Dear friends,

On Monday, start of final week of the UN climate change talks in Warsaw, we will be stepping up our efforts to demand CLIMATE JUSTICE: that those who contributed/contribute the most to climate change radically cut their greenhouse gas emissions and provide funds and sufficient resources for all those affected ASAP–as a matter of obligation not out of pity or charity. All over the world so many groups and individuals are launching solidarity fasts with, and other forms of creative support for, Philippine Climate Change Commissioner Naderev Yeb Saño and all climate-change survivors worldwide. Please ‘like’ this page for more info:

https://www.facebook.com/westandwithyou

In the Philippines, the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice is organising solidarity fasts and other events in Manila, Cebu, Davao and other places. I failed the first time I tried fasting, but I will try again, along with Filipino and other participants here in Poland. If you want to get involved in your own ways, please contact Khevin Yu, Maria Fatima Villena, Jean Enriquez, or PM me for their numbers. For friends abroad, please PM me so I can try to get you in touch with groups in your own countries.

Because alongside or beyond packing relief goods and all those wonderful ways by which we have tried to help our fellow Yolanda survivors get back on our feet, we need to stop even stronger Yolandas from happening and we need to help future climate-change survivors now.

P.S. You might want to temporarily change your FB profile pic with the one I’m using: red dots signifying all those places in the map that are being affected by–but that are also resisting–climate change. We stand with the Philippines! We stand with each other!

Source: www.facebook.com/herbert.docena

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The Red Dot

We are living in a climate-changed world. At a one degree average temperature increase, our planet has already been pushed to the limit, and communities across the globe are feeling the harsh impacts. It is the those who are least responsible for this crisis that are being dealt the strongest blows. Climate change is no longer some kind of distant future scenario; it is happening here and now, and requires a response like nothing we have ever seen before.

The red dot is a statement of solidarity with the people living and fighting on the front lines of a warmed world. Launched at the United Nations climate talks in Doha, it is as also a reminder to negotiators, politicians, and the entire UN that we will not back down. We refuse to compromise present or future lives and livelihoods. It is a statement of solidarity with communities on the front line of the expansion of the fossil fuel industry – an affirmation of our support for the rights of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities threatened by environmental and climate injustice. It is a declaration that we will not stand idly by as the planet is sold to the interests of the few on the backs of the many.

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