Thursday, December 7, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 PM At this week's huddle, we'll metabolize the Dec 6 webinar, "Not Just Cop City, Issues at the Heart of the Movement" webinar series. We'll also review what we've done, who's doing what, and what's coming up to Stop Cop City. Join us to get activated or to jump back in. Unitarian Universalists.
The whole thing may appear to be an exercise in futility, but there is a point why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom.
It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if the price of doing so is the death of over 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza?
The USA dominates the COP28 summit in UAE (28th year of "talking" about climate change) . The US ($23 trillion economy/GDP - the biggest contributor to climate change causing greenhouse gases) pledged a tokenism of $17 million (!) to help developing countries "adapt" and "mitigate" climate change while pledging $14.3 billion in weapons to Israel (in addition to billions more already given) and hundreds of billions to the US military. Note that the US and Israeli militaries are the biggest polluters of the environment which is producing millions of climate refugees. This is HYPOCRISY. The problem with COP28 is the problem of the previous 27 COPs: they are meetings of government officials beholden to lobbies and lobbyists for the biggest polluters (2400 lobbyists attending this year'*). If anything the quality of these participating officials (environmental ministers etc) has gotten worse. As Greta Thunberg said, they go 'bla bla bla" while our world is being destroyed. While there were attempts to challenge the US hegemony with groups like BRICS and ASEAN, the Us still
Covert, Michigan and Washington, D.C., December 6, 2023--A coalition of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future, has submitted
