New anti-immigration “center” has strong ties to the ruling Conservative Party Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...
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Toronto Teach-In Discusses Cochabamba Agenda for Climate Justice
Actvists discuss concepts far removed from the usual media babble about cap-and-trade and carbon offsets – ideas that are unfamiliar to many on the left Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
Evo Morales: A letter to the indigenous peoples of the world
While we assert that capitalism is the cause of global warming and the destruction of forests, rainforests and Mother Earth, they seek to expand capitalism to the commoditization of nature with the word “green economy” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
ALBA nations declare: Nature has no price!
Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela declare: “Nature is our home and is the system of which we form a part, and therefore it has infinite value, but it does not have a price and is not for sale.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Responding to the Cochabamba challenge
Some 125 people took part in the teach-in Lessons from Bolivia: Building a Global Movement for Climate Justice in Toronto on Saturday November 13. The meeting was sponsored by nearly 40 organizations, including unions, solidarity campaigns and environmental groups. The following is the text...
The World Food Crisis: Causes and Solutions
Video: Peter Rosset presents the Food Sovereignty vision defended by La Via Campesina Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick...
Malthus With a Computer, 2010
An important new study concludes that reducing population growth will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is less here than meets the eye Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...
Europe's biofuel plans driving social and environmental destruction
Plans to increase the use of biofuels in Europe over the next ten years will require up to 69 000 square kilometres of new land worldwide and make climate change worse, a new study has revealed.[1]. The report finds that an area over twice the size of Belgium will need to be converted into fields...
Stewart Brand is wrong about DDT. Will he admit it?
by George Monbiot Guardian, November 5, 2010 Last night’s film on Channel 4, What the Green Movement Got Wrong, was loosely based on Stewart Brand’s book, Whole Earth Discipline. In the film, Stewart issued the following challenge: I would like to see an environmental movement...
British trade unionists demand One Million Climate Jobs
People can see that that climate jobs aren’t simply about saving the planet, but there are huge social consequences too. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a...