Danish Tar Sands initiative: This week's update and next steps

[Kirstie Wielandt]

Dear All - happiest of Thursdays to you and a quick update for everyone on where we're at with Danish Tar Sands Day plans after yesterday's meeting, you can also see our updated Planning Sheet for further details. Further to agreement from you guys in the group, we'd like to suggest the following:

The initial campaign ask
The campaign ask will initially be for all Danish (and Scandinavian) companies engaged with Tar Sands (financially or otherwise) to withdraw their investment immediately. Evidence suggests there are a fair number of Danish and broader Scandinavian investors to target, including of course Danske Bank, Statoil, etc, we will develop a comprehensive list in due course. Once we are confident of our 'hit list', the first step will be to pull together a joint letter addressed to the CEOs in question, copying in the Canadian Embassy and Ida Auken for reference, which we will deliver on / soon after the 5th May.

The 5th May activity

MAIN ACTIVITY
Location: Canadian Embassy, Kristen Bernikowsgade 1, 1105 Copenhagen K
2pm Flash mob in front of Embassy with participants with oily faces, slogan Tshirts etc either dropping to the ground and ‘playing dead’ on the pavement or conducting a different solidarity-type activity yet to be defined, holding up banner eg. Stop Danish investment in Tar Sands + list of logos
2.10 - 2.30pm Speech by Anders and guest speakers, volunteers circulating with clipboards and campaign sign up forms, delivery of copy of letter to Canadian Embassy

AFTERPARTY - TBC
Location ideas: Venue in Norrebro / Christiania / Studenterhuset
Idea: Secure space to host film screenings, talks, a stall - space with bar area and potential for music in evening (a band has offered to play)

Next steps
Next steps and actions have been outlined on the Planning Document it would be great if you could take a look, the main immediate ones are:

- is everyone happy with the principle of the campaign ask and suggested event outline? We're keen to set the event up on Facebook as 4 weeks to go is the ideal time to drum up interest - please let Anders or I know by end of play Friday of any concerns or questions

- we suggest the next team call takes place at 4pm DK time next Tuesday afternoon (3rd April), how would that suit everyone, who can dial in?

Onwards and upwards ;o)

Kirstie

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[Thomas Meinert Larsen]

Hi Kirstie

I have no objections.

I will call in Tuesday.

/ Thomas

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[anders lorenzen]

Sounds great Thomas.
Looking forward to speaking on Tuesday.
 
Have a great weekend,
 
Anders


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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:20:08 +0200
From: t...@life.ku.dk
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Subject: Svar: Danish Tar Sands initiative: This week's update and next steps

[Thomas Meinert Larsen]

Hi Kirstie & Others

 

I think you have made some very good decisions. I have a number of questions, that I would like to raise/discuss.

 

1) How many people do we want to engage in this event, both in the planning process and on the event day?

If we are going to engage more people, I guess that Carlos/I and/or others would call for a physical meeting in Denmark some time soon? How does this sound to you?

 

2) If people should not be engaged in the planning process, then how can they be active on the event day? I would like to be able to make a very concrete advertisement if possible, such as:

Do you want to be engaged in this years "Danish Tar Sands Day / 350 connect the dots global climate campaign" at May 5th in Copenhagen?
At this day, we will present to the Canadian Embassy, our dissatisfaction with the extremely harmful extraction of oil from the Canadian Tar Sands. This we will do, performing a creative event, including a flash mob, in front of the Canadian Embassy, close to the "Strøget" in central Copenhagen. The flash mob event is going to take place at the Canadian Embassy at time xx. However, the face painting and slogan T-shirts will be prepared at place zz at time yy, and after a short briefing, we will walk to the Canadian Embassy". We would like as many people as possible to participate, and if you expect to join the flash mob, please send an email to person ZZ at email XX.

 

3) Could/should we disseminate our plans by now. Also, do we want to involve all interested people? I know that the ClimateCollective (those who were quite active at COP15 in the Push for Action Event at Dec16), could be interested in joining this event. If you agree to involve them, I would be happy to inform them of our plans.

 

4) Regarding which companies are involved: According to the FoE 2011 report quote "Canada is currently the only major centre of production but investment is expanding, including by European oil
companies such as BP, Shell, Total and ENI". Of these, BP and Shell do operate in Denmark, whereas Total (French) and ENI (Italian) is not active in Denmark, I think. It is likely that the large danish Pension Funds, as well as many banks have investments in those companies.

Kind regards

Thomas

 

>>> Kirstie Wielandt <findk...@gmail.com> 29-03-2012 16:05 >>>

[anders lorenzen]

Hi Thomas & others,

Very good points. I personally think that as many people we can get engaged in this the better. And I'm happy to engage ourselves with other organizations.
After discussing it with Kirstie I think it would be a good idea to have a meet up event before the flash mob where people can have their face painted, show films, have talks, give out information. Then followed by the flash mob.
Did you see the email from Emma from 350 I forwarded?

Also would like to connect with climate dots if we find a way we could do that. According to what I can understand the main campaign issue with climate dots is to connecting all corners of the earth that is feeling the effect with climate change or regions that are looking to solutions. Any suggestions to how we can connect this to our campaign?

I think it would be a good idea if you could set up a physical meeting and we would want to have as many as possible involved in helping us achieve this.

Thomas or Carlos do you have any ideas of a cafe or similar that we could use for a pre event?

Let me know your thoughts,

Anders


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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:45:01 +0200

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Subject: Svar: Danish Tar Sands initiative: This week's update and next steps

[Thomas Meinert Larsen]

Hi Anders & others

 

How to connect the Dots, linking Canadian Tar Sands with climate change in Denmark?

 

1) Denmark have experienced very extreme rain in August 2010, and again in July 2011, both hitting the Capital, Copenhagen.

Here is a video of one of the underground stations that were affected in 2010 http://www.ditklimatv.dk/video/august-14-2010-very-extreme

These are examples from 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEIerVFC3Y&feature=related & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9KEtjMLZ14&feature=related

 

2) The Danish Meteorologisk Institute have recently announced that sea level rise in Denmark by 2100 will be - most likely - between 20 - 120 cm above current level.

During storms, this level will be 50 - 170 cm above current sea level. As part of Denmark have a lot of buildings that will be affected by such an increase, this is of course very relevant...

 

How to illustrate this connection in the May 5th event?

 

3) I took a look at the 350 web site http://www.climatedots.org/creative-action-ideas/

 

Maybe we could take inspiration by:

• Dirty Dots: Connect a source of climate chaos by painting a large black dot on fabric and hold it up in front of the causes of climate change (e.g., coal funding banks, polluting factories, gas stations) or paint a dot directly on the odious institution. Pour a puddle of “oil” or use coal to draw a big dot in front of banks that fund coal plants or politicians that accept fossil fuel money.
  - i.e. drawing a black dot in front of the Canadian Embassy
  

• Dot Banners: This is simple, get a big piece of fabric and paint a big dot on it. At the middle of your dot you can paint an image of your impact or write your message. Get creative with messaging, perhaps write “This Is Climate Change”, “Enough!” or “This is what fossil fuel subsidies are paying for.” There is also lots of room for localization of a political message too.

- i.e. make a big banner with an image (se ppt as example).

 

Kind regards

Thomas

>>> anders lorenzen <andersl...@hotmail.com> 01-04-2012 13:06 >>>

[anders lorenzen]

Thanks Thomas,
That's great.

What's you proposal to how our event on the 5th would look alongside with the tar sands flash mob and climate dots?

Anders


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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:39:05 +0200
From: t...@life.ku.dk
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Subject: Danish Tar Sands initiative: Connecting the May5th Tar Sand Day and 350 event

[Thomas Meinert Larsen]

Hi Anders

 

I am not sure exactly what you mean by "how our event on the 5th would look alongside with the tar sands flash mob and climate dots" ?

Kind regards

Thomas

 

>>> anders lorenzen <andersl...@hotmail.com> 01-04-2012 16:10 >>>

[Thomas Meinert Larsen]

Hi All

 

I have got permission to use the Danish web-site www.350.dk to advertise for the event.

Jens Hvass who is the administrator has limited time, be he will try his best to help whereever possible.

 

Kind regards

Thomas

>>> anders lorenzen <andersl...@hotmail.com> 4/1/2012 4:10 >>>

[Carlos García-Robles]

Hi Guys

We could use NOAH´s office to prepare for the event, but its a very small office, so it depends on the amount of people. Also, if the guys from the climate collective join, we could aks them if Ungdomshuset or somewhere in Christiania could be available. About the event, the more fun and creative the better, I would love to reuse the Tar Sand/Tarzan thing. and I do like the idea of a flashmob.

About the climate dots, I think it makes sense.

Carlos