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- Three Important Books for EcosocialistsMust-have additions to your library Three new books, from three different continents. We may publish full reviews in the future if our workload allows. But don’t wait: all three are important resources for activists. Because they are new and not to be found in most bookstores, we’ve suggested places where you can order them. Climate Code Red: ...---READ-->>
- Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil Under AttackNoted Dominican friar and activist Frei Betto denounces the criminalization of the social movements that once swept Lula into the Brazilian presidency. by Frei Betto One of the great attributes of Lula’s government is the non-criminalizing of social movements which were repressed during Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s government even by calling in army troops. If Lula were ...---READ-->>
- Ottawa Buries Another Climate Change Report“Human Health in a Changing Climate” Gets Harper’s “Low-Profile” Treatment Canada’s federal government, like its good friends in the ...---READ-->>
- Stuffed and Starved: Snapping the Power of AgribusinessA review of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System, by Raj Patel. (Harper Collins, Toronto, 2007) Review by Leo Zeilig Leo Zeilig is a socialist activist in Johannesburg. He is a post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg. This review was published in LINKS: International ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism: Working Towards a DefinitionPublished in the hope of stirring some conversation By Jasper Richardson Jasper Richardson is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales. He submitted this article to Climate and Capitalism in order to “stir some conversation.” Comments are encouraged. A recent public meeting in London entitled ‘ecosocialism’, featuring prominent speakers from Socialist Resistance, Left ...---READ-->>
- Indigenous Community in Argentina Votes to Ban Canadian MineFrom Intercontinental Cry The Indigenous Municipality of Tilcara, in northern Argentina’s Quebrada de Humahuaca district, has ratified legislation that prohibits open-pit metal mining, as well as the storage, use, sale, production, extraction and transportation of dangerous substances used in the mining process. Tilcara announced its decision on July 8, in the final days of a popular assembly ...---READ-->>
- Cuba Offers Unused Land to Small FarmersAs part of a drive to increase food production and reduce imports, the Cuban government announced a new plan for distribution of idle land to small farmers and cooperatives throughout the island. The focus will be on land near urban areas, so that city-dwellers will not have to travel long distances to reach their farms, ...---READ-->>
- Demography and Women's RightsThis email is from John Riddell, co-editor of Socialist Voice. He has given permission to republish it here. He stresses that these are informal notes, not a worked out article or analysis. The June 29 New York Times Magazine features a significant article on population trends, entitled No Baby? Discussion of demography is notoriously beset by racists, ...---READ-->>
- Agrofuel Company Violently Represses Indigenous Communities In GuatemalaRights Action calls for protests against Inter-American Development Bank policies that fund agrofuel monoculture The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) is promoting and funding agrofuel monocultures across Latin America. This is being done under the Bank’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative, even though agrofuel monocultures are clearly unsustainable and make climate change considerably worse. $3 billion ...---READ-->>
- For a Union Response to Capitalist Climate Change Plans‘The trade union movement urgently needs to develop its own positions on how to fight global warming’ by Tim Gooden From Green Left Weekly, July 12, 2008 Related Reading: Australian Government Considers Pro-Business Carbon Trading Plan Right at the beginning of his draft report on climate change, Professor Ross Garnaut points out that global warming can’t be beaten unless an ...---READ-->>
- Australian Government Considers Pro-Business Carbon Trading PlanReport commissioned by Labor Party proposes “solutions” that won’t work By Kamala Emanuel From Green Left Weekly, July 12, 2008 Related Reading: For a Union Response to Capitalist Climate Change Plans Arctic sea ice reached a record minimum in the Northern summer of 2007, prompting the revision of scientists’ predictions of how quickly it will melt away altogether in ...---READ-->>
- Ecuadorian Assembly Approves Constitutional Rights for NatureOn July 7, the 130-member Ecuador Constitutional Assembly, elected countrywide to rewrite the country’s Constitution, voted to approve articles that recognize rights for nature and ecosystems. UPDATE: On September 28, 2008, the people of Ecuador voted by an overwhelming majority (64%) to approve the new constitution. “If adopted in the final constitution by the people, Ecuador would ...---READ-->>
- G8 Moves Backward on Climate ChangeStatement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2008: The G8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud being perpetrated on the global community that would significantly reduce its capacity to contain climate change. We fully agree with the statement ...---READ-->>
- British Columbia Awash in GreenwashBy Roger Annis Related Reading: B.C.’s Carbon Tax: A Regressive Hoax Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British Columbia The Liberal Party government of BC Premier Gordon Campbell, first elected in 2001 and then re-elected in 2005, has carried out some of the worst attacks on social and political rights in recent Canadian history. Education and health services ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Manifesto: Comment Deadline ExtendedMake your views known by July 15 This message was posted today on the Ecosocialist International Network mailing list by the coordinator of the editing committee: The discussion of the first draft of the Ecosocialist Manifesto has been going well, though there are probably more people who would still like to give comments and feedback. Please encourage ...---READ-->>
- Stephane Dion's Green Tax HoaxCanada’s Liberal Party proposes a tax change that won’t change anything by Ian Angus Environmentalists from David Suzuki on down have praised Canada’s Liberal Party for its new “Green Shift” policy. Leader Stephane Dion announced it with great fanfare — a broadly-based carbon tax, coupled with sweeping income tax reductions. This, we are told, is the most ...---READ-->>
- Green Fascism and the Greening of HatePopulation control — the ideology of the green right Related reading: Population Control and Climate Change, Part One: Too Many People? Population Control and Climate Change, Part Two: The Socialist Alternative “We’re not left or right, we’re green.” That phrase has been repeated ad nauseum by green politicos who think they are being clever, but constant repetition doesn’t make ...---READ-->>
- Climate Change and the Fight Against Neoliberalismby Daniel Tanuro Daniel Tanuro is an activist in Climat et Justice Sociale in Belgium. This article is based on the talk he gave at the International Climate Forum organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change, in London on June 15. Dear friends, dear comrades, Thank you for the invitation to talk at this international event. I’m glad to ...---READ-->>
- Hansen accuses energy execs of crimes against humanity and natureTop climate scientist to Congress: Act fast before time runs out The director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the world’s top experts on climate change, told a congressional briefing yesterday that delays by business and politicians have “used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming ...---READ-->>
- Thirteen Science Academies Urge Fundamental Social ChangeJoint Statement from 13 national science academies to the forthcoming G8 meeting in Japan, July 7-9 (Editor’s note: This is obviously not an ecosocialist statement, but ecosocialists should nonetheless note and publicize the fact that the top scientific organizations in 13 countries have agreed on need for “fundamental changes in all sectors and levels of ...---READ-->>