To: UN Climate Negotiators

From: Calvin Parker

In 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, killing over 6,000 people and displacing millions. Today on the second anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan we stand with the people of the Philippines and communities in the global south impacted by climate chaos by demanding just solutions to the climate crisis that preserve the livability of these communities and compensates them for their climate impacts.

Typhoon Haiyan struck while UN negotiators met in the failing Warsaw climate talks. The disaster served as a dire illustration of the complicity of the Global North in the suffering of the Global South and need for just solutions to the climate crisis. In the past two years the United States has used Haiyan as an excuse to expand their imperialist military presence in the Philippines instead.

While we remember the victims and survivors of Haiyan, negotiators are preparing to meet once again in Paris. We know that the solutions to our current ecological and social crisis will not come from these corporate and political elites, but from local communities and global people's movements.

As people in North America and the Global North we pledge to stand in solidarity with people's movements in the Philippines and elsewhere in the Global South as they demand climate justice for their communities and resist U.S. Imperialism in their homelands.