Toban Black

That photo is part of this post from Robert van Waarden -
“Climate Camp in the City – G20 – The photos the [mainstream] media didn’t show”

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Here are more photos from the 2009 Climate Camp in London, England during the G20 summit -

(From here – http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/ccaCity/gallery1/index.html)

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Neve Gordon in CounterPunch -
“How to Sell ‘Ethical’ Warfare”
“Israel’s Media Management is Not Just Impressive, It’s Terrifying”

Mainstream media and state approaches to “quelling protest and stifling resistance” in Israel

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Photos of protestors in Tel Aviv, Israel -

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(Oxfam protestors at the UN Climate Change Conference in December, 2007)
[via Simon Leufstedt]

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In this previous post I wrote about polar bear protestors, and about saving polar bears and humans -
“If you care about climate change forget about ‘saving the planet’”

The photo up there also reminds me of this post -
‘We Just Want Our Voices Heard’:
Oil Executives March On D.C.

And (now that I’m digging through the archives) here’s another one with polar bear protestors -
U.S. protestors; Canadian oil and tar sands?

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Update -

More photos of the same Oxfam protestors -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfam/sets/72157603390596149/

George M. on why we shouldn’t ask others to “save the planet” -

“One psychological response to climate change is to find language and images that create distance – to suggest that it will affect someone else in the future. So the talk and images are of ‘climate’ not ‘weather’, polar bears not hedgehogs, African children not our own.

‘The Planet’ is about as distant as one can get – I am not being called on to save my family, my community, my country, my world or even my Earth. It is The Planet – a lump of cold rock seen from space. I’ll be honest – I don’t give a damn about ‘The Planet’ – it means nothing to me.”

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George raises other noteworthy points in the rest of his blog post, which is worth reading.

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A related issue (which I’ve raised here — albeit without editing my comment carefully enough) -

People often imply that global warming will only harm arctic wildlife — and particularly polar bears.
That view is conveyed by these protestors, for instance:
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/isisdc/sets/72157602622773240/
- http://www.indiescribe.com/2008/02/greenpeace-prot.html
- http://www.desmogblog.com/this-oil-sands-campaign-could-show-up-anywhere-in-alberta

How many people will commit to dramatically restructuring their lives and our society in order to save polar bears (and penguins and seals — not to mention less familiar arctic wildlife)?

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