By Chuck Baclagon
Barely a week after the Eco Walk that gathered more than 3000 to the streets to demand climate action, communities again have taken the streets to declare that now is the time for energy transformation.
Climate change exacerbates every social injustice that has been and is being fought by a myriad of social movements for generations. On October 10, communities and civil society stepped up their climate campaigns by joining Reclaim Power, a collaboration of social movements, international networks, NGOs and grassroots organizers, working on every continent to highlight the connection between energy systems and climate change.
Several mass actions were also held in 30 sites in provinces host to coal power plant and coal mining projects. While Indonesia also held Reclaim Power actions in Jakarta.
The impacts of climate change challenges everyone to speak truth to power by reclaiming it in both the energy and political arena. The few hands that control power in terms of energy are also the same few hands that control political power in developed and developing nations alike to quench its deadly addiction to economic growth at all cost powered by fossil fuels that not only impacts the communities where they are extracted but contribute to greenhouse gasses that causes global warming, we only owe it to ourselves and to the future that we struggle now more than ever for climate justice.