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I was there.

THE PARIS DECLARATION - APRIL FINANCIAL FOOLS DAY 2009

The Paris Declaration

We won't pay for your crises? it is time for change!

More than 150 representatives of trade unions, farmers' movements,
global justice groups, environmental groups, development groups,
migrants' groups, faith-based groups, women's groups, the have-not
movements, student and youth groups, and anti-poverty groups from all
over Europe gathered on the 10th and 11th of January 2009 in Paris to
analyse collectively the current crises, to develop joint strategies
and to discuss joint demands and alternatives in response to these
crises.

As the financial and the economic crises intensify, millions of women
and men are losing their jobs, houses and livelihoods. Tens of
millions more are forecast to join the 1.4 billion people already
living in extreme poverty. The crises worsen the social, ecological,
cultural and political situation of the majority of people on our
planet.

Despite the evident and foreseeable failure of the current economic
model, world leaders are responding by trying to preserve the system
that is responsible for the crises. Governments have been quick to
bail out bankers, corporate share holders and their financial backers
with hundreds of billions in public money. To solve the problem, they
put into place bankers and heads of corporations: the same actors
that created the crises. The workers, the jobless, the poor ? all
those affected have received no help in their daily struggle to make
ends meet, and to cap it all, they are now supposed to pay the bill.

Governments' proposals to deal with the unfolding economic crisis do
not address the other dimensions of the crisis we face today ? global
justice, food, climate and energy ? and with it the need to transform
the economic system towards one that allows us to satisfy the basic
needs of all people, to implement all human rights and to restore and
preserve the ecological basis of
life on our planet.

It is time for change!

We can build a system that works for people and the environment, a
system to serve the needs of the many, a system based on the
principles of public benefit, global equity, justice, environmental
sustainability and democratic control.

As a first step, immediate measures must be implemented to address
the social impacts on people, whilst supporting the ecological
conversion of the economy.

We call upon all social movements in Europe to engage in a process of
change. To start with, we call upon movements

- to engage in the mass mobilisation for the central demonstration in
London on the 28th of March 2009 ahead of the G20 meeting, or to take
to the streets in their own countries that same day to make their
voices heard. 20 governments cannot decide on the future of the
global financial system and economy.

- to undertake a day of action in the week of the G20 meeting,
preferably on the 1st of April (Financial Fools' Day) all across the
world, exposing unaccountable
financial power and promoting democratic control of finance.

This meeting is a further step in a long?term process of building
spaces for European networks to meet. Recognising and drawing on
previous and future mobilisations of social movements and civil
society organizations in Europe and all over the world, it builds on
ongoing efforts developed at the European Social Forum and elsewhere,
aimed at realising a democratic and socially and environmentally
sustainable Europe. We commit to intensify cooperation and
communication among our networks and organisations with the aim of
building capacity for sustained mobilisation and the development of
joint alternatives. We are committed to supporting and encouraging
all people to have their voices
heard in reshaping their societies.

We will meet again on the 18th and 19th of April 2009 in Frankfurt am
Main, Germany, in order to develop the next steps of mobilisation and
strategies towards change. We call upon all social movements and
social organisations to join this process.

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I'm watching this bbc super glue action on youtube, fine. But check out the ad in the corner.

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Truck target

Dedomenici sings

Exhibition project "For A Completely Different Climate"

FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CLIMATE

An exhibition project by Oliver Ressler
Curated by Marco Scotini

Galleria Artra, Via Burlamacchi 1, 20135 Milan, Italy,
artragalleria@tin.it
Till January 30, 2009, Tue to Sat, 15.00-19.00

For images and a webversion of the 3-channel slide installation please
check out: http://www.ressler.at/for_a_completely_different_climate/

The exhibition project "For A Completely Different Climate" deals with
an emerging social movement that questions and selectively fights the
response (or non-response) of states and corporations to climate change.
This leftist movement has the potential to mobilize especially in
Britain, where in August 2008 a Climate Camp was organized to close the
Kingsnorth coal-fired power station east of London. Although the
Kingsnorth station will be shut down, the energy corporation E.ON plans
to build, at the same location, a new coal-fired power station that will
assure profits for the next few decades. This project completely
conflicts with the necessary goal of reducing CO2 emissions. Preventing
a new coal-fired powerplant in Kingsnorth is of great symbolic value,
since a successful resistance could mean the end of other planned
projects for coal-fired powerplants elsewhere in Britain.

The centre of the exhibition "For A Completely Different Climate" is a
3-channel slide installation, based on 96 photos taken in the Climate
Camp and at the demonstrations and blockades of Kingsnorth. These photos
are combined with short texts and audio recordings of the demonstrations
and workshops. In a presentation lasting 16 minutes, three connected
projections will be shown on an 18-metre-long wall of the gallery. The
exhibition also includes three light boxes combining photos with police
search protocols and information sheets that identify state repression.

"For A Completely Different Climate" is my third project focusing on
climate-change concerns. The "100 Years of Greenhouse Effect" was done
in 1996 (Salzburger Kunstverein) and followed in 2000 by "Sustainable
Propaganda" that used a series of exhibitions to comment on the
hegemonic discourse of "sustainable development" (exhibitions included
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin). Ever since Al Gore's documentary "An
Inconvenient Truth" (2006), that is based on his slide shows, the debate
about global warming has been part of the mainstream. Gore believes that
trading emissions rights and using clean and efficient technologies can
prevent global warming. However, "For A Completely Different Climate"
uses the medium of a slide show to focus, above all, on resistance to
the existing system and provides space for people who in contradiction
to Gore believe that market-compatible approaches such as emissions
trading is not about the protection of the climate, but instead only
about ensuring continued capitalist growth. As noted in the
installation's audio recordings, CO2 emissions continue to rise years
after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol. Climate change could therefore
only be confronted through a radical transformation of society that
would effectively challenge the existing distribution of wealth and
power-relationships that are guaranteed by the military.

Happy christmas

EDO profits from Gaza massacres. Protest!

ITT/EDO-MBM make components for the Israeli F16's which are bombing
Palestinians in Gaza as we speak. Demonstrations against these
atrocities are taking place all week across the country -join them. If
you are in Brighton there is a demo on Saturday the 3rd, 12.30,
Churchill Square.

Come and show your outrage at Israel's EDO backed war crimes!

Against the war profiteers, for the people of Gaza -wherever you are.

For details of London and other demonstrations around the country see

www.palestinecampaign.org