Rio Fail: Youth Lead Walkout of UN Summit

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Published on Thursday, June 21, 2012 by Common Dreams

Rio Fail: Youth Lead Walkout of UN Summit
Slamming leaders' negotiating text as a failure for people and the environment, youth climate leaders stage civil disobedience

- Common Dreams staff





Youth climate leaders and their supporters have walked out of the UN climate summit in Rio today to protest the negotiating text that fails to protect the climate. The group staged a "people's plenary" saying the text decided at the conference by world leaders does not represent "the future we want."

Satirizing Rio+20's The Future We Want slogan, members of the groups staged a sit-in and read a mock text called "The Future We Bought." The group then tore the document to shreds saying "the future we want is not found here" and have returned their badges to UN security to make their way towards the People's Summit.

"World leaders have delivered something that fails to move the world forward from the first Rio summit, showing up with empty promises and empty pockets at Rio+20" says Mariana Calderon, a young woman from California. "This text is a polluters plan, and unless leaders start listening to the people, history will remember it as a failure for the people and the planet." ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/21-10

[FirstLight]

1. Good for them!

we need more outrage, unfortunately most of the world is not paying attention ... too busy being consumers.