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Guatemala: Canadian-owned mine suspended for human rights violations, health hazards
Indigenous anti-mine activists face death threats 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 to share on Pocket (Opens in new...
A Mistaken Criticism of Cochabamba
International Viewpoint, the “English-language magazine of the Fourth International,” recently published a criticism of the Peoples Agreement adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change held in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April. This article, by Australian Socialist...
Food crisis: causes, consequences and alternatives
Governments and international institutions have become accomplices, when not co-profiteers, in a productivist, unsustainable and privatized food system.
Failure and fraud at UN climate talks
Bonn meeting opts for inadequate voluntary targets, big loopholes, and market scams 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 to...
Greenwashing the Pentagon
The Pentagon must be the central focus of efforts to protect the biosphere by challenging war and militarism. More than ever, humanity—and Mother Earth—can no long afford them. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Daniel Dorling: What the ruling class believes
[Quotes and Insights #9] From Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, by Daniel Dorling The five tenets of injustice are that: elitism is efficient, exclusion is necessary, prejudice is natural, greed is good and despair is inevitable. Because of widespread and growing opposition to the five key...
Video: Vancouver's Cochabamba Report Back Meeting
Videos from the June 10, 2010 report back meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, organized by Canada-Bolivia Solidarity Committee 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...
Loopholes in Obama Climate Accord Will Let Rich Nations Increase Emissions
“The new data shows a frightening chasm between what the science says, what the people have asked for and Earth needs, and what rich countries are saying they are willing to do” —Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
Building a Climate Justice Movement in Quebec
The time is ripe for a grassroots climate justice movement based on the Cochabamba resolutions. A gathering of activists in late August will feature presentations and discussions on the proposed Quebec Coalition for Climate Justice. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to...