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- Cancun: Climate capitalism wins, everyone else losesBy Patrick Bond The December 11 closure of the 16th Conference of the Parties – COP16 global climate summit – in balmy Cancun was portrayed by most participants and mainstream journalists as a victory, a “step forward”. Bragged US State Department lead negotiator Todd Stern, “Ideas that were first of all, skeletal last year, and not ...---READ-->>
- 15 year old warns ruling class: We will fight back!“They can’t stop us demonstrating, they can’t stop us fighting back, and how ever much they try to imprison us in the streets of London, those are our streets. We will always be there to demonstrate, we will always be there to fight.” ——————— If you’ve ever despaired about our future, wondering where the next generation of ...---READ-->>
- Audio: Michael Löwy on EcosocialismTwo talks at the Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 7-8, 2010 Michael Löwy, a founder of the Ecosocialist International Network, is emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences in Paris. Professor Löwy ...---READ-->>
- In Cancún, Evo Morales led the fight for Mother Earth“We came to Cancún to save nature, forests, planet Earth. We are not here to convert nature into a commodity. We have not come here to revitalise capitalism with carbon markets.” by John Vidal (Published as Bolivia’s defiant leader sets radical tone at Cancún climate talks in the Guardian, December 11, 2010) Of all the ministers and politicians ...---READ-->>
- Friends of the Earth: Cancun deal merely prevents collapse; Leaves Kyoto on life supportStatement by Friends of the Earth International: “The agreement reached here is wholly inadequate and could lead to catastrophic climate change.” The agreement adopted at the UN climate talks in Cancun has failed to make progress on the most essential part: steep, binding emissions cuts for developed countries. Friends of the Earth International warns that this ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous activists slam Cancun betrayal; Mass movements are our only hopeStatement by the Indigenous Environmental Network: “Mass-based movement building is our only hope to overturn the climate apartheid we now face.” As representatives of Indigenous peoples and communities already suffering the immediate impacts of climate change, we express our outrage and disgust at the agreements that have emerged from the COP16 talks. As was exposed in ...---READ-->>
- Bolivia: Cancun deal is hollow and false; Its cost will be measured in human livesStatement issued by the Plurinational State of Bolivia, December 11, 2010 The Plurinational State of Bolivia believes that the Cancun text is a hollow and false victory that was imposed without consensus, and its cost will be measured in human lives. History will judge harshly. There is only one way to measure the success of a climate ...---READ-->>
- Cancún: No agreement is better than a bad agreement!December 9 statement by La Via Campesina: We call on humanity to act immediately to rebuild the life of all of nature, applying the concept of “life in balance.” Members of La Vía Campesina from more than thirty countries from all over the world united our thousands of struggles in Cancun to demand environmental and social ...---READ-->>
- Cancun: Evo Morales Speaks on Climate Change and Capitalism“We came to Cancun to save nature, forests, planet Earth. We are not here to convert nature into a commodity. We have not come here to revitalize capitalism with carbon markets.” Quotes from speech and press conference by Evo Morales, president of the plurinational state of Bolivia, at the UN climate talks in Cancun today, December ...---READ-->>
- ALBA Governments and La Via Campesina denounce elite climate talksThe Cochabamba People’s Agreement is the peoples’ solution to the climate crisis Press release – La Via Campesina Cancún, 7 December 2010 La Via Campesina, the world’s largest movement of peasant and smallholder farmers, joined with Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network, Ricardo Navarro of Friends of the ...---READ-->>
- Cancún Eyewitness #5: Via Campesina protestsVia Campesina holds panel discussions and demonstrations. Morales speaks tomorrow. by Javier Sethness Recent days have seen Mexican President Felipe Calderón dress in green, test-drive a ‘green’ electric car, and propose that all incandescent bulbs in Mexico be phased out within four years, while U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, conceding that the failure to avert climatic ...---READ-->>
- Cancun: Canadian and US Activists Condemn Their GovernmentsOn Global Climate Justice Day in Cancun, US & Canadian protesters stand behind the Cochabamba Agreement, and denounce their governments’ anti-democratic behavior at the negotiations from La Vox: Climate Justice US and Canadian UN COP16 observers and climate justice activists will demonstrate against their governments’ position at the climate change conference by joining the Via Campesina ...---READ-->>
- Bolivia Responds to U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks Revealed by WikiLeaksAmy Goodman interviews Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN, on Wikileaks revelations the United States used financial and other aid for blackmail, and mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the “Copenhagen Accord” Broadcast on Democracy Now!, December 6, 2010 AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Cancún, Mexico, from the U.N. climate change global ...---READ-->>
- La Vía Campesina: "Foil the carbon market plan!"The global forum “For Life, Environmental and Social Justice” has begun One idea dominated the opening and first working day of the global forum “For Life, Environmental and Social Justice,” organized by La Via Campesina and its allies at their camp in Cancún: we must foil the carbon markets and the REDD programme which governments intend ...---READ-->>
- La Vía Campesina: "COP 16 is doomed to fail"Statement by Alberto Gomez of La Via Campesina’s international coordination. La Via Campesina Press Release, December 4, 2010 The sixth Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16) is already seen as a failure that will affect the future of humanity, as its only result will be to strengthen the intention ...---READ-->>
- Cancún Eyewitness #4: Making ecocide a crime; Via Campesina arrivesLittle progress is evident in the official climate negotiations, but activity is growing outside the meeting halls by Javier Sethness Recent days of the COP-16 negotiations currently being held in Cancún have been little different than the initial days of the summit, for little has been agreed on or achieved. Christiana Figueres, Yvo de Boer’s successor as ...---READ-->>
- Putting Humans Back into SocialismA real socialist alternative requires a “profound democracy from below rather than decisions by a state that stands over and above society”, where all workers are able to develop their human capacities. Michael Lebowitz. The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development. Monthly Review Press, 2010. reviewed by Federico Fuentes Green Left Weekly, December 5, 2010 The onset of the ...---READ-->>
- Rumors and Pessimism Reign in CancúnRich nations aim to replace the Kyoto Protocol with the Copenhagen Accord, eliminating compulsory emission reduction targets by Emilio Godoy IPS, December 4, 2010 CANCÚN, Mexico, Dec 4, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – At the end of the first week of climate negotiations under way in this Mexican Caribbean resort city, it seems a distant possibility that the nearly 200 ...---READ-->>
- Cuban Doctors Lead the Fight Against Cholera in HaitiWith a tradition of service in the world’s poorest and most forgotten states, the Cubans are a major frontline force in the multinational response to the raging epidemic PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters, December 3, 2010) – They don’t send out press releases, don’t have public information officers and their contacts are not widely publicized by the huge international ...---READ-->>
- Grim picture emerging in Cancun climate talksExpectations for an agreement at COP16 were deliberately lowered by governments and in the mainstream media in the lead-up to these talks. But what is happening now is even worse by Brent Patterson rabble.ca, December 3, 2010 A picture is starting to emerge from the early days of the climate talks in Cancun. The trend in the negotiations appears ...---READ-->>