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- 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-->>
- Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessmentWhatever the slipperiness of its meaning, usage, or connotation over time, liberalism is and has always been, at bottom, a defence of capitalism. If we are serious about addressing climate change, it is long past time to move forward beyond liberalism and beyond social democracy.---READ-->>
- Arctic climate change causing droughts, floods, and heat waves outside the northA new study shows that rapid Arctic warming exerts a growing influence on the weather far beyond the Arctic Circle raising the probability of long-duration extreme events for many years to come.---READ-->>
- Lakotas launch hunger strike against tar sands pipelinesMembers of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota have launched a 48-hour hunger strike against the Keystone and Gateway pipelines, in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia---READ-->>
- Ontario: Indigenous resistance turns back mining assault on sovereigntyFirm resistance by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has forced the Ontario government to buy out mining leases, preventing another assault on Indigenous rights and lands---READ-->>