A sneak peak at the PM's new climate change ad : Melbourne Indymedia

Dear friends,

An embarrassing leak from the Prime Minister's office! On Sunday, he told the Liberal Party's National Council when it comes to global warming, we've just got to trust him. So to really drive the message home, his new $23 million climate change ad blitz will feature a personal appeal to the nation. GetUp got our hands on an advance copy, and it's pretty unbelievable.

Click the link below to check it out.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/BelieveMe

Okay, busted. The Government's real ad will probably explain why they haven't set any binding targets for reducing greenhouse pollution or increasing our dwindling production of renewable energy.

If you're wondering where this clip really came from, it was submitted by Dominic Allen from Melbourne as part of GetUp's Oz in 30 seconds project - giving Australians the chance to make, vote for and broadcast our own political ads, to show the politicians what we think for a change this election.

If you think Dominic's done a good job, spread the link above to a few friends. If you'd like to see your own message on national television, go one better and make one yourself. New clips are being produced, polished and uploaded right now onto Ozin30seconds.org from around the country. Online voting begins in July, then it's over to our celebrity judges to pick the ultimate winner at a big awards night, August 1 at the Sydney Opera House. Exciting, eh? If you want Australia to see your ad there's still time, but be quick - submissions close 30 June 2007.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/BelieveMe

The GetUp team

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Climate climax

Dear climate-saver,

Our campaign against global warming is on fire! World leaders meet at the G8+5 summit this week--and they're listening to us. Friday morning, we banged boxes of 265,000 names down on the top German negotiator's table in Berlin. Taken aback, he promised to bring our voice into the negotiations, and said he'd track how fast our petition grows. On Saturday, with another 10,000 signatures overnight, we marched at the head of the climate march in Rostock, with tens of thousands peacefully demanding urgent action. Now we're in touch with top officials from France, the UK and Brazil, all following our campaign as they decide on a strong stand.

Let's turn the heat up even higher. Can you help us get to 333,333 voices for change--the biggest global climate petition ever--before the summit decision? One last push, together, to avert a planetary catastrophe. Take a moment and tell five friends to go to this page--

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_summit

The energy here in Germany is electric. Every few hours, new reports come in as governments manoeuvre. Amidst the politics, our campaign draws a clear line: a swift global agreement with binding emissions targets.

When we met with Chancellor Angela Merkel's top representative who chairs the talks, he promised us Germany wouldn't compromise-- then on Sunday Merkel came through for us, the Brits followed suit, and now Brazil and China have joined the call for a global UN-led process. Bush has started to move but his proposals would be a step back, the US people and Congress are already way ahead of him.

The summit leaders can tell a global movement is brewing. Our petition, this simple list of names from every corner of the globe, is a sign politicians can see and touch. These talks always come down to the wire-- so it's crucial for world leaders to know how much the global public wants them to stop the climate crisis.

The summit opens Wednesday, ends Friday. This is crunch time. So just for a moment, put aside whatever you're doing and help us get to a third of a million signatures-- urge your friends and family to sign the petition here:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_summit

We know leaders are watching. Let's make their jaws drop.

With hope,

Ricken, Paul, Ben, Graziela, Iain, Hannah, Galit and the whole Avaaz team

PS: For more information about the G8 summit and the climate change negotiations, see here:
http://www.ft.com/indepth/climatechange

And for more about Avaaz's work on climate change at the G8 see:
http://www.avaaz.org/blog/en/climate_change/

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http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/06/145969.php

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Howard warns against 'change for change's sake'?
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Climate showdown - Bush vs planet
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DemocracyNow! Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Author Paul Hawken interviewed

BLESSED UNREST: HOW THE LARGEST MOVEMENT IN THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING AND WHY NO ONE SAW IT COMING

Environmentalist Paul Hawken has come out with a new book, Blessed Unrest:
How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw
It Coming. Hawken is a best-selling author and one of the leading
architects and proponents of corporate environmental reform.

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AMY GOODMAN: The earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people
who are killing it have names and addresses. The music and words of Utah
Phillips. Thats one of the quotes environmentalist Paul Hawken uses in his
new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into
Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Paul Hawken is a bestselling author,
one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate environmental
reform, joining me now in the firehouse studio. Welcome to Democracy Now!

PAUL HAWKEN: Thank you, Amy.

AMY GOODMAN: That quote from Utah Phillips heads up a chapter called "We
Interrupt this Program," which I think is very much what Blessed Unrest is
about.

PAUL HAWKEN: It actually starts a chapter called "We Interrupt this
Empire."

AMY GOODMAN: Rather, We Interrupt this Empire.

PAUL HAWKEN: Which is what the empire would like to do to your program,
actually. And its really about the rights of business or how business,
basically, rights are unquestioned and continue to be sort of dominant in
this world. The whole book really is about a rise of a movement that is a
shift between a world created by and for privilege to a world created by
community, and it details the rise of over one million organizations in
the world who address civil liberties, social justice and the environment.
And even though theyre atomized and theres many of them and they don't
seem connected, due to modern technology -- cell, texting, internet -- they're starting to intertwine, morph and come together in ways that is
making it much more powerful than it has been before.

AMY GOODMAN: Why do you call it Blessed Unrest?

PAUL HAWKEN: There was a wonderful quote from Martha Graham, and she was
with Agnes de Mille, and theyre both choreographers, of course, and Agnes
de Mille was just really devastated by one of her shows, which had won
awards on Broadway and then collapsed six months later. And she was
bemoaning her fate to Martha Graham, and Martha Graham turned to her and
said, You know, we're artists, and we're never dissatisfied. There is this
queer dissatisfaction that makes us march and makes us more alive than the
other, this blessed unrest. And so, to me, it was a term that had arms big
enough to hold this vast and complex and diverse movement that is trying
to restore justice and the environment in the world.

AMY GOODMAN: You talk about a turning point being the anti-corporate
globalization movement and Seattle, the Battle of Seattle.

PAUL HAWKEN: Well, it was for me. Before that, I had been interested in
counting the number of actors -- that is to say, the number of
organizations in the world that existed -- and was so doing. In Seattle, I
went there, and you we're there. I remember meeting you. And I was there
not to write. I was there actually just to sit my butt on the street and
did so. And when I left, I went back to Washington, D.C., to give a talk,
and I read the Post and the New York and LA Times, and I was just appalled
at the coverage. The people writing about it weren't even there -- Tom
Friedman. They were writing about it from New York. And so, I wrote a
piece called N30.

AMY GOODMAN: N30 -- November 30th.

PAUL HAWKEN: Yeah, November 30. And what I was saying is that basically
the economic fundamentalism had been belled -- you know, the cat of
economic fundamentalism had been belled in Seattle. In other words, you
could no longer, from that point on, move or go anywhere in the world
without being, in a sense, addressed by the missing stakeholders to a very
anti-democratic process.

But in the process of researching it, what I discovered was that the
organizational methodology used, which so frustrated the sheriff's
department, the King County Sheriffs Department, and the Seattle Police,
was really a Mayan organizational scheme that had been first used in the
encuentras in 92 in Quito, Ecuador, when the First Peoples of North, Meso-
and South America had first met since the conquest. And I realized that
not only was this movement large, but there was these very interesting
connections occurring across border, across culture, spreading around the
world, in terms of how to, in a sense, address power.

AMY GOODMAN: That time, the Battle of Seattle, was under the Clinton era.
He had to come in, fly in, in the middle of the night, because of the
massive unrest. His trade rep, Charlene Barshefsky, holed up in the hotel,
but even she couldnt get away from the teargas that was coming under her
door.

PAUL HAWKEN: Right.

AMY GOODMAN: This was the Clinton era.

PAUL HAWKEN: Exactly. Theres an irony to this, which I havent told,
because I had forgotten. I was on [inaudible], and they were talking and
said, Oh, the last time we saw you was when you came into our offices
shivering, because you were all wet and you had been pepper-sprayed with
tear-gassed. And I said, Yeah, I remember that. And what happened is, I
stripped my clothes, I went into the shower, took a shower, found
somebodys t-shirt, put a towel on, and the phone rang. And it was
President Clinton. And he called to ask what he should say the next day
when he came into town. And I was going, alalalalalala, because pepper
spray just -- it freezes you, actually. It makes you so cold. And it was
so interesting for him to come in, because that was really the end of this
fantasy that he and Charlene Barshefsky had about American dominance. I
mean, it was over in one day.

AMY GOODMAN: What did you tell him he should say, and did he follow your
directions?

PAUL HAWKEN: I told him to not pander, that he has been pandering; that he
should tell the truth; and the fact is that it was a flawed process, and a
flawed process needed to be rethought, and if it wasn't rethought, then
this is going to repeat itself again and again; and that to do what his
minions were doing, which is to somehow marginalize and to assign or
ascribe to the motivations of the people who were acting on the street,
that somehow they were, in Tom Friedmans words, you know, sort of
blue-eyed activists getting their 1960s fix, was really a vast misreading
of the unrest that existed in the world against trade policy.

AMY GOODMAN: But wasn't it more than words? I mean, President Clinton,
Vice President Gore, they were the ones that championed NAFTA. They were
the ones that really, with their strong-arm tactics in Congress, a
Congress that would not have passed NAFTA, but offering them everything
they could to their districts, ultimately won this tremendous battle for
their version of what should happen with trade. So WTO followed that and,
I think, built the movement.

PAUL HAWKEN: Very much so, and it was a part of a larger Democratic Party
strategy to become a centrist party that brought in business interests and
therefore would marginalize Republicans. And we saw how well that worked.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, what about President Bush and where he has taken this,
the Clinton administration laying the groundwork, and Bush taking off from
there?

PAUL HAWKEN: Well, what can you say about an administration that is
basically proto-fascist? I mean, essentially what we're seeing with
Blessed Unrest, what it really represents is that this rise of
non-governmental organizations -- and we do, again, talk about these
organizations, these social benefit organizations, in the negative -- non-profits, non-governmental -- but on the non-governmental side, there
is a non-government. Its in Washington, D.C. And the rise of NGOs is to
address the vacuum of leadership that exists in the world that cannot and
is not addressing the salient issues of our time, which is war, which is
water, which is poverty, which is climate change, which is economic
inequality, and all the suffering and harm that follows from that. So the
rise of NGOs is really a direct comment on the collapse of the legitimacy
and the effectiveness of governments all over the world.

AMY GOODMAN: What about the issue of communicating with people around the
world, how this movement that you call in the subtitle the largest
movement in the world came into being, and why no one saw it coming?

PAUL HAWKEN: Well, one of the things weve done at my institute is we've
created a website called wiserearth.org precisely to create, in a sense,
an information commons for this unnamed movement that is also the
fastest-growing movement in the world, and where you can put in your
organization profiles, events and so forth, and a website, Democracy Now!
or any other, can sit right on top of the data and pull it up, so that
we're trying to create more or less something that feeds these NGOs and
the ability for them to recognize, contact, connect and collaborate or
coalesce in different ways. That is missing right now.

AMY GOODMAN: You have a chapter called -- do you pronounce it Indigene?

PAUL HAWKEN: Indigene, yes.

AMY GOODMAN: Talk about it.

PAUL HAWKEN: Well, I spent years reading about indigenous literature, not
the literature that they wrote, so much as the literature that we wrote,
and to try to bridge, if you will, the gap between the Anglo or the
Western understanding of indigenous culture and ours. And one of the
things that really fascinated me was really the Yamana people in Patagonia
and Terra del Fuego that have been studied and killed and bothered by so
many people for so long. And this is a Neolithic tribe that went naked,
had seal blubber on, that was considered to be bestial by Drake, and
Darwin was so appalled by them that he considered them to be the lowest
form of human life.

And lo and behold, somebody came there and did a dictionary and found out
that these primitive people had a vocabulary -- one couple had a
vocabulary that exceeded Shakespeare's by 50%, that they knew 30,000
words, which is almost close to Japanese, that they had more verbs than
English, and that in this language, which was made into a dictionary,
which is in the British library, is this exquisite language of place, this
exquisite language of local science, where cosmology and women's issues
and science and culture are all finely integrated into one vocabulary, one
set of words, and where they had metaphors for depression, which is a crab
molting its shell, but it hasnt come off yet -- this exquisite, beautiful
language.

And I use that as a way to talk about the fact that theres 5,000
indigenous cultures now that are sitting on the last remaining sanctuaries
of uranium, of coal, of oil, of timber, of water, and that there is an
enormous move now by corporations -- and I list the corporations -- who
are basically by disobeying the law, by corrupting governments, by paying
off people, by creating false plebiscites, are going into these
sanctuaries to exploit resources.

AMY GOODMAN: Paul Hawken, you come to this from an unusual vantage point,
both as an outsider and an insider. You're an entrepreneur. Youre a
consultant for corporations, from Monsanto on. What perspective do you
have on these companies, as you say, looking at what they're doing now?
Youve talked to -- I mean, you have President Clinton calling you. Youre
sitting with the CEOs.

PAUL HAWKEN: Well, with respect to Monsanto, they asked me what to do, and
I told them what to do, and they didnt do it. And I said --

AMY GOODMAN: Which was what?

PAUL HAWKEN: Don't do GMOs. Just disaster -- and so, I wouldnt call it a
consultant so much as an opinion, advice, and they didnt take it. But in
terms of CEOs, I do know them. And what I do know, in the last twenty
months -- I don't know why they call me, because Im very outspoken in my
criticism. So for them to call me means that theyre desperate. And in the
last twenty to twenty-four months, the conversations have changed, which
is, it used to be they would call and say, "How do we get this monkey off
our back? How do we deal with this problem? Now, they're calling and
saying, What do we do about the problem? We means we, it means everybody.
It doesnt mean the corporation. It means we have a problem, and there is
that recognition now. And that is a big sea change.

I think its been brought about by Katrina and climate change. I think the
Gore movie made it OK to talk about it. I don't think it was the cause so
much as it legitimized it as a conversational thing that, you know, white
charismatic vertebrates could have in conferences with other CEOs. But I
do think that there is a real change, that that is, they can see the
whites of the eyes of the enemy, and the enemy is themselves. And
themselves is their business practices, carbon, how the supply chains,
what they make, how they make it, and the future. And there is an
awakening here.

AMY GOODMAN: You say there will be no Berlin Wall moment.

PAUL HAWKEN: Absolutely not. We had this fantasy that somehow the powers
that be can meet somewhere, agree, sign something, and that its all going
to change. But the forces that have been unleashed, the feedback loops in
the environment, require participation from everybody in the world in
order to make a change thats going to be effective. And we certainly need
the participation of corporations, but that in itself is not enough. Its
going to take all of us. I mean, its going to be the stroke of midnight
for the rest of our lives in this century, and we just have to cop to
that.

And that means two things: we can either separate, become more violent, we
can, you know, shrink into our bastions of ignorance, or like what we do
in an emergency, in an accident, is really reach out to other and open
ourselves up other and realize that the distinctions we make about what
separates us are really unimportant, and what unites us are values which
are universal and common and have existed here for thousands of years.

AMY GOODMAN: You head today from New York to the Carter Presidential
Library in Atlanta. I want to thank you very much for being with us, Paul
Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, author. His new book is called
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and
Why No One Saw It Coming. Thanks for joining us.

PAUL HAWKEN: Thank you.