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From the 7th to the 18th of December 2009 the Climate Summit of the United Nations will take place in Copenhagen.

The human influence on the climate is obvious. Just like the worldwide effects that endanger millions of people, especially people that are dependant of their own land to survive. Peasants in europe and worldwide are threatened by climate change and by the so-called solutions promoted by corporate interest. The policies and actors that are responsible for the climate change have to be challenged!
 
Therefore Reclaim the Fields is going to Copenhagen. Together with many more...
 

1) Logistic

 
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see you at the meeting points
 
We'll all meet in Copenhagen at the Klimaforum area on the 11th December from 8:00 to 11:00 and then again from 18:00 to 22:00 at the brown room.
 

2) Activities

 
We plan to be there as peasants, as young militant, and as part of Reclaim The Fields. We will take part to mobilizations together with the peasants of Via Campesina who come from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Northern America and Europe.

A meeting will take place on the 11th of December either in Copenhagen or in Holma farm (in Sweden, near the frontier) to discuss how we'll organize ourselves.

The sweedish RTF local group organizes a mobile kitchen offering soup to the public present on the submit area. The aim is to focus on peasant agriculture, able to cool down the planet. Help welcome.

No other specific action planned, but we will participate to those demonstrations :
December 12th: big demonstration
December 13th Hit the production day
December 15th Day of action on Agriculture
December 16th Reclaim Power action

3) Why going there as RTF?

 
Now comes the question: why should we go there? Of course becauseclimate change is an important issue, but this answer is notenough. Why should we go there as Reclaim the Fields? And then to do what?
 
Because the privatisation of natural goods (land, water, seeds, air) is responsible for the global environmental crisis that we experience today. The Kyoto agreement and what is being negotiated for a future Copenhagen agreement on climate change is accelerating privatization through carbon trading. Carbon trading is the main mechanism of Kyoto, or to say it in another way: what Kyoto is about is carbon trading. Through carbon trading things that before did not have a commercial value now are getting one, which is excluding people (mainly poor people) from accessing these natural goods. The pressure over land in the world has never been so high. What we come to say in Copenhagen is that we reclaim the fiedls, the waters, the seeds and the air to breath, we reclaim it for the people, outside of the markets, because we need it to survive, and because it is the only way the global environmental crisis can be stopped.
 

Business sees Copenhagen as THE way to get out of the economic crisis andstart again to accumulate profit. And they are right, only a carbon agreement can generate enough expropriation to feed the markets. But this is threatening the whole ecosystem mankind is living from.
 
A claim like "return to the countryside" is not enough: it's not (or not only) about individual decision to change one's life, it's about a system which ispushing, forcing, killing, to steal the natural goods from the great majority of the people. Maybe this violence is not so clear in our countries, where others tools such as social depreciation and low prices of agricultural goods are used to push people outside or agriculture. But if you look at the international level, it becomes clear that there is a war against peasants, in order for companies to get all control of natural goods and thus all control over the people.
 
One example of the situations created by carbon trade (from : The land (www.tlio.org.uk)). The case of Eurostar company, offering “free CO2 » travels to their clients. The buys rights to pollute to a finnish company (Botna) that produces paper and electricity (on paper pulp). In Uruguay, they opened a 30.000 ha plant, working with eucalyptus trees. They are proud to offer green electricity, local jobs and economical help to the country. Actually they will never compensate the peasants expropriation by jobs in plantations (1 job for 185 ha eucalyptus, instead of 1 job for 1 ha in peasant agriculture). The trees make soils acids and low down the water table, so local people already lost their access to drink water and have to buy it. On top, the plant is located in a free-tax area, so all the benefit flies back to Finland, with the paper only for European markets. Is THIS sustainable development??

We go to Copenhagen to say “Stop to the privatization of naturalgoods” and to ask for agrarian reform, in Europe, but also in other regionsof the world. We go there to say “Nature for the people, not for business”.
 
 
More information on 
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