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A Call to Make Ecocide a Crime – Report back from COP 16

Monday 10th January, 6.30pm-9pm (refreshments from 6pm), Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick St

Polly Higgins Reports back from COP 16 in Cancun this Monday in Manchester.

The Cancun climate negotiations were politically and ecologically a disaster. President Evo Morales called it governmental ecocide. It is now clear that where politicians fail, the people become mandated to take action; failure to do so is to be complicit in the destruction of our planet.

Come on Monday 10th, 6.30pm to hear Polly Higgins speak about what can be done by the people to change the political framework, so that governments finally take action on behalf of the people they represent.

For directions see http://www.merci.org.uk/visiting
A walking bus will leave from the bottom of Piccadilly station parade outside NEROs at 5.45pm

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