
Despite years and months of intense advocacy and organizing, whole nations and masses of people are facing increased possibilities of drowning, burning and/or starving to extinction. All the progressive forces we have met – inside and outside of the governments – have told us how determined they are to continue our generation’s mandate to reclaim the power from the selfish polluters who threaten the survival of all of us.
Tags:
350.org,
African Liberation Support Committee,
ALBA (Bolivarian Alternatives for the Americas),
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Bella Center,
Bill McKibben,
carbon dioxide,
Copenhagen Accord,
Damu Smith,
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X),
emissions,
French President Nicholas Sarkozy,
global warming,
Greenpeace,
holocaust,
Ian Fry,
Kumi Naidoo,
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA),
polluters,
President Barack Obama,
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives,
Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen of Denmark,
reparations,
Sudan Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping,
Tuvalu,
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon,
United Nations’ Conference of Parties (COP 15) Climate Change Meetings

We now know where a lot of coltan and cassiterite stolen from Congo go, in the end. They go to Ghana and other parts of Africa as toxic electronic waste, often disguised as charity: European and North American “contributions” of worn-out, broken, no longer fashionable tech garbage.
Tags:
Ann Garrison,
cassiterite,
coltan,
conflict minerals,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Greenpeace,
North Kivu Province,
President Barack Obama,
Rwanda,
Rwandan President Paul Kagame,
toxic electronic waste,
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM),
U.S. Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward