“Indigenous leaders from Papua New Guinea and Chile traveled to Canada this week to attend the April 29 shareholders’ meeting of Barrick Gold. Here, they will confront Barrick about human rights abuses and environmental degradation on their lands.” Highly Recommended! Indigenous Leaders confront Barrick Gold Paul York writes: This is the best media to come […]
Archive | April, 2009
The Anchorage Declaration: Indigenous Meeting Demands Action on Climate Crisis
Text of the final declaration adopted by the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change, April 20-24, 2009, in Anchorage, Alaska The Anchorage Declaration 24 April 2009 From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit […]
Indigenous Conference Sounds Climate Warning
“Most Indigenous Peoples today live oppressed existences as minority groups within states. Climate change for them layers another potentially crushing pressure on top of many others” (more…)
Leon Trotsky and Ecology
A reply to a “green” critique of the Russian revolutionary leader’s views on progress and nature (more…)
Agriculture G8 = more hunger and poverty
Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives (more…)
Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World
In Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd government in Australia. But carbon trading cannot do the job … (more…)

Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!
Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009. The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and Green Left Weekly. The following is Ian’s talk to […]
EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health
After years of denial by the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says:”climate change is an enormous problem” (more…)
Review: Climate Wars
Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada. Toronto, 2008. ISBN 9780307355836. 272 pages. C$34.95. (more…)
Let Them Eat Junk
A new book explores the economics of our food system … (more…)