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A BRIEF NOTE ON GGS & GAIA
The manmade global warming, as it is worsening despite years of protests by the People, the Bottom Class - Grassroots, lately also mass protests by young People, is now finally on the top of the global economic-political agenda. It is simply a question about saving the planet or not. The earth is going towards a warm hell, with no future for the young generation, if not something drastic is done. The present mainly Top - Down managerial systems don't meet the People's demand to achieve "a safe pathway under 1.5°C" global warming, not now and very likely not later. The Real (and green) Democrats, i.e. the Anarchists and especially the eco-anarchists of GAIA, have had solutions to the manmade global warming on top of the agenda for many years, and after lots of research and discussions concluded that the only solution is Real (and green) Democracy, i.e. Anarchy, - a Bottom - Up managerial system that meet the People's demands, including the Green. A necessary condition to establish such a Bottom - Up managerial systems is a very big, national in different countries, and global mass-movement, a broad based Sufficiently Large People's Movement (SLPM). To try to trigger this (SLPM) GAIA started the Green Global Spring (GGS), inspired by the Arab Spring. GAIA is de facto the spearhead of GGS, and share official website with this (small) People's movement, that may serve as an example for an SLPM.
All IJOR/Fb/IJ@ © ISSN 0800-0220 - electronic issues ISSN 1890-9485 since 2009 i.e. anarchy.no organizations, included IIFOR, AI/IFA with regional and national sections, IAT, IWW/AI, IAF and the AI-embassy, and many other anarchist groups, have joined the GGS. The young great eco-activist Greta Thunberg is a network-member/subscriber, together with her youth organization Fridays For Future International. Several labor confederations, Greenpeace, and many more, are also connected to the GGS-network. GGS is also a praxeology-part of the large Democracy Project. The Democracy Project is a research project about all topics of democracy and adjacent themes, including green aspects. IIFOR is responible for this project. However today and in the foreseeable future the GGS, (small) People's movement will most likely never in itself develop to a SLPM. The strategy of the GGS, this small People's movement, is to try to trigger building of an SLPM by others, i.e. larger and more resourceful organizations and institutions broadly defined, related to the public and private sector of societies, more or less interested in real - included green democracy, with solution to the climate-crisis de facto on the agenda - and not only in words that are not to be trusted which applies to most of the Top of the societal pyramids of private and public sector, of the world - historically and today - and in the future? A relevant SLPM may include whole democratic countries and allies, say NATO, and more....
Coal is the worst in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, and is GGS no 1. target. The worst countries in this connection are China, USA and EU. Thus the GGS via AIE has launched the "Action: China, USA and EU! Drop Coal!", and this action will continue until coal is being phased out in all the three countries. This of course will depend on a succesful triggering of a relevant SLPM. NB! Per 08.02.2020 the GGS holds the 3 evil, Coal-Monarchs: Xi Jinping of China, Donald Trump of USA and Ursula von der Leyen of EU, as main responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions in their respective countries, and thus for the destruction of the environment broadly defined in this connection, i.e. ochlarchist including criminal. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined, and legal actions against the ochlarchist Coal-Monarchs and accomplices, may perhaps sometimes be applicable. Greta Thunberg and young associates have taken legal action via UN in a climate-case, but not against the 3 worst ochlarchist Coal-Monarchs in the world, named above. Perhaps some legal actions are possible against the ochlarchist, including criminal, Coal-Monarchs of China, USA and EU in the future, but so far they are as top and main responible for the societal systems destroying the environment and the future of our children, acting with total impunity. This is horrible, and GAIA and GGS call on juridical experts in general to investigate the possibilites of legal options and actions in this connection, but very likely such legal actions requires new laws. And this very likely requires a more Bottom - Up, managerial approach/system, and this again requires that a real Green Global Spring Revolution based on a relevant SLPM, at least partly succeeds - first. This means that we will mainly concentrate on other types of actions within the general strategy (triggering), at least until relevant legal investigations with positive results are available. Achieving a more Bottom - Up managerial approach, to drop coal in China, USA and EU, based on a relevant SLPM, is quite possible without legal actions.
The future for our planet GAIA, a.k.a. Tellus and Earth, is real democracy, i.e. including a significant green tendency, in all countries - and more of it. Real (and green) Democracy, i.e. Anarchy, is already achieved in Norway, the Swiss Confederation and Iceland, but only of rather low degree so far - and sorry to say, recently with some downwards pressure. The economic-political systems of these 3 countries urgently need to be developed to Anarchy of higher degree, i.e. more democratic including more green. And the rest of the world is significantly authoritarian, some countries less (non-totalitarian, but not real democracy, i.e. anarchy) and others more (totalitarian and ultra-authoritarian, at best "flawed democracy"). This authoritarianism, i.e. including lack of significant green tendency, means a.o.t. contributing significantly to the manmade global warming, the worst problem facing the People on our planet GAIA today and in the coming years, and the problem is increasing! To solve this severe global problem they all urgently need to be devoloped to Anarchy, i.e. real (and green) democracy, and more of it world wide - including higher degree of anarchy in Norway, the Swiss Confederation and Iceland. Furthermore, the International Institute For Organization Research - IIFOR's research-results presented at several notes, reports and articles at anarchy.no, show clearly that this strategy most likely is the only way to solve the global manmade warming problem, and save the world - our planet GAIA. More and higher degree of anarchy, i.e. real (and green) democracy, probably works, and is the only thing that works, to achieve "a safe pathway under 1.5C" global warming.
This webpage/document is 1. the official website of the Green Anarchist International Associaton, GAIA - a section of the Anarchist International (AI). The Confederation is a loose network of libertarians, i.e. more or less Real (and green) Democrats, related to environmental, green political economy broadly defined, human & social ecology included. And 2. this site is also the official website of the Green Global Spring (GGS) a.k.a. The Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS), an international broad based small People's movement, inspired by the Arab Spring revolution, to try to trigger others with a sufficient momemtum, to solve the manmade global warming problem and to achieve "a safe pathway under 1.5°C" global warming:
23.09.2019 GAIA had a direct action e-mail campaign directed to the UN 2019 Climate Action Summit, stating: "A sufficient fall in greenhouse gas emissions to save the planet is impossible without a sufficient change of the economic-political systems in real democratic direction, a Green Global Spring (GGS)! Millions of youth and adults, in general The People, i.e. the Grassroots - the Bottom Class, marching for green energy and against manmade global warming, will never achieve this aim without a significant change to more Bottom - Up, real democratic, managerial systems, world wide. The present mainly Top - Down economic-political systems, with rule from the Top, i.e. the Bureaucracy broadly defined in private and public sector - the Upper Class, and downwards, will never solve the climate crisis, because 1. the demands of the People, including the green, are never met in a Top - Down managerial system, and 2. the global Bureaucracy is de facto not sufficiently green, and some even denying that the global warming is manmade. Thus the necessary Green Global Spring Revolution must also be an economic-political revolution, in real democratic, i.e. eco-anarchist direction, to solve the environmental crisis and save the planet from a glowing hell. A significant change of an economic-political system is per definition a Revolution, and the mentioned significant change is now urgently needed. GAIA calls for a broad revolutionary global green real democratic people's movement, i.e. the Green Global Spring (GGS), inspired by the Arab Spring - NOW! And hope the worlds' environmental organizations and main activists, the youth - including Greta Thunberg, and The People in general, join the movement soon!" A subscription/network-membership campaign later 23.09.2019 resulted in a broad based [small] People's movement, including among others the great youth eco-activist Greta Thunberg, the youth network Fridays For Future International (school strikes etc. world wide), and many more, also of course the old GAIA-network. More information about the activities and development of the Green Global Spring (GGS), and GAIA's Support-Network for Greta Thunberg (GSNGT), is found below, in the Direct Action Section of this document.
The network of GAIA (and GGS) is historically mainly rooted back to the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and America, and was officially confirmed as a section of the Anarchist International at the IFA-congress in Oslo 1982, deciding a.o.t. the following: "Political, economic and cultural co-operation was mentioned, in unions, co-operative and collective movement, ecology and environmental protection, feminism, youth movement... The aim should be an organizational integration of all anarchists ...To promote such a development the congress decided uninamously to establish a nordic IFA secretariate...." This is a.o.t. documented in the Bulletin C.R.I.F.A. no 42 novembre 1982 p. 5. and Folkebladet No 4/1983 and IFA-Solidaritet No 8/1983. The Anarchist Manifesto ISBN 82-90468-09-1 of the Northern sections of IFA published in 1983, confirms the branch of "anarcho-ecologists (environmental and resource-movement)" within the general program.
The eco-anarchist section was later expanded universally when the Anarchist International world wide was officially confirmed at the International Anarchist Congress in Oslo medio December 1998 and later. The eco-anarchists sometimes change the red part of the anarchist flag (se above) with green, Green anarchist youths sometimes may use a green flag with a black @-logo, or a black flag with a green @-logo, and the Green Grass movement, sometimes including other groups, say, semilibertarians, in a broad based eco-political front, has used a circled logo with a green, a black and a red segment. The Green Grass Confederation is mainly rooted back to 1972 in Scandinavia.
In Norway, in the spring 1972, the Green Grass - Grønt Gras - appeared in the student and environmental politics. The program was "Grønt Gras står for en antikapitalistisk og antiautoritær politikk, basert på en økologisk forståelse av menneskesamfunnet", som det sto i formålsparagrafen, i.e. an anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian policy, based on an ecological understanding of the human society. At first the Norwegian Student Society, Det Norske Studentersamfunn (DNS) was the place of action. Both in Oslo and Trondheim Grønt Gras won the elections to the managerial councils of DNS. In the autumn 1972 the commies', mainly maoist, Red Front (Rød Front) took over again, but Grønt Gras continued as a green activist and student organization for several years.
At the IFA-congress in Oslo 1982, where the green section of the Anarchist International was officially confirmed, several activists of Grønt Gras participated. In the mid 1980s the active engagement at the DNS declined, but the eco-anarchists' actions continued in the green section of the Anarchist international. In 1984 at the Anarchist Gathering in Venice, the Nordic green anarchist delegation participated in the eco-anarchist discussions with Murray Bookchin and several other green activists, and presented interesting points of view. The eco-anarchist section continued to work both within the Anarchist International and the green networks world wide in the 1980-90s and later, also functioning as a junction between the anarchist and the green movement in general. At the 20th anniversary of the Green Anarchist International Association in 2002, a.o.t. the updated Ecoanarchist Manifesto was presented internationally for environmental actions and further discussion and research (see link below).
The eco-anarchist movement must not be mixed up with neo-luddist, primitivist, anti-civilization and similar groups and policies, i.e. authoritarian and eccentric ideas and practice and far from anarchist, although sometimes posing as 'libertarian green' to provoke. The eco-anarchist movement has a rational, libertarian socialist basis for its policy, and rejects principally marxian and other dialectical type ideology, "new-age" and/or "Skippy&Disney" utopian based "animal liberation", vegetarian fanatism, irrational environmentalism, and similar authoritarian tendencies. The eco-anarchist movement is clearly opposed to and in general denounces the sometimes fanatical and irrational tendencies and guru-hierarchies we have seen within the ecology and green movement in general, as well as terrorism and ochlarchy tendencies, sometimes wrongly called "anarchist" in the media. Some oclarchists falsely posing as green anarchists have got expelling Brown Cards from IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement, see (click on:) IAT-APT.
GAIA has however a general direct action called Animal Liberation From Abuse, ALFA, an anarchist campaign, i.e. without ochlarchy. The campaign has roots back to the FABS' anarchist animal liberation prog-punk record "Villsvinpønk", [Wild Boar Punk], released on a vinyl single, EP, in 1979. The FABS supports ALFA, and "Villsvinpønk", [Wild Boar Punk] is the official anthem of this campaign. More information at (click on: ) FABS Fanclub's Web.
GAIA also has another general direct action: Anarchists Against Nukes, AAN, a libertarian campaign, i.e. without ochlarchy. The campaign is against both fission nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs, and is for mutual, balanced disarmament of nuclear weapons world wide. The campaign has roots back to the FABS' eco-anarchist antinuke prog-punk record "She Was Strong And Young - Now She's Radioactive" from the album "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968", recorded in 1968. "She" here mainly means GAIA, "mother earth", say, in the springtime. The FABS supports AAN, and "... Now She's Radioactive" is the official anthem of this campaign. More information at (click on: ) FABS Fanclub's Web.
Green Growth: GAIA and GGS mean it is possible to have environmentally sustainable economic growth in the society, both locally and globally, if we do the right things. This means development of new and realistic (i.e. not fantasies about working CO2 cleaning on large scale, and fusion based nuclear energy) environmentally friendly technology and substitution of old and polluting etc. industry towards more environmentally friendly industry. Via substitution towards green economy in demand, production and distribution an environmentally sustainable growth with full employment, efficient and fair, is possible - on our limited earth. Thus GAIA and GGS oppose certain technological advances which are contributing to ecological and environmental decay. Fossil energy, especially coal, but also oil and gas etc., must be replaced with green energy. Furthermore birth control and very limited population growth, are necessary to achieve environmentally sustainable economic growth. The GDP, Gross Domestic Product, must be based more on services and low-energy products in general, and less on material goods and high-energy products in general. Materials in general must be recycled more than today. Slowly as time goes by introducing less work-time and more holidays, are also a part of the solution. If all the mentioned conditions are fulfilled, high economic growth is possible, GDP per capita will increase significantly over time, and the growth will also be environmentally sustainable. Especially, the problem with manmade global warming will be solved. The Institute of Industrial Economics (INDECO) in Oslo, Norway has developed a general Cogripsmodel, with a realistic plan, that if implemented via Cogripspolicy, will create considerable environmentally sustainable economic growth, at least 3 - 5 percent yearly growth in GDP, i.e. significantly substituted towards green energy and other products, and much based on services, less on material goods.
However, the present economic growth, with the traditional composition of GDP, is too much based on material goods and high-energy products, too little recycling, uncontrolled population growth, coal and other fossil energy as input, too much waste in general, etc. to be environmentally sustainable. If the political economy broadly defined doesn't manage the necessary substitution towards green economy in demand, production and distribution, including development of lots of new and realistic environmentally friendly technology, the economic growth must be reduced or stopped, or else our planet GAIA will be ruined by pollution and climate change including manmade global warming. But this linear approach, without significant substitution, means a very bad situation for the People and also most likely very authoritarian. INDECOs Cogripsmodels and Cogrips-policy, with a lot of substitution towards green in the political economy broadly defined and in the GDP, is a much better including democratic solution for the People. By the way the GDP, the Gross Domestic Product, is defined, explained and discussed very well at the political economy files at anarchy.no, use the anarchist search engine via "Links" below to find the stuff.
GAIA and GGS are engaged in all kinds of environmental issues, also, say, work-place environment included problems with ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) and bad physical environment. This item may be closely related to the anarchist principle of autogestion. Sometimes there may be conflicting interests between GAIA & GGS and the environmental issues on the one hand, and on the other the anarcho-syndicalist and other sections of the Anarchist International, perhaps primarily interested in market goods and services in public and private sector, and not so much the environmental factors in general. The Anarchist International has several ways to deal with such conflicts based on fairness, efficiency, social justice and other anarchist principles, and usually this works out fine. In this connection it may be mentioned that the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists at CGT, the largest national anarcho-syndicalist union in the world today, have joined and supported GAIA's international campaign against plastic pollution and for cleaning it up, titled "Beat Plastic Pollution" (same name as a similar action by the UN). More information about GAIA's campaign, see the DIrect Action Section below.
Green anarchist policy is based on a) general, ecological and environmental scientifical knowledge, b) decent treatment of animals for food, c) a "leave the world in better shape to our children than we got it from our parents", "live and let live", "ecological variety" & "polluting units are responsible for cleaning up", etc. policy, d) a general skepticism vis-a-vis genetical manipulations, especially in a world based to a large extent on statism and economical plutarchy, as such research may, in worst case scenaria, be the basis for ultra-authoritarian, dystopian hell-societies much more authoritarian and worse than Orwell's "1984", e) optimal resource, ecological and environmental management as a part of the general political-economy, f) as mentioned - a rational libertarian, i.e. socialism & autonomy, policy, the anarchist principles in general, including efficiency and fairness, especially environmental efficiency.
Several libertarian writers have made contributions to eco-anarchism throughout the years, however the book "Post-scarcity Anarchism" (1971) by Murray Bookchin* gave the movement a major boost. The left-hegelian type dialectical tendencies in some of his works are however pseudoscience, and are thus principally rejected as not valid anarchism. Later on Murray Bookchin left the anarchist movement, stopped calling himself and anarchist, and the research front of green anarchism has been developed further, without the dialectical framework, by other libertarian researchers, mainly by IIFOR/FICEDL. The Eco-Anarchist Manifesto (see link below) presents a brief summary of the research front of green anarchism, i.e. real (and green) democracy.
GAIA is an abbreviation for the Green Anarchist International Association, but also the Greek word for the Latin term Tellus, the name of the planet Earth used in astronomy. Gaia and Tellus are also used as names for the Earth thought of as a god, a divine "mother earth", in ancient mythology, but this interpretation has of course no interest in eco-anarchist perspective and organization, i.e. a secular project. The eco-anarchists and the GAIA confederation are however naturally interested in making "mother earth", our material planet, a better place to live for the people of the world, especially environmentally and ecologically, sustainable, now and in the future.
The eco-anarchists, i.e. real (and green) democrats, were and are in the frontline in the fight against acid rain and holes in the ozon-layer. Also GAIA fronts the world wide direct action "Beat Plastic Pollution", a name also used by UN in a similar action. The fight against the man-made global warming has been and is now at the top of the agenda for anarchist direct actions, to save the global environment. Regarding the struggle against man-made global warming, the eco-anarchists are in the forefront, and demand joint international cooperation to solve the problem a.o.t. via the GGS.
GAIA is a part of the Anarchist International: "The Anarchist International is a global, undogmatic, free thinking, nonsectarian modern anarchist international, with sections for anarchoindividualist, anarchocollectivist, social individualist and mutualist anarchist and anarchocommunist as well as green/ecoanarchist, anarchosyndicalist and anarchafeminist anarchists. The about 2000 networkmembers/subscribers, groups and individuals, and the about 50 000 persons loosely associated to the AI-IFA-IAF-network are, unless otherways explicitely said, members of all the organizations of the Anarchist International." "We are commune or communist anarchists regarding the long term aim, the anarchist ideal. We are individualist anarchists in individual matters and collectivist anarchists in collective matters and social-individualist, including mutualist, anarchists in practical libertarian policy of today. We are anarcho-syndicalists in industrial and work matters, green/eco-anarchists regarding environmental questions, and anarcha-feminists in gender matters. We support the Libertarian Association of Teetotallers, LAT, at least practically, we organize in community actions (CAN), do solidaric support via the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) and do research work via the FICEDL - IFCLSD." [Resolution from the International Anarchist Congress, i.e. the 5th Anarchist Biennial, arranged by the NAC/IFA/AI in Oslo medio December 1998]. From http://www.anarchy.no/ifadok.html .
Attention should be put on chapter 19 in the Eco-Anarchist Manifesto, source see link below: "The double oppression of anarchists and the people in general, both via non-ecological and environmental factors demands a double fight and double organizing: on the one hand in green movement in general, on the other hand in the organizations of anarchists. The eco-anarchists form a junction in this double organizing. An essential point in eco-anarchism is that the changes must begin today, not tomorrow or after a mega-revolution. The revolution shall be permanent. We must start today by seeing through the oppression and negative environmental situation in the daily life and do something to break the pattern here and now. We must act autonomously, without delegating to any leaders significant the right to decide what we wish and what we shall do: we must make decisions all by ourselves in personal matters, together with other green activists in pure environmental matters, and together with the other people in common ecological and other matters." - Thus regarding literature the knowledge about ecology and the green movement in general is relevant as well as the literature of anarchism in general. The same is valid regarding actions. The eco-anarchists, i.e. real (and green) democrats, are now mainly working with the broader, but small global People's movement, the Green Global Spring, GGS, with the purpose to trigger a much larger global mass-movement, a broad based Sufficiently Large People's Movement (SLPM) to solve the climate crisis via introducing Real, i.e. including green Democracy in all countries world wide.
More information is available via "contact GGS and GAIA" below.
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20th
Anniversary of GAIA 1982-2002.
Celebrated a.o.t. on Internet Saturday 16.11.2002 - Proudly
presenting:
THE ECOANARCHIST MANIFESTO
Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/eam.html
The Ecoanarchist Manifesto will be updated and revised regularly, dependent on feedback and new research. If you have any comments, feel free to post it to GAIA by using the mailform below.
A crude translation from English to Spanish etc. and the other way around may be done at URL: freetranslation or worldlingo
THE DIRECT ACTION SECTION:
About the Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS) and more!
THE GREEN ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION - GAIA
The fight for solution to the manmade global warming problem
1. COPENHAGEN - UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE DEC 7 - 18 2009
PRESS RELEASE 17.08.2009 UPDATED
GAIA says an agreement dealing with climate change must be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. This is a global issue requiring global action through global solidarity; it's not an issue of developed or developing countries. First of all, considering their historical responsability, developed countries must go in the forefront of this; they should agree on an ambitious and bold mid-term target by 2020, and also at least a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Then they should provide the necessary and sufficient financial support and technical support to developing countries so that those countries who do not have the capacity to address these consequences should be able to adapt themselves and also take mitigation actions. There have been wide-ranging discussions; GAIA has urged very bold and ambitious targets.
This is an issue affecting the whole of humanity, even the whole planet Earth. We must seal the deal in Copenhagen in December for a global agreement which can address the climate change issues in accordance with the recommendations by the main stream scientists on climate change. Do away with manmade global warming, a top - down approach, exploiting and repression of future generations, state = archy, for anarchy, i.e. green! Update 18.12.2009. GAIA calls on all countries joining the Copenhagen summit to show responsibilty, especially USA and China, and to achieve a binding agreement to do away with the manmade global warning. GAIA calls for deeds - not words - in this matter! Update 19.12.2009. After an all-night negotiating marathon, the 193-nation two-week conference ended at 14.26 GMT on Saturday. GAIA brands the deal toothless and mostly a failure. The conference decided to "take note of " the "Copenhagen Accord of December 18, 2009". The results were:
GAIA declares: "It's certainly not everything we hoped for, but it's not too late to save the planet and its people. Therefore we have got to drive forward as hard as we can towards a legally binding treaty."
2. Update 10.04.2010. Diplomats from over 180 countries are meeting in Bonn to revive the UN's faltering plans to tackle climate change
Protesters dumped broken glass outside urging delegates to make real commitments four months after similar talks in Copenhagen. That produced a politcal agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees celsius by 2020. But with the pledges only voluntary, those in the developing world say it is doomed to fail. "The small islands don't feel as if anything has changed. It has gotten worse, in fact. Because when you look at the targets that have been put on the table under the Copenhagen Accord, they are pointing to an increase of between 3.5 to four degrees Celsius, so if anything, it's become worse.” Poorer nations want a legally-binding treaty introduced by the end of the year. GAIA and the anarchists at large, EU and others, back that call, and also say Copenhagen does not go far enough. But other industrialized countries are less keen with the head of US delegation on Friday praising the deal in Denmark as a signifcant milestone.
3. Update 10.12.2010. The 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16)
COP16 in Cancun, Mexico, adopted by consensus the Cancun Accords, a series of documents that will provide the basis for efforts to confront climate change after the Kyoto Protocol expires. The accords include a $30 billion-package for 2012 to aid nations taking immediate actions to halt effects of global warming, as well as financing for long-term projects to protect the environment through a Green Fund, which will provide $100 million annually for adaptation and mitigation measures. Delegates also approved the creation of the forestry program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to facilitate the flow of resources to communities dedicated to forest conservation. GAIA and the anarchists at large welcome the Cancun Accords, and see it as a step in the right direction, but call for more green libertarian actions as much more is needed to save our planet GAIA, a.k.a Tellus and Earth, from the manmade global warming.
4. Durban, South Africa, 28.11- 09.12.2011 - The 17th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17/CMP7)
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, will bring together representatives of the world's governments, international organizations and civil society. The discussions will seek to advance, in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the Bali Action Plan, agreed at COP 13 in 2007, and the Cancun Agreements, reached at COP 16 last December.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION - ITUC - JOINED BY THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD - IWW:
Workers Increase Pressure for Climate Action As Negotiations Start in Durban
South African mine workers, Japanese energy workers, Argentinian construction workers, and UK teachers will join more than 250 unionists from 100 countries to showcase national actions to tackle climate change and create jobs in the ‘World of Work' pavilion at the UN Climate Change talks in Durban. As governments prepare to embark on the latest round of negotiations for an international climate agreement, the largest gathering of workers and trade unions at a UN Climate Change conference demonstrates how workers have taken up the challenge to climate proof their jobs and communities through workplace policies and support for national and international action.
“Steelworkers, nurses, agriciultural and hospitality workers all see first-hand the impact of climate change in their communities and on their jobs. Workers are not sitting on the sidelines waiting for an international agreement; we are actively creating policies to enable a transition that will help people and the planet. The World of Work showcases how workers can be drivers for change,” said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, ITUC. The international union movement is convinced that job creation and social protection strategies are at centre of building an international agreement to tackle climate change.
“Workers have taken the giant leap forward, and put differences behind them. At the international level workers have been able to come together and agree on targets for emissions reductions and propose where the money can be found. If workers from the north and south are able to agree a common position, so should governments,” said Sharan Burrow.
The World of Work Pavilion will officially open at 14:30 on Tuesday 29 November 2011 in the Civil Society ‘C17' space at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Howard College Campus. Over 30 events by unions, the ILO, the Blue Green Alliance and SustainLabour will take place from 29 November – 6 December including:
• South African Union, COSATU on a just transition;
• Japanese energy workers on how to tackle the challenges of a 15% energy saving after the March 2011 earthquake;
• Canadian Tar Sands and the unions response to climate, environment and jobs;
• Public services adapting to climate related disasters;
• Financing the Green Climate Fund with a Financial Transactions Tax.
The ITUC represents 175 million workers in 153 countries and territories and has 308 national affiliates. Web of International Workers of the World: IWW.
Climate conference approves landmark deal
The UN climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday 11.12.2011 on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change. The 194-party conference agreed to start negotiations on a new accord that would ensure that countries will be legally bound to carry out any pledges they make. It would take effect by 2020 at the latest. The deal doesn't explicitly compel any nation to take on emissions targets, although most emerging economies have volunteered to curb the growth of their emissions.
Currently, only industrial countries have legally binding emissions targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Those commitments expire next year, but they will be extended for at least another five years under the accord adopted Sunday - a key demand by developing countries seeking to preserve the only existing treaty regulating carbon emissions. The proposed Durban Platform offered answers to problems that have bedeviled global warming negotiations for years about sharing the responsibility for controlling carbon emissions and helping the world's poorest and most climate-vulnerable nations cope with the manmade changing forces of nature.
Sunday's deal also set up the bodies that will collect, govern and distribute tens of billions of dollars a year for poor countries. Other documents in the package lay out rules for monitoring and verifying emissions reductions, protecting forests, transferring clean technologies to developing countries and scores of technical issues. GAIA means the deal represents an important advance in the work on climate change. But the deal's language left some analysts, including GAIA, warning that the wording left huge loopholes for countries to avoid tying their emissions to legal constraints, and noted that there was no mention of penalties. Environmentalists including GAIA criticized the package - as did many developing countries in the debate - for failing to address what they called the most urgent issue, to move faster and deeper in cutting carbon emissions.
The bad news is that the conference did very little to affect the emissions curve. Scientists and GAIA say that unless those emissions - chiefly carbon dioxide from power generation and industry - level out and reverse within a few years, the Earth will be set on a possibly irreversible path of rising temperatures that lead to ever greater climate catastrophes. Sunday's breakthrough capped 13 days of hectic negotiations that ran a day and a half over schedule, including two round-the-clock days that left negotiators bleary-eyed and stumbling with words.
The package gave new life to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, whose carbon emissions targets expire next year and apply only to industrial countries. The anarchies of Norway and the Swiss Confederation are in the forefront among the Kyoto-countries. A separate document obliges major developing nations like China and India, excluded under Kyoto, to accept legally binding emissions targets in the future. The difficult clause in the documents called on countries to complete negotiations within three years on "a protocol, another legal instrument, or a legal outcome" that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol. It would need about five years for ratification. But the EU objected to the late addition of the phrase "legal outcome," which it said would allow countries to wriggle out of commitments. The final compromise, reached at 3:30 a.m., changed the final option to "an agreed outcome with legal force."
5. Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 20 - 22 June 2012
UN's information about the conference, click on: UNCSD/Rio 20. Includes also the outcome document - "The future we want". A small step in right direction, but far from sufficient from GAIA's perspective.
6. Doha, Qatar, 26.11- 07.12.2012 - The 18th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP18/CMP8)
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 18) and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP8) opened on Monday, 26 Novemer and continues until Friday, 7 December 2012 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar. Kyoto 2 was decided, but major polluters as USA, China and India are not a part of Kyoto 2. A small step in right direction, but far from sufficient from GAIA's perspective.
7. Warsaw, Poland 11.11- 22.11.2013 - The 19th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19/CMP9)
There was very little progress in the negotiations. Environmental organizations and labor unions walked out in protest. The results are far from sufficient from GAIA's perspective.
*** Tens of thousands of people, including anarchists, marched through Manhattan sounding an urgent call for action to reverse global climate change Sunday 21.09.2014. The "People's Climate March" in New York was billed as the largest of several protests held around the world two days before the start of the United Nations' Climate Summit.
8. Lima, Peru 01.12 - 12.12.2014 - The 20th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP20/CMP10)
There was little progress in the negotiations. An agreement was decided upon on overtime 14.12.2014. A small step in right direction, but far from sufficient from GAIA's perspective.
9. Paris, France 30.11 - 11.12.2015 - The 21th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11)
The Paris agreement will come into effect in 2020, empowering all countries to act to prevent average global temperatures rising above 2 degrees Celsius and to reap the many opportunities that arise from a necessary global transformation to clean and sustainable development. 05.12.2015. Representatives from 195 nations agree on a blueprint deal aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming, the top U.N. official on climate change matters tweeted. 12.12.2015. Organisers have released details of a proposed landmark deal to curb climate change. France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the final deal was fair, legally binding and would limit warming to "well below 2C". Later the deal was approved by delegates from 195 countries. A large step in right direction from GAIA's perspective.
*** 05.06.2016. World Environment Day 2016. International eco-anarchist direct action against manmade global warming!
01.06.2017. The Trump-administration has decided that the USA will leave the Paris agreement. The Anarchist International AI/IFA and GAIA condemn the move!
05.06.2017. World Environment Day 2017. International eco-anarchist direct action against manmade global warming!
15.12.2018. Nearly 200 countries have signed up to a 156-page rulebook for implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change. A large step in right direction from GAIA's perspective.
06.09.2019. GAIA's Support-Network for Greta Thunberg (GSNGT) is established today. Greta Thunberg is the greatest green and non-authoritarian youth activist against global manmade warming (and for green energy solutions) in our time. She is seriously and unjustifiably attacked by powerful ultra-authoritarian, ochlarchist, climate change deniers of all kinds, and needs eco-anarchist support. The fight for green energy solutions and against manmade global warming has been at the top of the anarchists' agenda and direct actions for many years already. Now GAIA as a part of this general fight also especially joins and supports Greta Thunberg and her brave work to save the globe.
For green energy solutions and against manmade global warming! In support of Greta Thunberg and her policy!
By GAIA's Support-Network for Greta Thunberg (GSNGT)
As the world more and more take notice of the teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, her critics have launched increasingly personal attacks and more. It was, in a subtle way, a defining moment - after a 15-day trek across the Atlantic Ocean on a green energy ship to avoid CO2 emissions late in the summer 2019, Thunberg held a short speech, where she urged the rest of us to "work together, despite our differences" to avert "the biggest crisis humanity has faced … because, otherwise, it might be too late. Let's not wait any longer. Let's do it now." This is the basic appeal of Greta Thunberg - a young woman who, distressed at the world's inexorable destruction, was moved to do something about it. Alone, if necessary. She disdains celebrity. She makes no claim to heroism. She rebuffs efforts to idolize her. She isn't calculating or preoccupied with fame or ego. There is no artifice about her. She speaks plainly, without affectation or embroidery.
In words and deeds, Thunberg is the embodiment of the philosopher Howard Zinn's admonition: "We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world." Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist". Of course, the marauding swarm of vitriolic ultra-authoritarian right-wing climate-change deniers see Thunberg - not how the prophetic Zinn envisioned her - but as a tiny, pretentious zealot who threatens the existing order. Their authoritarian order. Their comforts. Their traditional "way of life". De rigueur, they have set out to discredit and, if possible, to destroy Thunberg with their, by now, familiar and crass modus operandi. They have mocked her. They have belittled her. They have denigrated her. They have insulted her. They have dismissed her. They have questioned her motives. They have suggested she is anti-democratic and authoritarian. They have, in the fetid recesses of the internet, even threatened her. In short: Severe ochlarchy, that is mob rule broadly defined, by her arch-enemies, i.e. arch-enemies of green, libertarian political economy in general.
To afford all their fuming, sophomoric, ochlarchical attacks - the imprimatur of seriousness, they insist - as they always do - that they are the implacable realists, who, unlike starry-eyed leftists, aren't duped by the media's veneration of a youngster peddling doom and gloom over the supposedly still-contested science about whether the end is nigh or not. They would, no doubt, recoil at any suggestion that their furious hostility towards Thunberg is also the product of a calcifying cynicism, seething malevolence or signature cruelty. Rather, they insist, it is an expression of their necessary role as sceptics or contrarians in the noble tradition of their philosophical patron saint in name only, Galileo, who also questioned the prevailing scientific orthodoxy. It is a lie and an insult. They aren't "sceptics" or "contrarians". They are scientifically illiterate bullies, ochlarchists, who amplify their malice and ignorance with a bullhorn on TV or keyboard on Twitter. NB! They share no intellectual affinity with Galileo. None! Bereft of an argument that could remotely be considered empirically or rationally sound, they traffic in hyperbole and smears designed to pummel Thunberg into an inconsequential afterthought. The teenage revolutionary non-authoritarian green activist must be stopped before the climate revolution she leads goes beyond their ability to halt it.
Consider what the Australian columnist, Andrew Bolt, had to say about her. "No teenager is more freakishly influential than Thunberg, the deeply disturbed messiah of the global warming movement," he wrote. "I have never seen a girl so young and with so many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru." Not done calling her a freak and disturbed, Bolt invoked Thunberg's reported past eating disorder, emotional and psychological struggles and autism as a cudgel against her. GAIA defer to psychologists to discern the pathology that would prompt such viciousness. But Bolt's fear of the Thunberg phenomenon is plain. She is prevailing. He is losing. She is being heard, while he shouts obscenities. She grows more relevant by the day, while he slips further into irrelevancy and hysteria. When the predictable character assassination of a teenager gambit fails, it's time to raise "questions" about who or what powerful forces may be acting as Svengalis exploiting a vulnerable, damaged "child" for their parochial aims and possible profit.
"Is Thunberg a green prophet or a schoolgirl puppet controlled by more sinister forces behind her?" the always temperate London-based The Sun newspaper asked, rhetorically. Using innuendo and recycled drivel, The Sun claimed a "naive" Thunberg was being manipulated by her "fame-hungry" mother and "energy giants". Like the paper itself, it is all empty conjecture designed to undermine Thunberg's legitimacy and authenticity and her just cause. It will not work because, clearly, she is no one's marionette. The irrational, absurd, ultra-authoritarian ochlarchical assaults on Thunberg's personality and motives aren't the exclusive preserve of the rancid tabloid press. Indeed, The New York Times newspaper permitted one journalist, Christopher Caldwell, to argue that Thunberg's appeals for immediate action are, incredibly, "in conflict with democracy". "Ms Thunberg believes that we should act, not argue," Caldwell wrote in his missive, oozing with condescension about her lack of life experience, "crude language", "unrealistic" world view, and "out of balance" priorities. While simultaneously acknowledging that the "authorities" agree with Thunberg that the climate crisis constitutes an "emergency", Caldwell claims that the youthful Swede is only interested in "sowing panic" and "simplification". His cockeyed prescription: more patience - "Democracy calls for waiting and seeing."
This is climate change denialism with the patina of gravitas. Thunberg, like GAIA and the overwhelming scientific consensus she is intimately familiar with, is loud and clear on this urgent imperative: The time for waiting and seeing was over long ago. Patience, in this pressing context, is not a virtue, it is an abdication of responsibility. Thunberg has deployed every democratic tool at her imaginative disposal to make this salient point again and again. She is the personification of the democratic impulse, not the antithesis of it. So, we - GAIA - the eco-anarchists, join millions of other global citizens who have been humbled, inspired and stirred by Thunberg's steely steadfastness in the face of the often-repellent locusts who come to bury her, not to praise her. We are looking at you, kid! Sources: Al Jazeera, Andrew Mitrovica, Wikipedia, IIFOR, IJ@ and AIIS.
GAIA to the UN 2019 Climate Action Summit: A sufficient fall in greenhouse gas emissions to save the planet is impossible without
a sufficient change of the economic-political systems
in real democratic direction,
a Green Global Spring (GGS)!
23.09.2019. GAIA to the UN 2019 Climate Action Summit: A sufficient fall in greenhouse gas emissions to save the planet is impossible without a sufficient change of the economic-political systems in real democratic, i.e. eco-anarchist, direction. Millions of youth and adults, in general The People, i.e. the Grassroots - the Bottom Class, marching for green energy and against manmade global warming, will never achieve this aim without a significant change to more Bottom - Up, real democratic, managerial systems, world wide. The present mainly Top - Down economic-political systems, with rule from the Top, i.e. the Bureaucracy broadly defined in private and public sector - the Upper Class, and downwards, will never solve the climate crisis, because 1. the demands of the People, including the green, are never met in a Top - Down managerial system, and 2. the global Bureaucracy is de facto not sufficiently green, and some even denying that the global warming is manmade. Thus the necessary Green Global Spring Revolution must also be an economic-political revolution, in real democratic, i.e. eco-anarchist direction, to solve the environmental crisis and save the planet from a glowing hell. A significant change of an economic-political system is per definition a Revolution, and the mentioned significant change is now urgently needed. GAIA calls for a broad revolutionary global green real democratic people's movement, i.e. the Green Global Spring (GGS), inspired by the Arab Spring - NOW! And hope the worlds' environmental organizations and main activists, the youth - including Greta Thunberg, and The People in general, join the movement soon!
The Green Global Spring (GGS) - Report no 1
24.09.2019. First direct action of GGS - Summary. The first direct action e-mail-campaign and report from the new revolutionary green real democratic people's movement, i.e. the Green Global Spring (GGS), inspired by the Arab Spring - was completed Tuesday 24.09.2019. So far (January 2020) the GGS is only at an embryonic phase, a small international movement to try to trigger a wider significant global People's Movement, i.e. a broad based Sufficiently Large People's Movement (SLPM). Real Democracy (always including green), i.e. Anarchy, and the GGS was started and established Monday 23.09.2019. The first report was sent as a newsletter and press release from International Journal of Anarchism, IJ@, to subscribers/network-members world wide, mainly from the bottom of the societal pyramid, the People - Grassroots, the Bottom Class, but also to some at the top of the pyramid, the Upper Class, i.e. the Bureaucracy broadly defined, the superiors in political/administrative rank and/or economically/income, in private and public sector, included party politicians. The newsletter was titled: "Hi Monica, Greta [Thunberg] and Monika and thousands more! Introduction to the Green Global Spring. 1. About GGS and school strikes etc. 2. UN unsubscribe? NB! Is UN de facto a part of the global manmade warming problem, or supporting the People for the solution?"
The report welcomes the many new members, i.e. subscribers/network-members of the GGS, mainly groups but also some individuals, including among many others the very large Fridays For Future International, known for world wide school strikes, Greenpeace and the greatest youth activist of today: Greta Thunberg. The report also explains a.o.t. 1. why a revolutionary change of the economic-political systems towards more bottom - up, from today's mainly top - down, managerial systems world wide, is necessary to stop the global manmade warming, and 2. presents strategy and tactics to achieve this aim. The main strategy of the GGS is direct actions, sometimes supplemented with indirect actions (e.g. via elections), both with sanctions broadly defined, creating strength, force and pressure against the top (upper class), to achieve a more bottom - up approach, where the bottom - the People's demands, including “a safe pathway under 1.5C” global warming, are met. NB! School strikes' lack of sanctions against the upper class including politicians, make them inefficient in the fight against global manmade warming, compared to the GGS approach.
The answer to the question about UN, in the heading quoted above, is that the organization today functions too much top - down, to contribute significantly against the manmade global warming, but UN can possibly be changed via the Green Global Spring after some time, to a bottom - up approach, i.e. significantly. The newsletter is signed by Anna Quist, veteran eco-anarchist and anarcha-feminist, and she has also some comforting words to young Greta Thunberg, who was very disappointed by the lack of results against the manmade global warming from the politicians at the UN-summit.
The above presented Summary is together with the content of the newsletter about GGS sent from IJ@ 24.09.2019, published on a web-html-file at www.anarchy.no. To see the full report, including the summary, click on the heading of this notice, i.e. "The Green Global Spring (GGS) - Report no 1" above, which is including a link to this report. The full report is also linked up at the official link-site of the Anarchist International AI/IFA, see (click on:) "Links" below.
25.09.2019. The Green Global Spring Revolution has started its embryonic phase! Especially for Greta Thunberg and the Fridays For Future International - Feel free to read: The Green Global Spring (GGS) Report no 1. - About actions that works!!! The GGS - Report no 1, updated 25.09.2019, is sent from GGS' new e-mail-address "The Green Global Spring Revolution"<ifa@anarchy.no>, to Greta Thunberg and FFF-International, and to thousands more world wide 25.09.2019.
26.09.2019. The Green Global Spring Revolution has started the "Action: China, USA and EU! Drop Coal!". This global action started with a note from the Anarchist International Embassy (AIE) sent 26.09.2019 to the embassies of China and USA and EU's delegation in Oslo, and also distributed world wide. See (click on the link above to) the GGS - Report no 1, for more information, 1. about the action in general, and 2. the diplomatic action from AIE. The note is published both at the website of AIE, and at the GGS Report no 1.
27.09.2019. The Green Global Spring Revolution continues the "Action: China, USA and EU! Drop Coal!". As mentioned this global action started with a note from the Anarchist International Embassy (AIE) sent 26.09.2019 to the embassies of China and USA and EU's delegation in Oslo, and also distributed world wide. See (click on the link above to) the GGS - Report no 1, for more information, 1. about the action in general, and 2. the diplomatic action from AIE. The note is published both at the website of AIE, and at the GGS Report no 1. NB! A PS was added to the note Friday: PS. 27.09.2019. Ad Greta Thunberg's (of GGS) UN complaint [see more information in the note of 16.09.2019]! The 3 evil Coal-Monarchs: Xi Jinping of China, Donald Trump of USA and Jean-Claude Juncker (soon Ursula von der Leyen) of EU, are responsible for the Child Abuse! The updated note with the PS is 27.09.2019 distributed and published the same way as the note dated 26.09.2019, but sent from The Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS).
28.09.2019. The Arab Spring joins The Green Global Spring, in a world wide People's Revolution. The GGS' "Action: China, USA and EU! Drop Coal!" continues. Main target: the 3 evil, i.e. ochlarchist, Coal-Monarchs! The People's Council is now Global. This Resolution by the GGS and AI/IFA, is published a.o.t. at the GGS Report no 1 linked above.
01-09.10.2019. New GGS foray in Hong Kong and global this evening… Hello Climate Strike Grève pour le climat. Thank you for response... AD NEW UPDATE FROM GGS WITH ALL ABOUT DEMOCRACY, INCLUDING REAL DEMOCRACY DEFINED! FULL DEMOCRACY! THE DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY, ETC.! - A QUESTION AND COMMENT TO BBC'S ROS ATKINS AND MORE! E-mails from Anna Quist, elected and official spokesperson of GGS, summary published at the GGS Report no 1 linked above.
09.10.2019. China: Drop Coal! The Hong Kong Spring Revolution, a part of the GGS with the "Action: China, USA and EU! Drop Coal!" targets the 3 evil, i.e. ochlarchist, Coal-Monarchs - especially Xi Jinping of China - and his de facto left-fascist Communist Party. And for Real including Green Democracy in Hong Kong, resolution by ACAME-Chinese Section (Hong Kong). Published at the GGS Report no 1 linked above.
11.10.2019. Direct Action Global E-mail Campaign for the The Green Global Spring Revolution, sending a copy of the updated GGS-website to groups and individuals world wide with a call to forward the message to their own relevant network, and a revolutionary real & green democracy greeting from Anna Quist, elected and official spokesperson for the GGS. The headline of the message is: "Join The Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS) for Real i.e. including Green Democracy - Saving The Planet from Manmade Global Warming via Bottom - Up Climate-Actions - No 1: China, USA & EU! Drop Coal!" The GGS-website = GGS Report no 1, is linked up above.
08-12.10.2019. GGS and the Arab Spring in Iraq - The Iraqi Spring. Anti-government revolt in 2018-2019. The Anarchists i.e. AI/ACAME-Iraqi Section, a member of GGS, condemn the violence and more state-ochlarchy and call for anarchy, i.e. real & green democracy in Iraq as soon as possible. 12.10.2019. The Anarchists i.e. AI/ACAME-Iraqi Section together with the GGS had a domestic and international direct action e-mail campaign for anarchy, i.e. real & green democracy, in Iraq. Full report about the Iraqi Spring in IJ@ no 1 (41). This issue of IJOR/IJ@ has the headline: "Qatar, Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries on the economic-political map. About the Arab Spring - revolt and beyond, also the Sudanese & Iraqi Spring... The Arab Spring has joined The Green Global Spring (GGS). Read the history and the latest of resolutions, actions, news and comments by the anarchists!" Some more information and link to IJ@ no 1 (41) at the GGS-website = GGS Report no 1, linked up above.
13.10.2019. Hi fellows! The International Institute For Organization Research, IIFOR, has 13.10.2019 received an interesting Press release from the internationally renowned INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS – INDECO in Oslo, about Cogrips-policy (a political economy type policy also used by IIFOR and the GGS), i.e. an Open letter to the Norwegian Prime-minister and Finance-minister about their newly released State-budget for 2020. The letter is written in Norwegian, but includes a translation tool to other languages. Web of INDECO: www.indeco.no. Feel free to translate the open letter to your preferred language, and read and learn! Very interesting stuff for the Green Global Spring Revolution and people interested in political economy broadly defined in general! NB! Feel free to forward this message to your own network with a call to join the GGS. We need more People to join the GGS-revolution if we shall save our Planet GAIA a.k.a. Tellus & Earth from manmade global warming destruction! NB! There is no time to lose! Act NOW! - Best regards and revolutionary - Real (i.e. including a significant & sufficient Green tendency) Democracy = Anarchy & Anarchist & Anarchism - greetings, from Anna Quist, elected and official spokesperson for the Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS). PS. Much new GGS-relevant research from IIFOR presented at www.anarchy.no lately - read and learn! Some more information, i.e. links to the INDECO-open letter etc. at the GGS-website = GGS Report no 1, linked up above. PPS. 03.11.2019. The small and relatively weak GGS People's movement of today and most likely also in the future, can of course not do this, our strategy is to try to trigger others, i.e. much larger and resourceful organizations and institutions of societies in general, to follow up our advice and achieve a real Green Global Spring Revolution. By the way INDECO has made an updated Open letter to the Norwegian Council of State and all people with grand-children, warning about the global climate-crisis and promoting their Cogrips-policy (somewhat different from GGS/IIFOR's) to the Norwegian Council of State and more, however without any respons so far. No one in Norway follows the advice of the Norwegian GGS-section either.
03.11.2019. The GGS (still only in its embryonic phase) have decided to only update reports from their actions etc. at the GGS-website = GGS Report no 1, linked up above, and not here anymore. Thus follow the news, comments and actions of the GGS, and their attempt to trigger others to implement their solutions, i.e. make some real revolutionary GGS-stuff, at GGS Report no 1 web-site.
WE CALL FOR ACTION AND DEMAND JOINT INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO SOLVE THE MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING PROBLEM
ANARCHIST ACTION - DEMONSTRATE WITH DIGNITY - NOT OCHLARCHY
More information see (click on):
International Anarchist Tribunal - Anarchist Press Tribunal
THE GREEN ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION - GAIA
PRESS RELEASE 12.02.2017
GAIA SUPPORTS CLEAN UP EFFORTS AND IS AGAINST DUMPING OF PLASTICS IN THE OCEANS
Over a few decades, humans have managed to dump tons upon tons of garbage into the ocean. Of the most devastating elements of this pollution is that plastics takes thousands of years to decay. As a result, fish and wildlife are becoming intoxicated. Consequently the toxins from the plastics have entered the food chain, threatening human health. In the most polluted places in the ocean, the mass of plastic exceeds the amount of plankton six times over. This is a large piece of evidence that leaves the problem of polluted oceans undeniable. It is upsetting that more of clean up effort is not taking place. GAIA supports clean up efforts and is against dumping of plastics in the oceans.
On 05.06.2018, The World Environment Day 2018, GAIA has a world wide direct action called Beat Plastic Pollution. We call on all anarchists world wide to join in the action. (Among many others the Spanish anarchosyndicalists at CGT joined the action of GAIA.)
On 05.06.2019, The World Environment Day 2019, GAIA continues the world wide direct action Beat Plastic Pollution. We call on all anarchists world wide to join in the action.
WE CALL FOR ACTION - ANARCHIST ACTION - DEMONSTRATE WITH DIGNITY - NOT OCHLARCHY
More information see (click on):
International Anarchist Tribunal - Anarchist Press Tribunal
THE GREEN ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION - GAIA
PRESS RELEASE 08.08.2010
DIRECT ACTION AGAINST HIGH-VOLTAGE MASTS AT HARDANGER IN NORWAY AND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
GAIA has launched a world wide green anarchist direct action against high-voltage masts at Hardanger in Norway, in co-operation with the Norwegian Anarchist Council and the Anarchist Federation of Norway.
05.03.2011 the direct action was directed towards more and better environment in general and less negative environmental factors.
More information - in Norwegian, click on:
DIREKTE AKSJON MOT MONSTERMASTER I HARDANGER OG FOR MILJØ
THE GREEN ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION - GAIA
PRESS RELEASE 28.07.2010
Spain's Catalonia outlaws bullfighting - the 'fiesta nacional'
28.07.2010 Catalonia, a region of northeastern Spain around Barcelona, with a strong separatist as well as a relatively strong anarchist movement, became the first part of the country's mainland to outlaw the centuries-old tradition. The bullfighting is called the "fiesta nacional". It has been banned in the Canary Islands for some years. The ban was pushed by animal rights activists and green anarchists in Spain and world wide. "We are very happy that reason and compassion won against barbarism. We have been working for many years toward this. We also want the ban extended across the entire country, and world wide! This is about the suffering of the animals. That is the question, nothing more!" a spokesperson for GAIA declares.
Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spain's centuries-old nationalist tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked pageant that has fascinated artists and writers from Goya to Hemingway. Wednesday's vote in the Catalan parliament prohibits bullfighting starting in 2012. In Catalonia's 135-seat legislature the ban passed 68-55 with nine abstentions. Bullfighting is also existing in Mexico, parts of South America, southern France and Portugal. "The suffering of animals in the Catalan bullrings has been abolished once and for all. It has created a precedent we hope will be replicated by other democratic parliaments internationally, in those regions and countries where such cruel bullfights are still allowed," said Leonardo Anselmi of PROU, the animal rights group whose signature-collecting campaign last year forced Catalonian lawmakers to debate and vote. The first Spanish region to outlaw bullfighting was the Canary Islands in 1991.
Update 20.10.2016. Separatist politicians in Catalonia are vowing to defy a ruling by Spain’s Constitutional Court, which on Thursday 20.10.2016 overturned a six-year ban on bullfighting imposed in the northeastern region. GAIA supports the separatist politicians in this case.
THE GREEN ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION - GAIA
PRESS RELEASE 19.11.2002
Stricken oil tanker 'Prestige' sinks. Eco-anarchists and other libertarians call for new rules and more inspections in the Anarchy of the Oceans
Oil has been washing up on beaches in Galicia. The stricken tanker which has been leaking oil off the north-west coast of Spain has sunk after breaking apart, taking thousands of tons of fuel with it: 'Prestige', Built: 1976, Weight: 42,000 tons, Cargo: 77,000 tons of oil, Owners: Mare Shipping, Registered: Bahamas, Vulnerable vessel. - Almost everything was wrong with this heavy fuel-oil transport. The ship was too old. Bahamas has not sufficient quality control on the registered ships. The vessel was too vulnerable, etc..
The bow of the Prestige was the first to go under water, followed a few hours later by the rear of the vessel, which had been carrying at least 70,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil. There are fears of a massive ecological disaster if all the oil escapes from the Bahamas-registered tanker, which was about 250 kilometres (150 miles) from the Spanish coast when it started to break up. A spokesman for the Dutch salvage company Smit Salvage said at least some of the compartments containing oil would go to the sea bed intact, lessening the impact of the spill, but that it was impossible to say how many. However several thousand tons of oil have already leaked from the Prestige since its hull cracked during a storm last Wednesday, much of which has washed up on the coast of Galicia.
GAIA, the Green Anarchist International Association warns that if the entire cargo spills, the resulting damage could be something like that caused in the Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska in 1989 - one of the worst ever.
The Spanish authorities have suspended fishing along the 100-kilometre stretch of coastline from Roncudo to Cape Tourinan, and financial compensation has been promised to local fishermen. Whole communities depend on fishing in the area, which is famous for its shellfish, octopus and crabs. As local residents pushed ahead with an emergency clean-up operation, other European countries offered assistance in response to a Spanish appeal. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar - under fire from environmentalists, ecoanarchists included, for what they consider to be a timid response to the disaster - has vowed to make whoever is responsible pay for Spain's worst shipping disaster in 10 years. To the south, Portugal is bracing for the possibility that oil could foul its Atlantic beaches and rich fishing grounds. It had rejected the possibility of the crippled tanker entering one of its ports.
This is just a new accident among several: Jan 1993: 85,000 tons off the Shetland Islands, Dec 1992: 80,000 tons near La Coruna port in Spain, March 1989: 38,800 tons off Alaskan coast, 1979: 160,000 tons off Tobago, March 1967: 119,000 tons off the UK.
A diplomatic row has also erupted between Spain and Britain over responsibility for the maritime safety of the tanker. GAIA and other organizations say the catastrophe could have been averted if the United Nations had enforced new rules which oblige international inspections of all ships carrying problematic cargo before leaving the ports, and thus stop dangerous transport. The international UN legislation should target ships like the Prestige, an older, single-hulled vessel suspected of carrying a so-called flag of convenience. The break-up of the Bahamas-registered Prestige has also raised further questions over the issue of registering a vessel in a country with which it does not necessarily have any connection. It allows ship-owners to avoid certain taxes on their profits and avoid international regulations on matters like crew qualifications. Most of the tanker's crew were airlifted off the vessel last week. Companies make money by hiding behind flags of convenience in the event of trouble. The Greek captain of the vessel, Apostolos Mangouras, has been remanded in custody, accused of failing to co-operate with salvage crews and harming the environment. Spain's north-west coastline is known as the "coast of death" because of the many shipwrecks that have occurred there. The worst in recent years was in 1992, when the Greek tanker Aegean Sea lost 80,000 tonnes of crude oil when it ran aground near La Coruna.
The situation calls for new and better international rules and more inspections in the Anarchy of the Oceans with respect to transport of environmentally dangerous cargo, a job for the United Nations. The anarchists will also have a say in this question.
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*) Similar to Michael Bakunin, Sam Dolgoff, Daniel Guerin and other more or less anarchist or semilibertarian thinkers sometimes using left-Hegelian type dialectics, Murray Bookchin's dialectical ideas in itself and the arguments and writings related to these ideas must principally be rejected as pseudoscience, and thus not anarchism or anarchist, i.e. scientifical.
These dialectical ideas may a) at best be irrelevant to anarchism or b) at worst be marxian dialectical ideas and semilibertarian or athoritarian. In case b) the general principle is to reject the whole thing as marxian, as marxian ideas are incompatible with anarchism, and mixes of marxian ideas and anarchist rhetorics are marxism, not anarchism. In case a) the dialectical ideas and framework should be omitted in anarchist perspective, or the hypothesis be reformulated in a non-dialectical, anarchist way if possible and reasonable. When this is done, what is left of the work and corrected, may be seen as anarchist, and the writer may also be seen as anarchist if what is omitted or corrected in general of important works is not the essential or significant, and the rest, the valid part of the works intending to be anarchist, are of major interest as anarchism.Thus several of Bakunin's and Sam Dolgoff's works may be considered as anarchist, and they may both be accounted for as anarchists for a part of their lives.
"Dialectical anarchism" and "anarcho-marxism" are however contradictive concepts, i.e. not allowed for in scientifical, libertarian context. If the dialectical framework is basical to an essay or book, i.e. it cannot easily be omitted or corrected in a reasonable way, the work in general must be seen as non-anarchist, and then if significant socialist, a form of marxism, and at least in this context, the writer is not anarchist but marxian.
In this perspective Daniel Guerin may hardly be accounted for as anarchist at all, because he principally uses a dialectical framework, and rejects the anarchist scientifical method related to Kropotkin, falelsy calling it pseudoscience, see "L'anarchisme" (1965). This book by Guerin points to a certain amount of confusion in his own thought. It is rather surprising to find the beginning devoted to the preanarchist individualist, Max Stirner, without rejecting his dialectical ideas. At the point in time when the book was written, Guerin was under the influence of the oppositional Marxism that had influenced his early life and which he never entirely shook off. In his foreword to the last book he wrote "A La Recherche d'un communisme libertaire", a rather semilibertarian marxist work, he acknowledged his mistake and noted having distanced himself from basic anarchism.
Daniel Guerin's Trotskyite tendency may also be accounted for, say, Nils Kaare Dahl mentions in "Norwegian Trotskyism": "Guerin came to Norway the day after war (1940) broke out, together with three Frenchmen from Pivert's group. Guerin belonged to my group in Oslo. He was very well informed, and his book about Nazism, Fascism and Big Business..." may be mentioned as a typical Trotskyite marxian work. He spent nearly the whole war in Norway. Although his books on anarchism may be interesting, say, because he is quoting anarchists a lot and discusses anarchism in several ways, these books have a more or less biased, marxian type approach. Guerin's "Ni dieu ni maitre, histoire et anthologie de l'anarchie - 4 vol. Petite Collection Maspero," Paris 1970, must be seen as a falsification of history, say, ommitting the basic that Anarchism is an updated research front, the accumulated knowledge of still valid and not rejected libertarian hypothesis developed by the methodology of natural sciences, the hypothetical deductive method.
Guerin instead is presenting anarchism wrongly as ideas of different prophets, even twisting these ideas in a marxian direction within a left-hegelian dialectical framework, i.e. not compatible with the anarchist method. Furthermore the wrong presentation of the libertarian has a tendency towards Lenin's travesty of anarchism "som en av sosialismens barnesykdommer", as an "infantile disorder of socialism" or left communism. Other leftist authors followed in Guerin's footsteps, and this has made a lot of errors in people's opinion and understanding of anarchism. The dialectical framework and arguments in his books discussing anarchism are of course not seen as valid anarchism in any way. Guerin is more of a marxian falsely posing as an anarchist, and thus not anarchist, but a trotskyite and later a semilibertarian marxist.
The dialectical framework in Murray Bookchin's works from the 1960s toward the mid 1980s is however probably less significant and principal than Guerin's, and thus, similar to Bakunin and Dolgoff, when the dialectical arguments are omitted or corrected, Bookchin in those days may be considered an anarchist, i.e. having a significant anarchist tendency.
In his writings from the mid 1980s and later the marxian tendency is more clear, and he may then be accounted for as a semilibertaran marxian with a communalist and ecological tendency, but not anarchist. As mentioned Murray Bookchin also has stopped calling himself anarchist. And as mentioned, the dialectical tendencies in Murray Bookchin's writings, also in his most libertarian works, are not, an have never been, valid anarchism. To be accounted for as anarchism all of Bookchin's dialectical arguments and framework in the relevant works must be omitted or corrected, i.e. relevant dialectical phrases must be reformulated in an anarchist way toward testable working hypothesis, if possible and reasonable, to be discussed and tested in a libertarian, scientifical way with the methods of modern natural sciences, mainly the hypothetical deductive method. .
In the 1990s the dialectical, irrational, pseudoscientifical Hegelian tendency of Bookchin became very significant, bringing a principal neo-Hegelian approach to the ecological thinking, in order to "naturalize" the dialectical tradition. His "dialectical naturalism" contrasts with Hegel's dialectical idealism and Marx and Engels's relatively mechanistic "dialectical materialism," but is anyway typically marxian, opposed to the scientifical methodology of anarchism, the hypothetical deductive method. These "dialectical naturalist" ideas are elucidated in considerable detail in The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism (Black Rose Books, 1990, revised and expanded ed. 1994).
Bookchin's ideas on politics, philosophy, history, and anthropology are summarized succinctly in Remaking Society (Black Rose Books and South End Press, 1989). An up-to-date survey of his outlook may be found in the collection of excerpts in The Murray Bookchin Reader (Cassell, 1997). In his early eighties, Bookchin lived in semi-retirement in Burlington, Vermont, with his colleague and companion, Janet Biehl. Poor health restricted his ability to travel and lecture, but he lectured each summer at the Institute for Social Ecology (in Plainfield, Vermont). Bookchin died from a heart attack Sunday, July 30th 2006 in his home in Burlington. A mix of anarchist rhetoric and marxian, neo-Hegelian "natural" dialectics, is marxism and not anarchism. Thus, from anarchist point of view Bookchin left the movement and became a semilibertarian marxian guru in the late 1980s and 1990s. Murray Bookchin developed from a traditional marxist (a more or less trotskyite tendency) in the 1930s, to a left-libertarian and later returned to marxism with a semilibertarian tendency. Bookchin was in his later days using the term "Communalism" of his ideology, and it is marxian, semilibertarian, and thus not anarchism, despite of some anarchist rhetoric.
Murray Bookchin was born in New York City , USA, on January 14, 1921, to immigrant parents who had been active in the Russian revolutionary movement of tsarist times. Very early in the 1930s he entered the Communist youth movement but by the late 1930s had become disillusioned with its authoritarian character. Deeply involved in organizing activities around the Spanish Civil War (he was too young to participate directly, although two of his older friends died on the Madrid front), he remained with the Communists until the Stalin-Hitler pact of September 1939, when he was expelled for "Trotskyist-anarchist deviations," a typically stalinist dialectical Orwellian "1984" newspeak and doublethinking concept of no scientifical and logical value, because Trotsky with his "militarization of the production" theory is even more authoritarian and leftist than Stalin and Lenin, while the anarchists have their place far from trotskyism, in the middle above the marxian quadrant on the Economical-Polititical Map. As a foundryman in New Jersey for four years, he entered the workers' movement and became active in union organizing in northern New Jersey (a heavily industrialized area at that time) in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He became sympathetic to and active with the American Trotskyists while Trotsky was still alive, but after several years was disappointed by their traditional Bolshevist authoritarianism, especially after Trotsky's death.
After returning from service in the U.S. Army during the 1940s, he was an autoworker and became deeply involved in the United Auto Workers (UAW), a somewhat libertarian or semilibertarian union before Walter Reuther came to power in it. After participating in the great General Motors strike of 1948, he began to question all his traditional conceptions about the "hegemonic" or "vanguard" role of the industrial working class, writing extensively on this subject in later years. In time, he became a semilibertarian socialist and worked closely with German exiles in New York who were dissident Marxists and who moved increasingly toward a semilibertarian perspective (International Kommunisten Deutschlands). Many of his articles in the early 1950s were published in DINGE DER ZEIT as well as its English-language sister publication, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, under his pen names of M. S. Shiloh, Lewis Herber, Robert Keller, and Harry Ludd. His earliest book, which was based on a very large article "The Problem of Chemicals in Food" (CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 1952), was published in Germany in collaboration with Gotz Ohly (Herber and Ohly, LEBENS-GEFÄHRLICHE LEBENSMITTEL [Krailling bei München: Hanns Georg Müller Verlag, 1955]). He pioneered writing on ecological issues in the United States and West Germany, and according to reports from German friends, his writings contributed somewhat to reforms in German food and drug legislation.
In the 1960s he was deeply involved in countercultural and New Left movements almost from their inception, and he pioneered the ideas of social ecology in the United States. His first American book, OUR SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT (pseud. Lewis Herber) was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1962, preceding Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING by nearly half a year. It received warm reviews from such outstanding members of the scientific community as René Dubos and William Vogt. He then wrote CRISIS IN OUR CITIES (Prentice Hall, 1965). The collection titled POST-SCARCITY ANARCHISM (Ramparts Books, 1971; Black Rose Books, 1977) comprised such pioneering essays as "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought" (1964) and "Towards a Liberatory Technology" (1965), both of which advanced the radical significance of the ecology issue and of alternative technologies for progressive movements of all kinds. At least 100,000 copies of "Listen, Marxist!" (1969), his critique of traditional Marxism, circulated in the United States and Great Britain, profoundly influencing the American New Left at the end of the 1960s. A Norwegian abridged translation published by the PAX/Socialist Left (SF) was also availiable a little later on, popular in Scandinavia. However some of Bookchin's ideas about anarchists are according to the marxian and trostkyite's travesty of anarchism and anarchists, i.e. some kind of extreme "children of Marx" with "infantile disorder of socialism", and have thus nothing to do with anarchism. It is clear from his books that he has never really understood Anarchism fully, i.e. an updated research front of libertarian social scientifical research based on the methodology of natural sciences, the hypothetical deductive method, without dialectics at all..
In the late 1960s, Bookchin taught at the Alternative University in New York, one of the largest "free universities" in the United States, then at City University of New York in Staten Island. In 1974, he co-founded and directed the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont, which went on to acquire an international reputation for its advanced courses in ecophilosophy, social theory, and alternative technologies that reflect his ideas. In 1974, he also began teaching at Ramapo College of New Jersey, becoming full professor of social theory entering and retiring in 1983 in an emeritus status.
His subsequent works -- THE LIMITS OF THE CITY (Harper and Row, 1974), THE SPANISH ANARCHISTS (Harper & Row, 1977), and TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Black Rose Books, 1981) -- were very well received and stand as preludes to THE ECOLOGY OF FREEDOM (Cheshire Books, 1982; republished by Black Rose Books, 1991). This major work received considerable acclaim in major reviews not only in THE VILLAGE VOICE (one of New York's largest newsweeklies) but also in such scholarly journals as AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST. His articles have appeared in many periodicals since the 1950s, such as WIN, LIBERATION, RAMPARTS, CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, RAIN, TELOS, NEW POLITICS, OUR GENERATION, and ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, among others. His book THE RISE OF URBANIZATION AND THE DECLINE OF CITIZENSHIP (Sierra Club Books, 1986; republished in Canada as URBANIZATION WITHOUT CITIES [Black Rose Books, 1992]) is a historical exploration of civic self-management and confederalism. His most recent books are REMAKING SOCIETY (Black Rose Books, 1989) and THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY (Black Rose Books, 1990, revised 1994). But as mentioned, without doing away with the left-hegelian dialectical framework in a proper way, his works have no liberterian scientifical value, but are pseudoscientifical, and thus not anarchism. Bookchin has however inspired several eco-anarchists' writings, and some of Bookchin's thoughts are also included in the updated ECOANARCHIST MANIFESTO, but of course the dialectical ideas are omitted in the manifesto.
To see the note MURRAY BOOKCHIN (1921-2006) IN MEMORIAN by IIFOR click on http://www.anarchy.no/bookchin.html .