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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 556: G20 SUMMIT: UNDER THE SHADOW OF OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Comment & analysis, 3. Advocacy & campaigns, 4. African Writers’ Corner /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Highlights from this issue Please accept our apologies for technical hitches with last week's special issue on the Durban climate change conference, which meant readers of our newsletter missed out on three articles. We've included these today - Brian Muphy's 'Environmental justice: Putting the poor first' (in Features), a statement from African CSOs 'Stand up for Africa! Stand up for climate justice!' and a rallying cry for the 'Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice' (both of which you'll find in Advocacy and Campaigns). The editors /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features G20 SUMMIT: UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT Can China save decrepit capitalism in Europe? Horace Campbell As the global financial crisis deepens, China needs to reflect on 'what kind of international system can minimise war and break the power of the top one per cent', writes Horace Campbell. It should see the Occupy Wall Street movement ‘not as a challenge, but as an asset in the fight for social justice and democracy internationally.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77741 ****** AFTER THE TUNISIAN ELECTION WHAT NEXT? Samir Amin It is too early to predict the future of democracy in Tunisia, writes Samir Amin, but ‘only the rapid crystallisation of a radical left wing, going well beyond the demand for proper elections, can allow the resumption of a struggle for a change worthy of its name’. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77637 ****** UNDERSTANDING TUNISIA’S ELECTIONS RESULTS Esam Al-Amin The Islamically-oriented Ennahdha movement won the elections in Tunisia with a commanding 42 per cent of the vote. How will Western political leaders, long prone to influence by Islamophobic voices, respond? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77632 ****** ALL OCCUPIERS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME OCCUPIERS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS Critical reflections on #OccupyCapeTown Jared Sacks Jared Sacks attended an Occupy Cape Town event on 15 October and found 'a huge theoretical gulf between the lived experience of those whose voices are invisible and the liberal white activists who proclaim that we are all, in fact, the same'. He writes that: 'It is about time that white male activists who sincerely want to dismantle oppression, begin to take seriously the voices of the oppressed from within the 99 per cent.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77636 ****** EGYPT: ORGANISING FOR NO MILITARY TRIALS FOR CIVILIANS Interview with Egyptian activist Shahira Abouellail Lillian Boctor As interim rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), step up the use of military trials to stifle dissent and create a climate of fear among Egyptians, Lillian Boctor speaks to activist Shahira Abouellail ( http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/556/Pambazuka_Shahira_Abouellail_Interview.mp3 ) [MP3 - 12.2MB], a founder of the group No Military Trials for Civilians, set up to resist and condemn SCAF’s actions, about the recent events in Egypt. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77739 ****** LIBYA RECOLONISED Aijaz Ahmad Libya is the first country that the Euro-American consortium has invaded exclusively on the pretext of human rights violations, writes Aijaz Ahmad. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77662 ****** NORTH AFRICA: UPRISINGS, USURPERS AND IMPERIAL ADVENTURES Walter Turner speaks with Firoze Manji and Ibrahim Abdullah Walter Turner speaks to Firoze Manji ( http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/74685 ) , editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News on Berkelely radio station KPFA's Africa Today, with a focus on developments in North Africa and Libya. The programme also features a conversation with Sierra Leone-based Ibrahim Abdullah on the Arab Spring and the militarisation of Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77664 ****** PAN-AFRICANISTS MUST STOP THE SECOND BERLIN RAPE OF AFRICA Motsoko Pheko Imperialism is alive and well, and the Libyan invasion by Western forces is the latest example, writes Motsoko Pheko. Only a united Africa protecting and defending the interests of her own people collectively can defeat imperialists. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77638 ****** THE FALLING KENYAN SHILLING: WHAT IS BEHIND IT? Charles Abugre Charles Abugre explores the links between extreme financial deregulation, rising social inequalities and the falling Kenyan shilling. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77660 ****** UN IN HAITI: KEEPING THE PEACE OR CONSPIRING AGAINST IT? Deepa Panchang The UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti is seen by the local people as having a geopolitical agenda which harms the interests of the citizens, writes Deepa Panchang. Various civil society groups continue to call for withdrawal of the mission. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77635 ****** AFRICA AND THE POVERTY IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION Christopher Zambakari Africa ‘must first take hold of the intellectual battle before it can wage a physical battle against violence and poverty and all other problems’ that it currently faces, argues Christopher Zambakari. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77655 ****** CHANGE A BULB, PLANT A TREE… NOT ENOUGH For deconscientised Durban, a month until climate wake-up call Patrick Bond Patrick Bond argues that there is a desperate need to connect the dots between genuine local grievances and insensitive government climate politics so as to solve the problems from both below, in the wretched townships, and above. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77633 ****** CONTESTING A ‘JUST TRANSITION TO A LOW CARBON ECONOMY’ Jacklyn Cock The ‘transition to a low carbon or green economy has massive implications for labour.’ Jacklyn Cock takes a look at the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ response. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77752 ****** ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: PUTTING THE POOR FIRST Brian K. Murphy ‘To take seriously the cause of the environment, including the issue of climate change, requires that we first take seriously the cause of justice itself,’ argues Brian K. Murphy. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77647 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Comment & analysis WORLD BANK PARTNERS WITH NESTLÉ TO ‘TRANSFORM WATER SECTOR’ New venture aims to privatise water country by country Corporate Accountability International The World Bank's new partnership with corporations aimed at transforming the water sector is 'part of a broader trend of industry collusion to influence global water policy', writes Corporate Accountability International. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/77639 ****** ZIMBABWEAN DIAMOND WORKERS TREATED NO DIFFERENT TO PRISONERS Khadija Sharife Earlier this week, Kimberley Process experts meeting in Congo agreed to allow Zimbabwe to sell diamonds from the controversial Marange fields. Khadija Sharife writes about documents which reveal the conditions that Zimbabwean diamond miners operate under. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/77644 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Advocacy & campaigns GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE ‘Governments meeting at this year’s UN Climate Conference in Durban must end years of delay and meet their moral, historical and legal obligations,’ a group of movements and organisations have said, in the lead-up to a Week of Global Actions for Climate Justice from 20-26 November. ‘In the year ahead, our solidarity and collective action is extremely crucial. Climate change is already having devastating impacts globally and is accelerating. The window for preventing the breach of tipping points and stopping climate catastrophe is rapidly closing.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77738 ****** STAND UP FOR AFRICA! STAND UP FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE! Deeply concerned by the threats posed by climate change and continued government inaction in the face of these threats, civil society representatives from across Africa have issued a statement calling on leaders and people all over the world to ensure outcomes from the Durban climate change conference that help ‘to keep Africans and all peoples safe’ from ‘the growing threat’ the climate crisis poses. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77737 ****** STOP IMMINENT LAND GRAB THAT THREATENS OVER 162,000 PEOPLE Oakland Institute As industrial agricultural corporation AgriSol Energy sets it sights on 800,000 acres (325,000 hectares) of land in Tanzania that is home to 162,000 people, the Oakland Institute continues its call for people to urge the company, other investors and the government to step away from the project. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77640 ****** CARIBBEAN PEOPLE’S RESOLUTION ON THE CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST LIBYA All nations, governments and people who ‘believe in the concepts of international law and morality’ should ‘forcibly register a strong and profound protest against the manner in which the operative principles of the United Nations and the fundamental precepts of international law were flouted and desecrated by the powerful nations of France, Britain and the United States of America (and their NATO allies) in their actions against the people, government and nation of Libya’ over the period of February to October 2011. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77663 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 African Writers’ Corner TUNISIAN FIRE devorah major For Mohammed Bouaz, the vegetable seller who set himself on fire December 17, 2010 in the Tunisian city of SidiBouZid. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/77661 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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