El Martillo / the hammer storms UN Climate conference Cop16 7.12.2010

Coverage of El Martillo by Mainstream Media:




First press response to El martillo´s heroic death, which came as it stormed the UN Climate Conference on the 7.12. in Cancún.

ITN: Hammer protest at UN climate talks
Environmental activists protesting UN climate talks have marched down Cancun streets carrying a giant silver hammer sent from Germany.

ZDF: Mit Solarboot und Hammer fürs Klima:

NTD Television: Climate Protesters gather in Cancún

Euronews:Ban urges lower ambitions
(And Hammer wants to stamp out the talks..)

Reuters coverage of Hammer:


Diario La Verdad: Colapsa Cancun por protestas

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Tausende demonstrieren für Klimaschutz

Coverage of hammer action by independent media:


martillazo en cancun/COP16 from Maka Munoz on Vimeo.









Mas alla del Martillo: Action and Speech at Military Blockade during COP 16 Negotitations.

Submedia TV: CA Cancún

Mobile broadcastnews: Guantanamera Cop16


Cristian Guerrero speaks about anti-capitalist bloc

Plane Stupid: climate is saved.
Don't put your massive inflatable hammers away yet, buy a d-lock, get some super glue, get into an affinity group. As the students have shown in London this week, we can show governments and big business that we will not let them trample all over us.

Kehuelga Blog

Interview of Radio Dreyeckland with Jakub und Artur one week before the hammer action in Cancún:Radio Dreyeckland: Das trojanische Geschenk/Politische Kunst in Cancún

Farewell Klima Forum

Yesterday was my last day at the Klima Forum. Located about 45 minutes away from Cancun and the Moon Palace where the UN is trying to hammer out a climate deal, Klima Forum has for years been a venue for civil society across the globe to meet, discuss and strategize during the UNFCCC. Many argue it is the only true democratic summit taking place in Cancun right now.

I was in Copenhagen last year for COP 15 and I owe a great debt of gratitude to the Klima Forum. The series of talks and lectures I attended taught me so much about the climate crisis humanity faces at the moment and what the solutions are. I was quite excited about revisiting my old teacher here in Mexico for COP 16.

Unfortunately, Klima Forum this year was a mere shadow of Klima Forum of last year. Some people went as far as calling it a complete flop. Although the location quite picturesque and green (on the grounds of a polo field in the middle of the bush - see photo), the Klima Forum was plagued with transportation issues which limited the amount of participants. Whereas it felt like hundreds were at the Klima Forum daily in Copenhagen, only dozens were at the Klima Forum this year.

I am not one to put quantity before quality. The number of participants may have been small, but I heard some excellent speakers (Polly Higgins, Tom Goldtooth). What was heartbreaking for me was the Klima Forum this year was a clear example of how the environmental movement is not one united front. La Via Campesina had their own venue. Dialogo Climatico was apparently a venue for the bigger organisations (Oxfam, Friends of the Earth, etc). And then there was the poor little Klima Forum. Why these different groups were not able to coordinate their events and work together the same way it felt like they did in Copenhagen I do not know. But the fact that they were not able to work together to organize one "people's summit" does indicate the environmental movement has a lot of work to do before we achieve climate justice.

The organizers of the Klima Forum Cancun do have my respect. They did the best they could with the materials they had to make a truly people's summit. The rumors are the name "Klima Forum" will not be used during COP 17 in South Africa, but the spirit of the Klima Forum will live on. I had a chance yesterday to sit in on a planning session of African civil society about what to do for next year's COP and I walked away happy. The excitement of the African delegates to make their own people's assembly or summit was intoxicating. And to top it all off, a rainbow appeared at the very end of the meeting. Maybe there is hope for next year.

Finissage und Gespräch mit Adrienne Goehler 10.12. 19 Uhr

Zu Ehren des Hammers und älterer Kunstprojekte zum Thema Klima-Aktivismus zeigt das
Eclectic Electric Collective noch bis diesen Freitag 10.12. die Ausstellung "Battle of the Spectacle" im Projektraum OKK, Prinzenallee 29, Berlin-Wedding, geöffnet von Dienstag bis Freitag von 14-19 Uhr.

Am Freitag den 10.12.2010 um 19 Uhr laden wir Sie im Rahmen der Finissage zu einem offenen Gespräch mit der Kuratorin Adrienne Goehler zum Thema "Kunst, Aktivismus und Nachhaltigkeit" ein.

Adrienne Goehler plaziert ihre Ausstellungen bewusst an Orten, die sozial-politische Brennpunkte sind.
Während des G8 Gipfels in Heiligendamm 2007 hat sie die Ausstellung "Art goes Heiligendamm" in Rostock kuratiert. "Zur Nachahmung empfohlen! Expeditionen in Ästhetik und Nachältigkeit" ist nach einer Schau in den Berliner Uferhallen seit November dieses Jahres im Wendland zu besichtigen – nicht weit entfernt vom Ort der Castor-Blockaden .


Wo?

OKK/ Raum 29,
Prinzenallee 29, Berlin-Wedding
(U-Bhf Osloerstrasse U9/U8 oder U-Bhf Pankstrasse (U8) )

Wir freuen uns auf Sie,

Pablo , Artur & Jakub
Eclectic Electric Collective

Martillo at the Via Campesina Demonstration against green capitalism in Cancún, 7.12.2010

Saw your hammer today!

As I approached the Via Campesinas march today I saw something silver bouncing in the distance and then I realized it was your hammer! Looks like it survived the journey and the multiple actions it has been involved in. I got my mom to take the photos I am sending you in three separate emails so you guys can see your hammer in action.
- from Derek Leahy

All photographs courtesy of Renee Leahy

In the TAZ-23.11.2010-

Other news at the blog of climate activist group Gegenstrom Berlin:
Solidaritaet Zimmern, statt Klima zerschlagen