Banner Drop in Charlottesville, VA – “Capitalism is the Crisis”
December 1st, 2009
Happy N30 folks!
Today, November 30th, Charlottesville joined the actions taking place around the world to remind neighborhoods, businesses, policy makers, and each other that the climate justice mobilization is charged and building internationally. A couple of figures dropped a banner at around 6:30 AM, and it still hangs there as of this evening. C’Ville’s message was a simple invitation and hopefully far enough out of reach to remain posted a few stories above Main st. well into the day:
Capitalism is the Climate Crisis… Think About It
Who is participating?
This is not an ‘environmentalist’ hobby. A broad coalition of collectives and individuals are acting out Climate Justice, re-enforcing solidarity and coherence within social, ecological, racial and economic justice movements.
“We need to act together rather than believe the atomizing guilt-hype of ‘individual responsibility’. It is essential that we build strong communities in our fight for climate justice. Not only do strong communities aid in our efforts to build a sustainable, localized way of living, they are also essential for effectively resisting government and corporate plans to continue their domination of the Earth.
…It is very difficult to take on power alone. No successful social or environmental struggle has been waged without putting long hard hours into building and staying engaged with their communities. From the Black Panther Party to the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil, community has always been a central feature of resistance.â€
- Deal or No Deal
What doesn’t work: ‘Solutions’ based in free market dogma. Remember how we got to this state?
For centuries, the dynamics of capitalism have been destroying our cultures, exploiting our labor, and poisoning our environment. Capitalism and savvy investors are cashing in on the “green†movement. Armies of lobbyists are at Copenhagen creating a climate deal that spells “profits†for them – pushing for countries to adopt carbon trading and other market-based solutions, instead of real, clean solutions. They still uphold the ‘free market’ that created this problem. We cannot look to it for solving climate crises. It will remain too soft, never providing anything to fight against the most pervasive agent of environmental degradation: the system itself.
What works: Everything. Everything that spreads a community of resistance that does not confine itself to politics and the sanctioned means of action. Decorate/read/liberate/share/curse at/occupy everything.
Big Holla @ the thousands of people ready to break it down in Copenhagen this week; the (non)student occupiers in California; the Earth and Animal liberationists of Mexico, the US, UK and elsewhere; the communities of Appalachia fighting coal, from Coal River Mountain to Wise County to the Carolinas; hell-raisers in Greece, Bangladesh, Pittsburgh, Copenhagen, Chile, France, and all around the world; every individual and group currently pushing their own and their community’s comfort zone, resisting grand juries or spending time in prison for acting in revolt or refusing to speak.
In love, solidarity, and rage,
An imaginary party in C’Ville
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