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Campact-News 11/07 Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,,

eine gelungene Aktion liegt hinter uns: Als die europäischen Umweltminister am vergangenen Samstag in der Zeche Zollverein in Essen eintrafen, erwartete sie eine in der Morgensonne schmelzende, 5 Meter breite Eiswand mit dem Schriftzug "ZEIT ZU HANDELN". Darin eingefroren: die Namen von 31.703 Unterzeichner/innen des Klima-Appells. Umweltminister Sigmar Gabriel nahm die Unterschriften entgegen - begleitet von einem Blitzlichtgewitter der Journalisten.

Impressionen der Aktion hat wieder der Filmemacher Patrick Protz eingefangen.

Schauen Sie sich den Aktionsfilm an: http://www.campact.de/klima/aktionsblog2
Photostrecke: http://www.campact.de/klima/bilder
Aktionsverlauf nachlesen: http://www.campact.de/klima/aktionsblog

Die Aktion hat zu Beginn der Endphase der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft ein wichtiges Zeichen gesetzt. Die Bundesregierung darf die Pläne der EU-Kommission zur Entflechtung der Energiemärkte nicht länger blockieren. Auch beim Flugverkehr und bei Grenzwerten für den CO2-Ausstoß von Neuwagen kommt es sehr auf die deutsche Position an.

Leider haben nur wenige Medien (Handelsblatt, N24, WDR, Westfälische Nachrichten) über die Aktion berichtet. Die Ausschreitungen während der G8-Demonstration in Rostock haben in der Presse vom Montag alles dominiert: Das Treffen der EU-Umweltminister fand keine Erwähnung. Dennoch: Für die Politiker und alle Anwesenden war die schmelzende Wand ein wichtiges Symbol, das sich einprägt.

Wir möchten allen danken, die die schöne Aktion ermöglicht haben - mit Ihrer Unterstützung in Essen, mit Ihren Spenden und indem Sie im Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis Tausende Unterzeichner/innen gewannen.

Der Klima-Appell kann noch bis zum 21.6., dem Treffen der Europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs, unterschrieben werden.
http://www.campact.de/klima/sn1/signer


Viele Grüße

Günter Metzges
Campact - Demokratie in Aktion ( http://www.campact.de )

A senior United Nations official urged a 171-nation UN wildlife forum on Sunday to take action to help protect animals from climate change.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060407EC.shtml

Tony Blair has issued a stark warning to fellow world leaders ahead of this week's G8 summit on climate change, telling them it would be unforgivable if they failed to agree on ways to tackle global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060407EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8

http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2609305.ece


Informant: binstock

Unternehmer appellieren an die G8-Staaten und die großen Schwellenländer

Führende Unternehmer aus Deutschland und Großbritannien appellieren an den kommenden G8 (+5)-Gipfel, ein starkes und unmissverständliches Signal für den Schutz des Weltklimas zu setzen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681617ms48

The world should rethink its emphasis on unfettered economic growth and boost efforts to create environmentally friendly sources of fuel, a draft statement by oil and gas giant Russia said ahead of a G8 summit.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053107EC.shtml

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- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 - Global Meetings - Global Powwows - SOS - The Planet And Humanity Are In Trouble - Exchange The Information And Ideas You Have - Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide - Use Flashlights - Signal Other Hilltops

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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe

"A very great vision is needed and the person who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." - Chief Crazy Horse


WORLD GATHERING - August 2007 Saturday August 25 and Sunday August 26 Three Events In One .....
(1) Saturday - DAY: Meet with friends and contacts and discuss the world situation.
(2) Saturday - NIGHT: Meet on a hilltop and shine a beacon of hope through the night.
(3) Sunday - DAY: Meet with friends and contacts and discuss the world situation.

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Arrange Meetings, Powwows, and Hilltop 'Beacon' gatherings for Saturday and Sunday, 25 & 26 August. Send your event details to the email on this page: http://www.worldgathering.net/contact.html

Details of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' will be displayed under fourteen 'World Regions'; then by Country/Nation; then by area, state, etc. The main index for details of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' is on this webpage: http://www.worldgathering.net/events.html

Centre of British Isles - Isle of Man - Key Hills Lit Up On August 25 2007 - Visible from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Got a good torch? http://www.worldgathering.net/events033.html

The World Gathering is being launched at the end of May, 2007, so there may not be many details at our websites for Local Events until the start of July.

'What should I organise in my area for the World Gathering?' - Ideas and suggestions on this webpage: http://www.worldgathering.net/yourevent.html

Join our Google and/or Yahoo Newsletter lists: http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldgathering

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Please help publicise this unusual and unique global linkup. Print out posters; place a WG banner on your website; forward our Update mailings to your friends, contacts, and mailing lists; and tell friends about the World Gathering video at Google and YouTube. Ideas and materials for WG promotion here: http://www.worldgathering.net/publicity.html


"Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision of the world you want." - Dr Robert Muller, formerly of the U.N.

"We are at the final stages now. so as our prophecy says. Then it must be up to the people with pure hearts that will not be afraid to help us to fulfil our destiny in peace for this world." - Dan Evehema, Hopi Nation


Additional 'World Gathering' inspiration here: http://www.worldgathering.net/worldgathering.html

'SOS - The Planet And Humanity Are In Trouble': http://www.worldgathering.net/beacon.html http://www.michael-irving.com/beacon.html

- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 - Global Meetings - Global Powwows - SOS - The Planet And Humanity Are In Trouble - Exchange The Information And Ideas You Have - Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide - Use Flashlights - Signal Other Hilltops - 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 WORLD GATHERING - http://www.worldgathering.net

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Please forward to friends, contacts and mailing lists.

Thank you.
World Gathering.


Informant: celticisland333

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How Democrats can save America
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3783057/

Christian Science Monitor

05/31/07

Ethanol production has put the Chinese government in an unpleasant bind, as fears rise that the environmentally friendly gasoline additive is also fueling politically dangerous increases in the price of food — particularly pork, a key staple. With the ethanol industry gobbling up a growing share of China’s corn harvest, authorities have stomped on the brakes to slow what one official report calls ‘blind’ investment in distilleries. ‘China cannot sacrifice food security for energy: that seems to be the majority view in the government now,’ says Zhang Zhongjun, deputy head of the Beijing bureau of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)... [editor’s note: One of the few times when “expensive pork” is a good thing? - SAT]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0531/p01s04-wosc.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=448


Informant: NHNE