IDEX Partner Biowatch's workshop brought together rural women farm workers to put together posters to march with on Dec 3rd's Global Day of Action
IDEX is joining social movements from across the globe in creating 1000’s of Durbans in conjunction with the social movement activities around the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
Why? To demonstrate to governments around the world the people’s determination to prevent catastrophic climate change.
This year the Global Day of Action calling for a “1,000 Durbans” is being headed up by Desmond D’Sa, of IDEX partner South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, which will see a non-violent mass march in Durban calling for measures to halt climate change.
“World leaders are discussing the fate of our planet but they are far from reaching a solution to climate change. If they fail to make progress we will see drought and hunger blight our country and continent even further. We call on all South African’s to march with us this Saturday and remind our leaders they must come to a fair climate change deal that avoids runaway climate change.” – Desmond D’sa
Like many organizations around the US and the world, IDEX will be marking the Global Day of Action and supporting our South African partners through a series of activities to highlight grassroots communities concerns and making the local-global links around climate change work.
In Durban, staffer Katherine Zavala will be supporting partner activities and networking to promote climate justice solutions.
In the US, we will engage in activities that include:
- Occupy Oakland Event – Friday, December 2:
Join us at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on at 6pm as we introduce a statement of solidarity with social movements in Durban. Email yeshica at idex.org for info.
- Oakland Urban Farm Event – Saturday, December 3:
We’ll be supporting a Bay Area ally organization as they demonstrate sustainable urban food-growing practices on their public land-based farm in an East Oakland community.
- Learning Call – Tuesday, December 6th:
At 9am (Pacific) and 7pm (South Africa), IDEX will be hosting Learning Call: Grassroots Leaders Live from South AfricaCivil Society’s Role in COP17 Climate Talks in Durban with our four partners organizing on climate justice issues at COP 17. This is a unique, firs- time effort to bring grassroots voices live and direct from one of these events. We are very excited about this first-time event! If you are interested, please call the office at 415-824-8284 for more information.
- COp17 Report Back – Later in January, date TBA:
We’ll be participating alongside Bay Area ally organizations about COP 17 and our partners’ grassroots solutions to climate change.
To read more about the 1000 Durbans Global Week of Action and to see other actions happening around the US, visit: www.grassrootsclimatesolutions.net.