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- Double Standard: BP and BhopalIf we continue to value some lives more than others, and to allow corporations to spoil some areas with impunity, our world will not last. by Bill Quigley and Alex Tuscano from Bill Quigley’s Blog on The Smirking Chimp, July 2, 2010 When President Barak Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion dollar fund be set up ...---READ-->>
- Put BP on Trial for Crimes Against the EarthThe demands of the movement against BP are clear: the oil company should be put on trial for the environmental devastation it has caused and forced to pay for the entire clean-up operation. by Mark Bergfeld Socialist Review, July/August 2010 British Petroleum chief executive John Browne surprised many environmentalists in 1995 when he withdrew BP from ...---READ-->>
- BP and Obama: A Disaster ForetoldU.S. regulators allowed BP to operate with lower safety standards than is required in the North Sea, and about the same kind of regulatory regime as is asked for by the government of Nigeria in its Delta. by Vijay Prashad Frontline, India’s National Magazine The oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. It began to ...---READ-->>
- Big Oil: From Nigeria to the Gulf of MexicoWe’re in a death spiral of industrial calamities that are all for the sake of producing petroleum products that will, in turn, create another set of appalling calamities called man made climate change. by Michael Collins Dissident Voice, June 18, 2010 The big oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not the first to threaten a ...---READ-->>
- Declaration of the US Ecojustice People’s Movement Assembly“We support the conclusion that only by “living well,” in harmony with each other and with Mother Earth, rather than “living better,” based on an economic system of unlimited growth, dominance and exploitation, will the people of this planet not only survive but thrive.” Declaration adopted by the Ecojustice People’s Movement Assembly at the US Social ...---READ-->>
- Guatemala: Canadian-owned mine suspended for human rights violations, health hazardsIndigenous anti-mine activists face death threats (News Release issued by MiningWatch Canada and the Center for International Environmental Law, June 24, 2010) Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced yesterday that he is suspending operations at the Marlin mine, operated by Vancouver-based Goldcorp, Inc. According to the Guatemalan government, the process to shut down the mine might take months. ...---READ-->>
- A Mistaken Criticism of CochabambaInternational 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 Alliance member Ben Courtice, responds to those criticisms: we encourage C&C readers to add their comments on this ...---READ-->>
- Food crisis: causes, consequences and alternativesGovernments and international institutions have become accomplices, when not co-profiteers, in a productivist, unsustainable and privatized food system.---READ-->>
- Failure and fraud at UN climate talksBonn meeting opts for inadequate voluntary targets, big loopholes, and market scams by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, June 20, 2010 On June 11 at the close of climate talks in Bonn, Germany, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer tried to put a positive spin on the outcome. “This all in all is a big step forward making ...---READ-->>
- Greenwashing the PentagonThe 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. by Joseph Nevins Common Dreams, June 14, 2010 As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, just one of many manifestations of perilous ecological degradation across ...---READ-->>
- Daniel Dorling: What the ruling class believesFrom 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 unjust beliefs, including the belief that so many should now be ‘losers’, most of those ...---READ-->>
- Video: Vancouver's Cochabamba Report Back MeetingVideos from the June 10, 2010 report back meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, organized by Canada-Bolivia Solidarity Committee Presentations on the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, featuring … Adriana Paz Kris Krug Robert Lovelace (4 parts) Derrick O’Keefe Ben West (2 parts) Audience questions (2 parts) Online now at Working TV---READ-->>
- 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 by John Vidal The Guardian, June 9, 2010 Developing countries were today shocked by new UN data showing that rich nations will ...---READ-->>
- Building a Climate Justice Movement in QuebecThe 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. by Roger Rashi The Cochabamba Conference on Climate Change has issued a call to build “a global peoples movement for climate ...---READ-->>
- Charcoal Ain't Gonna Cool the Planet (Duh)!Biochar supporters promote buried charcoal as a clean, natural solution to glonal warming, but scientific evidence is pretty much non-existent, and the danger it poses to forests is very real. by Rachel Smolker CommonDreams.org It’s downright amazing what people are willing to put their faith in when confronted with a crisis. With ever more dire impacts from a ...---READ-->>
- How Three Green Parties Went WrongThe experience of Greens in Ireland, Czech Republic and Germany shows that you can’t be a progressive force while selling your soul for a seat at the big man’s table. by Jim Jepps from The Daily (Maybe), June 5, 2010 There’s nothing particularly left-wing about caring about the environment. I know plenty of Tories who are passionate about ...---READ-->>
- Haitian Farmers Say 'Burn Monsanto’s Seeds'“With friends like Monsanto and its governmental allies, who needs enemies?” Canadian activists call for action in support of Haitian farmers from the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network Thursday, June 3, 2010 – Today farmer and environmental groups from across Canada stated their support for tomorrow’s farmer march in Haiti, organized to protest a donation of 475 tons ...---READ-->>
- Video: Talking About a RevolutionPoor people gonna rise up and take what’s theirs … Finally the tables are starting to turn … — Tracy Chapman is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist. This song was her second single: it can be found on her first album, Tracy Chapman, on Elektra/Asylum records, which won the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.---READ-->>
- Deepwater Lesson: Expropriate the ExpropriatorsThe corporate state is leading us on a death march at an ever-escalating pace. Deepwater and Bhopal are us. It will not do to tinker around the edges in response. Only revolution can save the Earth. by Paul Street MRzine, June 2, 2010 “If an oil well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when ...---READ-->>
- Part Two: The Perils of Per CapitaContinuing our examination of the misuse (deliberate or not) of numbers, statistics and formulas by advocates of the “too many people” explanation of environmental destruction.---READ-->>