{"id":8443,"date":"2015-11-09T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:41:25","slug":"whats-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/11\/09\/whats-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s happening?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ClimateGames-meme-e1444227629407\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change<\/a>,\u00a0is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask?<\/p>\n

1) The Campaign Against Climate Change<\/a>‘s\u00a0Time to Act!<\/a>\u00a0campaign, 350.org<\/a>, Reclaim Power<\/a>, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge\u00a0demonstration in Paris on its last day,\u00a0December 12.<\/p>\n

2) The\u00a0Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination<\/a>,\u00a0which had been responsible for some creative<\/a> disruptions at the Copenhagen climate summit and whose previous involvements include instigating the\u00a0Reclaim the Streets<\/a>\u00a0movement,\u00a0have announced<\/a> the\u00a0creation<\/a>\u00a0of The Climate Games<\/a>, a video game styled “Disobedient Action Adventure Game” to take place in the streets of Paris and around the world during the final days\u00a0of\u00a0the summit.<\/p>\n

3) Adbusters<\/a>, which had initiated the call that led to the Occupy Wall Street protests, have called for a Billion People March<\/a> to take to the streets<\/a> of the planet on December 19, a week after the\u00a0conclusion of the conference.<\/p>\n

And there are various other things in motion, like this<\/a> and\u00a0this<\/a> and\u00a0this<\/a> and this<\/a>\u00a0and this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And yet… As of today, a Google search for the two terms associated with #’s 2 and 3\u00a0above — “billion people march” AND\u00a0“climate games” — results in only a single page. (Has anyone ever searched for something that only resulted in… a single page??) What gives?<\/p>\n

Is it just that Adbusters, and perhaps to\u00a0some\u00a0extent The Climate Games, are just johnny-come-latelies to the Paris climate scene? Somehow I don’t see a billion people marching without more communication about it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change,\u00a0is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask? 1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s\u00a0Time to Act!\u00a0campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge\u00a0demonstration in Paris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[520594,196,691215],"tags":[25072,123672,123671,399,123669,123670],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-politics","category-ecoculture","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-adbusters","tag-billion-people-march","tag-climate-games","tag-climate-justice","tag-cop-21","tag-paris-climate-summit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2cb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8472,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/11\/19\/the-climate-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":8443,"position":0},"title":"The climate connection","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"November 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"How connected are the recent Paris attacks\u00a0with the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)? 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