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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:32:14 -0500
Subject: Don't miss it! Climate justice teach-in Saturday 10-5
From: boliv...@gmail.com
To: boliv...@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

Thirty-five community organizations have rallied to endorse this Saturday’s conference on “Building a Global Alternative for Climate Justice: Lessons from Bolivia” – a significant gesture of broad solidarity with the world’s peoples menaced by environmental destruction.

The conference links up with a bold new global initiative of social movements in action for climate change and human rights. It will be held on November 13 at Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2118, 100 St. George St., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Bolivia’s United Nations ambassador, Pablo Solon, explains its context: The world’s great powers “say now is the time to privatize even nature – carbon markets, carbon rights, environmental services, water. And we say No! So we have presented, in the UN, a draft proposal on the Declaration of the Universal Rights of Mother Earth.”

The November 13 teach-in is part of a global movement for this goal.

Preregister now (so we may order your lunch) at boliviacli...@gmail.com.
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Building a Global Movement for Climate Justice: Lessons from Bolivia

Saturday, November 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Room 2118

Keynote Speaker: Erika Duenas, Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of Bolivia, Washington, D.C.

In April 2010 in Cochabamba Bolivia, the Bolivian government convened a conference of social movements to confront the challenge of global warming. More than 30,000 participants charted a path toward climate justice. The November 13 conference will discuss what is being done in our communities to resist the war against Mother Earth and how can we implement the Cochabamba conference agenda here in Canada.

AGENDA
9:30    Registration (Suggested donation: $10 or PWYC)
10:00  The Cochabamba Declaration: A Radical Alternative
12:00  Keynote Speaker: Erika Duenas, Bolivian Embassy, Washington DC
12:45  Lunch (provided)
1:30    Environmental (In)Justice in Our Communities
3:15    Building a Climate Justice Alternative

List of Endorsers (partial): Alternatives (Québec) • Barrio Nuevo • Bayan • Bolivia Action Solidarity Network • Center for Social Justice • CERLAC • Climate and Capitalismcom • Common Frontiers • Community Solidarity Response Toronto • Council of Canadians • ecoSanity.org • Educators for Peace and Justice • Greenspiration • Health for All • Independent Jewish Voices • Indigenous Environmental Network • KAIROS • Latin American Trade Union Coalition • Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network • Migrante • NION: Jews Opposing Zionism • No One Is Illegal • OPIRG Toronto • Public Service Alliance of Canada • People’s Assembly for Climate Justice • Protest Barrick • Science for Peace • Public Service Alliance of Canada • Solidarity Response • Students for Free Tibet • Toronto & York Region Labour Council • Toronto Bolivia Solidarity • Toronto Climate Campaign • Toronto Haiti Action Committee • Venezuela We Are With You Coalition.

Initiated by Toronto Bolivia Solidarity at OPIRG Toronto action group.
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For source of Pablo Solon quotation, see http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2709