No energy left for a blog post today. I’ll add it later.
Tomorrow is the day of action. You can follow it with #StopBurningIt. Good night.
Appendix:
After Thursday’s frustration I just slept in. The observing NGO’s captured one of the plenary rooms and helt a People’s Plenary. I boycotted it, because I didn’t understand why they were doing it in the exclusive, elitist, classist Blue Zone, instead of in one of the COP26 Coalition venues which were open to the wider public. This is exactly what Talktivism looks like: keep talking about what the Big Ones are doing badly, while implicitly reproducing their logic. I strongly appreciate and agree with everything they said. Only that they just keep talking and talking and talking – in such an exclusive space as the Blue Zone. So, I had a quick look at the masses of people that were waiting outside.
However, as big masses of people are not my favourite space to be in, I quickly moved back to Ellis. I missed the Walk Out of the NGO’s, which is the exact level of direct action that just stays within the rules and hence will never change anything. If it would, it would be forbidden. That’s, I think, what a whole FFF movement has to learn: the impact of direct action begins with Civil Disobedience.
We had an action plenary at 3 p.m., where we finalised the plan to add another round of protest to the negotiations as it became clear that the COP26 will be prolonged another day.
After that, we went to the Movement Space of the People’s Summit by the COP26 Coalition, where we witnessed a powerful speech by one of the key organisers and beautiful live music.
Meanwhile, we prepared the signs for the action – with just what we found in the next supermarket (thank you, Capitalism).
