[CJA]Bruxelles 7 décembre: La Caravane fait un stop à Bruxelles
by Caravan from WTO to COP15 Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 at 5:55 PM

Caravane Du Commerce au Climat: Du sommet de l’OMC à Genève à celui du Climat à Copenhague

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http://www.climatecaravan.org/
http://rosalux-europa.info/events_en/wto_cop_caravan_from_geneva_to_copenhagen/
http://rosalux-europa.info/events_en/information_on_caravan_in_french/

Public event, Brussels, Mon. 7 Dec. 2009 (afternoon and evening)

Contact: gensler@rosalux-europa.info

Telefon: 0032 - (0)2 - 738 7663

12:00 h Arrival of the caravan in Brussels, Lunch

Venue: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels Office, Ave. Michel-Ange 11, 1000 Brussels (near Metro Station Schumann)

13:00 h Interview possibilities with the participants of the caravan for the press

Venue: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels Office, Ave. Michel-Ange 11, 1000 Brussels (near Metro Station Schumann)

14:30 h Lobby-Action-Tour

Venue: Meeting point published soon

20:00 Public event with the caravan

Venue: Mundo-B, Rue d'Edimbourg 26, Brussels (near Metro Station Porte Namur)

(food and drinks from 19:00 onwards)


Les réseaux Climate Justice Action (CJA) et Climate Justice Now! (CJN) participent au contresommet lors des négociations sur le climat à Copenhague, début décembre. D’autres réseaux, dont Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS), organisent des mobilisations pendant le sommet de l’OMC, une semaine avant. Beaucoup de représentants de mouvements populaires aimeraient être présents aux deux évènements, qui sont intimement liés.

La Caravane Du Commerce au Climat liera les deux mobilisations à la fois matériellement et politiquement, en organisant un déplacement collectif de l’une à l’autre.

La caravane, deux bus avec environ 20 représentants du Sud dans chacun, quitteront Genève le 3 déc. et atteigneront Copenhague le 9, en empruntant deux routes différentes (l’une par la France et la Belgique, l’autre par l’Allemagne) et avec des étapes dans les villes intermédiaires pour des évènements variés: meetings, manifestations, actions symboliques, ateliers de travail, conférences de presse, rencontres avec organisations, responsables politiques, etc.


Pourquoi une caravane pour relier ces deux sommets?



Une analyse critique des négociations COP révèle que ces négociations se préoccupent en réalité surtout de nouvelles opportunités pour le commerce international: le nouveau marché du carbone, des appropriations de terre par millions d’hectares pour la cultivation des agrocarburants, le retour des mega-barrages, du nucléaire et autres “clean technology” (avec certificats CDM en prime) etc. Bref, d’une vague néocoloniale sans précédent qui provoque déjà expulsions, violences et souffrances massives. Ce n’est sans doute pas par hasard que l’OMC a décidé de placer son 7e sommet une semaine avant le COP15.


Le lien entre l’OMC et le COP15 met en évidence deux choses:


1) Au nom du climat, l’élite mondial compte relancer la mondialisation (ç-à-d la monopolisation) de l’énergie et des services (Pascal Lamy l’annonce déjà comme une solution pour le climat!). Le nouveau cycle de croissance serait d’un capitalisme “vert”: marché du carbone, projets énergétiques pharaoniques, investissements en forêts, etc.


2) Tout en invoquant le climat, on veut continuer “Business as usual”: étendre encore le contrôle des géants transnationaux sur les ressources vitales de l’agriculture, de la forêt et de l’énergie (avec les bénéfices guaranties par les subventions étatiques “vertes” aux agrocarburants, etc.); continuer de piller à bon compte les ressources du Sud (y compris leur part de CO2) et surtout, ne pas réduire radicalement les émissions au Nord, ce qui obligerait à remettre en question le modèle économique actuel, basé sur la surconsommation et la croissance sans fin.

Après avoir fortement stimulé les développement de phénomènes des plus néfastes au climat, tels que la déforestation et des délocalisations impliquant des transports à longue distance absurdes, les politiques libre échangistes de l’OMC encouragent des “solutions” désastreuses telles que l’importation d’agrocarburant.


Pire, elles bloquent aussi quatre des solutions réelles:


- le retour de la petite paysannerie (qui émêt beaucoup moins de gaz à effet de serre que l’agribusiness);
- la relocalisation de la production plus généralement;
- la protection des droits des peuples de la forêt, meilleurs garants contre la déforestation;
- la suspension des droits de propriété intellectuels pour les techniques renouvelables et de mitigation du changement climatique pour les pays en développement.

Pour une analyse plus détaillée, voir le rapport “Change Trade not our Climate! de OWINFS http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org/en/signon/climate-statement. Disponible en français sur le site de la Coordination Climat et Justice Sociale. http://climatetjusticesociale.wordpress.com/

List of Participants



Yudhvir Singh, BKU India
Yoon Geum Soon, KWPL Korea
Alphonsine Nguba, Confederation paysanne RD Congo
Via Campesina

VC organises resistance against neoliberal trade agreements that negatively affect the peasant communities worldwide, works intensively on the connection of climate change and agriculture and fights for food sovereignty and sustainable small scale farming (in opposition to agrobusiness which is - in the context of climate change - one of biggest emitters of greenhouse gases)

Information: http://viacampesina.org

José Rengifo und Julio Ararat Fugueroa
Proceso de Comunidades Negras, Colombia

PCN is the network of afrocolumbian communites that fight for dignity and autonomy. Concerning climate issues they are most affected by monoculture of plants which is either enlarged for the production of agrofuel (african palm) or for carbon-storage and CDM-projects (e.g. eucalyptus). The spread of these monocultures cause widespread displacement along the pacific coastline where many afrocolumbian communities settle.
Information: http://www.renacientes.org/

Bettina Cruz Velazquez
Resistance Against Wind Turbine Oxaca, Mexiko

Bettina is from a movement based in Oxaca which resist a wind turbine park that should be set up by electricity-multinationals to promote centralized renewable energy production. The project is going to be realised as a development project in the frame of the Plan Puebla Panama. It is an example how – in the name of development and climate protection- the state opens up regions for investments and oppresses self-organisation of the people. It is at the same time an example for a grassroot struggle for sustainable decentralised energy supply in the hand of the people which is an important part of a strategy for autonomous community-organisation which aims to provide a decent life for all in dignity.


Miguel Palacin
Coordinacion Andina de las Organizaciones Indigenas (CAOI) Peru

Lily La Torre
Working group for AIDESEP, Peru

The Coordinacion Andina de las organisaciones indigenas (CAOI) is a central body for the coordination of resistance against a multitude of megaprojects that threaten the life and livelihoods of the indigenous communites in the Andes. Be it the indigenous upraise against the oil-exploitation in the Peruvian Amazon (where AIDESEP played a mayor role) which provoked fierce oppression by the police and military forces with hundreds of killed and wounded people, be it resistance against coal-mining and other raw-materials that lead to displacement and destruction of areas where indigenous communites live.
Information: http://www3.minkandina.org/

P. Chennaiah
APVVU India

APVVU is the federation of agricultural workers, famers , fisher folk and Indigenous peoples organizations in India. It has been instrumental in working the climate issues, biodiversity agriculture, the rights of nature dependent primary communities- farmers, agricultural workers , shepherdess, indigenous communities and fisher folk with gender perspective. We have been consistently involved campaigns against the WTO and anti people economic policies. Presently we are engaged in organizing state wide caravans and public meetings with different communities against WTO 7th ministerial meetings. I will make presentations from my experience particularly on Depletion of water resources, soil and bio diversity, migration and displacement, Land Rights / Commons and Food sovereignty.

Claudia Gimena
Fundaexpresion Colombia

Fundaexpresion is a Colombian non-profit organisation to promote participatory educational and investigation work within local communities. Its aims are to empower marginalised groups of society towards achieving improved living conditions, social organisation and conservation of their environmental and cultural heritage. The organisation works intensively with peasant farmers, indigenous communities and micro-enterprises and provides educational work in climate justice issues.
Information: http://www.fundaexpresion.org

Nnimmo Bassey
Oilwatch Nigeria

Alexandra Almeida
Accion Ecologica Ecuador

Oilwatch asked for participation in the caravan mainly of their representatives who are active in the issue of “leave oil underground”. Ecuador started this initative (the government at first were sympathising with this idea but switched now to the REDD-programs) and they want to show the relevance of this issue in other regions of the world. Therefore representatives from different continents and southamerican regions are going to participate.
Information: see below

Badrum Alam
Bangladesh Krishok Federation

The Bangladesh Krishok Federation regroups men's and women's agricultural organisations. They have been particularly active in struggling to reclaim low-lying lands formed in river and delta areas (which normally should be distributed to landless peasants) that have been illegally taken over by large landowners. Obviously they are a frontline organisation as far as climate change is concerned. They would certainly have very important testimonies to bring: The climate crisis and the environmental consequences . (Global warming and climate destabilization, Depletion of water resources, Rise in water levels), Climate justice, Sustainable agriculture, forestry and fishery
Information: see below

Guiseppe Villalaz
Alianza Mundial de los Pueblos Indigenas y Tribales de los Bosques Tropicales

Guiseppe Villalaz will present a strong position of the international network of tribal peoples in the tropical forests. They emphasise on dignity, respect for their human, political, social, economic and cultural rights and respect for their right to self-determination, autonomous forms of self-government, and the control of all economic activities in their territories.
Information: http://www.international-alliance.org

Sina Davis-Brown
Indigenous Climate Connection of the Pacific


Michelle Pressend
Trade Strategy Group South Africa


Marko Lamson
Activist in communal power, Portland US


Josh Pritchard
Cascadia Rising Tide, Oregon US


Beatriz Morize
Resistance against megaprojects in the Patagonia


Dharmendra Kumar
FDI Watch, India


Some people from:
Global Forest Coalition
Focus on the Global South
OWINFS-network



Organisation of event in Brussels


Climate Justice Action Network Belgium http://www.climate-justice-action.org/
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels Office rosalux-europa.info/
Corporate Europe Observatory
CNCD-11.11.11
Coordination Belge pour la Colombie (CBC)
Via Campesina Belgium
Forum Social de Belgique
etc.

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