<div>Reposted at <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/05/occupy-earth-summit-common-statement/">http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/05/occupy-earth-summit-common-statement/</a></div><div> </div><div>Please could someone send me a few words / link to the origins of the doc so i can add them - thx :) </div>
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Claire</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;background-color:transparent"><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">OCCUPY EARTH SUMMIT </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">COMMON STATEMENT</span><br>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">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:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">1.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> A direct participatory democratic UN</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> for </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">inclusive</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">rights-based</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> global decision making, via universal open-source communications, prioritising marginalised voices & civil society formally in all negotiations.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">2.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> End corporate capture</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> of the UN:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> compromising partnerships/deals & transfer of officials. Expose & prohibit bullying/bribing* of poor nations; decrease business lobby influence; put people before profit.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">3.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Increased cooperation</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, commitment, funding & resource backing for new Sustainable Development Goals, emerging from strengthening the MDG framework, aided by poor country debt cancellation.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">4.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A Financial Transaction Tax</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, 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.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">5.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Establishing Ecocide</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> 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.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">6.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Zero deforestation</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> 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.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">7.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Food sovereignty & security</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, support for small organic farmers, protecting indigenous peoples' land rights, banning land grabs, eliminating subsidies for biofuels & industrial, chemical or GM agriculture.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">8.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Renewable</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> energy for all</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> (universal access to wind/solar/small-hydro/geo-energy & efficient stoves) and zero carbon global electricity by 2030: Ending fossil fuel </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">subsidies</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> by 2015 & </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">extraction</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> by 2020.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">9.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Peace and demilitarisation</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, democratising the UN Security Council, a binding global arms treaty, SDG on peace & conflict, nuclear disarmament by 2030 & arms money to localised sustainable development. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(102,102,102)">10.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> An alternative indicator</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">beyond GDP</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to measure social wellbeing & participation, environmental health, decent employment/livelihoods, provision for needs/services and protection of human rights.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">This is what democracy looks like. This is the </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Future We Need </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">for a just, sustainable, resilient society. Join </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Global Days of Action </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">on June 5th & 20th to raise our voice to challenge & bring hope to Rio+20.</span></b></div>
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