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- Get the Shell out! Indigenous activists expose dirty oilRepresentatives of four Indigenous nations will attend Shell Oil’s annual meeting to demand an end to its massive human and ecological rights violations in Canada, Alaska, and Nigeria.---READ-->>
- The UN's 'Green Economy' plan is a destructive illusionPablo Solon: Instead of applying market rules to Nature, we need to forge a new system We must change the capitalist system, not the Earth system.---READ-->>
- Australia: 7,000 march against frackingVideo: 7,000 people took to the streets in Lismore, New South Wales, on May 12 in a colorful and outspoken action against Coal Seam Gas Mining in the Northern Rivers region.---READ-->>
- Capitalism's destructive quest for extreme energyTo keep the fuel flowing, oil companies are radically increasing the potential for environmental catastrophe. The fight against extreme energy is also a fight against the very soul of an irrational system.---READ-->>
- ‘Deep Green Resistance’ – How not to build a movementEugene V. Debs: “It is not because these tactics involve the use of force that I am opposed to them, but because they do not….”---READ-->>
- Gateway pipeline threatens our way of lifeFrom a First Nations perspective, it doesn’t matter whether we stand on the coast of B.C. or in the heart of the oilsands – our struggle is largely one and the same. We don’t want our lands, our rights, or our people to be sidelined and destroyed by irresponsible development.---READ-->>
- Food sovereignty has a woman's faceResolution from the First International Conference on Agro-ecology and Food Sovereignty.---READ-->>
- Peoples of the world against the commodification of natureAt the United Nations RIO+20 Conference, only the interests of the large corporations will be considered so La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in June .---READ-->>
- NGOs plan web 'blackout' to protest Canadian government attacks on nature and democracyEleven environmental organizations have announced a ‘Black Out Speak Out’ campaign to counter Canadian government efforts to silence opponents of its anti-nature policies---READ-->>
- What environmentalists need to knowBook Review: Magdoff and Foster have written a valuable guide for people who care about the environment but don’t know what to do, and for Marxists looking to plug into environmental struggles.---READ-->>
- Revolutionizing production, for humanity and the worldSocialism cannot just take over capitalist production and manage it better. The production process itself needs to be radically critiqued, reconceived, overthrown and transformed by the working people themselves, while still maintaining and developing a working economy.---READ-->>
- Urgent appeal for Baba Jan, prisoner of climate changePakistan socialist Baba Jan has been in prison since September for the ‘crime’ of helping farmers fight for compensation for flood damage. He and other prisoners have been repeatedly beaten and tortured, and are denied visitors and medical care. Join us in demanding justice for these climate activists.---READ-->>
- 'When civilizations start to die they go insane'Chris Hedges on the implosion of capitalism: The quest by a bankrupt elite in the final days of empire to accumulate greater and greater wealth, as Karl Marx observed, is modern society’s version of primitive fetishism. It leads to mounting repression, increased human suffering, a collapse of infrastructure and, finally, collective death.---READ-->>
- Australia: Country and city unite against frackingThe largest anti-fracking demonstration yet confronted the state government in Sydney, Australia, on May 1. As many as 10,000 rural and urban activists marched to protect land and water from the Coal Seam Gas exploiters.---READ-->>
- Video: Is REDD a real solution for deforestation?The UN and the World Bank say that REDD will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by rewarding forest owners in the South for not cutting down trees. This new animated film shows that the reality is very different.---READ-->>
- Alberta Election: Big Oil defeats Big OilThe recent Alberta election was a welcome setback for bigots and climate change deniers, but big oil won anyway. Once again, there is a majority government that is absolutely committed to a massive increase in the exploitation of the tar sands.---READ-->>
- Video: One million climate jobs now!The Trade Union Group of the UK Campaign against Climate Change is organising a Climate Jobs Caravan in England and Scotland in May. This inspiring video sets out the caravan’s message.---READ-->>
- India: Traditional tribal farming beats climate changeIn an Indian village ravaged by climate change, some small farmers are prospering by returning to traditional farming methods such as mixed cropping, the use of organic fertilisers and trusted seed varieties.---READ-->>
- Australia's fake debate on climate changeNeither party — the climate deniers or the climate pretenders — proposes effective action against greenhouse gas emissions. Both promote more coal. To see why, just follow the money.---READ-->>
- Shell oil spill in Nigeria: at least 60 times bigger than claimedShell admits spilling 260,000 litres of oil in Bodo, Nigeria, in 2008, but independent experts say it was at least 7.8 million litres, and possibly over 49 million. After three years, Shell has not cleaned up the oil or paid compensation.---READ-->>