http://www.climatesos.org Enough compromises, the climate crisis is real! Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:58:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NYC Carbon Trading Protest - Financial District, 1-13-2010 (video by Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse) Calling carbon traders "climate traitors," members of the Climate Crisis Coalition, Rising Tide North America, Climate SOS gathered outside the 2nd annual NYC Carbon Trading Summit to demand an end to the market-based trading of greenhouse gas emissions credits and ... http://www.climatesos.org/2010/01/video-from-nyc-carbon-market-crash-event/ 1/13/2009 – New York, NY – In the wake of a controversial outcome at the Copenhagen climate talks, a diverse crowd of scientists, Faith congregations, activists, students, and concerned citizens converged in confrontation and protest at the 2nd Annual IGlobalForum Carbon Trading Summit today. The summit is the largest annual ... http://www.climatesos.org/2010/01/climate-justice-risk-arrests-in-confrontation-with-nyc-carbon-trading-summit/ CALL TO ACTION! NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TO CARBON TRADING NEW YORK CITY, JAN. 9-13 CONFRONTING THE SOURCE OF COPENHAGEN'S "FAILURE" Saturday, Jan 9, 10am-5pm: Nonviolent direct action workshop and strategy session Sunday, Jan 10, 6:30pm-8:30pm: Panel discussion "Selling the Sky: Carbon Trading and the Failure of Copenhagen" Monday, Jan 11 7 pm - 9:00 pm: Presentation: "From ... http://www.climatesos.org/2010/01/counter-carbon-trade-summit-nyc/ By Bond, Patrick Patrick Bond's ZSpace Page Join ZSpace Eight million people viewed Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute Story of Cap and Trade (http://www.zcommunications.org/zvideo/3310) received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch. The film, produced by Free Range Studios, was ... http://www.climatesos.org/2009/12/countering-critics-of-a-cap-and-trade-critique/ Commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests, SOS activists joined with the national Mobilisation for Climate Justice, taking action in nine cities (and more), targeting "climate criminals" in advance of the opening of the COpenhagen negotiations.   Several were arrested. See here for reportbacks!   http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/n30-day-of-action/reportbacks-day-of-action/ http://www.climatesos.org/2009/12/sos-activists-join-mobilization-for-climate-justice-in-leadup-to-copenhagen/ For immediate release: October 8, 2009 Contacts: Brian Tokar, 802-229-0087 briant@pshift.com Rachel Smolker, 802-482-2848 rsmolker@riseup.net A controversial article posted last week on a popular environmental website has inadvertently highlighted environmentalists' skepticism toward the cap-and-trade provisions of climate legislation now before the US Congress. The article, posted on the environmental news site Grist.org on October ... http://www.climatesos.org/2009/10/internet-controversy-highlights-environmental-opposition-to-%e2%80%9ccap-and-trade%e2%80%9d/ 'No Compromise' Faction Attacks Climate Bill Jonathan Hiskes,  GRIST; Oct 1 2009   The article is interesting sort of, but most interesting is the reaction. See comments following the article (as well as pics and link to video) at Grist website here: http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-01-climate-bill-attacked-from-the-far-left/     Briefly:   Activists handed out fake $2 trillion bills at a rally for climate legislation ... http://www.climatesos.org/2009/10/extremists-at-sos-shake-things-up-on-grist/ PRESS RELEASE: October 2, 2009   Climate SOS, a coalition of scientists and activists who support science- and environmental justice-based climate legislation, today characterized the draft Senate bill, called the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act” which was introduced on Wednesday by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) as ... http://www.climatesos.org/2009/10/climate-sos-senate-bill-condemns-us-to-climate-chaos/ By Rachel Smolker, Alternet. Sept 30 2009 A new movement is demanding more from the president, Congress and even most major environmental groups in order to pass truly meaningful climate legislation. The world watched last week's U.N. climate summit in anxious anticipation, hopeful that our "yes we can" president would say something ... http://www.climatesos.org/2009/10/climate-sos-any-old-climate-bill-wont-do-time-to-scrap-waxman-markey-and-fight-for-real-change/ Last weekend, activists from across the west coast joined residents of Richmond, CA for the West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice and Action, from September 18-20th at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Richmond. The goal of the Convergence was to connect local environmental justice struggles, especially the Richmond community's ... http://www.climatesos.org/2009/09/west-coast-climate-justice-activists-say-cap-the-crude-ditch-the-trade/