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- Pablo Solon on the future of the climate justice movement“When we speak about climate justice we are not speaking about something that’s going to be decided in the UN, but something we have to fight for, now, in our daily struggles.”---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Conference shows potential for a united green left in North America“A resounding success!” Participants report on a major step forward for anti-capitalist organizing in the environmental movement.---READ-->>
- To reclaim our future, we must change the present! A program for changing the system, not the climate“We will not allow the capitalist system to burn us all. We will take action and address the root causes of climate change by changing the system.”---READ-->>
- What BP doesn’t want you to know about the 2010 Gulf spillAn anonymous whistleblower has provided evidence that BP was warned in advance about the safety risks of attempting to cover up its leaking oil.---READ-->>
- In U.S., cops hold back hungry people as food dumpedIn the world’s richest country, banks destroy good food while children go hungry---READ-->>
- Ian Angus: Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity’s futureVideo and text of talk to Toronto pipeline protest meeting, April 7, 2013---READ-->>
- Toronto pipeline fight links local and global issuesLine 9 protest organizers build community support for grassroots fight against local pollution, tar sands, and global warming---READ-->>
- Thatcher's funeral: A modest neoliberal proposalKen Loach suggests an appropriate send-off---READ-->>
- Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity's future“By resisting the Line 9 pipeline through Toronto, you are directly engaged in the fight t save our planet.”---READ-->>
- James Hansen: Keystone XL is a pipeline to disasterThe pipeline apologists contradict the laws of physics and economics. There are no more mixed messages, just catastrophe after catastrophe.---READ-->>
- The looming threat of water scarcityIf present trends continue, by 2025 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity, and almost almost half of the world’s people will face water stress.---READ-->>
- 'How to make an ecosocialist revolution' now in TamilTamil translation of talk by Ian Angus---READ-->>
- Farmers' Union: Why we support Idle No More“The common ground that Idle No More and the NFU share is literal; our common ground is the land.”---READ-->>
- What next for the U.S. climate movement?For years, we’ve argued for a mass movement that goes beyond white middle class environmentalists and embraces working people, people of color and First Nations people. Now that such a movement is beginning to emerge, where it is to go?---READ-->>
- Why small-scale alternatives won't change the worldLocalism is incapable of displacing capitalism or even effectively challenging it because it fails to understand how capitalism works---READ-->>
- Chinese leader calls for ecological civilizationA former leader of the National People’s Congress says industrial civilization has come to a dead end and an ecological civilization is needed---READ-->>
- Call for a global campaign to demand climate justiceWorld Social Forum participants urge broad unity in a global campaign to stave off catastrophic climate change---READ-->>
- ‘Catastrophism’ book on environmental movement: a prescription for abstention and defeatIan Angus responds to a new book that says campaigns against environmental crises promote apathy and strengthen the right.---READ-->>
- Pablo Solón: How can we overcome the climate crisis?We are in a fight for the survival of all humanity. To change the system we need to recover our ability to dream.---READ-->>
- Inside the B.C. pipeline warsBook review: Essential reading on the battle to protect west coast land and water from predatory corporations and neoconservative politicians---READ-->>