2015 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, and this December hundreds of world governments will meet in Paris to try to strike a global climate agreement. It will be the biggest gathering of its kind since 2009, and it’s potentially a big deal for our global movement.
“No matter what happens in the negotiating halls, we must build power to hold them accountable to the principles of justice and science.”
In Paris our governments are supposed to agree on a shared target for climate action, based on the national plans governments have been putting together all year—but the numbers just aren’t adding up. Everything being discussed will allow too many communities that have polluted the least to be devastated by floods, rising sea levels and other disasters.
This has the makings of a global failure of ambition—and at a moment when renewable energy is becoming a revolutionary economic force that could power a just transition away from fossil fuels. Click here to join us in telling world leaders to keep fossil fuels underground and finance a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
Our movement has grown tremendously—and it shows every time a new leader stands up to declare we must keep fossil fuels under ground, or a university, church or pension fund divests from fossil fuels. The problem is the power of the fossil fuel industry.
The Paris negotiations could potentially send a signal that world governments are serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground. If they fail, it will embolden the fossil fuel industry and expose more communities to toxic extraction and climate disasters.
The solutions are obvious: we need to stop digging up and burning fossil fuels, start building renewable energy everywhere we can, and make sure communities on the front lines of climate change have the resources they need to respond to the crisis.
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This could be a turning point—if we push for it. Click here to join our global call for action to world governments, telling them to commit to keeping at least 80% of fossil fuels underground, and financing a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
The time for feeling powerless in the face of climate chaos is over. No matter what happens in the negotiating halls, we must build power to hold them accountable to the principles of justice and science.
After many months of consultation with our global network, here is the plan for what I call “The Road Through Paris”: the plan to grow our movement and hold world leaders accountable to the action we need.
“The solutions are obvious: we need to stop digging up and burning fossil fuels, start building renewable energy everywhere we can, and make sure communities on the front lines of climate change have the resources they need to respond to the crisis.”
First, in September we will launch a global framework to grow the movement before and after the Paris talks. On , Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein and others will be joined by global movement leaders in New York City to lay out our vision for the road ahead. Then on communities across the globe will hold workshops to plan for the coming months of action. After that, I think we’ll see several months of escalating activity as communities drive the message home that we can’t wait for action.
The talks in Paris start on , and run for 2 weeks. But before the talks start, the world will stand together in a weekend of global action, paired with an enormous march in the streets of Paris. During the talks, 350’s team on the ground will do their best to help keep you in the loop on the most important developments. And when the talks wrap up, we’re planning a big action in Paris on to make sure the people—not the politicians—have the last word.
But most importantly, we won’t stop there. I want you to mark your calendars for the month of April in 2016. That’s when we will mobilize in a global wave of action unlike any we’ve seen before. Not one big march in one city, not a scattering of local actions—but rather a wave of historic national and continent-wide mobilizations targeting the fossil fuel projects that must be kept in the ground, and backing the energy solutions that will take their place.
In the 6 years 350.org has been around, this is the most ambitious plan we’ve ever proposed. But ambition is what is called for, along with courage, faith in each other and the readiness to respond when disaster strikes, plans change, or politicians fail to lead.
We are nearer than ever to the changes we’ve been fighting to see. I hope to stand with you in the coming months to see them through.
May Boeve is the executive director of 350.org. Previously, May co-founded and helped lead the Step It Up 2007 campaign, and prior to that was active in the campus climate movement while a student at Middlebury College. May is the coauthor of Fight Global Warming Now.
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Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing MP who’s leading the polls, said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair could possibly face war crimes for his involvement in the Iraq war.
The long-time MP, whom the Guardian‘s Ewen MacAskill characterized as “the anti-austerity candidate, in tune with similar movements in Greece and elsewhere in Europe,” made the comments Tuesday In an interview with BBC2’s Newsnight.
“I think there are some decisions that Tony Blair has got to confess or tell us what actually happened in Crawford, Texas in 2002 in his private meetings with George Bush,” Corbyn told interviewer Emily Maitlis.
He said that the still unreleased Chilcot Inquiry, an official investigation into Britain’s role in the Iraq war, is going to come out, and “Tony Blair and the others that have made the decisions are then going to have to deal with the consequences of it.”
Asked by Maitlis, “So should [Blair] be tried for war crimes?” Corbyn said, “If he’s committed a war crime, yes. Everyone who’s committed a war crime should.”
“I think it was illegal war,” he continued. “I’m confident about that. Indeed, [then-UN Secretary General] Kofi Annan confirmed it was an illegal war, and therefore he has to explain to that. Is he going to be tried for it? I don’t know. Could he be tried for it? Possibly.”
Pressed if he would like to see Blair tried, he said, “I want to see all those that committed war crimes tried for it [and] those that made the decisions that went with it.”
As Common Dreams reported last month,
Veteran UK politician Jeremy Corbyn, a 66-year-old left-winger whose stances against austerity, nuclear weapons, and war have been described as “uncompromising,” is gathering steam ahead of upcoming Labour party leadership elections, according to new polling released this week.
A YouGov poll for the London Times suggests that in the final round of voting, the socialist Islington North MP would finish six points ahead of previous frontrunner Andy Burnham. The poll shows Corbyn as the first preference for 43 percent of party supporters.
Corbyn’s campaign, unlike those of his rivals, has been reliant on small donations.
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The Kurds were born to be betrayed. Almost every would-be Middle East statelet was promised freedom after the First World War, and the Kurds even sent a delegation to Versailles to ask for a nation and safe borders.
But under the Treaty of Sèvres, in 1920, they got a little nation in what had been Turkey. Then along came the Turkish nationalist Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who took back the land that the Kurdish nation might have gained. So the victors of the Great War met in Lausanne in 1922-23 and abandoned the Kurds (as well as the Armenians), who were now split between the new Turkish state, French Syria and Iran and British Iraq. That has been their tragedy ever since – and almost every regional power participated in it. The most brutal were the Turks and the Iraqi Arabs, the most cynical the British and the Americans. No wonder the Turks have gone back to bombing the Kurds.
When they rebelled against Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the early 1970s, the Americans supported them, along with the Shah of Iran. Then the US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger engineered an agreement between Iran and Iraq: the Shah would receive a territorial claim and, in return, abandon the Kurds. The Americans closed off their arms supplies. Saddam slaughtered perhaps 182,000 of them. “Foreign policy,” remarked Mr Kissinger, “should not be confused with missionary work.”
You would have thought the Kurds might have learnt their lesson. But at the start of the first Gulf war to liberate Kuwait, they were urged by the Americans – or rather, a covert CIA radio station operating from Saudi Arabia – to rise against Saddam. And they did. The Americans let them die in their thousands again, only shamed weeks later into creating a “safe” zone in northern Iraq after tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians trekked under fire in a biblical exodus to the safety of Turkey. America’s “safe” zone eventually proved illusory.
Even when the US planned to invade Saddam’s Iraq through Kurdistan in 2003, the Kurds found that the Turks planned to send 40,000 troops with them. The Turks wanted to stop the Kurds grabbing the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Kirkuk; Ankara feared that a self-governing Kurdish pseudo-state would creep across the border to Turkey.
And when the Iraqi Kurds fought Isis last year – the Americans deciding again that the Kurds had their uses – Turkey watched impotently as Kurdistan became the vanguard of the West’s battle. Kobani was a mini Stalingrad, and its defence by Kurds of Marxist orientation made Turkey’s humiliation more painful. The pro-PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) fighters along the northern strip of Syria and Iraq were seen as heroes.
This could not be permitted. Thus when Isis struck Turkish Kurds seeking help for the reconstruction of Kobani with a devastating suicide bombing in Suruc – followed by PKK claiming responsibility for the murder of two Turkish policemen – Turkey decided to strike at the PKK under cover of an anti-Isis bombardment. The Americans were to be kept sweet by the reopening of Incirlik air base – in Turkish Kurdistan – and the world would forget that Islamist fighters have received free passage across the Turkish-Syrian border.
With its latest air campaign, the Turks are following Pakistan’s path to total corruption, when it became an arms and guerrilla conduit to Afghanistan – with American encouragement – in the 1980s. The Pakistanis variously supported the mujahedin, the Taliban and other Islamist groups.
As for the Kurds – have they come across the words of Arthur Harris, the RAF squadron leader who helped crush the 1920 Iraqi uprising? “The Arab and Kurd now know,” he said, “what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within 45 minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured.” The Turks clearly feel the same.
Robert Fisk is Middle East correspondent for The Independent newspaper. He is the author of many books on the region, including The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.
Tite says comparisons between Lionel Messi and Pele have “no credibility” as the former Brazil striker had no weaknesses.
The Brazil coach claimed on Friday that Messi told him to shut up as they exchanged words during a friendly against Argentina in Riyadh.
It is 50 years on Tuesday since Pele scored his 1,000th goal and Tite thinks his compatriot is still ahead of anyone else as the greatest footballer of all time, including Messi.
Tite said (via Goal): “Pele is incomparable. Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete…do you know what I do? I hear but I don`t listen.
“It’s as if this person doesn’t know the history of this man’s quality… this guy was phenomenal. Once I said that Messi is extraordinary.
“I meant he’s extraordinary to the present time and among humans, with his creativity. Pele is out of normal patterns and I’m not saying this because I’m a Brazilian. You can’t find a defect.
“If somebody comes to me and starts to make comparisons, for me it has no credibility.”
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Manchester United youngster Tahith Chong is looking for a ‘new adventure’ away from Old Trafford, according to a report in Italy.
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Chong has entered the last year of his contract at Old Trafford with no noises about a potential extension coming from the club.
The Daily Mail claimed earlier this month that Juventus are ‘watching’ the 19-year-old, who predominantly plays as a winger for the Red Devils.
Any potential move to Juve will provide United fans with flashbacks to when they let Paul Pogba join the Old Lady for free in 2012 before signing him back for £89million only four years later.
And now Corriere dello Sport (via Sport Witness) claims that Chong’s representatives feel the Dutchman hasn’t been used ‘enough’ this term.
The report adds that they have ‘unsurprisingly started looking around in search of a new adventure’ and are keen to find a club that would ‘help him become a great’.
Chong ‘seems to particularly like’ the idea of moving to Juventus with the report claiming talks have taken place between the clubs.
There is more than the Juventus offer ‘on the table’ and Man Utd are also understood to be trying to tie the 20-year-old down to a new contract.