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Occupy the Future We Want

On June 20-22 the United Nations will be holding a global environmental conference called Rio+20. Twenty years ago they held their first Earth Summit.

In a time of global environmental and economic catastrophe can they be trusted with our fate?  Reclaim Our Future  — Occupy the Earth

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A Sustainable Economy Must Be In Harmony With Nature and Human Values

In today's debt based economy the GNP (Gross National Product) measures everything except that which is meaningful.

An open source resource-based economy values the health of our environment, of Mother Earth, as our real wealth. 

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Harmony With Nature & the Rights of Mother Earth

Is it possible to radically transform our condition to understand deeply what we are — a part of a whole in a complex living earth system. 

Our ancestors and traditions teach — in everything we do we must think of the next generations. 

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A Future of Human and Environmental Respect, Diginity and Freedom

The world can no longer afford to have the UN manipulated by global banking and corporate interests.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Occupy! Join us and help to Occupy the Future We ALL Want. 

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  • Sustainable EconomySustainable Economy
  • Harmony With NatureHarmony With Nature
  • Reclaiming Our FutureReclaiming Our Future

  • European Parliament Absent in Sustainability Summit

    BERLIN, May 16, 2012 (IPS) - The decision by the European Parliament (EP) to renounce its participation in the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next month on the grounds that hotel costs are exorbitant has provoked sharp criticism from civil society organisations. In a statement… Read more

  • M18 - We Are Clownbloq

    On #M18, in Chicago, our battle laughter will be heard around the world. http://campaigns.occupy.net/clownbloq/ We know the secrets of mass disarmament. We will take the streets to defend our inherent right to celebrate life. We will dance in the face of state violence. Our arsenals are stocked with joy.… Read more

  • "The Importance of Rio+20"

    The International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) To Host High-level Rio+20 Preview Webinar on May 24th Thursday May 24, 2012 11am PT | 12 pm MT | 1 pm CT | 2 pm ET Free webinar -- registration required Amy Fraenkel, UNEP's Director for North America, will be the lead presenter for ISSP's… Read more

  • History of open source in government

    From: http://opensource.com - It is difficult to imagine the Federal government moving in one well-coordinated direction on any matter, and so it has been with the adoption of open source software. Some agencies were early adopters, especially the academic and research communities. As it did in universities,… Read more

  • June Call for Actions

    La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in the month of June. From: http://viacampesina.org - The advance of the capitalist system that has reached unprecedented dimensions in the past two decades is resulting in crises that are of equally… Read more

  • Sustainable Energy for All – Or Sustained Profits for a Few?

    The High-Level Group is chaired by Charles Holliday, Chair of the Bank of America (and former director of DuPont) Report from: BioFuelWatch.org - Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) is an initiative founded and led by the UN Secretary-General. SEFA is developing an Action Report and programme for which they… Read more

  • WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?

    IF YOU HAD 2 MINUTES TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THE FUTURE YOU WANT...WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? http://datewithhistory.com - Now is your chance to describe a bold vision for the Earth. If you are between the ages of 13-30 we want to hear from you! You are part of the generation that will grow to see a very different… Read more

  • Media Release: The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns

    Obama’s Plan Bodes Ill for Human Rights and the Environment, New Report Finds From: http://globalforestcoalition.org (April 26th, 2012) As U.S. President Obama announced his new “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” today, the Global Forest Coalition [1] unveiled its report, “Bio-economy versus Biodiversity“ [2].… Read more

  • Who's Kidding Whom?

    Is Sustainable Development Compatible with Western Civilization? by Peter Russell (author of The Global Brain) Originally published in Perspectives, the journal of The World Business Academy Sustainable Development is one of those terms that seems to have leapt into our vocabulary from nowhere Five years ago… Read more

  • The Rights of Mother Earth

    The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth The proposals developed by the Plurinational State of Bolivia bring together and build upon the progress made in the World Charter for Nature (1982), the Rio Declaration (1992), the Earth Charter (2000), and the World People’s… Read more

  • Connecting the Dots - May 5th

    Across the planet now we see ever more flood, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before. But because the globe is so big, it’s hard for most people to see that it’s… Read more

  • May Day 2012

    May Day is an international day of celebration to honor the labor movement. This year the Occupy movement has made a call for mass action—the May First General Strike (#M1GS): a day without the 99%. Over 115 US cities have organized in solidarity with this call to action. A general strike is a way to build… Read more

  • The Pachamama Alliance: Awakening the Dream Symposium

    The Pachamama Alliance mission is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world. Get inspired and educate yourself to… Read more

  • Blue Planet Laureates: Environmental and Development Challenges – The Imperative to Act

    This paper is a synthesis of the key messages from the individual papers written by the Blue Planet Laureates (Annex I describes the Blue Planet Prize), and discusses the current and projected state of the global and regional environment, and the implications for environmental, social and economic… Read more

  • Occupy the Farm Activists Reclaim Prime Urban Agricultural Land in SF Bay Area

    (Albany, Calif.), April 22, 2012 – Occupy the Farm, a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists are planting over 15,000 seedlings at the Gill Tract, the last remaining 10 acres of Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. The Gill Tract is public land… Read more

  • The 99% Spring

    99% Spring Action Training We're at a crossroads as a country. In recent years, millions have lost their jobs, homes have been foreclosed, and an unconscionable number of children live in poverty. We have to stand up to the people who caused of all this and confront the rampant greed and deliberate… Read more

  • American Spring? OWS Comes Roaring Back

    2012 American Spring begins with a police riot in Liberty Square. The revolution will be live-streamed. In case you thought the Occupy Movement had somehow vanished during the cold but relatively brief Winter, Occupy Wall Street protesters returned in force Saturday to familiar locales, apparently determined… Read more

  • PeaceUp launches: Communities of Resilient Resistance

    Today, Peaceful Uprising is proud to announce the launch of PeaceUp CoRR: Communities of Resilient Resistance – a model we have built from our own personal experiences as individuals and as a community. The unique energy and soul that Peaceful Uprising has brought to the climate justice movement is something… Read more

  • MyCity+20 Youth Take Over

    Framework of the Rio+20 simulation: Scenario Set-ups MyCity+20 is aimed at mobilizing the youth world over, educating them on the urgency of sustainable development issues and encouraging them to involve themselves in the negotiation process of Rio+20.We want to prove that the youth is ready to play an… Read more

  • We Are What We Buy

    Viscerally, Occupy Wall Street targets the structural corruption of certain American and global institutions, both economic and political. To be sure, economics and politics remain starkly interpenetrating. Usually, whatever happens in either one of these seemingly discrete realms, more or less substantially… Read more

  • First issue of Own the Edge on the Road to Rio+20

    Announcement from: The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED), CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and Consumers International (CI) are very proud to introduce the first edition of this special newsletter called “Own the Edge.” It will be released each month in the lead-up to the Rio+20… Read more

  • Durban Feedback: Friends of the Earth International

    CLIMATE: DISASTROUS “DURBAN PACKAGE” ACCELERATES ONSET OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 13 DECEMBER 2011 – The UN climate talks in Durban were a failure and take the world a significant step back by further undermining an already flawed, inadequate multilateral system that is supposed to address… Read more

  • Durban Climate Deal Struck after Tense All-Night Session

    Talks came close to collapse when India insisted on concessions for developing countries, forcing 3am 'huddle to save the planet' by John Vidal and Fiona Harvey in Durban DURBAN - A new global climate deal has been struck after being brought back from the brink of disaster by three powerful women politicians… Read more

  • HII Reports on the UN Launch of "the Future We Want

    The Launch of the UN Campaign: The Future We Want which aims to coordinate a global conversation about the world’s future. It will take place through on- and offline formats, by way of video submissions, photos, and essays, and is designed to spark interest and hope in advance of next years Rio+20 Conference… Read more

  • Big emitters aim at climate delay

    As this year's UN climate summit opens, some of the developing world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters are bidding to delay talks on a new global agreement. To the anger of small islands states, India and Brazil have joined rich nations in wanting to start talks on a legal deal no earlier than 2015. The EU… Read more

  • Women on the Road to Rio+20

    As a member of the Major Group for Women, the Human Impacts Institute and our representative Mariana Orozco reports on global environmental policy gearing up for Rio+20. On November 1st, over 500 submissions for the Rio+20 outcome document were received by the UN. These will be reviewed by the Rio+20 Bureau… Read more

  • Road to Rio+20 Presentation at the United Nations

    The event was sponsored by Peace Child International, and featured speakers from the UN and the EU, and leaders of youth organizations from around the world, speaking to the importance of energizing the world’s youth in advance of Rio+20, the United Nations’ Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012. The… Read more

  • North American UNEP Consultation on Rio+20

    As a member of the Major Group for Children and Youth, the Human Impacts Institute and our representative Mariana Orozco reports on global environmental policy gearing up for Rio+20. The Human Impacts Institute was invited to participate in the United Nation’s Environment Programme’s October 2011… Read more

  • Photo Essay: Global Day of Action Against UN Conference of Polluters in Durban

    3 December 2011 - Thousands of people from around the world hit the streets of Durban, South Africa to protest the UN Climate Conference of Polluters. Photo Essay by Orin Langelle/Global Justice Ecology Project and Anne Petermann/Global Justice Ecology Project-Global Forest Coalition. A festive and peaceful… Read more

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