Durban, South Africa, November 26th
Declaration of members of the indigenous people biocultural climate change assessment (IPCCA) initiative
The participants of the workshop on REDD and Biocultural Protocols organized by the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA), from Ecuador, Panama, India, Nicaragua, Peru and Samoa met on 24 and 25 November 2011 in Durban, South Africa to share emergent findings and analyse how REDD is affecting our territories in order to respond through our assessments.


Au risque de lasser le lecteur, rappelons les conditions à remplir pour que la hausse de la température de la Terre ne dépasse pas trop 2°C (entre 2 et 2, 4°C) :
Ainsi donc c’est en Grèce qu’a débuté la nouvelle pièce promise à un grand succès en cette saison politique européenne et qui s’intitule : La Prise du pouvoir par les banquiers. L’Italie paraît choisie pour la prochaine étape, ce qui ne fait que ressortir l’intérêt du processus grec qui a conduit à la démission de Georges Papandréou et à la formation d’un nouveau gouvernement dit d’« entente nationale » dirigé par Lucas Papadémos.
Patrick Saurin est membre de l’exécutif national de Sud Banques Populaires Caisses d’Epargne et du Collectif pour un audit citoyen de la dette publique.
The revolutionaries have returned to Tahrir Square. Once again it is filled with the young people who are impatient to bring the killers of the revolutionaries in January to justice, and to see the realisation of freedom and social justice. The military courts have stolen years upon years of their lives. They have lost their eyes to sniper fire on the orders of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and their henchmen in the Ministry of the Interior.
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is calling on states, UN officials, and INGOs to take immediate action to urge the government of Egypt to halt the use of excessive force against largely peaceful protestors, and refrain from further human rights violations in this context.
The collapse of the Irish economy has come as a particular shock to many people, at home and abroad, because of its seemingly remarkable success in the preceding years, the period of very rapid economic growth that saw the country, from the early 1990s onwards, described as the ‘Celtic Tiger’.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters are braving tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannon and live ammunition in demonstrations against the ruling military council in Egypt. By late on 20 November there were an estimated 100,000 in Tahrir Square according to eyewitness accounts and thousands protesting in every major city in Egypt.
Le G20 n’est pas plus légitime que son géniteur le G7 (Etats-Unis, Canada, Allemagne, Royaume Uni, France, Italie, Japon), qui l’a lancé il y a 3 ans alors que commençait à sévir durement la crise économique la plus grave depuis les années 1930.
On September 22, 2011, wearing a dark suit, a purple tie and a light blue shirt, president Sebastián Piñera went up to the rostrum of the General Assembly of the United Nations. The head of the Chilean government - and nevertheless a successful multi-millionaire businessman – had a wide smile on his face. In these times of a world-wide crisis of capitalism, he could claim to have a flourishing economy,
Ponencia de Leonidas Vatikiotis en el encuentro “Viviendo en deudocracia”, Quién debe a Quién, Madrid, 7 y 8 de octubre de 2011.