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15 July 2010 | Interviews | Resisting neoliberalism
So close, yet so far
US Social Forum in Detroit and G20 Summit in Toronto: a local look
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The more than 35,000 participants of the second US Social Forum, held from June 22 to 26 in Detroit, committed to promote the Peoples Agreement that came out of the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights, in April in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Popular education on food and climate justice was especially emphasized.
The participants of the US forum also highlighted the value of sustainable agriculture as a real solution to climate change. They issued a declaration in support of food sovereignty and of the respect of the production of healthy food.
Real World Radio interviewed Friends of the Earth US campaigner Alex Moore, while he was attending the US Social Forum in Detroit. He then traveled to Toronto to follow closely the G20 Summit, held in that Canadian city on June 26 and 27.
Moore talked about the summit of the most industrialized nations of the world, and demanded these countries to not grant any more subsidies to fossil fuels, and promote clean energy instead. He also demanded developed countries to repay their climate debt to the developing countries. He said that the G20 should implement new ways to reduce speculation in the financial markets, one of the reasons for the current global economic crisis.
We also asked Moore about Friends of the Earth US’s response to the oil spill of BP in the Gulf Coast.
