Archive | April, 2009

Indigenous Leaders Confront Barrick Gold

By Ian Angus on April 30, 2009 in Canada & Quebec, Indigenous, Mining

“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 […]

The Anchorage Declaration: Indigenous Meeting Demands Action on Climate Crisis

By Ian Angus on April 28, 2009 in Indigenous, Manifestos

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

By Ian Angus on April 27, 2009 in Climate Change, Indigenous

“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

By Ian Angus on April 24, 2009 in Books & Reports, Marxist 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

By Ian Angus on April 23, 2009 in Food and Farming

Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives (more…)

Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World

By Ian Angus on April 23, 2009 in Carbon Pricing

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…)

Ian Angus speaking in Sydney, April 10, 2009

Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!

By Ian Angus on April 21, 2009 in Ecosocialism, Featured, Marxist Ecology

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 […]