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- EIN Website & Discussion Group LaunchedIt’s brand new, so there’s not much in it yet, but the Ecosocialist Network now has a website: http://www.ecosocialistnetwork.org/There is also a yahoogroup for discussion among friends and supporters of EIN. To join, send a blank email to EI-Network-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, and follow the instructions in the email response you receive.---READ-->>
- We Speak for Ourselves: Indigenous Peoples Challenge the Fossil Fuel Regime In Albertaby Clayton Thomas-Muller Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice. He has worked across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots Indigenous communities to defend their Inherit, Treaty and environmental rights against unsustainable energy development and transnational energy corporations. Over ...---READ-->>
- Cuba: Restoring Lost Balance in NatureBy Patricia Grogg From Inter Press Service SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Oct 23 (IPS) – Efforts to restore degraded island ecosystems are already producing results in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, where scientists from different disciplines have been fomenting environmentally-friendly practices since the beginning of this decade. One of the restoration projects is in Cayo Conuco, ...---READ-->>
- A Comment on the EINUK blogger Jeremy William, who works for the Christian charity Lifewords, commented on the Ecosocialist International Network in the ecology blog Celsias last week. He’s sympathetic and interested, but more than a little sceptical… Last week saw the birth of a new movement. You may have noticed it, but probably not. In a hotel in Paris, delegates ...---READ-->>
- Toronto Students Call for Dec. 8 Actions on Climate ChangeA leaflet distributed at the University of Toronto by Students Against Climate Change GLOBAL WARMING SUCKS! We are living on this planet as though we have another one to go to Peer-reviewed science confirms the effects of man-made climate change: Catastrophic loss of both human and non-human life Loss of 15 to 37% of all species / loss of biodiversity Economic ...---READ-->>
- Why New Labour Supports Expansion of Nuclear Powerby Phil Ward From Socialist Resistance, October 2007 October 10 sees the end of a public “consultation” to “help the government take a decision on the future of nuclear power in the UK”. The exercise is completely cynical. In February the government was found in court to have prejudged the issue, having held a previous consultation, described ...---READ-->>
- A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and PeoplesDeclaration of the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World” Translated from America Latina en Movimiento for Bolivia Rising by Richard Fidler. Footnotes added by the translator. A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 12, 2007 From the heart of South America, ...---READ-->>
- December 8: International Day of Climate Change ProtestsThis call was published by the Global Climate Campaign. Their website includes links to information on protests planned in many countries. Global Climate Campaign http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/ Building a global movement to confront the ultimate global crisis International Demonstrations on Climate Change DECEMBER 8th, 2007 on the Saturday midway through the UN Climate Talks In Bali, Indonesia On December 3rd 2005 during ...---READ-->>
- Climate Change will Devastate River Basins Where One Billion LiveAbstract of an article in the Online Journal of the Ecological Society of America. Subscription required to read entire article. Major rivers worldwide have experienced dramatic changes in flow, reducing their natural ability to adjust to and absorb disturbances. Given expected changes in global climate and water needs, this may create serious problems, including loss of ...---READ-->>
- Interview with an EcosocialistIan Angus was interviewed this month by the Greek socialist newspaper Kokkino (Red). Let’s begin with a large question — what is ecosocialism? ANGUS: Ecosocialism has grown out of two parallel political trends — the spread of Marxist ideas in the green movement and the spread of ecological ideas in the Marxist left. The result is a ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist International Network (News Release)This is the official announcement issued following the international meeting of ecosocialists in Paris, October 7-8 FIRST INTERNATIONAL ECOSOCIALIST MEETING On October 7th and 8th 2007, a group of ecological activists from thirteen countries met in Paris to inaugurate the Ecosocialist International Network. The International Ecosocialist Manifesto, written some years ago by Joel Kovel and Michael Löwy, ...---READ-->>
- Ecosocialists Launch International NetworkI’m still exhausted after two days of meetings in Paris, but here is a hastily-written basic outline of the results of the first international meeting of ecosocialists. The Ecosocialist International Network. launched in Paris, France on October 7-8, aims to improve global communication and coordination among activists who are organizing against capitalist ecocide. Participants in the founding ...---READ-->>
- The Red and the Green: Part Two – What kind of development?Continued from The Red and the Green Part One By William Bowles The word development implies ‘progress’ but by whose definition and anyway, what is progress, and where exactly, are we progressing to? Are the rainforest peoples’ of the Amazon for example, ‘given’ progress when they are forcibly resettled and their forests chopped down (for their ...---READ-->>
- World Bank Razed Congo Forestsby John Vidal, Environment Editor The Guardian Thursday October 4 2007 The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world’s second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. The report by the independent inspection panel, seen by ...---READ-->>
- Soil Building: A Better Way to Capture Carbonby Michael Perelman Originally published as “Quick Thoughts on Carbon Sequestration” in Unsettling Economics and MRzine. Posted with the author’s permission. Carbon sequestration is an excessively expensive and probably technically impossible method of capturing significant amounts of carbon. Planting trees is another popular suggestion for sequestering carbon, but a more traditional method has not been mentioned to ...---READ-->>
- Why Algonquin First Nations Are Blocking Uranium Exploration in OntarioA Letter from the the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. August 14, 2007 The Honourable Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Dear Premier McGuinty: We are writing to seek your intervention in the impasse that currently exists with respect to uranium exploration in Algonquin territory. We, ...---READ-->>
- Evo Morales: "Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity"The following is Bolivian President Evo Morales’ speech to the United Nations meeting on Climate Change, on September 24, 2007. It should be read injunction with Morales’ letter to the UN, posted here previously. Translation by Climate and Capitalism Thank you. I would like greet the panel, and on behalf of the Bolivian peoples, I want ...---READ-->>
- Brazil's Sugar Cane Cutters Pay the Cost of EthanolFrom 2002 to 2005, 312 workers in the sugar cane and ethanol industries died on the job, and 82,995 suffered accidents while working in cane fields and ethanol plants By Carlos Caminada and Michael Smith (Bloomberg News) International Herald Tribune, October 1, 2007 SÃO PAULO: Manuel Rodrigues da Silva stooped over, wielding a machete to slice through bamboolike ...---READ-->>
- Left Victory in Ecuador: Nation's Institutions to be TransformedBy Roger Burbach From Counterpunch, October 1, 2007 “We have won an historic victory,” proclaimed President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. On Sunday the political coalition he heads won an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Constituent Assembly that is tasked with “refounding” the nation’s institutions. Taking office early this year in a land slide victory, Correa has ...---READ-->>
- The Red and The Green, Part One(William Bowles has been host of the excellent Investigating New Imperialism (INI) site since 2003. He is now leaving that site as an archive, and has launched Creative-I, which, he hopes will be easier to manage because it uses “all the new publishing tools available.” It is published using WordPress 2.3, a platform that Climate ...---READ-->>