What can we expect from this so-called “Earth Summit” from a social and ecological perspective? Nothing!
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Big business goes to Rio
The best thing to come out of Rio+20 could be the strengthening of social movements in opposition to one of its core ideas. The false green economy’s grand Brazilian showcase might just be the event that helps to trigger its downfall.
Kari-Oca 2 Declaration
Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on Rio+20 and Mother Earth: The “Green Economy” continues the colonialism we have faced and resisted for 520 years. We cannot allow false solutions to destroy the Earth’s balance, assassinate the seasons, unleash severe weather havoc, privatize life and threaten...
At Rio+20: Values versus prices
Patrick Bond: The Rio+20 Earth Summit under way this week in Brazil is devoted to advancing the 'Green Economy,' which is the environmentalism of the rich. For most people and the planet, it will be a disaster.
Infrastructure for whom?
World Bank and G20 megaprojects provide cheap power to giant corporations, bypassing the poor.
Leftist critics of Ecuador should focus on real enemies
Until rich countries are held to account for the economic and environmental crimes they have committed, no foreign leftist has a right to denounce the Ecuadorean government led by Rafael Correa for using the country's natural wealth to meet its peoples’ needs.
Che: Marxism is an essential part of humanity's heritage
Che Guevara, 1960: When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a "Newtonian" or of a biologist when asked if he is a "Pasteurian."
NO REDD+! – Decolonize the Earth and the Sky!
Declaration of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+. "Under the Green Economy, even the rain, the beauty of a waterfall or a honey bee’s pollen will be reduced to a barcode price tag and sold to the highest bidder."
Amazonian communities occupy Belo Monte dam site
On the eve of the Rio+20 UN Conference, community resistance calls attention to Brazilian government's unsustainable energy policy
Hope triumphs over experience
WWF and Greenpeace think the European Union's failed Emissions Trading System can be repaired. That would be fixing the unfixable.