Posted on: September 24th, 2014 by bfcomau 2 Comments
Dear Amazing Avaazers,Months ago, our community decided on a crazy goal – the largest mobilisation on climate change in history. Yesterday, we blew past our wildest expectations, with a climate march *6 times* the size of anything before it!!! This was 80 city blocks of New York:
And this was London, Berlin, Bogota, Paris, Delhi, and Melbourne…
Over 675,000 of us marched around the world. It was a beautiful expression of our love for all that climate change threatens, and our hope that we can save this world and build a society powered by 100% safe, clean energy. Click to see more pictures from the day:
Together, we made history, but it’s just the beginning. The crucial Paris climate summit is 15 months from now — that’s where we need a global deal. By March next year, countries have pledged to make their national commitments — so our movement will divide to focus on these national targets. But every few months until Paris we’ll come together globally again and again, bigger and bigger, to beat a drum for change, for 100% clean energy, that our leaders can only follow. The movement we’ve been waiting for has begun.
With gratitude,
Ricken, Emma, Alice, Iain, Nataliya, Patri, Oliver, Diego, Rewan and the whole Avaaz team
PS – We worked with thousands of organisations to make this day happen and particularly love our friends at 350. But our community deserves to celebrate the step we’ve taken. The Avaaz team and community played a central role in almost all the marches and events held. The Guardian called it “an organising triumph” for Avaaz and the BBC said “the marches brought more people on to the streets than ever before, thanks to the organisational power of the social media site Avaaz.” We fielded hundreds of organisers and thousands of volunteers, and donations from our community provided millions in funding to the effort. The challenges of our time call us to be better, and together we’ve done that, growing and changing into a new and more effective kind of movement, a movement that is now both online, and offline. Huge gratitude to everyone who made it happen.
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Posted on: September 12th, 2014 by bfcomau 1 Comment
Hello Everyone
Can you believe it? With the clock ticking until a final decision on the fate of Australian solar, the government is persisting with its attempt to cut or axe the Renewable Energy Target. The Coalition is trying to get Labor to negotiate even though the Target has overwhelming community support – in fact, 82% of Australians want the Target with no changes according to a new poll*.
We know the Coalition party room is under pressure as MPs are starting to feel the heat. That’s because they’ve heard from their local communities – the tens of thousands of petition signatures, handwritten letters and emails they’ve received over the last few weeks from Solar Citizens like you and me. Together, our efforts in asking them to protect the Target has meant they’re paying attention. But with only weeks until a final decision, it’s time to intensify our efforts.
The government knows that it’s increasingly isolated and this week it tried to reach out to Labor to form a compromise on the Target but Labor has rejected its advances so far. We need to make sure that the opposition continues to stand strong and doesn’t compromise our solar future, and we need to make sure that the government makes the decision that Australians want it to – to protect the Target entirely.
The future of Aussie solar is on the line right now and every conversation in the next four weeks will make all the difference. Meeting your local member is crucial because when the major parties sit in their party rooms making a decision they’ll know that solar voters will be watching if the Target is cut.
Meeting your MP is the most important thing you can do right now to protect the Renewable Energy Target – will you join others across the country and organise a meeting with your local member?
Meeting your MP may seem a bit daunting but it’s easier than you think – after all, your MP’s job is to listen to you! When you pledge to visit your MP, we’ll email you a step-by-step guide to have a successful meeting – from making the appointment to having the conversation with your representative.
Solar Citizens volunteer Peter from Sydney met his local member Coalition MP John Alexander earlier this week with two other solar supporters. Peter told us:
“The event was far less daunting than we expected, and we came away with the impression that we had successfully made the points required. We may even have influenced what he would say in party meetings. We are already planning another session!”
Will you join Solar Citizens like Peter and arrange a meeting with your local MP to ask them to pledge to protect solar and the Renewable Energy Target?
Spring is finally here and for our politicians it’s Time to Shine and protect solar. We need to make one big push and tell our MPs in our local communities, whether Coalition, Labor, Greens or Independent, to do what’s right for the Renewable Energy Target. So join us and make your pledge to visit your MP today!
Yours for a sunny future,
Claire, Campaigns Director
PS. Two weeks ago Solar Citizens in Canberra handed over the Keep Solar Strong Petition signed by over 25,000 Australians to the government calling on them to protect the Renewable Energy Target. Watch the video below to see all the action from the day then help us continue our efforts and pledge to meet your MP to ask them to Keep Solar Strong.
Solar Citizens is working to protect the rights of million of Australian solar owners to cut bills, create cleaner power and take energy generation back into our own hands. You can also keep up with Solar Citizens on Twitter or like us on Facebook.
Posted on: September 10th, 2014 by bfcomau 4 Comments
Historic Movement to Save Our Planet! Let’s make it epic!
In days, when the UN holds an emergency summit on climate change, we need to deliver the largest petition ever for a world powered by 100% clean energy. The petition number will be read out to every world leader at the summit!
Sign the petition AT CENTRE with one click!
Thank you for joining this historic movement to save our planet. Now let’s make it epic by telling all our friends and family to sign so we reach 3 million signatures before world leaders meet on September 23.
Dear Friends,
I can sincerely say this is the most important petition we’ve ever done.
Sorry for the language, but one top scientist just warned that we are all “f*cked” if global warming releases gigantic amounts of methane gas from the arctic tundra. The UN knows this is one of several catastrophic climate threats we’re facing, and is bringing world leaders to New York for a major summit on this global emergency.
Hundreds of thousands of us will take to the streets for the People’s Climate March just before the summit. Let’s make sure that on that day we deliver the largest Avaaz petition ever, for the only solution: mobilize the world to shift to 100% clean energy. Add your voice, and forward this widely:
Whether it’s the ‘arctic methane bomb’, the rapid acidification of our oceans, or apocalyptic flooding, climate change is the biggest threat humanity is facing, and we need the biggest petition ever to meet it. If we make it massive, the number of us who sign will be read out to all leaders at the summit, published in hundreds of media articles, and be delivered by our marches worldwide.
100% clean energy is a realistic goal. Already, 20% of the world’s electricity comes from clean energy, and solar power is cheaper than coal in many countries! We just need to get our leaders to agree to put their foot on the accelerator.
We’re gearing up for the largest climate mobilization in history on September 21. Already hundreds of events are organised and hundreds of thousands of people signed up. But the events are designed to deliver our petition to decision makers. Let’s make it the largest call to action ever. Join now and tell everyone – sign the petition below:
We’re all different, and beautifully diverse. But whoever and wherever we are, climate change threatens everything we love, and brings all of us together. Let’s come together now.
With hope,
Ricken, Danny, Lisa, Judy, Alex, Iain, and the rest of the Avaaz team
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Beautiful Words, from a Beautiful Lady…I will practice this more often , Thankyou Cari
“Placing our focus and attention on what we LOVE instead of draining ourselves and our spirits by resisting or fighting against what we fear or perceive to be “wrong” is the direct pathway to inner harmony, personal liberation of the soul, and gentle, purposeFULL expansion. We are far more productive, creative, beneficial, and of service to ourselves and the world when we add to and amplify the frequencies of love, abundance, joy, radiance, vitality, gratitude and harmony by consciously selecting where we place our attention and focus. The world needs you to shine your beautiful light and add to rather than diminish the overall collective light available to us ALL.
Thank you for playing your significant melody in the cosmic symphony.
You matter. You make a profound difference.”
#love #empowerment #soul #spirit #success #inspiraton #positivevibrations #light
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Posted on: September 6th, 2014 by bfcomau 4 Comments
“The billionaire Indian magnate planning to ship millions of tonnes of coal through the Great Barrier Reef is facing accusations of massive exploitation of his Indian workforce – including underpayments and exposing them to cholera.” – The Age, 5 September 2014
Hey ,
On the front page today, The Age exposed Adani for what it is. A ruthless, greedy operator with an atrocious human rights and environmental record.
On one side, gifts of silver and crystal are lavished upon Australian politicians. On the other, The Age reports that Adani pays a twelve year old boy $2.60 per day to work on a construction site for twelve hours, six days a week. It’s reported employees are paid below minimum wage, have no legal protections and have no access to toilets, meaning breakouts of cholera are common.1
Adani built a coal port in India without proper environmental approvals, displacing local villagers and destroying conservation areas.2 Unbelievably, the Australian government is trusting this company to build the world’s biggest coal port on our Great Barrier Reef.
There’s one hitch though. Adani can’t start building until they borrow around $10 billion and right now, Australia’s Big Four banks are the frontrunners to give it to them.
That’s right. Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, and ANZ are considered the banks most likely to finance Adani’s Abbot Point and its mines. This means financing dredging, it means financing thousands of coal ships through the Reef, and it means trusting Adani to do it. But the Big 4 banks are financed by Australians — with our deposits and our loans — so they have to listen to us.
That’s why GetUp members are asking the Big 4 not to fund Abbot Point or the mines that feed them, and we’re not going away until they do. Click here to get started.
Right now Adani is desperately searching for the billions it needs, and it’s already floundering. GetUp members have exposed its documented history of environmental destruction and corruption, and made national headlines doing so. Now, major international investors like Deutsche Bank can’t walk away fast enough.
Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and ANZ all have long histories of investing in big coal projects, many of them have even funded other ports along the Reef coastline. But now, for the first time, even the economics are on our side. With India and China rapidly moving towards renewable energy and away from imported coal, these monstrous developments may not ever turn a profit. 3
Without support from the Australian Banks, there’s a great chance Adani’s disastrous project will never happen. We’re going use everything we’ve got. Can you join the campaign? Here’s what we’re in for:
Together, we represent hundreds of thousands of the Big 4’s customers. Let’s find out exactly how many of their customers we are, and the awesome power we have the potential to wield. Show your bank that you won’t stand for this by signing this petition and let us know which bank you’re holding to account.
Let’s show the banks who we are: a large, diverse, passionate group of Australians from all walks of life coming together to protect our Reef. With phone calls, emails and over social media, we’ll show the banks an unequivocal, overwhelming display of encouragement to do the right thing. Most of us have been with one of these banks our whole lives and have a long standing relationship with them. If we raise our concerns in huge numbers, they’ll be left with no choice but to listen.
Once people find out about the threats to the Reef, they want to be a part of the solution, and branch managers are no different. That’s why we’ll reach out to as many branch managers as we can. We’ll empower them with great information about the threats of the development, and the financial risk posed by investing with dodgy companies like Adani. When GetUp members convinced ANZ Bank not to fund the GUNNS pulp mill in Tasmania, engaging branch managers played a major part.
Full-page ads, billboards, TV ads. Nothing is out of the question. It’s crucial we make it clear to CEOs that funding these projects means funding the destruction of the Reef. If we do this right, this could be a game changer for the way big banks invest our money. If they want to invest our money on destructive projects like this, they know we’ll be there to hold them accountable.
If you were a CEO, what would scare you more than knowing streams of lifelong customers were about to walk out the door? If the banks still won’t do rule out funding Abbot Point after all this campaigning, we’ll set them a deadline. We’ll pick a date, and let each bank know that if they haven’t committed to doing the right thing by then, we’ll take our money out of their banks en masse.
The GetUp movement is incredible, and together we’ve had some pretty amazing wins. But this time, we’re not going it alone. We’re working with Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace Asia Pacific, SumOfUs, AYCC, 350 .org, and Birdlife Australia. Our groups represent over 2.2 million Australians, all committed to protecting our Reef. Together, we won’t stop until we’ve won.
Earlier this year, you worked with groups in Germany and convinced Deutsche Bank to walk away from Adani and Abbot Point, after an incredible fundraising effort and a full page ad in the Financial Times of Europe. Then you joined campaigns targeting Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, taking your tally to three major international banks to turn their backs on the project.
Now, it’s time for our Big 4 Australian Banks to follow suit.
Convincing these banks to rule our these projects won’t be easy, nor is it likely to happen quickly. But together, between this incredible community of GetUp members and the alliance all around the country, we might just have what it takes.
GetUp is an independent, not-for-profit community campaigning group. We use new technology to empower Australians to have their say on important national issues. We receive no political party or government funding, and every campaign we run is entirely supported by voluntary donations. If you’d like to contribute to help fund GetUp’s work, please donate now! If you have trouble with any links in this email, please go directly to www.getup.org.au. GetUp has recently updated our Privacy Policy, to read the policy go to: www.getup.org.au/about/privacy-policy. To unsubscribe from GetUp, please click here. Authorised by Sam Mclean, Level 2, 104 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010.
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[1] Concerns at Barrier Reef contractor’s humanitarian, environment record. The Age. September 5, 2014.
[2] Site visit to M/s Mundra Port and SEZ Limited Port site at Mundra and M/s OPG
Power Gujarat Private Limited. 6th December 2010. Available here
[3] $16 Billion Carmichael Mine “Fundamentally Unprofitable, Unviable” Says Finance Analyst. Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. 6 May 2014
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