Danish governments plan to support countersummit with money taken from Development Aid.

The Peoples Climate Action is an NGO-based network dedicated to host a countersummit in Copenhagen during the COP15 summit. Since spring this year they’ve been negotiating with the Danish government about coordination, locations and funding of such event.. The Climate Forum have argued that the government should help pay for activities open for the general populace and grassroots to meet up. So far the government have responded with denial of responsability or by stalling until the annual budget had been negotiated in Parliament.

Police have warned of the growing threat of eco-terrorism after revealing they are investigating a group which has supporters who believe that reducing the Earth's population by four-fifths will help to protect the planet.

Officers from a specialist unit dedicated to tackling domestic terrorism are monitoring an eco-movement called Earth First! which has advocates who state that cutting the Earth's population by 80 per cent will ease pressure on other species. Officers are concerned a 'lone maverick' eco-extremist may attempt a terrorist attack aimed at killing large numbers of Britons.

When a Scottish farmer applied for planning permission to build four wind turbines in a field this year, his plans were almost derailed by Aberdeen airport. The turbines were in line of sight of the airport's radar and could interfere with it, potentially hampering air traffic, the airport said.

Asia Europe People's Forum, Beijing, 15 October 2008

An initial response from individuals, social movements and non-governmental organisations in support of a transitional programme for radical economic transformation

Preamble

Taking advantage of the opportunity of so many people from movements gathering in Beijing during the Asia-Europe People’s Forum, the Transnational Institute and Focus on the Global South convened informal nightly meetings between 13 and 15 October 2008. We took stock of the meaning of the unfolding global economic crisis and the opportunity it presents for us to put into the public domain some of the inspiring and feasible alternatives many of us have been working on for decades. This statement represents the collective outcome of our Beijing nights. We, the initial signatories, mean this to be a contribution towards efforts to formulate proposals around which our movements can organise as the basis for a radically different kind of political and economic order.

Kein Friede mit der NATO!

Anfang April 2009 feiert die Nato sich selbst. Da wollen wir nicht fehlen! Mit einer starken internationalen Mobilisierung werden wir den KriegsstrategInnen das Fest versalzen. Es ist kein Zufall, dass der Jubiläumsgipfel in Deutschland und Frankreich stattfindet, denn die EU beansprucht innerhalb der NATO zunehmend eine Führungsrolle. Im Wandel der globalen Sicherheitsarchitektur und des militärischen Krisenmanagements sehen EU-StrategInnen ihre Chance, als „soziale“ Vermittler und „demokratische“ Intervenierer in Krisenregionen. Denn um ihre politischen und ökonomischen Interessen global durchzusetzen, braucht die EU eine eigenständige Militärpolitik.
Wir wollen mit der Mobilisierung gegen die NATO und gegen die EU-Politik auch an die G8-Mobilisierung 2007 in Heiligendamm erinnern, die gezeigt hat, wie im Zusammenwirken themen- und spektrenübergreifender Kräfte überraschend und wirksam die Treffen der Mächtigen gestört werden können.

Wie Brüssel die Erderwärmung für die Militarisierung der Europäischen Union instrumentalisiert

http://www.imi-online.de/download/IMI-Analyse2008-016.pdf

Seit einiger Zeit reden nicht allein nur Umweltschützer über das Wetter bzw. das Klima, mittlerweile haben auch Politiker und seit neuem auch Militärs das Thema für sich entdeckt. So beschäftigte sich der UN-Sicherheitsrat im April 2007 erstmals mit den “Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf den Frieden und die Sicherheit.”¹ Selbst in den Vereinigten Staaten, wo eigentlich versucht wird, das Phänomen grundsätzlich zu verleugnen, fordern mittlerweile prominent besetzte Kommissionen, die sicherheitspolitischen Folgen des Klimawandels stärker zu beachten.² Inzwischen verpflichtete der US-Kongress die Regierung sogar darauf, den Auswirkungen der Erderwärmung in allen relevanten Sicherheitsdokumenten eine hohe Priorität einzuräumen.³

Another world is possible only without a global resource management shaped by structures of domination

September 2008

In the last twenty years, climate change and its potential and real impacts have become more and more obvious. This is due to the results of scientific research but also to environmental movements, media, critical intellectuals, progressive state officials and alternative energy producers who have focussed social and political attention on the implications of the problem. With the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol, an international political mechanism was developed in the 1990s.

Planka.nu was founded in the autumn of 2001 after the hot spring and summer of the Swedish EU-presidency, which culminated in the big demonstrations and riots in Gothenburg. During this time many activists became increasingly aware of the struggles in their everyday life, instead of focusing merely on mobilization to protest against international summits.

We stand at a crossroads. The facts are clear. Global climate change, caused by human
activities, is happening, threatening the lives and livelihoods of billions of people and the
existence of millions of species. Social movements, environmental groups, and scientists
from all over the world are calling for urgent and radical action on climate change.

MANILA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Maoist-led guerrillas raided a state-owned plantation used for biofuel production in the central Philippines, the first attack on an alternative energy investment, an army official said on Thursday.

The rebels left leaflets denouncing the operations of a facility producing biofuels from cassava and jatropha, a drought-resistant plant, which competes for crops with food production in the mainly agricultural Southeast Asian nation.