Since we are so spread apart, and I have been spending a lot of time in the Moon Palace, while the Youth events and activities (YOUNGOs) are largely in the Cancunmesse, we don't actually get to talk. But the Youth for Climate Justice delegation has been making important inroads in that space, previously dominated by European and European-descendent, and US-based elite youth, and to the exclusion of the Latin American youth and the indigenous youth and other youth of color. In fact, they have made important interventions in the Youth space on REDDs, LULUCFs, Actions, and democratic process. They have been following, in many ways, the lead of the Indigenous Environmental Network in the negotiations as well as building on their experiences organizing in the United States against environmental racism and for justice in communities facing these issues, intersectionally.
We had two actions yesterday!
1> Tar Sands - see
and
VIDEO:
2) a Respect Indigenous Peoples Rights action:
I just hosted a livestream debrief with Eric Morris (Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for the Yukon) and Daniel T'seleie (Northern Youth Climate Fellow at Climate Action Network Canada) from Canada after the Canadian government delegation session with NGOs. There will be a similar session tonight for the US delegation to US NGOs.
** The actions, apparently, have resulted in the changing of the rules to being a 48 h in advance permit instead of 24 h. And we didn't even break any rules. Maybe it is time to start breaking rules if they are just going to change them anyway, at random. **
On the bus today Joaquin interviewed Lili Molina on her EJ Chola self on the way to the Cancunmesse, putting on makeup in the car.
And, Alberto and I had a short exchange about REDDs and carbon markets and the analogy to sub-prime mortgages. Here's my gchat with Joaquin about it later.
What he mentions about the La Via Campesina caravans arriving at Chitzenitza - and asking permission from the Mayans to be here in this space, now. They will be in ceremony and then they arrive here tonight. So this is an important moment for social movements to be arriving here.
I think those of us who have been on the inside this week are feeling tired and perhaps a little disheartened and we should be doing ceremony to cleanse ourselves of the negative energy every day and especially this weekend to be in power for what comes next week.
We also have the responsibility to bring in our sisters and brothers who are arriving now into this work in a good way and maybe that is partially inside and a lot of outside work and capacity. I'm not sure, but we'll see what happens next week as our numbers swell.
9:25 AM me: hey love
Joaquin: hola
me: so you all are leaving for the LVC?
Joaquin: si,
me: cuando y como?
Joaquin: we're renting a car from the airport
9:26 AM me: que envidia!
Joaquin: vente!!
que pues.
es unico
acabo next week vamos a estar metidos aqui toda la semana
9:27 AM me: a que horas se van
Joaquin: como a las 1030
me: :-/
how are you getting form ehre to aeropuerto
9:29 AM is the YOUNGO mtg over
Joaquin: taxi
todavia no
we're meeting with latin american youth caucus after
question, what did alberto call redds earlier?
how did you connect it to the mortgage?
me: speculative market
9:30 AM REDDs creates a speculative market in the value of forests and the value of pollution by tying them to units of "carbon"
that way you can buy or sell it
however
our money system is theoretically tied to the gold standard
9:31 AM however in the carbon there is no basis in reality to tie it down
like the value of of the houses in a housing bubble (that was created by the subprime mortagages)
but for latin american youth
the better analogy will be the corn fiasco a few years back.
when biofuels came on the market
the price of corn rose from being a food commodity (low price) to a fuel commodity (higher value)
9:32 AM and then there wasn't corn in the markets in mexico to feed people
and people couldn't by toritllas or the torilla makers couldn't buy the masa, etc.
creating a speculative markets = capture by the people with the most money, causes hoarding and also invites fraud
9:36 AM [does that help?]
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9:46 AM me: thus REDDs will make it so the people who have been working and living in forests since time immemorial will not be able to afford to keep living using and taking care of forests
9:48 AM the "value" of the forests will be captured and traded among the very rich
9:49 AM and the industrialized and post-industrial areas in the north - the sacrifice zones - will continue to be devalued, not restored, and the people who live in them, desechables
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