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A Date With History (script) English and Spanish version

Nathan Thanki May 6, 2012 0 Comments
This script was writen by a group of us for a video context in preparation to the Rio+20 conference. by Anjali Appadurai, Nimisha Bastedo, Anyuri Betegon, Graham Reeder, Nathan Thanki, Julian Velez, and Trudi Zundel. The video can be seen here. We are Earth in Brackets and the future we want requires radical change. Radical: Favoring drastic political, economic, and social reforms. Radical:...

The dreadful details: a blow by blow account of how COP17 ended

Nathan Thanki December 19, 2011 1 Comment
by nathan thanki A week later and everyone has returned to their respective homes, readying themselves for the festive season. The mainstream media has been content with the narrative of 'it was close but we saved the regime, and eventually we'll save the world' and has moved on to supposedly bigger concerns such as the Eurozone crisis, and what the best recipe for preparing the Christmas turkey...

COP-upy

Nathan Thanki December 10, 2011 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki and Trudi Zundel Last week the people marched past the UNFCCC meetings with trucks, horns and speakerphones blasting political messages for the delegates inside negotiating over the future of the planet. No one inside blinked an eye. A crowd of maybe 50 people gathered by the gated walkway to see them march, and horsed policemen barred every potential entrance. We were left...

and the last night bleeds into an extra day

tzundel December 9, 2011 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel Quick update from the conference center. Civil society was not in fact kicked out of the ICC--after some negotiations of our own with the secretariat, it was agreed that we could stay if we were working, but that those who were sleeping would be asked to leave. It's going to be a long night for Joe, Anjali, and I, the last ones standing--Nathan, Graham and Julian left on an errand...

A Manufactured Process

tzundel December 7, 2011 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel Allow me to quickly clarify that I'm not an idealist about the UN; I know that the concept of a "fair" international negotiation is  contradicted by the presence of global hegemons--outcomes certainly don't reflect a middle ground between nations. However, the last three years of UNFCCC negotiations have shown us that although the power dynamics of negotiations may not lead to a...