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- Copenhagen: A Turning Point for the Climate MovementThe number of demonstrators on the streets of Copenhagen is a proof positive that it is possible to develop mass mobilisations on the issue of global warming by Terry Conway and Thomas Eisler Socialist Resistance, December 21, 2009 On Saturday Dec 12, 100,000 demonstrated in the streets of Copenhagen outside the COP 15 summit demanding urgent ...---READ-->>
- Fidel: The Truth About CopenhagenThe truth can be stronger than the influenced and often misinformed minds of those holding in their hands the destiny of the world. by Fidel Castro Ruz Cuba News, December 19, 2009 The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, ...---READ-->>
- Surprise: Harper likes it!Conclusive proof that the Copenhagen Accord is a dangerous hoax that will have no effect on emissions: “It has been a long battle to get us to this point, but this is an agreement that Canada is very comfortable with.” -Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. ****************************************************** During the talks, climate activists gave Canada the “Fossil of the Year” award ...---READ-->>
- ALBA and G77 Denounce Copenhagen Sham“Obama, acting the way he did, definitely established that there’s no difference between him and the Bush tradition” from Links International Journal of Socialist Revewal Speaking on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took the floor at the plenary of the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen to denounce the ...---READ-->>
- Full Text: Chavez Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen“Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.” Video of Hugo Chavez’s speech at the Copenhagen climate conference is now available on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. The following translation was ...---READ-->>
- Copenhagen: Chavez Salutes Climate Protestors“I have been reading some of the slogans painted in the streets … One said, ‘Don’t Change the Climate, Change the System!’ – And I bring that on board for us. Let’s not change the climate. Let’s change the system!” by Kiraz Janicke Venezuelanalysis, December 16th 2009, During his speech to the 15th United Nations Climate Change ...---READ-->>
- Countering critics of a cap-and-trade critiqueBy Patrick Bond Eight million people have viewed Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute The Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch. The film, produced by Free Range Studios, was developed in collaboration with the Durban Group for Climate Justice ...---READ-->>
- Venezuela: What's Happening in Copenhagen is UnacceptableDeveloped nations will be judged by the world for what they are doing at the moment … we are not going to let them get away with it Published by Telesur, December 15th 2009. Translated by Kiraz Janicke for Venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan delegation to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, denounced Tuesday the attitude of developed countries in ...---READ-->>
- Interview with Bolivia's Climate Change AmbassadorFor the capitalist system everything, nature – even other humans – is considered an object that you can use to obtain a profit. What we are seeing is the consequence of this vision by Robert Eshelman The Nation, December 9, 2009 On day three of COP15, I spoke with Bolivian Climate Change Ambassador Pablo Erick Solón Romero ...---READ-->>
- Klimaforum: A People's Declaration on Climate ChangeSystem Change, not Climate Change! Statement issued by Klimaform09 in Copenhagen, December 10, 2009 Summary There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more ...---READ-->>
- Copenhagen eyewitness: The rising tide of climate justiceA first-hand report from the largest climate protest ever by Lauren Carroll Harris Green Left Weekly, December 14, 2009 (Copenhagen) One hundred thousand protesters braved near freezing temperatures and took over the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on December 12 to crank up the heat on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP15) and demand climate ...---READ-->>
- Climate Catastrophe and Israel’s Denial of Palestinian Access to WaterTwo aspects of contemporary barbarism … by Javier Sethness Amnesty International has recently released two reports on Israeli water policy that present a rather thoroughgoing indictment of the Zionist colonization project broadly conceived. Entitled “Thirsting for Justice: Palestinian Access to Water Restricted” and “Troubled Waters: Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water,” the reports join many other ...---READ-->>
- Leaked Document Shows Rich Nations Plan Climate Coup in CopenhagenDeveloping countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol by John Vidal The Guardian, December 8, 2009 The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week ...---READ-->>
- Climate protests, capitalism and the working class movementThe working class movement will only be rebuilt as part of a new political response to the failures of neo-liberal capitalism – a response that includes addressing climate change and ecology by Barry Kade Considering normally climate demos only attract a few thousand, last Saturday’s protest in London and elsewhere of 50,000 was massive. This is because A) ...---READ-->>
- Why Population Isn’t the Problem“There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” -H. L. Mencken---READ-->>
- Video: Those Hacked E-mailsThe least the conspiracy nuts could do would be to actually read the documents they stole…---READ-->>
- Video: The Story of Cap and TradeA fast-paced, fact-filled look at the climate solution most favored by profiteers. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals …. The Story of Cap & Trade.---READ-->>
- Monbiot: Canada threatens the well-being of the world“Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.” By George Monbiot Talk in Toronto, November 28, 2009 published in The Guardian 30 November 2009 When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s ...---READ-->>
- Copenhagen and Seattle: From climate denialism to activist alliancesWe need to learn the main lesson from Seattle: by walking out and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress By Patrick Bond Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of African elites’ stiffened spines. That’s a great development ...---READ-->>
- Ecuador: Dirty War in the AmazonIn the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen? by Christine Toomey Times Online, November 29, 2009 Torrential rain has washed ...---READ-->>