Today we had a meeting with the Women's Caucus on Gender and REDD. WEDO has taken a pro-REDD stance, although they say they are anti market mechanisms. They want to meet again Wednesday.Also it was apparently the first time the Women's Caucus was held bilingually. It continues to surprise me how surprised people are for the ease with which we can have bilingual meetings. But it was fun. Then there was a high level women's ministers meeting - Figueres, espinosa, hedegaard, someone else from danish and the Mister of Culture / paatrimony from Ecuador. Uploading video now. Mari Rose and Michele Roberts said something about the release of the No REDDs reader and gave a copy to Mary RObinson and I got it on tape - but basically the "most powerful feminist in the world" turned her back on women of color from frontline and impacted communities. She was much more interested in meeting with other European women after the panel than either Mari Rose or Michele. I have the whole panel on video. And that pretty much sums up my experience with white women here, although there are great allies including Ana Filippini and it was clarified that the GenderCC constituency group has a strong position against market mechanisms. Very interesting.
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