Oxfam Action Corps - Minnesota is a nonpartisan volunteer group fighting global poverty and injustice right here in Minnesota. It's a project of Oxfam America.
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- April 2007
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- MCTC Environmental Action Fair
Minneapolis Community and Technical...
Wednesday, December 9 at 11:00am - Perspectives on the Copenhagen...
Minneapolis Central Library
Saturday, December 12 at 3:00pm - Monthly Meeting
Common Roots Cafe
Monday, December 21 at 7:00pm
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Oxfam America's Climate Change Campaign
From floods in Bangladesh to droughts in Kenya, glacier melts in Peru to hurricanes in the Caribbean, poor countries are already suffering from the effects of climate change. Oxfam America is undertaking a campaign to address the disproportionate impacts of global warming by creating equitable solutions to the crisis. We are asking that the US cut greenhouse gas emissions, and provide financial assistance so that the most vulnerable communities can adapt.
To learn what you can do, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/climate
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As African leaders and climate negotiators flock to Copenhagen’s COP15 meeting in December, many will look to South Africa for guidance. With a historically progressive climate policy, South Africa’s leadership ...
Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota More than 1 billion people around the world go hungry. This teach-in will address the questions: What policies caused this growing crisis? Is access to food a human right? How do we achieve it? Be sure to stop by the Oxfam table before or after the event!
Location:Hospitality Hall, St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, December 2nd
www.washingtonpost.com
By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved -- including ...
www.huffingtonpost.com
This Thanksgiving, leaders in the youth climate movement have much more to celebrate than our tofurkey dinners. On the heels of the President's encouraging announcement that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen on Dec. ...
www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for a U.N. climate change meeting on Dec. 9, hoping to add momentum to an international process despite slow progress on a domestic bill to cut carbon emissions.
Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota Give a crap this holiday season! Not keen on crap? Give worms, crabs, goats, or a host of other unique items that will improve the lives of people living in poverty!
www.oxfamamericaunwrapped.com
Oxfam America Unwrapped is part of Oxfam America, a non-profit organization that helps create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Our charitable gifts help people who need it the most around the world.
Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota
Be part of 'The World Wants a Real Deal' global day of action, calling for governments to take real action on climate change in Copenhagen, at a free event that will get you informed, active, and connected to the Copenhagen negotiations.
3 PM: Live Update from Denmark
Get the latest from Copenhagen with a video message f...rom polar explorer Will Steger. Then, put your questions to Midwest Youth Delegates of Expedition Copenhagen, appearing live by video from Copenhagen.
3:20 PM: Screening of The Age of Stupid
Set in 2055, this newly-released British drama-documentary looks back in history to 2008 and asks, “Why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?” 92 minutes. Rated for ages 12 and up.
Post-Film Discussion
Led by the League of Women Voters – Minneapolis.
Arrive early to sign the 'Sign a Real Deal' wall and learn more about the amazing organizations presenting Perspectives on the Copenhagen Climate Summit: 1Sky, Amnesty International USA, League of Women Voters – Minneapolis, the Library Foundation of Hennepin County, Oxfam America, and the Will Steger Foundation.
Featuring Will Steger, Expedition Copenhagen Delegates, The Age of Stupid, and more!
Time:3:00PM Saturday, December 12th
Location:Minneapolis Central Library
Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota Join Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota at the March and Rally for Trade Justice!
It's time for a turn around on trade!
Location:Minnehaha Falls Park to UAW Local 879 Hall
Time:11:00AM Saturday, December 5th
www.eurekalert.org
Using historical data on the relationship between temperature and conflict in Africa, researchers at UC Berkeley, Stanford, New York University and Harvard have estimated the effect of rising temperatures due to global warming. ...
www.washingtonpost.com
Here's a story of two presidents, Barack Obama of the United States and Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives.
Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota Happy Universal Children's Day! Let's be proud of what we've accomplished for kids around the world and work harder to ensure their lives are better and brighter in the future.
www.un.org
Contains links to information resources and documents on children prepared by the United Nations and specialized agencies to mark Universal Children's Day. Also provides text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as titles on children from the UNBISnet catalogue.
Oxfam Action Corps Minnesota Thanks to Sister on the Planet Ambassador and MN Congresswoman Betty McCollum for co-sponsoring H.R. 2817, The Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009!
www.one.org
On Tuesday, a broad-based coalition that includes several of ONE’s partners launched A Roadmap to End Global Hunger – a comprehensive strategy for addressing global hunger through short, medium, and long-term initiatives and reaching the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving hunger by 2015. ....
www.dnaindia.com
Slower population growth would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, says the State of the World Population report.
www.unfpa.org
LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme ...
