Winona LaDuke Calls for Indigenous-Led "Green New Deal" as She Fights Minnesota Pipeline Expansion
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-07
While world leaders converge in Poland for the U.N. climate change summit, we look at the indigenous-led fight against destructive oil pipelines and the revolutionary potential of the Green New Deal with Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe environmental leader and executive director of the group Honor the Earth. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
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The Deadly Cost of Pipelines in Native Land: Winona LaDuke on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-07
As the oil and gas pipeline boom crosses the United States and Canada, indigenous activists say the influx of male workers in Native communities has corresponded with a spike in the kidnapping and murder of indigenous women. We speak with Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe environmental leader and executive director of the group Honor the Earth. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/7/winona_laduke_crisis_of_missing_murdered
What If We Just Buy Off Big Fossil Fuel? A Novel Plan to Mitigate the Climate Calamity
Steve Hendricks | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-07
As the nations of the world are gathered in Poland to fret about the state of the climate, there's an unpleasant truth–one might say an inconvenient truth–that climate advocates have long refused to face: Big Fossil Fuel has beaten us. We've done our damnedest to stop them from wrecking the climate, but they're nonetheless pulling…
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Winona LaDuke Calls for Indigenous-Led "Green New Deal"
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2018-12-07
While world leaders converge in Poland for the UN climate change summit, we look at the Indigenous-led fight against destructive oil pipelines and the revolutionary potential of the Green New Deal with Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe environmental leader and executive director of the group Honor the Earth. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. | Please check back later for full transcript. | The post Winona LaDuke Calls for Indigenous-Led "Green New Deal" appeared first on
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Oil Industry Spent Millions to Defeat Carbon Tax in Washington State
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2018-12-07
Climate change appeared on the ballot in numerous states during the 2018 midterm elections, an indication of the growing concern among average citizens about the catastrophic effects of fossil fuel burning. But the struggle for regulations on emissions was repeatedly blocked by the money machinery of the oil industry. Record amounts of money were spent trying to derail the efforts of activists and labor unions fighting to save the environment. One such instance was over Initiative 1631 in Washington State where the oil industry spent more than $30 million trying to sabotage the struggle for a better world. In thi…
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Climate Crisis Critical Issue in 2020 Elections — Jane Sanders
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2018-12-07
Jane Sanders tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn't support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don't prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests | The post Climate Crisis Critical Issue in 2020 Elections — Jane Sanders appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Discussion: New U.S. Climate Report: Dire Warning from the Scientific Community
Revolution Books | indybay.org | 2018-12-07
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Woosley Fire Contamination Exasperates Nearby Communities with the Fires
Megan Rodrigues | indybay.org | 2018-12-07
Woosley Fires in California pollutants are affecting the soil, water, and vegetation.
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Russia: Human Rights Defender Jailed
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-12-07
Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev at an All-Russian convention on the protection of human rights. | © 2017 Anton Novoderezhkin\TASS via Getty Images | (Moscow) — A Russian court has unjustly jailed one of the founders of Russia's human rights movement for a Facebook post about a peaceful protest, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 5, 2018, a court in Moscow sentenced Lev Ponomarev, 77, to 25 days in jail for alleged repeated violat…
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A Conference on Climate Change Became a Conference on Coal
Daniel Judt | thenation.com | 2018-12-06
A Conference on Climate Change Became a Conference on Coal…
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Trump Turns the G20 into the G19
John Feffer | zcomm.org | 2018-12-06
On everything from climate to trade to the international order itself, the failure of the White House's powers of persuasion were on full display at the G20…
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Comment: Climate Sanity–How We Get There from Here
Bill McKibben | progressive.org | 2018-12-06
The path out of this nightmare is relatively clear–and communities on the frontlines are leading the way.
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Ryan Zinke Promotes Logging in the Wake of California's Wildfires
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2018-12-06
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, already facing several federal investigations, has sunk to a new low. | A prominent figure in Trump's plan to roll back environmental regulations, he's using deadly fires in California to push for policies that would pave the way for more logging in U.S. forests. | But here's the truth: Logged areas with less stringent environmental protections lead to the mos…
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On the Line: A Bright REDD+ Line
progressive | progressive.org | 2018-12-06
Indigenous peoples fight schemes to buy and sell their land in the name of a climate change 'solution.'…
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Dangerous CO2 Spurt
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2018-12-06
How the Rich Countries are Failing to Curb Climate Emergency…
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Don't Do Anything About Climate Disaster, USA Today Warns Dems
Miranda Spencer | fair.org | 2018-12-06
USA Today ( 11/27/18) warns Democrats that efforts to address climate change might "whisk them out of power" again. | "Democrats Will Push on Climate Change," declared the lead story on the front page of the November 27 USA Today. (The online version bore the more verbose headline, "Once Democrats Take Charge of the…
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The fightback against Adani and Aurizon steps up
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-06
Adani CEO Lucas Dow's November 29 declaration that work on a scaled-down coalmine in Queensland's Galilee Basin would begin before Christmas was met with one of the most powerful nationwide protests against it so far as primary and high school students walking out of class the next day for the Student Strike 4 Climate Action. | A reported 20,000 students, many of them with their parents and grandparents in tow, took to the streets with a powerful message to Adani and policymakers: ignore us at your peril. | This was followed by a sit-in at Parliament House in Canberra on December 5. | Another round of #StopA…
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What Response to Climate Change Gives You Hope?
The Progressive Magazine | progressive.org | 2018-12-05
Movement leaders tells us about communities making concrete change in the face of planetary crisis.
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President Trump Is Accelerating the Militarization of the Southwest Border
ACLU | aclu.org | 2018-12-05
Under President Trump, the slide toward a fully militarized border between the U.S. and Mexico is happening rapidly to the detriment of civil rights. | For decades, the ACLU has fought back against the militarization of domestic law enforcement agencies and the use of the military in our communities. Nowhere is this militarization more pronounced than on the border between the U.S. and Mexico — and President Trump is only making it worse. | The creation of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 accelerated the government's operations on the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/president-trump-accelerating-militarization-southwest-border
Unhinged GDP Growth Could Actually Destroy the Economy, Economists Find
Kate Aronoff | theintercept.com | 2018-12-05
For decades, scientists have warned of the pending crisis for the planet and humanity in the event of runaway climate change. But a new paper from prominent economists frames the situation in language that people might actually understand: Not addressing climate change, they conclude, will lead inevitably to "worldwide economic collapse." | Researchers also have a warning for renewable energy evangelists and techno-optimists, concluding that it is a fantasy to believe that the economy can grow at a torrid pace — as measured by GDP — while simultaneously reducing or eliminating greenhouse gas. | That's…
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Sorry To Bother You offers rich lessons in seeking radical social change
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-04
Sorry to Bother You | Written & directed by Boots Riley | In cinemas now | This review includes mild spoilers. | As an Australian living abroad, incidents of Australians being racist and/or misogynistisic that attract attention from international media outlets are frequently forwarded to me in anticipation of a seething refrain. | My response is typically motivated by a mix of rage and embarrassment, as well as a deep concern for how racial capitalism has been almost completely normalised. I am deeply concerned by the fact that not only is our social and political climate ill-equipped to address racism, i…
greenleft.org.au/content/sorry-bother-you-offers-rich-lessons-seeking-radical-social-change
NSW law will 'lead to a new stolen generation'
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-03
Another stolen generation appears certain to be created in NSW, after the Coalition government passed a new adoption law making it easier for a child to be adopted by a foster family without parental consent. | The new adoption law, Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Amendment Bill, passed on November 22 despite fierce opposition, imposes a two-year limit on fostering a child. The Children's Court now has the power to decide whether a birth parent should be rei…
greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-law-will-lead-new-stolen-generation
The Hope of Harvesting
Douglas Haynes | progressive.org | 2018-12-01
At the epicenter for climate injustice, Nicaraguans plant solutions.
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'Do The Right Thing Anyway'
Frances Madeson | progressive.org | 2018-12-01
Climate journalist Dahr Jamail finds his own kind of hope.
progressive.org/magazine/do-the-right-thing-anyway/
Eight new books for ecosocialists
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-01
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus offers up eight new books as recommended reading for ecosocialists. Inclusion does not imply agreement with a book's contents. | *** | 1. The Biofuels Deception: Going Hungry on the Green Carbon Diet | By Okbazghi Yohannes | Monthly Review Press, 2018 | Eliminating fossil fuels is essential, but biofuels have far more to do with sating profit-hungry corporations than saving the Earth. Combining meticulous scientific narrative with devastating economic analy…
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A true people's artist
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-01
Rock & Roll Harbour | Exhibition by The Shop Gallery | 112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe | Thurs January 3 — Wed Jan 9 | Peter Gow is the people's artist. | His ouvre is driven by his down-to-earth, inner-city environment such as boathouses and the heritage-listed Sydney Harbour Bridge in various attitudes, all of which feature prominently in this exhibition. | Gow is a qualified electrician and builder as well, very handy for making the frames in his spare time that embrace his art. | His deep, rich, contrasting colours leap from his palette onto the canvas. His short brush strokes create a palindrom…
greenleft.org.au/content/true-people%E2%80%99s-artist
"No Deal" Brexit predictions, GDP, average incomes, austerity and the CLIMATE CRISIS
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2018-11-30
If Bill Gates walks into a room full of factory workers then the average income of everybody in the room skyrockets. It would skyrocket even if everybody else in the room were going bankrupt as Gates entered. Similarly, the average income of the people in the room would plummet as Gates walked out the door even Read…
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New maps of land destruction show why people flee Central America
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-30
A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates one motivating force behind migrant caravans leaving Guatemala and Honduras to reach the United States. | UC geography professor Tomasz Stepinski has turned high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency into one of the most detailed looks so far at how people are reshaping the planet. | Stepinski said: "Right now there are caravans of people walking to the United States. Many of them are coming from Guatemala." | News agencies such as The Guardian have called some of the Central American migrants "climate-change refugees" since many…
greenleft.org.au/content/new-maps-land-destruction-show-why-people-flee-central-america
WA Labor opens the gate to fracking
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-30
The Western Australian Labor government announced it is opening up 5.2 million hectares — an area roughly the size of 75% of Tasmania — to potential fracking operations on November 27. | The decision follows advice from an inquiry carried out by the WA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that said fracking in the Kimberley, Mid-West and Gascoyne regions would not pose a serious threat to people, agriculture or the environment. | Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a dangerous process that involves fracturing rock with pressurised liquid to mine unconventional gas. | Prior to last year's state ele…
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US condemned for tear-gassing refugees, children
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-30
Legal experts and human rights advocates have denounced the tear gassing of children and other asylum seekers by US forces at the Mexico border on November 25. | "The migrants at our southern border include mothers and small children exercising their legal, human right to seek asylum," declared the ACLU in a tweet on November 26. It told the US Customs and Border Protection agency: "Tear gassing children is out…
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George Monbiot: Ending Meat & Dairy Consumption Is Needed to Prevent Worst Impacts of Climate Change
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-29
We look at the link between climate change and meat consumption on the heels of a series of damning reports that say if humans don't act now to halt climate change, the results will be catastrophic. A new study by the World Meteorological Organization shows the past four years have been the hottest on record. On Tuesday, the United Nations reported that carbon emissions reached record highs in 2017 and are on the rise for the first time in four years. Radical reductions are necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, the level that would prevent the worst effects of catastrophic climate change. Livestock fo…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/29/george_monbiot_ending_meat_dairy_consumption
NAACP Statement on Recent Criminal Justice Reform Compromise Introduced in Senate
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-11-28
NAACP released the following statement in support of the Crimianl Justice Reform Compromise: Our American criminal justice system is broken. Sentencing is disproportionately weighted against African Americans, and the current political climate continues to devalue black lives by reviving the same failed policies of the war on drugs that fueled mass incarceration," said NAACP President […] | The post NAACP Statement on Recent Criminal Justice Reform Compromise Introduced in Senate appeared fir…
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Elected Constituent Assembly in Venezuela provoked International Outrage, not the illegal handpicked one in Ecuador
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2018-11-22
"CONAIE and CREO direct the new National Electoral Council" announces a headline yesterday in the rightwing Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo. CONAIE is a self-declared "left" federation representing indigenous peoples in Ecuador. CREO is the party of the "defeated" right wing presidential candidate in 2017. I put "defeated" in quotes because CREO's electoral defeat — which they stupidly Read…
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