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- UK Government Promised Oil Firms Access to Iraq OilSecret memos show that before the war was launched, British officials promised oil executives “a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq” by Paul Bignell The Independent, April 19, 2011 Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took ...---READ-->>
- Climate Activists Confront Anti-Immigrant Fake GreensPower Shift attendees stood strong against groups like Progressives for Immigration Reform and made it clear that environmentalists stand with immigrants as we begin to face the realities of climate change---READ-->>
- Australian Climate Summit Debates Carbon PricingBuild a people’s power movement through community organizing, building of alliances and mass mobilization! by Jess Moore Green Left Weekly, April 18, 2011 About three hundred and forty climate activists, from more than 100 community climate action groups, attended Australia’s Climate Action Summit in Melbourne from April 9-11. Some of the key topics discussed were: a carbon price; ...---READ-->>
- The Biggest Chemical Poisoning Crisis in US HistoryOne year after the BP oil spill, experts describe the the impact of the disaster on wildlife, the environment, and human health as “catastrophic” by Dahr Jamail Aj Jazeeera, April 16, 1011 April 20, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of BP’s catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. On this day in 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, ...---READ-->>
- Renewable power isn’t just safer than nuclear, it's cheaperAmory Lovins:“Nuclear is such a slow and costly climate solution, it actually reduces and retards climate protection” On March 25, Bruce Gellerman of the Public Radio International program Living on Earth spoke with Amory Lovins, Co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute about the true costs of nuclear power Listen to the program here. Transcript: GELLERMAN: There are “dangerously high” radiation ...---READ-->>
- U.S. Politicians Vote Against ScienceFor the rulers of the world’s most powerful country, science is just a matter of opinion ... On April 6, three members of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed this amendment to a bill under discussion: Congress accepts the scientific findings of the Environmental Protection Agency that climate changes is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, ...---READ-->>
- Farmers Suffer While Food Prices RiseFood prices are going up, but family farmers in the U.S. are worse off Since late 2006, crop prices have risen dramatically, reversing a decades-long trend that saw persistent declines in agricultural commodities prices. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials talk about boom times for U.S. farmers, citing their most recent figures on the economic performance of ...---READ-->>
- Carbon Trading in Europe: An Expensive and Harmful FailurePolluters reap big profits, emissions stay high, real action is avoided … and the revised third phase doesn’t improve it. Emissions trading is the European Union’s flagship measure for tackling climate change, and it is failing badly. In theory it provides a cheap and efficient means to limit greenhouse gas reductions within an ever-tightening cap, but ...---READ-->>
- Third Toronto People’s Assembly on Climate Justice, April 23, 2011Join the People’s Assembly on April 23, 2011, and continue the realization of an inclusive, united, and empowered Climate Justice Movement in Toronto What: Third Toronto People’s Assembly on Climate Justice When: Saturday April 23, 2011 Where: Ryerson University Student Centre, 55 Gould St, Toronto Time: 10am-5pm Cost: Pay What You Can (breakfast and lunch provided) ***ASL translation and free child ...---READ-->>
- Profit Pathology and the Disposable PlanetThe SuperRich are more wedded to their wealth than to the earth upon which they live, more concerned about the fate of their fortunes than the fate of humanity, so possessed by their pursuit of profit as to not see the disaster looming ahead. by Michael Parenti Truthout, April 7, 2011 Some years ago in New England, a ...---READ-->>
- Why Nuclear Is Not the AnswerSocialist Worker (UK) has published an unpdated edition of Martin Empson’s pamphlet Climate Change: Why Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, with a new Introduction on the Fukushima disaster. Contents: Introduction Chernobyl – the long shadow of nuclear power Climate change Nuclear power – problems and lies What does it all cost? Nuclear power and the bomb The alternative Transport in the UK Governments and ...---READ-->>
- Toronto People’s Assembly: A New Approach to Climate Justice OrganizingBuilding a movement with “radical horizontality” by Brett Rhyno and Julien Lalonde Brett Rhyno and Julien Lalonde are independent climate justice community organizers who are helping to organize the 3rd People’s Assembly on Climate Justice in Toronto, April 23rd, 2011. People’s Assemblies are a new organizational paradigm in the Climate Justice movement, based the dynamic process of ...---READ-->>
- Sydney: Climate Activists Outmobilize Deniers 4 to 1A note and photos from Peter Boyle of Australia’s Socialist Alliance … Some 8000 people demonstrated for urgent action in Sydney’s Belmore Park on April 2 in a powerful counter-mobilisation to a 2000-strong climate deniers rally led by right-wing radio shock jocks Alan Jones and Chris Smith from Radio 2GB held in Hyde Park. The deniers rally ...---READ-->>
- Big Coal Lies About JobsWhen Big Coal argues for permission to build coal-fired power plants, it always makes big promises about job creation. A new study shows the promises are no more credible than promises of “clean coal.” From the Executive Summary of A Fraction of the Jobs: A Case Study of the Job Creation Impact of Completed Coal Fired Power ...---READ-->>
- Australian Conference to Discuss Social Change to Stop Climate ChangeSept. 30-Oct. 3: Three days of feature talks, panel discussions and more than 20 workshops to discuss solutions for a world in crisis by Lisa Macdonald Green Left Weekly, March 27, 2011 It can sometimes feel like we’re losing a race against time to avoid environmental catastrophe and social collapse. Climate change is already extinguishing species, destroying essential food ...---READ-->>
- A People's Petition for One Million Climate JobsIt’s time for a mass movement that stops the cuts, force the bosses to create jobs, and solves the environmental crisis. At its 2010 conference, Britain’s Trades Union Congress called for the creation of one million green jobs to tackle unemployment and the environmental crisis. The petition below was launched by the Campaign Against Climate Change, supported by ...---READ-->>
- The CDM and Africa: Marketing a New Land GrabExcerpts from a briefing by the African Biodiversity Network, Biofuelwatch, Carbon Trade Watch, the Gaia Foundation and the Timberwatch Coalition. Introduction The United Nation’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is one of the processes by which developed countries attempt to mitigate the climate change impact of their greenhouse gas emissions and meet targets for reducing emissions under ...---READ-->>
- What would a sustainable society look like?The ecological changes proposed by socialists are all eminently feasible — if we build a society whose objective is human and natural sustainability through the co-development of nature and human society. Chapter 8 of Chris Williams’ recent book, Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, outlines the kinds of changes that are needed, without engaging in “grand ...---READ-->>
- Japanese Green Activists: Nuclear Power Can't Fight Global WarmingOver the next decade there will be ZERO additional contribution from nuclear power in the fight to combat global warming. Presentation by Aileen Mioko Smith, executive director of the Kyoto-based NGO Green Action, May 29, 2008. ——----READ-->>
- George Monbiot’s Nuclear MistakesBritish journalist George Monbiot has come out in favor of nuclear power. Do his arguments hold up? by Jim Green Green Left Weekly, March 27, 2011 Prominent British columnist George Monbiot announced in the British Guardian on March 21 that he now supports nuclear power. That isn’t a huge surprise — having previously opposed nuclear power, he announced ...---READ-->>