forum of the civil society called Klimaforum...

No People at the People’s Forum

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by Graham Reeder Yesterday I spent the day at Klimaforum, an alternate forum the the UNFCCC negotiation pioneered by grassroots organisations that “rises as an opportunity within the crisis, to not only address the related issues and propose solutions, but make decisions about our involvement in the unfolding of earths destiny.” Klimaforum aims to bring different actors in civil society that...

Lost in the Jungle

COA Admin December 3, 2010 0 Comments

by Mariana Calderón Or: How Does This Whole Conference Thing Work, and What Are You Guys Doing There Anyways? ( An explanation as to how this place is set up, and how we're learning what we're learning) Just imagine: 60+ youth participants in blue shirts, scurrying in a mob down a dirt path in a pitch-dark jungle, with only a few scattered flashlights and headlamps to guide them. People were...

Is it fascism or not?, reflections on freedom within the environmental struggle

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments

by Moisés Flores Baca In my History of Filmmaking class this past Fall term we got the opportunity to look at various films that are considered propagandistic, including a few by the famous german filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who worked during Hitler's regime being one of his favorite people. When we think of the Nazi regime normally nothing positive comes to mind. This is why it came as a big...

Kyoto Must Die!

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments

by Jane I. P. Nurse It's the third day of the negotiations and there are dark clouds hovering over the Kyoto Protocol. Japan has shocked us all with an aggressive up-start at the beginning of this week. By proclaiming that it won't sign on to a second commitment period after the Kyoto protocol runs out in 2012, it basically backstabs everybody trying to push for further emission reduction...