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- - - - - Musicians, Musicians, RAGEAGAINST DECOLONIZE CLIMATE Let’s build the future YOUTH CLIMATE CON CLIMATE YOUTH NATURAL HISTORY MU NATURAL Free University-NYC will Check out NYC’s oldest FROM RELIEF RELEAF: TO PUNK FOR CLIMATE Photographer Sebastião Salga 10:30AM–3PM • FREE EDUCATION: JUSTICE. host teach-ins, workshops, indig enous performances, direct action trainings and more as part of the NYC Climate Convergence. All are invited to attend or participate by hosting a discussion, sharing skills or perform ing. El Jardín de Paraíso 5th St btw Ave C & D freeuniversitynyc.org 9AM–5:30PM • FREE MOVEMENT BUILDING: CLI NYC VERGENCE. of climate resistance. A youth-led convergence with workshops, train ings and more. Workshop proposals registration welcomed, required. Martin Luther King Educational Jr. Campus 122 Amsterdam Ave [email protected] MATE CONVERGENCEMATE WORKSHOPS. Dozens of climate justice workshops, panels, teach-ins and more are on the roster, and the day willround out with a People’s Climate Assembly in the LowerEast Side. See convergeforcli more. for mate.org Assembly: El Jardín de Paraíso 5th St btw Ave D C & Workshops: Various locations in downtown Manhattan. 9:30AM–5:30PM • FREE MEETING: SAT SEP 20 SEP SAT SAT SEP 13 SEP SAT THROUGH SAT OCT 4 VARIOUS • $8 LAUNCH: THE QUEENSSEUM AT MUSEUM. Emphasizing the social and political forces that shape nature, thelaunch of this new project will include se a ries of superb panels, workshops, and performances with artists, activists and thinkers that include Christian Parenti, Astra Liberate Taylor, Tate, Jodi Dean, Eddie Bautista, Elizabeth Yeampierre and more. QueensMuseum Flushing Meadows CoronaPark, Queens queensmuseum.org718-592-9700 • 3PM • $8 MUSIC: JUSTICE. DIY, collectively-run, all-ages punk/ hardcorec show space for a music matinee featuring M.A.D., Sunrot, Through Thorn & Brier and Skuz. ABC-No-Rio 156 Rivington St abcnorio.org • 212-254-3697 7PM SUGGESTED • $10 CONCERT & PARTY: THE DYING OF THE LIGHT. artists, activists, reformers and aspir ing revolutionaries will converge in the Bronx for a bumping concert and political party before the march. Con vened by Ecosocialist Horizons and hosted by the Villalobos Brothers, the musical roster will include everything from jazz to hip-hop. 52 Marble Hill Ave, Bronx prefiguraecosocialisthorizons.com • [email protected] 12–5PM • FREE FORUM: RESIST AND REBUILD FOR ECOLOGI CAL JUSTICE IN THE PHILIPPINES. education forum on climate disruption in the Philippines, its causes and its impacts and the search for grassroots solutions taking place after last year’s Typhoon Haiyan. Church of St. Francis of Assisi 127 W 31st St nafconusa.org 3PM • $15 TALK: do will discuss his eight-year journey across the planet to document its last pristine areas. The resulting project, Genesis, draws together more than 200 black-and-white photographs of wildlife, landscapes, seascapes, and indigenous peoples. On display at the International Center of Photog raphy, which is also hosting a series of events about confronting climate change throughout the fall. The Great Hall, Cooper Union 7 E 7th St icp.org • 212-857-0000 12PM–2PM • $10 FILM: ABOVE ELSE. ALL This doc about front-line activism against climate change in the U.S. tells the story of David Daniel, an East Texas man who fought to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land, and the civil disobe dience he inspired. Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave anthologyfilmarchives.org • 212-505- 5181 Featuring movement . A/WAKE IN THE OPENING AND CLOSING “a/wake in the water: THROUGH SUN NOV 9 VARIOUS TIMES • $8 EXHIBITION: WATER. Meditations on Disaster” explores the repercussions and systematic neglect Black communities and — Black bodies — experience as the result of environmental hazards and natural disasters. MoCADA 80 Hanson Pl, Bklyn mocada.org • 718-230-0492 NOW FRI SEP 19 & SAT SEP 20 SEP SAT & FRI 19 SEP 7PM• FREE PLENARIES: PLENARIES OF CLIMATE THE NYC CONVERGENCE leaders and thinkers such as Oscar Olivera, Immortal Technique, Naomi Klein, Desmond D’Sa and more. St.Peters Church 619 Lexington Ave convergeforclimate.org - A theatrical experiment inspired by a

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tHe INDYpeNDeNt September 10 – October 14, 2014 3 Through Thu Sep 25 8PM • $15 THEATER: WED 24 SEP 7:30PM • $5/$10/$15 SUGGESTED BOOK TALK: PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. crisis has its roots in centuries of conquest of indigenous peoples. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s new book radically reframes the founding myth of the U.S. andthe story of indigenous resistance. The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Ave, Bklyn thecommonsbrooklyn.org cance of such stakes and the limited repertoire of concepts and feelings that we have to deal with them. TheKitchen 512 W 19th St thekitchen.org • 212-255-5793 paradox: Although we are confronted with global warming and the prospect of mankind’s end, we feel almost nothing. The performance explores the signifi - A A meeting of frontline TUE SEP 16 SEP TUE 6:30–9:30PM SUGGESTED • $10 FILM: THE FUTURE OF ENERGY. new doc about the renewable energy revolution, featuring a great roster of movement leaders. Q-and-A with filmmaker Max DeArmon to follow. NY Society for EthicalCulture 2 W 64th St nysec.org • 212-874-5210 - By Patrick Robbins STOP CAPI STOP People’s Climate March spired leaders by Occupy to have take a more been a decentralizedapproach in- to organizing. OccupY & tHe cLImAte cLImAte & tHe OccupY mArcH WHY We mArcH By Indypendent Staff A Sandy survivor from woman Red from Hook, Canada, an a minister, indigenous longtime NYCHA a residentaboutIndywhythe talkto muralist and a they will hit the streets on Sept. 21. 6 18 10AM #FLOODWALLSTREET: THROUGH TUE SEP 23 10AM–5PM • FREE CONFERENCE: PEOPLES’ JUSTICE SUMMIT. CLIMATE community members organizing against the causes of climate change and cul tivating solutions to address them, organized by the Climate Justice Alliance. Core summit will be held at the UN’s Church Center and livestreamed at the New School, where panels, workshops and other activities are also scheduled. required. Preregistration The New School 72 Fifth Ave, 3rd Fl ourpowercampaign.org MON SEP 22 SEP MON TALISM. END THE CLIMATE CRISIS.TALISM. END THE CLIMATE A direct action to flood, blockade, sit- in and shut down the NYC institutions that are profiting from the climate crisis, with coordinated sister actions planned in other cities. Converge at Battery Park at 10am, sit-in on Wall Street at 12pm. Wear blue. floodwallstreet.net

THE CLIMATE RIBBON.THE CLIMATE SUN SEPTSUN 21 Panel discussions, workshops, teach- ins, movie screenings, direct actions and more. It’s all happening here in New York in the days leading up to and following the People’s Climate March. The roster of events continues to grow as we go to press. To keep up on the latest, follow us a twitter.com/ TheIndypendent. This massive art installation and ritual on Manhattan’s West Side will zero in on what we are in danger of losing to climate change. People are invited to write on 2-ft ribbons what they love and don’t want to lose to climate chaos — your city? your harvest? your childrens’ future? — and to bring the ribbons to the march or mail them in. 11th Ave btw 34th & 38th Sts theclimateribbon.com 11: 30am PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH. Gather at Columbus tens of join and Circle for tothousands call immediate action on climate change. peoplesclimate.org CONCLUSIONAT OF THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH • FREE PUBLIC ART: SLUG? CLIMATE MARCH EVENTS EVENTS MARCH CLIMATE GUIDE By Tadzio Mueller By DeirdreBy Smith Thirty percent of electricity consumed in Germa- nycomes from renewable energy sources. And the energy revolution is just beginning. tHe ANSWertHe tHe bLOWIN’ IS IN WIND A peOpLe’S cLImAte treAtY cLImAte A peOpLe’S By Rae Abileah Climate change doesn’t have to leave us feeling numb and hopeless. A group of artists and activists has big plans for the end of the People’s Climate March. 17 5 calendar and guide to where get you will help — have helped deﬁ ne an era. Now she’s written ne an era. Now she’s a deﬁ helped — have

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YOUY CC JiM secula JiM Continued on page 18 “Grief. Loss. Fear,” chimes in Boyd. “When we try to absorb the full conse- “But,” says Boyd, “when we create a safe “In short, it’s about moving us from the From this central insight the Climate Rib- riSing FroM 11tH avenue On September 21, a massive tree willup from rise the middle of Manhattan’s industrial 11th Avenue, its with brancheshand-dyed fabric stretching entwined out above the streets. Imagine gathering thousands around of the people tree’s colossalas they come rootsto the end of the People’s Cli- mate March. They each written unwrap a ribbon hand- they’ve carried across withManhattan and them tie it to radial linesemanating from the sculpture, forming long multicolored roots that stretch out in every direction. “Massive species die-off. washed away. Our Neighborhoods children’s children’s future at grave risk. Harvests ruined. hoods Liveli- destroyed. These are thingsstand we andlose in— manyto plac- some of the es are already losing — to climate chaos. It can be overwhelming.” the and happening— now is what of quences enormity of what is yet to come — we can easily become paralyzed. When we experience these feelings alone, the issue feels too big, the costscult to too grapplediffi with,” adds Golan. “Instead of being spurredtion, to often we ac- turn away.” container to go through these feelings collectively, together with others, different something happens. Instead of feelings in, holding we let them out. Instead of isola- the nd solidarity.tion, Instead we canof pow- fi empowerment. nd Insteadof erlessness,fi we resignation, toward action.” a way pave we me to the we. Sometimes art and ritual can do that in ways that conventional organiz- says powerfully,” as do protestinganddon’t Golan. bon was born. he coastline Manhattan,” of saidone participant, reading the handwritten phrase off a green ribbon.

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INTO THE STREETS NOW THROUGH SUN NOV 9 SAT SEP 13 VARIOUS TIMES • $8 THROUGH SAT OCT 4 EXHIBITION: A/WAKE IN THE VARIOUS • $8 WATER. “a/wake in the water: LAUNCH: NATURAL HISTORY MU- Meditations on Disaster” explores SEUM AT THE QUEENS MUSEUM. the repercussions and systematic Emphasizing the social and political neglect Black communities — and forces that shape nature, the launch Black bodies — experience as the of this new project will include a se- result of environmental hazards and ries of superb panels, workshops and natural disasters. performances with artists, activists MoCADA and thinkers that include Christian 80 Hanson Pl, Bklyn Parenti, Astra Taylor, Liberate Tate, mocada.org • 718-230-0492 Jodi Dean, Eddie Bautista, Elizabeth Yeampierre and more. Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, CLIMATEDesigned by Mikael MARCH Tarkela EVENTS Queens queensmuseum.org • 718-592-9700

GUIDE TUE SEP 16 FRI SEP 19 & SAT SEP 20 Panel discussions, workshops, teach- 6:30–9:30PM • $10 SUGGESTED 7PM • FREE SAT SEP 20 ins, movie screenings, direct actions FILM: THE FUTURE OF ENERGY. A SPEAKERS: OPENING AND CLOSING 9AM–5:30PM • FREE new doc about the renewable energy PLENARIES OF THE NYC CLIMATE MOVEMENT BUILDING: NYC CLI- and more. It’s all happening here in revolution, featuring a great roundup CONVERGENCE. Featuring movement MATE CONVERGENCE WORKSHOPS. New York in the days leading up to of movement leaders. Q-and-A with leaders and thinkers such as Oscar Dozens of climate justice workshops, ﬁ lmmaker Max DeArmon to follow. Olivera, Immortal Technique, Naomi panels, teach-ins and more are on the and following the People’s Climate NY Society for Ethical Culture Klein, Desmond D’Sa and more. roster, and the day will round out with March. The roster of events continues 2 W 64th St St. Peter’s Church a People’s Climate Assembly in the nysec.org • 212-874-5210 619 Lexington Ave Lower East Side. See convergeforcli- to grow as we go to press. To keep up convergeforclimate.org mate.org for more. on the latest, follow us on Twitter at Assembly: El Jardín de Paraíso 5th St btw Ave C & D @TheIndypendent. Workshops: Various locations in downtown Manhattan.

9:30AM–5:30PM • FREE MEETING: YOUTH CLIMATE CON- VERGENCE. Let’s build the future of climate resistance. A youth-led convergence with workshops, trainings and more. Workshop proposals MARCH ROUTE welcomed, registration required. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus 122 Amsterdam Ave [email protected]

10:30AM–3PM • FREE EDUCATION: DECOLONIZE CLIMATE JUSTICE. Free University-NYC will host teach-ins, workshops, indigenous performances, direct action trainings and more as part of the NYC Climate Convergence. All are invited to attend or participate by hosting a discussion, sharing skills or perform- ASSEMBLY LOCATION ing. Central Park West, between 59th El Jardín de Paraíso and 86th Sts. 5th St btw Ave C & D freeuniversitynyc.org START TIME & ROUTE The march will begin at 11:30am. 12PM–2PM • $10 FILM: ABOVE ALL ELSE. This doc • Leave Columbus Circle and go about front-line activism against east on 59th St climate change in the U.S. tells the story of David Daniel, an East Texas • Turn onto 6th Ave and go south to man who fought to stop the tar sands 42nd St of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land, and the civil disobe- • Turn right onto 42nd St and go dience he inspired. west to 11th Ave Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave • Turn left on 11th Ave and go south anthologyﬁ lmarchives.org • 212-505- to 34th St 5181

FINAL DESTINATION 12–5PM • FREE 11th Ave between 34th & 38th Sts FORUM: FROM RELIEF TO RELEAF: RESIST AND REBUILD FOR ECOLOGI- CAL JUSTICE IN THE PHILIPPINES. An education forum on climate disruption in the Philippines, its causes and its impacts and the search for grassroots solutions taking place after last year’s Typhoon Haiyan. Church of St. Francis of Assisi 127 W 31st St nafconusa.org

3PM • $15 TALK: GENESIS. Photographer Sebas- tião Salgado will discuss his eight-year journey across the planet to document its last pristine areas. The resulting project, Genesis, draws together more than 200 black-and-white photographs of wildlife, landscapes, seascapes and indigenous peoples. On display at the International Center of Photography, SUN SEPT 21 MON SEP 22 WED SEP 24 which is also hosting a series of events 11: 30am 10AM 7:30PM • $5/$10/$15 SUGGESTED about confronting climate change #FLOODWALLSTREET: STOP CAPI- BOOK TALK: AN INDIGENOUS throughout the fall. PEOPLE’S TALISM. END THE CLIMATE CRISIS. PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED The Great Hall, Cooper Union CLIMATE A direct action to fl ood, blockade, sit- STATES. Today’s climate change 7 E 7th St in and shut down the NYC institutions crisis has its roots in centuries of icp.org • 212-857-0000 MARCH. that are profi ting from the climate conquest of indigenous peoples. Join the call for immediate action crisis, with coordinated sister actions Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s new book 3PM • $8 on climate change. Gather between planned in other cities. Converge at radically reframes the founding myth MUSIC: PUNK FOR CLIMATE JUS- 59th and 86th Sts on Central Park Battery Park at 10am, sit-in on Wall of the U.S. and the story of indigenous TICE. Check out NYC’s oldest DIY, West; the march will leave from Street at 12pm. Wear blue. resistance. collectively-run, all-ages punk/hard- Columbus Circle and wind its way to fl oodwallstreet.net The Brooklyn Commons core show space for a music matinee 11th Ave between 34th & 38th Sts. 388 Atlantic Ave, Bklyn featuring M.A.D., Sunrot, Through peoplesclimate.org thecommonsbrooklyn.org Thorn & Brier and Skuz. THROUGH TUE SEP 23 ABC-No-Rio 10AM–5PM • FREE 156 Rivington St CONFERENCE: PEOPLES’ CLIMATE JUSTICE SUMMIT. A meeting of frontline THROUGH THU SEP 25 abcnorio.org • 212-254-3697 AT CONCLUSION OF THE PEOPLE’S community members organizing against the causes of climate change and cul- 8PM • $15 CLIMATE MARCH tivating solutions to address them, organized by the Climate Justice Alliance. THEATER: GAÏA GLOBAL CIRCUS. A theatrical experiment inspired by a 7PM • $10 SUGGESTED PUBLIC ART: THE CLIMATE RIBBON. Core summit will be held at the UN’s Church Center and livestreamed at the paradox: Although we are confronted with global warming and the prospect of CONCERT & PARTY: RAGE AGAINST This massive art installation and ritual New School, where panels, workshops and other activities are also scheduled. mankind’s end, we feel almost nothing. The performance explores the signifi - THE DYING OF THE LIGHT. Musicians, on Manhattan’s West Side will zero Preregistration required. cance of such stakes and the limited repertoire of concepts and feelings that artists, activists, reformers and aspir- in on what we are in danger of losing The New School we have to deal with them. ing revolutionaries will converge in to climate change. People are invited 72 5th Ave, 3rd Fl The Kitchen the Bronx for a bumping concert and to write on 2-ft ribbons what they ourpowercampaign.org 512 W 19th St political party before the march. Con- love and don’t want to lose to climate thekitchen.org • 212-255-5793 vened by Ecosocialist Horizons and chaos — your city? your harvest? hosted by the Villalobos Brothers, the your childrens’ future? — and to bring musical roster will include everything the ribbons to the march or mail them from jazz to hip-hop. in. 52 Marble Hill Ave, Bronx 11th Ave btw 34th & 38th Sts ecosocialisthorizons.com • prefi gura-

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The ooded storm fl DC 37’s Lower Manhattan headquarters, de- Whether that sense translates into turnout, however, depends on DC 37 has published two articles about the march in its newspaper, “It’s not just a PR thing. There really is a lot of momentum inside More than 50 unions, including some of the city’s biggest, Thesponsors also include labor-based groups suchas the Left Labor “Labor is marching because climate change affects all of us,” says “Labor has come to the conclusion that it is a workers’ issue, some PolitiCal SHiFt Such a labor-environmentalist alliance has been a long The time “teamsterscoming. and turtles” coalition Trade from Organization the protests 1999 dissipated Seattle quickly. World The BlueGreenance, founded Alli-in 2006, brought together the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, but did uence not infl the Obama administration to Superstorm Sandy galvanized sentiment about climate change among many union members here. “We says Vazquez. Memberswork,” were working saw NYU at LangoneMedi- the impact on our cal places Center of when it had to be evacuated and at Rockaways. nursingAs healthhomes workers, in they thealso worry that global warming will abet the spread diseases of like malaria. at job the on stayed Members system. electrical building’s the stroying a water treatment plant in Staten ooding Island cutwhenit off fl from land, says Jon Forster, a city scientist and union vice president. “There is a sense that this is urgent.” unions reaching their members, says Sean Sweeney, co-coordinator of Unions Energy been for particularlyTrade He’s Democracy. impressed by the efforts of 32BJ, the1199, New StateYork Nurses Association, Electricians Local 3 and the Amalgamated Transit Union, twowhich small localshas representing bus drivers in Staten Island and Queens. yers which goes170,000 to out readers, and handed thousands out fl of communications says director public, the and members general Zitato Allen. Local 1199 is reaching out to members and has through translated social materials media into Spanish, Russian and cal Chinese. 32BJ has Lo- been phone-banking its members and andholding handingmeetings out Spanish-languageyers in fl Washington Heights.2,000 Its “green supers” — who haveings completed more cientenergy-effi —“really lead a course theway in in talking makingto members other about build-the environment,” says Lenore Friedlaender, who is in charge member of engagement. labor for this march,” she adds. Sandy’S iMPaCt F By Steven Wishnia LAbeL greeNINg tHe uNION uNION tHe greeNINg LAbor & CLImAtEChAngE are among the organizations sponsoring the march. Employees The International Service Union, the nation’s second endorsed largest, it, and has its two main New workers York of locals,Local 1199 theand the healthbuilding careservice workers of Local 32BJ, are heavily involved. Also on board are District Council 37, the city’s largest public employee union; Transport Union Workers Local 100; Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the Communications Workerscityemployeeswellastelephoneas of and cable-TV workers;andthe America, city, who representTeachers. Americanthe of Federation of liates Connecticutandstate affi Project and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, and “worker centers” that seek to organize low-wage and undocumented workers. Trade Unions for Energy Democracyfrom more than is bringing 10 countries, unionincluding the leadersUnited Kingdom,India, Korea, CanadaBrazil, and South Africa. 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tHe INDYpeNDeNt September 10 – October 14, 2014 17 Gary Martin Gary En- Ener- could never The problem with emphasizing the indisputable down- is by no means an un- an means no by is sides to the energy ergiewende have progressed as rap- Continued on next page This kind of grassroots idly and as moved quick- stream without support participation in the would consider the single ly ly into the social main- is not, for example, a just tran- just a example, for not, is Energiewende Energiewende movement” the of 1980s. Germany was known as the “alternatives These criticisms have some merit. But the The transition is that it tends to obscure what Many these of folks emergedfrom in what many practitioners within and analysts the of most important fact about sive it:success thatfor social itmovements, is achieved a mas- by a broad coalition that included conserva- tive farmers, urban radicals and concerned middle-class citizens that together made up the antinuclear movement, as wellutopian as visionaries the and, later, entrepreneurs small-scale that constructed the RE sector as their own economic power structure. qualifi ed success story. The gap betweenqualifi the sup-its of somegrand claims by madeoverly porters and reality has no doubt opened up space for its detractors, and the critics have some important points to make. The giewende sition. Jobs in the RE sector are unionized often not and are badly paid and precari-Likeous.manyother ecological policies, the ones supporting the expansion of RE t tend to thebenefi wealthy more than the poor. Last but not least, in a darkly ironic twist, German greenhouse gas emissions have actually gone up, rather than down, since its much-publicizedphase-outnuclearpower of began after the 2011 disaster. Fukushima nuclear downsides can be remedied by reasonablyeasy policy interventions. For example, the increase in emissions comes from more burningcoal. But the electricity thus produced isn’t actually for consumption in Germany, export.for it’s coalA phase-out mirror-law ing the nuclear phase-out would put an end theseto dirty exports. panels in operation. More than 50 percent of this capacity is farmersothersmallholders, ownedand “big the not by individuals, four” companies that control most energy of market. the Around 400,000 jobs have been created in the RE sector over the past decade.Andaccordingresearch re- the to by spected think tank FOES, the transition in fact generates net positive economic effects, once you factor in the societal ts jobs of benefi and incomes and the avoided costs of ecological damage and fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies. consumed or energyor transition is — is the movement-driven and

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From From a political perspective, it is much Some numbers might bet- At the most abstract, technical level, the in Germany came from renewables. There some are 25,000 wind bines and 1.4 tur- million solar BERLIN — Occasionally, peak duringtimes — at noonsay, on a windy, sun- certain ny day — close to 100 percent of tricity all elec- consumed in Germany comes renewable energy from (RE) sources. As most of the governmentsworld’s refuse to act while the threat of climate es, change this intensifi might seem like a desertknownas German— renewables of embrace mirage. But the the concurrently government-supported transition of the German electricity system from one based on large-scalenuclear power plants to fossil a system based fuel on smaller-scale and REsources, particularin wind and2050,Germany solar By power. aims to generate at least 80 percent of its electricity through renewable sources and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, relative to 1990 levels, percent. 80 by 95 to more than that. It is a process some that 35 began years ago, when ordinary started people ghting fi not just againstergy dirty — be en- it nuclear or fossil fuelsalso against — the cen- but tralized structures power dominatetheenergy that sector. Through this process, in turn, they began to reclaim control of their (energetic) future and indeed their present. It is inspiring to witness the and cultural social revival and collective empowerment that communities experience thetheycommitwhen to project of becoming a so-called “BioEnergy Village” or percent-region” “100 and start tively collec- investing in andbuilding RE up infrastructures. ter illustrate the poetry: gure men- fromthe 100percent fi Aside rsttioned halfabove, inof the fi 2014, an average of 30 percent of all electricity By Tadzio Mueller theachievementsocial broad a of movement that dates back more than three decades. 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They change their minds, and they things. other move on to It’s It’s connecting with people who are driv- There have been other moments over the Climate change has gone from being an issueanbeing from Climategone changehas that will affect our grandchildren to a right- now issue. The difference over the past few years is that the climate movement has jetti- of viewsky”the in “eye astronaut’s itssoned shimmeringa blue-and-white againstsetdot darknessthearepeople which in spaceno of visible, and has it come down earth. to basicjustice by demandsen cleanassuchair for their kids and water they can drink. The People’s Climate March will be much more diversegoing be to angrierand it’s than previous climate protests. That anger is allyimportant a andpowerful tool.thinkSo I re- differentseegoinga to we’re kindclimate of movement. It’s already there. 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