From catalyst at actionpa.org Fri Sep 25 18:43:42 2009 From: catalyst at actionpa.org (Mike Ewall) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:43:42 -0400 Subject: [Corporations] Climate activists call out big enviros, U.N. in NYC Message-ID: <200909252243.QEY79753@mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net> Climate activists drop banner over UN motorcade Posted Sep 25th, 2009 For Immediate Release: Climate Activists Drop Banner Over UN Motorcade, Raise Warning of Ineffective "False Solutions" to Climate Change New York, NY ? Early Friday morning, at the end of the first week of the High Level meetings during Climate Week in New York, a caravan of police-escorted limousines and SUVs carrying UN delegates was delayed as they approached the 42nd street bridge en route to the UN complex on eastern Manhattan. A 25-foot banner reading "UN: Cap + Trade is a Dead End" was deployed as the motorcade drew near. A group referring to itself as the "Greenwash Guerrillas" claimed credit for the banner, and prior to a hasty departure threw leaflets down onto the stalled traffic articulating their demands: (TEXT:) * We know a highly-developed campaign has been launched in the United States by the worst transnational corporate polluters, Wall Street financiers, and well-funded professional enviros along with their lesser-funded camp-followers to pass a bill, any bill, possessing the namesake of ?the climate'; * We hold that polluting corporations have never advocated for anything that would harm their bottom line, their short-term profits or their shareholders; * We recognize that Wall Street financiers, responsible for a world-wide economic recession due to a speculative bubble collapse, have set their sites on a $14 trillion carbon trading system as a means of reviving their fortunes; * We know that corporate polluters have effectively defanged the mainstream US environmental movement. Many organizations that appear to publicly support environmental defense are welcoming disastrous policy within the US and the leadup to the December COP15 Climate Talks in Copenhagen. The mainstream environmental movement has become little more than a sounding board for corporate sponsors of profit-generating climate change legislation. As a people, we cannot define the systematic destruction of our environment, the unprecedented extinction crisis, and oncoming impacts of climate catastrophe as a money-making opportunity. We will not forget or forgive those who mindlessly, selfishly advocate a cap-and-trade system. The False Solutions agenda of the corrupt circles of government at home and abroad will meet resistance. Signed, Agent Simple Green The Greenwash Guerrillas ----- http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/09/25/nyc-climate-activists-expose-the-true-%E2%80%9Cgreen%E2%80%9D-of-big-enviros-deliver-giant-climate-%E2%80%9Cbill%E2%80%9D-to-offices/ NYC: Climate Activists Expose the True "Green" of Big Enviros, Deliver Giant Climate "Bill" to Offices Published by mattwilkerson, September 25th, 2009 global warming (New York) Climate justice activists from Rising Tide North America and Climate SOS in New York took to the streets on the final day of the UN Climate summit, making housecalls to the New York offices of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Nature Conservancy. NRDC's street-level banner was festooned with a 14 foot mock "Climate Bill" in the form of $2 trillion bank note (the approximate value of a U.S. carbon market). Imagery on the giant spoof bill critiques roles of many large environmental groups in their push for passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA), chiefly for its advocacy of an carbon market. Following NRDC, the offices of EDF and The Nature Conservancy received delivery visits where activists desperately tried to present organizational representatives with their version of the "green". These organizations are leading members of the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which has united them with highly polluting corporations such as Dow, DuPont, General Electric and Alcoa Aluminum under the auspices of lobbying Congress to reduce emissions. This unsavory alliance played a major role in crafting the Waxman-Markey ACESA bill (HR 2454) passed by the US House of Representatives in July, and expected to make its way for a Senate vote imminently. Hundreds of environmental groups OPPOSE the current US climate bill. They recognize the bill's cap and trade provisions as a dangerous false solution, that is inherently unstable and that has historically proven incapable of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Climate Bill Image HERE: http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/2009/09/nyc-scientists-activists-protest-corporate-control-over-climate-policy/ This event is the culmination of a three week, seven city tour, sponsored by Climate SOS, an informal alliance of scientists, activists, and local and regional environmental groups that are opposed to the current climate bill, having observed the failure of "market mechanisms" used to date to ameliorate the climate crisis. The activists argue that the House ACESA bill "just doesn't add up," pointing out that it falls far short of scientifically valid targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions; removes the EPA's authority to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act; and incorporates massive corporate giveaways into its cap-and-trade program. If such a bill were to pass, polluting corporations would be able to defer urgently needed emissions reductions for decades under the bill's offset provisions. International groups widely condemn the lack of US leadership on climate issues and demand that wealthy countries pay their share of the accumulated "climate debt." Contacts: David Vine (Rising Tide): 207-956-0141 Rachel Smolker, Ph.D. 802-482-2848 Brian Tokar, 802-595-9677 Organizational Links & Info: Rising Tide North America ? http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org Climate SOS ? http://www.climatesos.org --- Mike Ewall Energy Justice Network catalyst at actionpa.org http://www.energyjustice.net From dennis.baer at verizon.net Sat Sep 26 15:23:43 2009 From: dennis.baer at verizon.net (The Liberal Democratic Party of the United States) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:23:43 -0400 Subject: [Corporations] A suggestion. 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