[E-rundbrief] Info 934 - 6. ESF Istanbul, Schlusserklaerung

Matthias Reichl info at begegnungszentrum.at
Mo Jul 5 00:50:34 CEST 2010


E-Rundbrief - Info 934 - Schlusserklärung des 6. Europäischen
Sozialforums (ESF) in Istanbul, 4.7.2010; System change, not climate
change! A just transition towards a good life for all - Istanbul ESF
statement of ecological and social justice movements, 4.7.2010.

Bad Ischl, 5.7.2010

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Schlusserklärung des 6. Europäischen Sozialforums (ESF) in Istanbul,
4.7.2010

  Wir, die TeilnehmerInnen des ESF in Istanbul, bekräftigen, dass wir
uns stark engagieren werden gegen jeden Krieg und jede Besatzung und wir
sind für eine politische Lösung der  Kurdenfrage. Wir haben uns auf die
folgende Resolution verständigt:

Handeln wir gemeinsam in Europa gegen die Krise!

Im Rahmen der globalen Krise und angesichts der Offensive der EU, der
Regierungen und des IWF (Weltwährungsfond) eine strenge Sparpolitik bzw.
eine des sozialen Rückschritts durchzusetzen, haben die im ESF in
Istanbul versammelten sozialen Bewegungen einen Aufruf zum gemeinsamen
Handeln in Europa herausgegeben.

In ganz Europa bilden sich Mobilisierungen und Widerstandsbewegung en,
um diese Maßnahmen in Frage stellen. Auf lange Sicht ist es dringend,
einen zusammenhängenden  Kampf in ganz Europa zu entwickeln, der die
sozialen Bewegungen, Gewerkschaften, Verbände, Organisationen, Netzwerke
und BürgerInnen zusammenbringt. Deshalb haben wir als ersten Schritt auf
dem Weg zur Entwicklung von Mobilisierungen in ganz Europa einen Aufruf
für den 29. September und die darum liegenden Tage herausgegeben.

Wir müssen alternative Maßnahmen entwickeln, die uns in die Lage
versetzen, dass wir die sozialen Bedürfnisse und ökologische
Anforderungen erfüllen können.
Alle sozialen Bewegungen rufen zu einer europäischen Versammlung am
23./24. Oktober (bzw. 13./14. November) in Paris auf, um die
Mobilisierung und Koordination unserer Bewegungen fortzusetzen, sie
auszuwerten und über die Zukunft des ESF zu diskutieren.

(Übersetzt und leicht korrigiert von Wilfried Hanser-Mantl,

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System change, not climate change!

A just transition towards a good life for all

Istanbul ESF statement of ecological and social justice	movements, 4.7.2010

The newspapers may speak of financial and economic crises, but when we
look around ourselves, we don’t see derivates and financial markets –
what we see is the destruction of communities, of our social and natural
environments, of our relations to each other. What we see is capitalism
destroying us. Against this destruction, and the austerity that follows
in its wake, people are resisting, people are fighting back, people are
beginning to create the new worlds we know to be necessary: from Ghana
to Greece, from Copenhagen to Cochabamba, from Bangkok to Brussels. We
from climate and social justice movements gathered at the European
Social Forum in Istanbul, are a part of and inspired by these global
processes of resistance and creation, but also realise that we need to
fight where we stand: to create another world, we also need to create
another Europe and tear down the walls of the fortress that surround it.

Against those who try to create divisions between social and ecological
justice, we assert that they do not contradict each other. They are and
have to be complementary. Our vision is of a good life for all, not a
nightmare of authoritarian eco-austerity.

Against those who oppose people’s desire to have good and well-paid jobs
and to move beyond the madness of infinite growth on a finite planet, we
are calling for a just transition in the way we work, in the structures
of production and consumption. While there are many things we need more
of, there is much we need less of. For example, we need to stop the
destructive energy production practices involving coal, oil, nuclear and
hydropower, or to end the madness of building individual cars for
everybody. At the same time, we need to expand community-controlled
renewable energies, food sovereignty as well as public services that
contribute to our goal of a good life for all, like free public
transport, health, housing and education. This would create millions of
socially and ecologically useful jobs.

This is what we mean by just transition, by climate justice: it does not
mean having the ‘right’ position on what is being negotiated at
UN-climate summits. It’s not about parts per million of carbon in the
atmosphere. Although it is important to change our individual
behaviours, climate justice is about fundamentally changing our model of
production and consumption of food, goods, energy, of our entire lives.
It is about finally making amends for the ecological debt we owe the
rest of the world.

We in Europe are only now starting on the road towards climate justice,
creating and resisting in many different ways, such as direct action,
the building of local alternatives, civil disobedience or public
campaigning to name a few. There are many opportunities already such as:

26/8: solidarity actions coinciding with the trial in Copenhagen of Tash
Verco and Noah Weiss (protests at UN-Climate-Conference, Dec 2009)

Summer 2010 : Climate and No Border camps are happening all over Europe

29/9: European trade union day of action

between the 10th and the 17th of October, different networks are calling
for action on climate justice: the 12th will be a day of direct action
for climate justice; the 16th a day of action against Monsanto

 From the 29th of November to the 10th of December, the 16th UN-climate
summit will be held in Cancun, Mexico: we will be creating a ‘thousand
Cancuns’ to protest their false solutions and point the way towards real
climate and social justice.

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Matthias Reichl, Pressesprecher/ press speaker,
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