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- 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-->>
- Dave Foreman’s Man Swarm: Defending wildlife by attacking immigrantsIan Angus reviews Dave Foreman’s new book, Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife. It’s a compendium of every anti-human (and especially anti-immigrant) argument you’ll ever hear from a self-proclaimed conservationist.---READ-->>
- An appeal to some supporters of women's rights: Please stop promoting the 7 Billion scareWhen you invoke the language of “overpopulation,” of “too many people,” of “can’t feed ’em, don’t breed em,” you promote programs that profoundly harm women of color, poor women, indigenous women, and women in the global south.---READ-->>
- Black Tide: The devastating impact of the gulf oil spillA devastating indictment of the oil and drilling industry, and of the politicians and political appointees who failed to protect the people and environment of the Gulf. An invaluable resource for activists challenging the pro-oil policies of both major U.S. political parties.---READ-->>
- How can we build the movement to stop climate change?Australian climate activist Ben Courtice outlines the state of the climate crisis, official responses, and public awareness, and proposes steps to build an effective mass movement to cut greenhouse gas emissions---READ-->>
- BP's Gulf disaster is still destroying human livesThe Gulf oil spill is responsible for the worst public health tragedies investigated by the Government Accountability Project in its 35 years of operation. It will take years to determine the actual number of affected people.---READ-->>
- Empower farmers to fight Sub-Saharan drought!Tens of thousands will die in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa unless action is taken to counter the impact of climate change. Peasant farmers have the knowledge and skills needed to combat drought: empowering them to act is the key to stopping famine.---READ-->>
- CDM: Bad for Africa, no solution for climate changeA new study shows that carbon trading and the so-called ‘Clean Development Mechanism’ not only won’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are damaging the communities, workers and local environments that are most affected by climate change. Across Africa, grassroots movements are fighting the CDM assault.---READ-->>
- Brazil: Judge rules Teles Pires dam violates indigenous rightsA judge in Brazil has suspended construction of the Teles Pires dam in the Amazon, citing violations of the rights of the indigenous peoples whose livelihoods are seriously threatened by the project.---READ-->>
- Cuba prepares for rising sea levels and extreme weatherIsland nations face major threats from rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather events. Cuba is moving to protect hundreds of shoreline and inland communities, and is offering to help other Caribbean countries to prepare for and adapt to climate change.---READ-->>
- Stephen Harper as captain of the Titanic …Cartoon from Le Devoir …---READ-->>
- Over 15,000 temperature records broken in warmest U.S. MarchU.S. government scientists say that record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record, a record that dates back to 1895.---READ-->>
- Alberta's killing fields: Scapegoating wolves for tar sands destructionOver the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves, to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on woodland caribou---READ-->>
- If growth is the problem, why hasn't it been stopped?Why, in the face of massive evidence that the constant expansion of production and resource-extraction is killing us, do governments and corporations keep shoveling coal for the runaway growth train? Ian Angus introduces Gareth Dale’s critique of the “the growth paradigm.”---READ-->>
- Eric Hobsbawm: The myth of "responsible capitalism"Video: Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawmn interviewed on the BBC. Can capitalism change its stripes?---READ-->>
- Bella Bella: Peaceful protest unnerves tar sands regulators; Youth launch hunger strike against pipelineVideo of Bella Bella residents’ welcome to the government’s pipeline review panel, and an eyewitness report on the protest and the regulators’ cowardly response.---READ-->>