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Report Back on Cancún: Eyewitness Report and Discussion

Published January 20, 2011

by iris_author

 

Thursday, January 20, 7 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
(East of Spadina, South of College)

Speakers:
• Andrea Harden: Energy Campaigner, Council of Canadians
• Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu: JustEarth, Toronto Climate Campaign, Post Carbon  
  Toronto
• John Dillon: Economic Justice Program Coordinator, KAIROS
• Statements by Bolivia's Ambassador, Pablo Solón (video)
 and by Gerry LeBlanc, USW Injured Workers' program (video)
• Daniel T'seleie, Canadian Youth Delegation, hopefully by skype
• See video footage of Cancún protests (by Allan Lissner)

Moderator:
• Dorothy McDougall, Ecological Justice Program Coordinator, KAIROS

Over 190 countries, developed and developing, met late 2010 at COP16 in Cancún to come up with an agreement to respond to the world climate crisis. Come and listen to the reports of Canadian experts who went there to protest or to witness the negotiations. Vigorous protests inside and outside the conference spoke for the world's peoples in our struggle for climate justice.

Co-organizers: Toronto Climate Campaign; Council of Canadians (Toronto Chapter); Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

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