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one year anniversary!
About this event: COP15


One year ago to the day I started working for TakingITGlobal.
Just three hundred and sixty-five days later, I find myself in Copenhagen, leading a TIG delegation to the United Nations Climate Change conference, COP15.
Today there was a mass nonviolent mobilization for climate justice - reclaim power - which saw disruptions both inside and outside of the Bella Center. The goal was to unite the high level policy talk on the inside with the rest of the world outside the doors.
Thousands of Young Climate leaders were met with teargas, pepper spray, baton wielding politi, and attack dogs, even members of official delegations were abused by cops as they tried to join the people's assembly outside.
Earlier today, as Choppers circled noisily overhead, members of the TIG delegation and I connected with 10 classrooms all across the world to report live from Copenhagen. As the telepresence meeting began, so did an amazing action for the final day in Bella.

As I write this, there is a sit in occuring behind me: youth delegates from Canada, Wales, Turkey, France, U.S., Denmark, Australia, Germany, China, Lebanon, England, Ireland, Kenya, Norway are refusing to leave the conference because civil society will not be allowed to attend during the high level segment. TIG alumni are among them demanding climate justice and an impromptu media and support center has emerged. Simultaneously, there is a sit in at Prime minister harper's office, and the once pristine fountains in Bella are now covered with an oily film.

This past year has been amazing and I am so very honored and proud to be able to do the work that we do together.
I'm sure The year of the Tiger - 2010 will be even more rewarding and inspiring.

In solidarity

Liam

December 16, 2009 | 2:58 PM Comments  0 comments

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Frontlines of Climate Change : Bangladesh
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A 350 feet long letter signing starts 15-11-2009 at 11am from Bangladesh Agriculture University Mymensingh, Vice Chancellor of the university starts the letter signing by giving his 1st signature. Later on, every professor, lecturer, students sign on the letter. Before the signing program a rally march on the university ground by the speech of university admin, there Vice Chancellor of the university said that, “We very lucky and proud that this letter signing program starting from our university on the occasion of National Agriculture day. We are part of this world, agriculture is essential for us and for this off course need a stable climate. We hope the decision makers will think about us to think about them also. Thanks to the organizer to include us in this Nobel event.” After VC speech proctor of the university request all the students and teachers to attend the letter signing ceremony. Presenter of the program Professor Zakir Hussain described climate issues. Director of Design Bangladesh MD. Mahmudul Karim read out the message from 350.org by Bill McKibben.


Bill McKibben sends a message on this letter signing action to Barack H. Obama “As I have been traveling around the world and showing pictures of the International Day of Climate Action, none have moved people more than the photos from Bangladesh. They demonstrate that the people who have the most to lose from global warming have put aside their daily worries and joined in common cause with people around the world. This is deeply inspiring, and has helped many nations move closer to a Survival Pact for Copenhagen--one that demands that the world's rich nations cut their own carbon emissions steeply enough to give countries like Bangladesh a chance.

The whole world is grateful to the leadership that the ordinary people of Bangladesh are providing on this issue. And it makes me especially happy, because though I've traveled across the whole world there are very few places I've ever been with landscapes as lovely, or people as warm, as in Bangladesh. Thank you enormously for your hard work.”

After this, Project coordinator Shofikul Islam read out the message from TakingItGlobal

“Good Day Ladies and Gentlemen,

Our world today is undergoing massive and rapid change. People on all sides of this planet are coming together in order to address global challenges which cannot be solved without worldwide collaboration. The scope of Climate change demands new ways of doing things. It is evident that the results of global warming are already affecting many parts of the world, but what is remarkable about this time is the climate FOR change.

Never has the world been more ready to connect, collaborate and share. From Toronto to Mymensingh, from Cairo to Kansas citizens around this planet are coming together to overcome that separates us and unite towards social good. Networks like TakingITGlobal prove that change is coming faster than ever.

We will carry the message that you sign here today to the most powerful individual in the world, to The President of the United States, but even his power is small compared to the power we have to change when we work together on a global scale.

While there are many gathered here today, there are countless others all over this planet who stand here along side us in the struggle to remake the world into a more sustainable and just reality. It is with great honor that we continue on this journey alongside you.”


November 16, 2009 | 3:37 AM Comments  1 comments

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Extra Curriculars
Related to country: Canada

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A busy summer is wrapping up ; it's now the last friday in august(!) and the pace shows no signs of slowing. Accelerated change seems inevitable in times like these. The warmer months of the year have melted and melded into a furious blur of joyous activity

Juggling multiple deadlines while maintaining and developing partnerships, navigating timezones and multilingual subject lines is challenging to say the least, but it is also highly rewarding. I am fortunate enough to have the flexibility at TIG to take get out into the world and take action on things that make me happy. This post is a record of the things I’ve managed to accomplish this summer on top of school (a summer course on the Ethics of Death and Dying, which I found out today that I have not failed!) and my TIG responsibilities:

The first big summer side project was when Greenpeace Canada hired me for a brief voyage across the Province as a media liason aboard the queen poisidon as part of their summer Oceans Tour. Working on this campaign allowed me to focus my attention on one area, sharpened my media and messaging skills and gave me some practical experience with live, on camera interviews and using twitter as an activist tool .

RAN action

The Rain Forest Action Network has been supporting a local group of activists in raising awareness about the largest and most destructive industrial project on earth, the Tar Sands. In July, they hosted a group of us at an activist camp at a nearby campground. This allowed us to plan our engagement campaign and gave us further tools for organizing effective actions. Immiediately afterwards, we implemented an action against the RBC headquarters on Front Street. Supported by a grassroots guerrilla media campaign, two aboriginal women, Heather Milton Lightning and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a TIG alumnus scaled two flagpoles outside to deliver a message to the CEO’s wife, Janet Nixon.

This action was picked up by 28 different media outlets , raised quite a stir with the financial crowd on Bay Street, and no one got arrested!


EPIC Sandcastle Building

On a sunny Sunday, the 2nd of August (alliteration intended) I mobilized the Art Attack Faction of the Toronto Public Space Committee, to get down and dirty to transform what normally passes for soil into a medium for creative expression. About 30 people ended up attending and some of the monuments created that day included a massive walled city, the sphinx, a butterfly and a Simpsons style nuclear power plant. Interestingly, not a trace of the sum of our efforts remained the next day, but that doesn’t take away from the experience in any way.

I’m also just about to move out of my family home and into a campus collective in the heart of a swanky district in down town Toronto. I’m super excited to be moving into a more central location which is seconds away from campus and about 10 mins from the TIG offices. Some of the highlights I’m looking forward to o over the next 100 days include UTERN’s Earthcycle festival and car free day, promoting Powershift Canada, wrapping up the Tread Lightly project and preparing for COP15 in Copenhagen (!), implementing the training and support of next cycle of Online Community Volunteers including the new OC lounge, a global collaborative video project, and of course, keeping up with my studies (hah) .

August 28, 2009 | 5:59 PM Comments  1 comments

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July 14th
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It is 10:11 pm and Im just finishing up a conference call with the communications team for powershift Canada. Running on pure adrenalin at this point as my day began at 8:30am with a cross town cycle to a course Im taking @ UofT on Business Analysis. My bike got a flat on the way, so I had to scramble to keep my tardiness in check (only 20 mins, which is not bad considering the failure of my vehicle)

The BA course is going well, and I am learning lots, however it really made me aware of how high energy my normal work day is. After getting used to the pace at TIG, sitting for 8 hours x 3 days in one place listening to one person talk about fishbone analysis and plotting system charts one gets a bit tired, and the mind starts to wonder (to what I must be missing at the office and the mountain of emails which will be waiting for me at my break)

There are new editions to our workplace who will get some space on here soon. I've really only scratched the surface of what is going on round these parts; however, I must call this short if I am to get home at a decent hour (where I can finish my overdue essay!)




July 14, 2009 | 10:10 PM Comments  2 comments

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Dispatch the First
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Our first dispatch since the redesign, this issue addresses languages and multiculturalism. Discuss the themes of language, culture, and magic with us here



March 30, 2009 | 6:04 PM Comments  1 comments



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