The
struggle for climate justice has emerged as one of the most significant themes
in the World Social Forum 2015, as frontline communities across the globe
continue to build the “Road to Paris” and leverage global pressure to
impact the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC).
Over
70,000 grassroots activists from around the world have kicked off the World Social Forum 2015 with a march calling for peace,
democracy and social justice in solidarity
with the people of Tunis and
all communities impacted by violence worldwide.
The
Social Forum will continue from March 24-29, under the banner: Together to pursue the
revolution of rights and dignity.
The final global agreement on climate to be
signed in December 2015 at the Conference on Parties (COP) 21 in Paris is
expected to be insufficient and far from the kind of action needed to address
the mounting crisis.
“People on the frontlines of the climate crisis know what action needs
to be taken, and are ready to make change happen,” Tom Goldtooth, Executive
Director of Indigenous Environmental Network. ”We need our governments and
global leaders to catch up with the people on the ground. Keep the oil in the
soil, the coal in the hole, and the tar sands in the land.”
Climate
justice organizations from around the world will lead a track of “Climate
Space” workshops, discussing the links and common root causes of the climate
crisis, food,
water, employment, migration, democracy and human rights, and profiling
community-led solutions.
Among
the alternatives, delegates from the US will be lifting up the work of
Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi and the struggle for economic democracy
inside the United States.
Global
feminism has
also emerged as a core theme in this year’s Social Forum.
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