From the ZADs and other zones of resistance - A call for convoys to converge on the COP21.

We are calling on people to organise convoys, long marches, bike and tractor caravans... that will take us to the demonstrations against the COP21, the intergovernmental United Nations summit on climate change which will take place in early December in Paris.We will travel from the territories of struggle towards the capital, powered by the energy of our movements, creating places to meet and mobilise as we go.

We plan to converge on Paris because we don’t see how we can allow the French government to give itself a greenmakeover as the one that will save the world from greenhouse gases,when it still doesn’t even want to officially cancel the new airport at Notre Dame Des Landes nor thousands of other projects which are destroying lives, forests, grasslands, inhabited and cultivated areas. Sometimes you have to raise your problems with those who persist in destroying the planet at the moment they try to pretend they are saving it.

If we really want to attack the causes of climate change, we can’t, not even for one moment, let them return to the never-ending masquerade of negotiations which have failed before they’ve even begun and talk about carbon markets between industrial lobbies and governments, not to mention the ’greeneconomy’. The agenda we will assert in Paris follows a totally different path.

The only coherent response is to finally leave behind industrial productivism, privatisation of the commons, the destruction of the land that feeds us and the commodification of life. But if we hope to curb the accelerated devastation of everything our existence depends on, we also can’t imagine just calmly building alternatives and other "processes of transition". For new possibilities to emerge, we effectively have to take action right now to block the advance of their projects such as airports, high-speed train lines, mineral extraction, fracking, poisoning the earth by burying nuclear waste, the advance of agroindustry and the endless mushrooming of centerparks and hypermarches. We must liberate these spaces so we can come up with, here and now, collective ways to live and organise, communicate and exchange materials, cultures and habitats, liberated from economic diktats.

Zones currently under threat propagate solid bases upon which all sorts of things can be built. It is a movement which simultaneously expresses its desire to throw a spanner in the works and also find new ways to live. Despite being held hostage to economic growth, pseudo-public debates, pressure from police forces and the judiciary, we are seeing a contagious conviction break out from many different places: that is still possible to resist and win against the bulldozers of the planners and other extractivists. We will converge on Paris to materialise this conviction as the COP21 takes place and bring the force of our movements to where it is all happening.

To coordinate, find more information, get in touch with the planned convoys: marchesurlacop@riseup.net / website: marchesurlacop.noblogs.org

What is the COP21?

It is a summit where representatives of 195 states will gather under the aegis of the UN, to negotiate their countries’ commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The meeting, the 21st since the Climate Convention was signed in the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, will be held at Le Bourget in Paris from 30th November to 11th December 2015. It is often presented as "the last chance summit" for the future of the planet. But a larger spectrum of people don’t really believe that they can make any decisions likely to counteract climate change and that the world will continue producing the same problems. This year their theatre of operations is in Seine-Saint-Denis, one of the poorest and most polluted of the French departments surrounding Paris, asphyxiated by the metropolis and major development projects. In the face of the government and industries spectacle, grassroots movements throughout the world are organizing themselves to kick some ass during the COP21. A demonstration will take place on November 29 in Paris before the opening of the summit. Mass actions are announced on the 11th and 12th December as the COP 21 closes. Several other mobilisations and meetings will be held throughout the conference.

Call from the zads and other areas of resistance. For marches and convoys to converged at the COP 21 in paris.

We call to form convoys with marches, bikes and other vehicles ... and make to the demonstrations against the COP 21 an intergovernmental summit on global warming in Paris in early December. We will propel ourselfs from different territories who struggle to the capital, with all the energy of our different movements, creating on the way: meetings and spaces for mobilization.

We will converge in Paris because we can not conceive of leaving the government to rebuild their image on greenwashing of the climate change, while they don’t want to renounce officialy on the airport of Notre Dame des Landes or thousand other projects destructive of lives, forests and meadows, cultivated and inhabited territories. Sometimes you go challenge those who insist on rotting the planet precisely where they hope to give the illusion of saving it.

If one wants to really tackle the causes of global warming, we can’t rely for a moment to the repeated masquerades and in advanced lost negotiations and trade carbon markets between lobbiess of the industries and governments, let alone the idea of green capitalism. What we affirm in Paris follows a totally different path.

The only consistent answer is to finally détach from industrial productivism, privatization of common goods, the destruction of nutricious lands and commodification of life. But if you really hope to curb the accelerated devastation of our basic needs of existence, one can not imagine to peacefully build alternatives and other "transition processes". For this possibility to emerge, it is to immidiatly and effectively block the progress of their airport projects and high-speed lines, the extraction of ore and shale gas, the poisonous disposal of nuclear waste, the agro-industry and the ceaseless expansions and constructions of center parks and hypermarkets ... We must liberate spaces so we can invent, here and now, other ways of living and organizing, of communicating and exchanging materials, of creating culture and habitats, to emancipate from the imposed economics.

From today threatened areas propagate anchor points where radical brainstorming is possible. It is expressed in the same movement to aspire to put a spoke in their wheels and to walk other and different paths. Despite the blackmail of economical growth, the pseudo public debates, judicial and police pressures, we see arising from various places, a contagious conviction, that it is always possible to resist victoriously facing the backhoe of the planners and other extractors. We will converge in Paris to materialize this conviction to face the COP 21 and to support the strength of our movements.

To coordinate, find information, connect the convoys in preparation: marchesurlacop@riseup.net / info site: marchesurlacop.noblogs.org

The cop 21 is what?

This is a summit where representatives of 195 states will gather under the aegis of the UN, to negotiate commitments of their countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The meeting, the 21th since the Rio convention in 1992, will be held at Le Bourget from 30 November to 11 December 2015 in Paris. It is often presented as "the summits last chance" for the future of the planet. But a larger spectrum of people don’t really believe that they can make any decisions likely to counteract climate change in a world that continue to produce. This year their communication theather is at Seine Saint-Denis, one of the poorest and most polluted island in the French departments, asphyxiated by the metropolis and major development projects. Faced with governments and industry, grassroots movements are organizing themselfs around the entire world to kick some ass during the cop 21. A demonstration will take place on November 29 in Paris before the opening of the summit. Mass actions are announced on 11 and 12 December at the ending of the COP 21. Multiples mobilisations and meetings will be held throughout the duration of the conference.