Guatemala: Canadian-owned mine suspended for human rights violations, health hazards
Indigenous anti-mine activists face death threats
Haitian Farmers Say ‘Burn Monsanto’s Seeds’
“With friends like Monsanto and its governmental allies, who needs enemies?” Canadian activists call for action in support of Haitian farmers
Interview: Indo-American Bolivarian Ecosocialism
“‘Bolivarian ecosocialism’ is a term that is synonymous with 21st Century Socialism. This socialism is ours, endogenous, and is based on transforming collective consciousness to establish new relationships within society and with the environment.”
From Copenhagen to Cochabamba, via the Amazon, Part 2
Continuing Ben Powless’s report of revisiting the scenes of struggle to defend indigenous communities and rights in the Peruvian Amazon, on his way to Othe World Peoples’ Conference in Bolivia.
Fidel: The Insanities of Our Time
“The greatest contradiction of our time is the ability of our species to destroy itself, and its inability to govern itself.”
ALBA Summit vows to fight Climate Change with System Change
Evo Morales: “The hour to combat the capitalist economic model and system, which has caused so much damage to life and humanity, has arrived.”
From Copenhagen to Cochabamba, via the Amazon
On his way to the World Peoples’ Conference in Bolivia, a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network from the Six Nations in Ontario revisits the scenes of struggle to defend indigenous communities and rights in the Peruvian Amazon.
Canadian Drilling Threatens Ecuador Reserve
Designated as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1997, the threatened park consists of 930,000 hectares of primary tropical and Andean forest and an immense amount of biodiversity.
Ecosocialist Resources, 10
- What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
- The Wrong Kind of Green
- Four Nuclear Myths
- The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
- Sanitation Crisis in Haiti
Evo Donates 50% of Salary to Haiti and Chile
The president of Bolivia sets an example …
How the U.S. Could Help Haiti
Two measures would immediately help Haitians: cancellation of the foreign debt and overhauling an immigration system that discriminates against them.
Venezuela Cancels Haiti’s Oil Debt
Once again, the Bolivarian Republic sets an example for the world …
Just like a Waving Flag
K’naan sang this powerful song on the Hope for Haiti telethon on Canadian television last night ….
Hugo Blanco on Copenhagen: ‘Only extinction of capitalism will ensure the survival of our species’
It is naive to think that the world’s major polluters will do anything about climate protection.
Bolivia Calls World Conference of Social Movements
April 22, 2010: International Day of Mother Earth
Hugo Chavez: A Battle for the Planet Has Begun
“Copenhagen is not the end, I repeat, but a beginning: the doors have been opened for a universal debate on how to save the planet, life on the planet. The battle continues.”
Full Text: Chavez Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen
“Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.”
Copenhagen: Chavez Salutes Climate Protestors
“I have been reading some of the slogans painted in the streets … One said, ‘Don’t Change the Climate, Change the System!’ – And I bring that on board for us. Let’s not change the climate. Let’s change the system!”
Venezuela: What’s Happening in Copenhagen is Unacceptable
Developed nations will be judged by the world for what they are doing at the moment … we are not going to let them get away with it
Interview with Bolivia’s Climate Change Ambassador
For the capitalist system everything, nature – even other humans – is considered an object that you can use to obtain a profit. What we are seeing is the consequence of this vision
Ecuador: Dirty War in the Amazon
In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen?
Fidel: A Nobel Prize for Evo
If Obama was awarded the Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his being African American, Evo deserves it for winning them in his country despite his being a native and his having delivered on his promises.
UN Names Evo Morales “World Hero of Mother Earth”
Bolivian president Evo Morales has been declared “World Hero of Mother Earth,” by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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Peru plans more Amazon oil auctions
Despite protests by indigenous people, the head of government energy agency says that this fall they will auction still more blocks traditional indigenous lands to oil and gas companies
Hugo Blanco on the Massacre at Bagua
On June 5, world environment day, Peruvian president Alan Garcia turned his anti-ecological fury against the defenders of the Amazon