[OccupyComms] Rio Occupy Earth Common Statement

[Mark Barrett]

Reposted at
http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/05/occupy-earth-summit-common-statement/

Please could someone send me a few words / link to the origins of the doc
so i can add them - thx :)

 Sorry it's taken a while, but I think we are here. There may yet be a
reordering of points. Thanks,

> Claire
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> *OCCUPY EARTH SUMMIT COMMON STATEMENT
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> We, global citizens of the Occupy movement and civil society, call
> attention to the critical window of opportunity at the 2012 Earth Summit to
> massively scale up political, financial and public response to the
> environmental, social and economic crisis of our time. Governments,
> corporations and financial institutions must wake up and dramatically
> prioritise people and the planet over abusive exploitation of both for
> short-term profit and "growth". In defence of our rights, freedoms and
> future, we call for:
>
> 1. A direct participatory democratic UN for inclusive rights-based global
> decision making, via universal open-source communications, prioritising
> marginalised voices & civil society formally in all negotiations.
>
> 2. End corporate capture* of the UN: compromising partnerships/deals &
> transfer of officials. Expose & prohibit bullying/bribing* of poor nations;
> decrease business lobby influence; put people before profit.
>
> 3. Increased cooperation, commitment, funding & resource backing for new
> Sustainable Development Goals, emerging from strengthening the MDG
> framework, aided by poor country debt cancellation.
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> 4. A Financial Transaction Tax, abolition of tax havens and a Global
> Carbon Tax on extraction, to fund an equitable, transparent and
> publicly-owned Green Climate Fund for life-saving adaptation solutions.
>
> 5. Establishing Ecocide as the 5th International Crime Against Peace and
> prosecuting destruction of ecosystems (e.g. tar sands, oil spills,
> mountaintop removal, fracking) for protection of the commons.
>
> 6. Zero deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by 2015 and globally by
> 2020**. Rejection of pricing nature, privatising water supplies, false
> "ecosystem services", REDD and carbon trading & offsetting.
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> 7. Food sovereignty & security, support for small organic farmers,
> protecting indigenous peoples' land rights, banning land grabs, eliminating
> subsidies for biofuels & industrial, chemical or GM agriculture.
>
> 8. Renewable  energy for all (universal access to
> wind/solar/small-hydro/geo-energy & efficient stoves) and zero carbon
> global electricity by 2030: Ending fossil fuel subsidies by 2015 &
> extraction by 2020.
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> 9. Peace and demilitarisation, democratising the UN Security Council, a
> binding global arms treaty, SDG on peace & conflict, nuclear disarmament by
> 2030 & arms money to localised sustainable development.
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> 10. An alternative indicator beyond GDP to measure social wellbeing &
> participation, environmental health, decent employment/livelihoods,
> provision for needs/services and protection of human rights.
>
> This is what democracy looks like. This is the Future We Need for a just,
> sustainable, resilient society. Join Global Days of Action on June 5th &
> 20th to raise our voice to challenge & bring hope to Rio+20.*
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