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From: Kamala Emanuel <kamala@...>
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Subject: Sydney climate emergency rally: organising meeting August 14
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You may have seen the call for protest actions to highlight the urgent need
for action on climate change that has been doing the rounds of the
climate-interested lists (if not, see below).

If you want to take part in organising a climate emergency rally in Sydney,
September 27, please come to the first meeting:


6.30pm
Thursday August 14
UTS

We're seeking the involvement of as many groups and individuals as possible,
so please forward this through your networks.

Supported by
Alison Potter, Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle
Brianna Pike, Resistance
Damien Lawson, Climate Justice Coordinator Friends of the Earth Australia
Janet France, North Shore Climate Action
Jonathan Doig, Sutherland Climate Action Network
Jo Ferris, Sydney Uni enviro collective convenor
Jo Spangaro, Ryde Gladesville Climate Change Action Group
Kamala Emanuel, Socialist Alliance
Maria White, UNSW enviro collective co-convenor
Nicky Ison






*We need urgent action on climate change!*

A call for a national week of protest action beginning September 21
Climate change is already occurring, much faster than the world's
scientists have predicted. Recent data including the very real possibility
of the arctic sea-ice melting by September this year demonstrate that this
is a climate emergency.

We are concerned that the Australian government's proposed Emissions Trading
Scheme will be full of loopholes and by the government's own admission will
allow emissions to continue rising for some years. We believe such
incremental measures are unacceptable: We need greenhouse emissions to start
to fall immediately and sharply.

To begin to solve the problem we need action on many fronts including:

* No new coal;
* Massive public spending on renewable energy;
* More public transport not new freeways;
* End logging of old growth forests.

We call for a national week of protests across Australia at the Spring
Equinox, in the week beginning September 21. This week of action can
highlight the summer melt of the Arctic ice and other worrying signs that
demand urgent measures to de-carbonise the economy from state and Federal
governments.

We ask climate change campaign groups and networks and all environmentally
concerned organisations across Australia to work together for a co-ordinated
and effective week of public protest around these themes.

*Call issued by the organising committee for the July 5 Climate Emergency
rally in Melbourne
www.climaterally.blogspot.com<http://climaterally.blogspot.com>

Endorsed unanimously by participants at the final session of the August 2
Climate Justice seminar in Melbourne
www.climatejusticeseminar.blogspot.com<http://climatejusticeseminar.blogspot.com\
>

Please circulate this message widely.*






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