Seven more videos of talks at the Ecosocialism conference in New York City, April 20, have been posted on the Ecosocialist Contingent website.
Needed: An ecosocialist cosmovision
It isn’t enough to replace capitalism’s destructive social and economic relations. We must develop new ways of thinking about humanity and nature.
Food fights against austerity
Disparate struggles in desperate times: how workers and farmers in Spain, New York and Greece are challenging neoliberal austerity
Climate conferences set in England and Australia
On opposite sides of the world, two important activist conferences
Book Review
Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment
Some environmentalists champion nuclear power as an answer to global warming. An important new book argues that the dangers far outweigh any benefits.
Online now: Talks at NYC Ecosocialism Conference
Recordings of ecosocialist talks: Environmental justice; Indigenous rights; Lessons from Sandy; Tar sands & fracking; Fossil fuel divestment; Market approaches; Green left history
Why unionists must build the climate change fight
Needed: thousands of union members in their union hats and coats and shirts, banners and flags flying, at every demonstration to save the climate
Tar sands: Alberta puts a fox in charge of the henhouse
Oil company lobbyist named chair of Energy Regulator; Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation demands resignation
Climate inaction, illustrated
When in doubt, mumble ...
Fracking waste is too toxic for hazardous waste dump
On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous.
Pablo Solon on the future of the climate justice movement
"When we speak about climate justice we are not speaking about something that's going to be decided in the UN, but something we have to fight for, now, in our daily struggles."
Ecosocialist Conference shows potential for a united green left in North America
"A resounding success!" Participants report on a major step forward for anti-capitalist organizing in the environmental movement.
To reclaim our future, we must change the present! A program for changing the system, not the climate
"We will not allow the capitalist system to burn us all. We will take action and address the root causes of climate change by changing the system."
What BP doesn’t want you to know about the 2010 Gulf spill
An anonymous whistleblower has provided evidence that BP was warned in advance about the safety risks of attempting to cover up its leaking oil.
In U.S., cops hold back hungry people as food dumped
In the world's richest country, banks destroy good food while children go hungry
Ian Angus: Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity’s future
Video and text of talk to Toronto pipeline protest meeting, April 7, 2013
Toronto pipeline fight links local and global issues
Line 9 protest organizers build community support for grassroots fight against local pollution, tar sands, and global warming
Thatcher's funeral: A modest neoliberal proposal
Ken Loach suggests an appropriate send-off
Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity's future
"By resisting the Line 9 pipeline through Toronto, you are directly engaged in the fight t save our planet."
James Hansen: Keystone XL is a pipeline to disaster
The pipeline apologists contradict the laws of physics and economics. There are no more mixed messages, just catastrophe after catastrophe.