Not yet Hopenhagen - Get out on the streets

9. december 2009

Copenhagen is flooded by COP15 - the current major convening of international governments to reconcile international protocol on climate change. Many anticipate a “business as usual” approach that will yield little more than giveaways to corporations and a continuation of the failed Kyoto Protocol. So, it’s your turn to raise your voice now!

· Check out the action calendar from Climate Justice Action

· Check out the counterpart of the official UN summit, the global civil society’s conference Klimaforum09

Our dear friends from Turbulence have produced a fabulous account of what is happening before our bewildered eyes: after neoliberalism as we knew it, in the wake of a green capitalism regime fighting greenhouse gases with hot air.

"For many years, social movements could meet and recognise one another on the common ground of rejecting neoliberalism, society’s old middle ground – those discources and practices that defined the centre of the political field. The crisis of the middle has meant a crumbling of the common.

And what now? Will neoliberalism continue to stumble on without direction, zombie-like? Or, is it time for something completely different?"

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