1. Calling for systems change not climate change.
2. Creating our own Home Grown Solutions.
3. Cross-collaborating and building unity between social movements.
4. Leveraging Social Media and Alternative media to build our base, speak truth to power, and to stay united.
5. Fighting for our civil liberties as part of our ongoing fight for global justice.
1. Maintaining the status quo of unsustainable economic growth, poverty, climate change, and the exploitation of people and global ecosystems.
2. Utilizing police violence to repress critical voices of dissent
3. Silencing of civil society through mainstream media’s biased and misinformed coverage of the G20 weekend.
4. Spending almost 2 billion dollars on the G8G20 summit, continued annual subsidies of approximately 500 billion dollars to fossil fuel industries, and no talk of the 141 billion dollars per year they owe in climate debt.
5. Undermining existing democratic platforms for critical decision making on economic policies that will impact our futures.
The Sierra Youth Coalition is currently hiring a National Director as well as Regional Action Coordinators. Visit http://www.syc-cjs.org/work-syc.
La Coalition jeunesse Sierra recherche presentment un(e) Directeur(trice) national(e) et aussi les Coordinatrices(teurs) d'action régionales. Rendez vous à http://www.syc-cjs.org/fr/emploi.
Check out Tides Canada's 2009 Annual Report - it highlights all kinds of exciting work that's going on in Canada's environmental and social justice community - including a big feature on CYCC!
ELLE Project Leadership Training
October 24th – 31st, 2010
Do you know a young woman between 16-25 years of age who gets fired up about
the issues, is an emerging or active leader who would like to hone her
skills and meet other youths from across Canada? Invite her to register for
the ELLE Project! This leadership training unites 20 young women to learn
new skills, find mentors and have fun. Activities and workshops include how
to: find your voice, organize, engage communities, create multi-media,
develop projects, change policies and influence the world! (No income
barriers! This 7-day training is FREE, transportation and accomodations
included!)
The second annual EcoMentors Conference will take place at George Brown College in Toronto on August 28th. The conference is an exciting, interactive and FREE day of environmental workshops and training activities for youth across Ontario. CYCC will be there, and we hope to see you there as well. Highlights include
· FREE registration for all youth (ages 15 -24)
· Travel support for participants over 18 (limited time offer)
· Keynote address by Simon Jackson, Spirit Bear Youth Coalition Founder
· Choice of over 14 environmental workshops
· Plus, earn cool green rewards, EcoMentors certification and volunteer hours
Kimia Ghomeshi has been tirelessly working with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition for the last year - first as our Campaigns Coordinator and then as our G20 Campaign Coordinator. Throughout that time she has played a pivotal role in Power Shift Canada, the Canadian Youth Delegation to Copenhagen, the G8/G20 Campaign, the Green Jobs Campaign, and to CYCC as a whole. We could not have done the work we have in the last year without her. She will be greatly missed and we wish her every joy and success in the future.
The G8G20 Mobilization, Unplugged
The economies of the G8 and G20 nations represent over 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and are historically responsible for bringing the world to the brink of climate chaos. Canada bears a climate debt of at least $8 billion per year to communities in the global south, communities of colour and Indigenous communities here in North America, while collectively the G8 owes $141 billion per year in climate debt to the global south.
Already an un-democratic and illegitimate forum for negotiating around climate change, the G8 and G20 nations further displayed their desire to pursue their own climate agenda – the treaty of failure known as the Copenhagen Accord – in absence of the voices of the global south, indigenous peoples, and civil society.
As youth climate activists, we reject the results of the recent summits, not only because they fail at real climate action, but because their programs of austerity and free trade are an attack on us all.
Despite the intense police intimidation and repression in the shadow of the fence, we found hope and friendship. For over a week, climate justice activists stood side by side with migrant justice organisers, anti-poverty activists, indigenous people, and others fighting for justice around the globe, and on those streets we found that another world is possible.
10:10 Canada Needs Your Help
10:10 is a global campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in a year – starting in 2010 that CYCC has agreed to become the Canadian Hub for!!!!
Any person, family, business, school or other organization can cut 10% – and by working together we can make sure our actions count.
To sign up visit http://www.1010global.org/ or visit the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition's website at www.ourclimate.ca and look for 10:10 under projects and campaigns! We are looking for volunteers to help with this initiative specifically as we want to ensure that as Canadian Youth, we make our mark on the world! Please contact sarah@1010global.org to get involved.
$2000 in Two Weeks
The Canadian Youth Climate Coalition is busy gearing up for a whole new series of exciting ways to engage the Canadian youth climate movement for the rest of 2010: 10:10 Canada, the Canadian Youth Delegation to Cancun, the October 10th Global Work Party, the Canadian Youth Delegation Home Team, in-depth dialogues with Canadian youth on what they want to see from Canada's new green economy, bike rides to Cancun, supporting local youth climate events across the country, and much, much more. But we really need your help to do it - in order to make kick start all of these exciting initiatives, mobilize thousands of Canadian young people, and create a whole new range of training and capacity building opportunities for youth - we need to get some more money in the bank. We've set ourselves a goal of raising $2000 in the next 2 weeks! That's 200 $10 donations by August
1st.
We need you to help us get there! Make a donation yourself, ask your friends, your family, and your co-workers to help as well. It's fast, easy, and will make a huge difference to Canadian young people. To donate to the CYCC, visit Tides Canada Initiatives here (http://tidescanada.org/funds/children/canadian-youth-climate-coalition/). Spread the word and make a difference today!
A great volunteer opportunity with 350.org
350.org is recruiting talented, passionate Canadians to help organize our next big day of action - a Global Work Party on 10/10/10
. If you have some experience organizing events, a passion for the environment, and you want to gain some serious leadership experience, this role could be for you! We’re looking for regional coordinators to provide support to individuals that have signed up to host work parties, to identify and connect with local organizations, to update social media to generate buzz, and to help facilitate media outreach. We’ve got all the documents prepared to help you make this day a wild success - we just need your enthusiasm! Check out our website 350.org to learn more, and contactadam.s@350.org to apply.
Browse the Internet to Support CYCC
We have just introduced our online fundraising program that enables you to contribute to our causes every time you search. It is free, fun, secure and easy to use – click the link below to give it a try!
CYCC search is powered by Yahoo, Bing, Google or Neto so you get the same results you are used to, but now every search raises a few cents, which adds up to a lot of money for a cause that is important to you.
