When 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.
Black Tide: The devastating impact of the gulf oil spill
A 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...
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
BP's Gulf disaster is still destroying human lives
The 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.
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...
CDM: Bad for Africa, no solution for climate change
A 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...
Brazil: Judge rules Teles Pires dam violates indigenous rights
A 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.
Cuba prepares for rising sea levels and extreme weather
Island 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...
Stephen Harper as captain of the Titanic …
Cartoon from Le Devoir ...
Over 15,000 temperature records broken in warmest U.S. March
U.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.
Alberta's killing fields: Scapegoating wolves for tar sands destruction
Over the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves, to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on woodland caribou
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...
Eric Hobsbawm: The myth of "responsible capitalism"
Video: Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawmn interviewed on the BBC. Can capitalism change its stripes?
Bella Bella: Peaceful protest unnerves tar sands regulators; Youth launch hunger strike against pipeline
Video of Bella Bella residents' welcome to the government's pipeline review panel, and an eyewitness report on the protest and the regulators' cowardly response.
Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessment
Whatever 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...
Arctic climate change causing droughts, floods, and heat waves outside the north
A 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.
Lakotas launch hunger strike against tar sands pipelines
Members 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
Ontario: Indigenous resistance turns back mining assault on sovereignty
Firm resistance by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has forced the Ontario government to buy out mining leases, preventing another assault on Indigenous rights and lands
Marxist Ecology
The four laws of ecology and the four anti-ecological laws of capitalism
The ever-growing conflict between ecology and capitalism reflects the startling degree to which profit-making has become the primary and most powerful connection between human beings and between human beings and nature.
"We are the one percent!" Cops evict 'polluters'
Video: On March 24, mock corporate representatives erected an illegal occupation -- and the NYPD forces that usually defend the interests of the 1% had to evict the "corporate polluters" from UN grounds