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- Declaration of South African Food Sovereignty CampaignBreak the power of food corporations. Establish a constitutional right to food. Build food sovereignty from below, based on small scale farming and agroecology, not industrial agriculture---READ-->>
- Capitalism versus rational agricultureHighly recommended reading: Two articles on the contradictions between growing food to meet essential human needs and growing food to produce profit---READ-->>
- Climate inaction: The appalling complicity of liberal mediaAs Earth steadily moves deeper into the danger zone, corporate media responds by giving less and less coverage to climate and the environment---READ-->>
- 30 year record proves the climate has changedClimate is defined as the 30-year weather average. The past 3 decades show that the new normal is systematically rising temperatures, not the stability of the past---READ-->>
- Marxist trade union leader runs for UK GreensRMT President: ‘Environmental devastation is a socialist issue. It always has been, though for most of the time most socialists tended to relegate it.’---READ-->>
- Derek Wall names ‘Five essential books on climate change’Green Party International Coordinator recommends books for candidates---READ-->>
- The RCMP versus the ‘anti-petroleum movement’Canada’s political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.---READ-->>
- Algeria: Protests challenge shale gas plansOngoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria pit a well-organised, conscious population against a government that ignores or trivializes their concerns.---READ-->>
- Climate activists must stand with striking U.S. oilworkwersSupporting the strike is a key part of the fight against fossil fuels. Our enemies are the oil corporations, not the oilworkers they exploit and endanger---READ-->>
- Climate shock: East Antarctica is melting, tooNew research shows that the largest glacier in East Antarctica, long thought to be stable, is in fact melting from below.---READ-->>
- Noam Chomsky: Can civilization survive capitalism?Under ‘really existing capitalism,’ science and rationality must be suppressed to protect the rulers’ interests, no matter who is hurt---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 1: War and the true tragedy of the commonsThe U.S. military is the world’s biggest and most destructive polluter. Stopping the war machine is an essential part of saving the earth.---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 2: Military waste sickens land and peopleThe U.S. military generates more toxic waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined.---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 3: Chemical warfare and Agent OrangeFour decades after the U.S. military fled Vietnam, millions of children and adults still suffer the devastating effects of its deliberately ecocidal assault---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 4: A biological bargain with the devilThe “war on terror” includes massive federal funding for secret research on the most lethal bacteria and viruses with no known cure---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 5: The deadly impact of depleted uraniumThe use of depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans and Iraq has left a long-term legacy of cancers and birth defects among civilians---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 6: Weapons of mass destruction in slow motionDuring and after the Pentagon’s wars, landmines and cluster bombs kill and maim, while blocking resettlement and agriculture in the poorest regions---READ-->>
- Pentagon Pollution, 7: The military assault on global climateThe U.S. military is the single greatest institutional contributor to the growing natural disasters intensified by global climate change.---READ-->>
- The extraordinary communities that arise in disasterChallenging common myths, Rebecca Solnit shows that ordinary people often respond to disaster with self-sacrifice, humanity, kindness and basic solidarity---READ-->>
- The liberal attack on Naomi Klein and ‘This Changes Everything’Naomi Klein’s inspiring book frightens capitalism’s liberal defenders, making them desperate to blunt and undermine its message.---READ-->>