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- Bush Says Starving India Eats Too MuchTruly, imperialist hypocrisy knows no bounds Kavita Krishnan writes .. Karl Marx, born on 5 May, 1818, nearly two centuries ago, had in 1867 laid bare the “intimate connection between the pangs of hunger of the most industrious layers of the working class, and the extravagant consumption, coarse or refined, of the rich, for which capitalist accumulation ...---READ-->>
- Proving the Link Between Biofuel and Food PricesMany politicians deny or minimize the link between ethanol production and global food prices. The evidence proves them wrong. To anyone with any insight at all, there is an obvious connection between food prices and what Fidel Castro has justly called “the sinister idea of converting food into fuel.” That hasn’t stopped politicians in the United ...---READ-->>
- Agrofuel Expansion on Stolen Lands Threatens Colombian Peasant CommunitiesProduction of biofuels is expanding on land stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities, endangering Colombia’s rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climate From Rainforest Portal, May 6, 2008 Plantation expansion for agrofuels remains a major threat to the lives, livelihoods and the environment of Afro-Colombian and other peasant communities in Chocó, Colombia. This is one of the ...---READ-->>
- Global Warming Intensifies Grain Crisis in IndiaNot a socialist analysis, but an insightful perspective from India, where water stress, declining soil health and global warming have made wheat production unsteady for six or seven years Related Reading on Climate and Capitalism: What’s Causing the Food Crisis? Them Belly Full But We Hungry Slideshow: The Global Food Crisis By G. Chandrashekhar From Business Line, a daily published by ...---READ-->>
- Them Belly Full But We HungryBob Marley in 1976 — an anthem for 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4DltFF-dQ&feature=related Lyrics: Them belly full but we hungry. A hungry mob is a angry mob. A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough; A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough. You’re gonna dance to JAH music, dance. We’re gonna dance to JAH music, dance. Forget your troubles and dance. Forget your sorrow and dance. Forget your ...---READ-->>
- B.C.’s Carbon Tax: A Regressive HoaxThe editorial in the current issue of Canadian Dimension magazine (May/June 2008) H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” British Columbia’s recently announced carbon tax is a case in point. It won’t reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and it will have no impact on global ...---READ-->>
- Slideshow: The Global Food CrisisPrepared by Peter Boyle of the Australian Socialist Alliance---READ-->>
- Australian Ecosocialists Launch New BlogAn “intersection set” of the various left and green movements Climate and Capitalism previously published an interview with John Rice, one of the initiators of the Ecosocialist Network, in Adelaide, Australia. Rice was a speaker at recent very successful Climate Change | Social Change conference organized by Green Left Weekly — an audio recording of his ...---READ-->>
- Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness, and the Food Sovereignty Alternative (Part Two)by Ian Angus editor of Climate and Capitalism “Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.” —Fidel Castro, 1998 When food riots broke out in Haiti last month, the first country ...---READ-->>
- Imprisoned Algonquin activist writes to Citizens' Inquiry on Uranium MiningRobert Lovelace: “I have no doubt that more people will have to go to prison before Ontario becomes nuclear free and we embrace a society that undertakes real sustainability” Robert submitted this handwritten presentation to the Inquiry via surface mail. Acting Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Co-Chief, Mireille LaPointe, read the presentation at the Ottawa Inquiry on ...---READ-->>
- Building a Red-Green AllianceDave Riley writes: While it may be urgent that we create a red green alliance to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change, our collective problem is: how are we going to do that? The Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney Australia during April tried to tackle that challenge.This was a bold attempt ...---READ-->>
- Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness, and the Food Sovereignty Alternative (Part One)By Ian Angus “If the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave. If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that’s OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we’ll die of hunger.” — A demonstrator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti In Haiti, where most people get 22% ...---READ-->>
- Workers and Climate ChangeOn International Workers Day, unionists must reject the illusion that ‘clean coal’ is possible, and join the fight against climate change Editorial from the indispensable Australian newspaper Green Left Weekly, April 26, 2008 On May 1, International Workers Day, workers and unionists need to reflect on the greatest challenge facing humanity: global warming. Workers operate and ...---READ-->>
- "The Best Premier Oil Money Can Buy"Greenpeace activists interrupt a fundraising dinner to expose Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach’s real role Edmonton, Canada — On April 24, 2008, Greenpeace Canada activists delivered a clear message to Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, dropping from the ceiling above the annual Edmonton Premier’s Dinner as he was delivering his fundraising speech, unveiling a banner as they descended ...---READ-->>
- Video: Rally to Free Bob Lovelace and the KI 6Highlights from the April 9, 2008 Rally at Ryerson University, Toronto: Land Rights, Not Mining Rights! Other articles on this struggle: Ontario Jails Aboriginal Leaders for Peacefully Opposing Mining on Native Land Kitchenuhmaykoosib People Continue the Fight for Their Land Land Rights Not Mining Rights: Free Robert Lovelace and the KI 6 Ontario Jails First Nation Leaders; KI Pledges to ...---READ-->>
- Climate Crisis — Urgent Action Needed Now!Statement initiated by participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference, Sydney, Australia, April 11-13, 2008 ++++++++++++ The following statement was started by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference. It is being distributed to environmental, trade union, Indigenous, migrant, religious and community organizations to help build the movement against global warming. Anyone who agrees with it is ...---READ-->>
- Evo Morales: 10 Commandments to Save the EarthSpeaking at the United Nations today, Bolivian president Evo Morales proposed 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity Acabar con el sistema capitalista Putting an end to the capitalist system Renunciar a las guerras Renouncing wars Un mundo sin imperialismo ni colonialismo A world without imperialism or colonialism Derecho al agua Right to water Desarrollo de energías limpias Development of ...---READ-->>
- Australian Conference Report: Green Lefts and Left Greens Discuss Climate And Social ChangeBy Pip Hinman More than 300 people took part in three days of invigorating discussion at the Climate Change — Social Change conference on April 11-13 hosted by Green Left Weekly. A range of speakers including John Bellamy Foster, a renowned Marxist ecologist from the US, brought a socialist perspective to the discussion about the ...---READ-->>
- Individual Versus Social Solutions to Global WarmingBy blaming individuals, the ruling class aims to greenwash their intrinsically environmentally destructive economic and social system (A talk to the Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney from April 11 to 13. Thanks to Inhabitable Earth for the text. The subheads were added by Climate and Capitalism.) by Terry Townsend, Managing Editor, Links I’m sure ...---READ-->>
- Big Oil Still Gets the Cash: How the Canadian Government Subsidizes Greenhouse Gas EmittersDespite its green promises, Ottawa continues giving big tax breaks to tar sands companies Ottawa will spend $1.5 billion dollars in additional subsidies to tar sands companies as a result of its delay in phasing out tax breaks for one of Canada’s largest greenhouse gas emitting (GHG) industries. The federal government confirmed the tax ...---READ-->>