Life After Copenhagen: Climate Justice, Reclaiming Power

Wednesday 20 January 2010
La Tropicana, 177 High Street, Fremantle
6PM – 9PM

WITH DONATIONS (at the door) MOST WELCOMED TO HELP COVER COSTS
Light refreshments will be provided by donation

Join FaA (Fremantle Axis of Awesome) and (FoE) Friends of the Earth with speakers who attended Copenhagen to give first hand analysis of the negotiations and to discuss how we can build a vibrant Climate Justice Action movement in WA.

The Copenhagen meeting was an abject failure – with rich countries like Australia pushing false solutions of offsetting and carbon trading, and avoiding urgently needed emissions reductions. But what did emerge from COP15 was on the outside, on the streets, and in the hearts and minds of civil society from around the world that recognised politics-and-business-as-usual solutions are now dead and that only heroic, united and decisive action from grassroots power bases will achieve a safe energy future for the planet.

MCs
Natalie Lowrey, National Liaison Officer, Friends of the Earth Australia
Jarrod McKenna, Empowering Peacemakers in Your Community

SPEAKERS
Piers Verstegen, Director, Conservation Council WA
Tim Hemsley, Avaaz.org
Alex & Ray, Perth Indymedia*

*Alex and Ray will be showing footage from inside and outside COP 15

SPECIAL GUEST via skype from Copenhagen (TBC)
Natasha Verco, Climate Justice Action organiser
Natasha is a co-founder of Friends of the Earth Sydney and a long-term environmental and social justice activist. Danish authorities detained Natasha for over three weeks since the Copenhagen climate conference. She was released after appearing in court in Copenhagen on Monday January 4th 2010. Tash faces a full trial on 16 March for trumped up charges of “incitement” for her role in organising the major ‘Reclaim Power’ protest during the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.


For more info: Natalie Lowrey
natalie.lowrey@foe.org.au
0421 226 200