Put People First G20 Counter Conference report and audio

The Put People First G20 Counter Conference was one of two alternative G20 conferences held simultaneously in London and St Andrews on November 7th 2009 to coincide with the G20 finance ministers meeting on 7th-8th November.


Over three plenary sessions we invited academics, activists, campaigners, unions and policy makers to debate alternative policies to promote jobs, justice and a safe climate.


Smaller breakout sessions gave participants the opportunity to take part in more focused debates on the linkages between the economy, environment and international development and in addition, discuss how we can mobilize and turn our ideas into action.
You can listen to the conference audios here:


Plenary Session 1
Topic: The failure of a paradigm but has anything really changed?
Chair: Peter Chowla (Bretton Woods Project)
Speakers: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (PES), Diane Elson (University of Essex), Lidy Nacpil (Jubilee South), Louise Plaatjes (UNI Africa)






Plenary Session 2

Topic: What are the alternatives that work for people and planet

Chair: Bhumika Muchhala (Third World Network)

Speakers: John Hilary (War on Want), Beatriz Souviron (Bolivian Ambassador to the UK), Andrew Simms (new economics foundation), Vimbai Mushongera (Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions)





Breakout session 2: How do we mobilise?
Discussion leader: Noel Hatch (Compass Youth)
Speakers: Jon Cruddas MP, Jessica Kennedy (Citizens:UK), Willie Sullivan (Vote for a Change)





Closing Plenary

Topic: Taking alternatives forward

Chair: Owen Tudor (TUC)

Speakers: Billy Hayes (general secretary CWU), Deborah Doane (WDM), Asad Rehman (Friends of the Earth)





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YOU can influence the climate summit in Copenhagen from your home

From Dec 7 to 18, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen in order to come up with a new climate change agreement. This summit is considered one of our last chances to save life on earth from the impacts of climate change.

Will they have what it takes to make the right decisions?

Now YOU can make a difference.

From Dec 7 till 18, activists and internet users are invited to participate in the most crucial e-mobilization ever, by blogging, twittering, flickering and updating their status on Facebook about the progress in the climate negotiations in Copenhagen.

Climate policy experts from the most active NGOs, including IndyACT, will provide you with the most critical issue of the day for you to focus communication on.

What country is doing bad?

Which issue is being left out?

Which country needs support?

By making everyone around the globe focusing on the key issue, we can move government positions. Thousands have already committed for those two weeks, and so should you.

It's time for climate action!

It's time for climate action!

Contact Informations:

- For Facebook users and activists, add IndyACT to your friends list: http://www.facebook.com/indyact.org

Invite your friends to the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187725014248&index=1

- For Twitterers: Retweet and get updates by Following IndyACT! : http://twitter.com/IndyACT

- For Bloggers: Enlist your blog by sending an email to: comms@indyact.org

For more information:

IndyACT - The League of Independent Activists

Address: Rmayl, Nahr Street, Jaara building, 4th floor

Phone: +961-1-447192

Website: www.indyact.org

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187725014248

YOU can influence Copenhagen's climate summit from your home!

As Copenhagen draws closer, the stakes are becoming higher and more efforts are needed to urge the World Leaders to take decisive action against the most critical issue the world faces today: Climate change.

Activists from around the world are setting up their gear to mobilize global opinion and press their political leaders to come with an ambitious, fair and binding climate treaty this December.

The global League of activists IndyACT will be the NGO sending a delegation representing the Arab youth to pressure Arab Leaders, lobby with them, speak up for all of us and take action. But the action taken outside Copenhagen is equal in importance to the actions taken within. For that reason, IndyACT will be mobilizing the largest web-action ever in the Arab world in order to raise more pressure and make the Arab youth take their role in saving their nations and the planet.

Starting 7 December, internet activists from all around the Arab region will be blogging, twittering, flickering and updating their Facebook status about the crisis and the progress in the negotiations in Copenhagen.

Will the Leaders have what it takes to make the right decisions?

Now you can make a difference.

Climate policy experts from the most active NGOs in the world, including IndyACT, will be providing you with the most critical issues of the day to focus communications on.

What country is doing bad?
Which issue is being left out?
Which country needs support?

By making everyone around the globe focusing on the key issue, we can reach millions of people and move governments positions . Thousands have already committed for those two weeks, and so should you.

It’s time for climate action!


http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187725014248

http://www.facebook.com/indyact.org


Contact Informations:
- For Facebook users and activists, add IndyACT to your friends list: http://www.facebook.com/indyact.org
Invite your friends to the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187725014248&index=1
- For Twitterers: Retweet and get updates by Following IndyACT! : http://twitter.com/IndyACT
- For Bloggers: Enlist your blog by sending an email to: comms@indyact.org

TRUST Line

9219 trustLine for Domestic violence, #Syria

THIS IS NOT A SHADOW

This is Not a Shadow" at NY Design Room, New York

2006- "This is Not a Shadow" is a site-specific environmental installation. The interpretation of a tree shadow creates a virtually defined space and becomes a "pedestrian stop" where passers-by can sit alone or with others.

The installation, which originally featured mosaic tiles but is here represented with vinyl stickers, begins at the base of the actual tree's trunk, calling attention to the tree's existence as well as to its "shadow" and extends into the cityscape.

Wall posts

Wall posts - Pixel notes

Be creative and original design combining functionality and does not require big budgets.  Pixel notes once again demonstrates this rule with a simple idea to "dress" a wall.

Involves the application of 4 successive layers of paper-style removable post-it "
These layers are shaped so grid and each has a different shade of gray, the last in red.
As you write notes, messages or whatever and removed the modules, is being transformed the composition of the wall. There is not much to explain.


http://www.arquitecturacritica.com.ar/2009/06/muro-de-los-mensajes-pixel-notes.html 

24th Of October . International Day of Climate Action

For 20 years the world has managed to do very little about the greatest problem it's ever faced. In three days time, you can help change that--and if you step up you're going to have a lot of company! It looks like the International Day of Climate Action this Saturday October 24th will be the single most widespread day of political action the planet has ever seen--we're closing in on 170 nations, and more than 4000 rallies and events. There will be climate events from the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef to the summit of Mount Everest.  At each event -- at rallies and parties and deep-sea dives -- people will take a big photo that somehow depicts the number 350.  Our crew at 350.org will be taking these thousands of photos, projecting them on the giant screens in New York's Times Square, and delivering them directly to hundreds of world leaders and politicians in the coming weeks. There's almost certainly an event happening near you--if you're not sure what, this link will let you find out quickly and easily:

www.350.org/map

People in all those cities and towns all around the world will be saying the same thing: science tells us that we can't have more than 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere if we want a planet like the one we were born onto. That sounds complicated, but it isn't--350 is the bottom line for the earth. Please take a moment to forward this along to everyone you know in your community and around the world, and ask them to find an event near them to take part on on this important day: www.350.org/map Thanks for everything you do, Bill McKibben for the 350.org Crew.