by Cyril Mychalejko From Upside Down World, September 27, 2007 The Ecuadorian government ordered Canada’s Ascendant Copper to suspend all activities at its controversial Junin project on Tuesday for violating the country’s mining laws. “We...
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Ecuador President Rafael Correa to UN: We Offer to Forsake Oil Revenue, for the Sake of Humanity
Speech by Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, to the United Nations High Level meeting on Climate Change September 24th, 2007 Madam, Co-Chairs, Ladies and Gentlemen:Please, allow me to express, on behalf of the people of Ecuador and of my...
Cuban Foreign Minister to UN: “A Real Energy Revolution Must Take Place”
Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, spoke at the UN high-level event on climate change in New York on Monday, September 24 Mr. President: We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and...
Evo Morales to U.N.: “Let Us Respect Our Mother Earth"
Letter from Bolivian President Evo Morales to the members of the United Nations on the issue of the environment. Sister and brother Presidents and Heads of States of the United Nations: The world is suffering from a fever due to climate change, and...
Ecosocialism for the 21st Century
Over 100 people attended the public meeting on “Ecosocialism for the 21st Century” in Vancouver, B.C. on Friday September 21, 2007. The speakers were: Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World and...
Carbon Pricing Problem: It Doesn’t Work
It’s an article of faith among capitalist economists that the best solution to “market failure” is “more markets.” Convert the problem into a commodity, and the market will magically solve it. John Bellamy Foster writes: “For orthodox economists...
DC Rally to Protest Bush Climate Change Conference
September 28: Come Spoil Bush’s Sham Climate Conference Sponsored by: Chesapeake Climate Action Network, U.S. Climate Emergency Council, Oil Change International, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and U.S. Climate Action Network.In a clearly...
More Violence Against Campesinos in Paraguay
From La Soya Mata – Soy Kills ESP September 20th , Asunción – Paraguay At the end of August an encampment of landless peasants in the neighbourhood of Ka´iho (district of Yhu in Paraguayan province Caaguazu) was evicted, on the orders of the...
Toronto Meeting on Climate Change, Sept. 29
Saturday September 29, 12:30-5:30pm International Student Centre 33 St. George St, University of Toronto Organized by the U. of T. International SocialistsWorkshops: Why capitalism is destroying the planet; Climate change and revolution; Canada and...
Peru: Indigenous Farmers Reject Mining Project in Popular Referendum
From Upside Down World, September 18, 2007(IPS) – For the second time in Peru, a mining project was rejected by local communities in a popular referendum. More than 90 percent of those who came out to vote in three districts in the northern...