-----Original Message----- From: balfourarch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:35 AM Subject: Fwd: [gaiapc] [Fwd: [csgz] Please make this your New Year`s resolution!]
Begin forwarded message: > From: Graeme Bristol <[email protected]> > Date: 2011.12 .22 3:57:51 PM PST (CA) > To: balfourarch <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gaiapc] [Fwd: [csgz] Please make this your New Year`s > resolution!] > > Very interesting. This seems to expand on a paper by Lynn Berat =20 > back in 1993 - "Defending the right to a healthy environment: =20 > Toward a crime of genocide in international law". Laura Westra has > more recently written along similar lines, particularly in her book > Environmental Justice & the Rights of Ecological Refugees. In her =20 > book she is more focused, as the title suggests, on the victims of =20 > ecocrime more than the perpetrators as is the case with Higgins. > > After reading Matt Taibbi's most recent post, A Christmas Message =20 > from America's Rich (and most of his other posts/books/articles =20 > over the past 5 years) I'd certainly like to see the same =20 > international judgment applied to the economic terrorists of Wall =20 > Street. What Higgins did in putting before the UK Supreme Court =20 > that mock trial of the corporate criminals involved in the tar =20 > sands should be done for the board of Goldman Sachs, Bank of =20 > America, etc etc. The damage they have done to the lives of people > all over this planet is beyond description. > > But that is for another lifetime, it seems. > > Graeme > > > > > On 22 December 2011 11:25, balfourarch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard Balfour Architect & Co. > Balfour & Associates =95 Strategic Planning > Vancouver 6047310206 > [email protected] > www.plancanada.com > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Don Chisholm <[email protected]> >> Date: 2011.12 .22 10:40:39 AM PST (CA) >> To: Gaiapc <[email protected]> >> Cc: Ron Hart <[email protected]> >> Subject: [gaiapc] [Fwd: [csgz] Please make this your New Year`s =20 >> resolution!] >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> >> This from Ron on our local csgz list. >> Others in Canada, take note of Polly Higgins intend. >> DonC >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [csgz] Please make this your New Year`s resolution! >> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:38:00 -0500 >> From: Ron Hart <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> I have received an email from London barrister Polly Higgins =20 >> (Eradicating Ecocide) who wants to promote and extend her campaign >> to make Ecocide the Fifth Law Against Peace under the jurisdiction >> of the International Criminal Court. She is planning to visit =20 >> Canada next March to try to rally support for the campaign prior =20 >> to the Earth Summit (Rio + 20). >> >> She writes, "Where would be the best place to come to hold a =20 >> public meeting? We want to tie in with the outcome of the mock =20 >> Trial, and focus on the Tar Sands." >> >> Would you please consider how best to support her and afford her =20 >> campaign maximum exposure? I'll try to get clarification from her =20 >> regarding how extensive her travel plans in Canada are. I suspect =20 >> (all things being equal and depending on her finances) that if =20 >> there was a reasonable chance of good exposure this could involve =20 >> several cities. >> >> There is a reasonable chance to get this eventually adopted =20 >> through the UN General Assembly. The Ecocide campaign, if =20 >> successful, could be a real game-changer. Corporate executives =20 >> would finally have to anticipate the consequences of their actions >> in light of their duty of care for the Earth and its inhabitants =20 >> or face personally having to justify them before the International >> Criminal Court. They would lose their cloak of anonymity and could >> no longer hide behind a corporate shell. >> >> Ron Hart >> >> ron.hart (AT) gmail.com >> >> --=20 >> Ron Hart >> Our home is Bullfrog powered with 100% Green electricity. Visit =20 >> the County Sustainability Group's website. Stop fascism in Canada! _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
