Even on its very best day, the oil industry is a series of violent, toxic horrors. Drilling, shipping, refining and burning oil is destroying the planet – at the local level through poisoned air and water, and globally by fuelling climate change...
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UN Plans Exclusion of Critics and Criticism from Climate Talks
Bonn meeting discusses keeping ‘civil society’ out of Cancun talks, and adopts a draft negotiating text that ignores the Cochabamba agreements Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit...
Interview: Indo-American Bolivarian Ecosocialism
“‘Bolivarian ecosocialism’ is a term that is synonymous with 21st Century Socialism. This socialism is ours, endogenous, and is based on transforming collective consciousness to establish new relationships within society and with...
Did anyone actually read BP’s oil spill response plan?
More proof that oil companies can’t be trusted to protect the environment — and that capitalist governments can’t be trusted to make them behave. May 25 news release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Washington, DC —...
"We demand the enforcement of the payment of climate debt"
Document approved by the working group on Climate Debt, during the World Conference of Peoples on Climate Change and the Rights of mother Earth, Bolivia, April 2010 Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on...
David Harvey: The political implications of population-resources theory
"Whenever a theory of overpopulation seizes hold in a society dominated by an elite, then the non-elite invariably experience some form of political, economic, and social repression."
Anarchists Scapegoated for Ottawa Firebombing
Statement issued on May 21 by Common Cause, an anarchist organization with branches in four Ontario cities. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X...
Indigenous Statement on Ottawa Firebombing
The following statement was issued by the Indigenous Environmental Network, in response to the May 18 firebombing of a bank in Ottawa. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)...
Canadian NGOs Betray First Nations and Forests
A Globe & Mail editorial calls the new Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement “nothing less than historic” and says it “serves as a model of non-governmental co-operation.” Indigenous activists call it a betrayal. Share: Click...
Shell vs Niger; Financial Times vs Truth
Amnesty International sponsored this ad. The Financial Times refused to publish it. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X...