Support the Fight Against Carbon Trading and for Climate Justice!

On November 30, 2009, twelve activists locked themselves together in the middle of an intersection outside the Chicago Climate Exchange, in the heart of the financial district in downtown Chicago. The Chicago Climate Exchange is the first and largest carbon trading institution in North America.
Lockdown: N30 at Chicago's Climate Exchange
A network of groups in Chicago planned this action as part of an international day of action for climate justice, a week before the start of the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen and on the 10th anniversary of the successful shut-down of the WTO talks in Seattle in 1999. The network chose to target the climate exchange, among other local climate criminals, because the current approach to climate change in the UN, as well as in the US Congress, is based on the creation of a new market in carbon emissions.
This market would privatize the very air we breathe, and hand the world’s biggest polluters property rights over the atmosphere and the Earth’s carbon cycling capacity. Carbon trading (aka “cap and trade”) and carbon offsets do not address the root causes of global warming, nor do they effectively reduce emissions. Carbon trading does, however, succeed in inflating corporate profits, and creating the illusion that action is being taken to combat global warming, thus acting as a dangerous distraction from the real, systemic changes that are so urgently needed.

From Chicago to Copenhagen

This was the biggest action against carbon trading yet to take place in North America, a much-needed wake-up call urging people to more closely examine the so-called climate solutions that are being proposed by the government, Wall Street, and cozy alliances between corporate America and some of the big green environmental groups.

The activists who put their bodies on the line to get a message out about false solutions to climate change will be facing charges in court this February. As we all continue our work to promote real, effective, and just climate solutions in 2010, we’d like to request your support in contributing to their legal fund. Anything you can give helps – please consider making a donation, from $5 to $500.


Donations can be made online via the button below using a credit card or Paypal...
Donate to Chicago N30 Legal Fund
...or checks / money orders can be sent to:
Rising Tide North America
Chicago N30 Legal Fund
P.O. Box 3928
Oakland CA 94609

*** If you send a check, be sure to write “N30 Chicago Legal” in the memo line!***
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For more information and photos, check out How Green is Chicago's website at www.howgreenischicago.org and the Mobilization for Climate Justice at www.actforclimatejustice.org