“What I am seeing before me, here in Cochabamba, is a truly global resistance. A resistance to the world’s greatest polluters– polluters who refuse to accept their responsibility for causing this global catastrophe” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
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Evo Morales: Either capitalism dies or Mother Earth dies
[Quotes and Insights #8] “We have two paths: either capitalism dies or Mother Earth dies. Either capitalism lives or Mother Earth lives. Of course, brothers and sisters, we are here for life, for humanity and for the rights of Mother Earth. Long live the rights of Mother Earth! Death to...
Eduardo Galeano: Message to the Mother Earth Summit
The rights of human beings and the rights of nature are two names of the same dignity 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...
Report Back from Cochabamba: Toronto, May 7
DON’T MISS THIS MEETING! For those in Toronto and southern Ontario, this is a vital opportunity to learn about the most important global meeting this year. Climate and Capitalism will be there — join us!!!! Your chance to hear from participants in the World People’s Conference on...
Evo: 'Planet or death, we shall overcome!'
“Capitalism is the main enemy of the Earth” 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...
Civil Society Playing Key Role in People's Conference
“We believe the people’s conference is a fundamental space because if a pole of subversion and response is not created, and if we don’t take the floor from the governments, there is no possibility that the negotiations will advance” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in...
North American Indigenous Activists in Cochabamba
Indigenous peoples of North America join President Evo Morales in Bolivia for historic Earth Day Climate Change Conference 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...
From Copenhagen to Cochabamba, via the Amazon
On his way to the World Peoples’ Conference in Bolivia, a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network from the Six Nations in Ontario revisits the scenes of struggle to defend indigenous communities and rights in the Peruvian Amazon. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
Pricing Emissions is the Wrong Solution
“The greenhouse gas problem is not a pollution problem, and if you apply pollution thinking you will come up with bad policies.” A criticism of Paul Krugman’s NYT article Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to...
Can Capitalism Fix the Climate?
On April 3, a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald criticized socialists in the climate emergency movement, citing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and frequent C&C contributor Simon Butler as people who just don’t understand that “Climate is not a class issue.” This is...