More proof that oil companies can’t be trusted to protect the environment — and that capitalist governments can’t be trusted to make them behave. May 25 news release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Washington, DC — BP’s official response plan for oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico is studded with patently inaccurate and inapplicable […]
Archive | May, 2010
"We demand the enforcement of the payment of climate debt"
Document approved by the working group on Climate Debt, during the World Conference of Peoples on Climate Change and the Rights of mother Earth, Bolivia, April 2010 (more…)
David Harvey: The political implications of population-resources theory
“Whenever a theory of overpopulation seizes hold in a society dominated by an elite, then the non-elite invariably experience some form of political, economic, and social repression.”
Anarchists Scapegoated for Ottawa Firebombing
Statement issued on May 21 by Common Cause, an anarchist organization with branches in four Ontario cities. (more…)
Indigenous Statement on Ottawa Firebombing
The following statement was issued by the Indigenous Environmental Network, in response to the May 18 firebombing of a bank in Ottawa. (more…)
Canadian NGOs Betray First Nations and Forests
A Globe & Mail editorial calls the new Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement “nothing less than historic” and says it “serves as a model of non-governmental co-operation.” Indigenous activists call it a betrayal. (more…)
Shell vs Niger; Financial Times vs Truth
Amnesty International sponsored this ad. The Financial Times refused to publish it. (more…)
How Big Oil Bought the Interior Department
For justice to reign, Salazar, Obama, BP and Halliburton need to be brought before something like the International Climate Tribunal proposed at last month’s alternative Climate Summit in Bolivia (more…)
A nightmare that only grows worse
BP’s cleanup efforts are making the Gulf oil disaster worse, and Washington is playing the blame game while more and more oil spews into the gulf +++++++++++ by Eric Ruder Socialist Worker (US), May 17, 2010 The crude oil belching out of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico where a BP oil well exploded […]
BP and the 'Little Eichmanns'
The corporations, and those who run them, consume, pollute, oppress and kill. They will drain the last drop of profit from us until there is nothing left. ++++++++++++ by Chris Hedges Truthdig, May 17, 2010 Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond […]
Video: Toronto Meeting on Cochabamba
Videos of the talks and entertainment at the Cochabamba Report Back Meeting held in Toronto, May 7. (more…)
The taboo that isn't: Mother Jones on population
Mother Jones magazine opens a discussion of the population problem. Sort of. (more…)
Evo Morales: United, the developing countries can save the world
“The response to global warming is global democracy for life and for the Mother Earth.. … we have two paths: to save capitalism, or to save life and Mother Earth.” —Speech by Evo Morales a, President of Bolivia, to the G77 + China at the United Nations, May 7, 2010 (more…)
Canadian delegate: Cochabamba shows that another way is possible and necessary
A talk given at the Cochabamba Report Back Meeting in Toronto, on May 7, by Kimia Ghomeshi of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (more…)
We are NOT "all in this together"
The concept of climate debt rests on the fact that no solution to climate change is possible unless it also guarantees justice and social equality (more…)
Indigenous network supports Cochabamba Agreement
Statement by Tom Goldtooth of the the Indigenous Environmental Network, supporting Bolivia’s submission of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth to the UN (more…)
'The Plundered Planet' — Dangerous neoliberal quackery and ignorance
A new book by a heavyweight economist regurgitates the politically convenient opinions of rich governments and institutions and displays the blindness and greed that passes for state-of-the-art economic thinking in the liberal establishment (more…)
Toronto Report Back: A Huge Success
I’ve just returned from the “Report Back from Cochabamba” meeting in Toronto. It was by every standard a huge success. I hope one of the meeting organizers from Toronto Bolivia Solidarity will write a summary report. These are just quick impressions, subject to revision … There were about 225 people in the room. That’s […]
Scientists defend climate research, condemn 'McCarthy-like threats'
Text of an open letter published in May 7 issue of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It is signed by 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel Prize winners. (more…)
Pachamama, Bien Vivir, and the Climate Debt
Ben Courtice, a member of Australia’s Socialist Alliance, continues his reports and reflections on the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (more…)