PEOPLE’S DECLARATION FOR A RAPID, EQUITABLE, AND JUST TRANSITION for a FOSSIL-FREE FUTURE

PEOPLE’S DECLARATION FOR A RAPID, EQUITABLE, AND JUST TRANSITION for a FOSSIL-FREE FUTURE

 The Global Context

 Geopolitics of Aggression and Destruction, Fossil Dependence, and the Oil, Gas, and Energy Crisis

1. All acts of invasion, aggression and occupation are profoundly reprehensible and condemnable for the resulting massive loss of lives, displacement of people, intensification of human suffering and precarity, extreme disregard for human rights, devastation of vital infrastructures, eco-cide, the systematic flouting of international law, and the violation of national sovereignty.

2. We are issuing this declaration in the midst of US-Israel geopolitics of destruction, supported and enabled by other Global North countries. While the US and Israeli governments are not the only ones that are guilty of acts of war and aggression against other nations and peoples, theirs are primarily defining the global situation today.  The US and Israel are responsible for military attacks against Iran, Venezuela, Lebanon, the illegal blockade of Cuba and the ongoing and devastating genocide against Palestine. They are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, needless climate and environmental pollution, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure- schools, hospitals, homes and cultural sites. The multilateral system is being heavily undermined, and the erosion of multilateralism poses a grave threat to the rights of peoples everywhere.  All to maintain a world order where a US-led imperial alliance can maintain global control of resources and the world economy. A world order which maintains the impunity and profits of billionaires and corporations while the peoples of the world pay the price.

READ FULL DECLARATION HERE: FOEi Peoples Summit Declaration April 26 TAFF