Blocking trains and removing coal
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert | zcomm.org | 2020-01-31
Climate activists fight to close one of New England's largest power plants…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/blocking-trains-and-removing-coal/

Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn
Neil deMause | fair.org | 2020-01-31
While US media have indeed ramped up their coverage of the climate crisis, they continue to give short shrift to what are arguably the most important factors for determining our future: what specific human practices are responsible for the changing climate, why carbon emissions continue to rise, and what we can and should be doing about it.
fair.org/home/media-on-climate-crisis-dont-organize-mourn/

Earth and Spirit: A Multi-Faith Response to Climate Crisis
Derech HaAretz, Way of the Earth | indybay.org | 2020-01-31
St. John's Presbyterian Church | 2727 College Avenue | Berkeley, CA 94705…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/30/18830162.php

Climate Breakdown 'is Increasing Violence Against Women'
Fiona Harvey | zcomm.org | 2020-01-31
Attempts to tackle crisis fail because gender issues are not addressed, report finds…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/climate-breakdown-is-increasing-violence-against-women/

Leap Day Action – Declare Climate Emergency – extravagant spectacle, roving street party
Leap Day Action Committee | indybay.org | 2020-01-31
GATHER Berkeley BART station plaza at 2 pm ‚Ä®‚Ä®and then rove through downtown Berkeley visiting banks that invest in fossil fuels and other reckless companies contributing to climate catastrophe…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/28/18830142.php

Australia Offers a Preview of the World to Come
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-31
Unless we remove the arsonists in power across the globe, we're headed for a climate catastrophe no less destructive than nuclear war.
truthdig.com/articles/australia-offers-a-preview-of-the-world-to-come/

SF Treasure Island Radiation Charter School & SFLC & Hanging Nooses
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-01-31
WorkWeek looks at the radioactive contamination and cover-up of the dangers of SF Treasure Island. The City of San Francisco now wants to put a charter school on a contaminated closed school called the Treasure Island Elementary School. It also looks at the MLK day picket of the San Francisco Labor Council and the hanging noose incident at SF Recology and the firing of Teamster Daryl Washington.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/31/18830237.php

Answering the Coalition's climate trickery
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate Andrea BuntingIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Following the recent bushfire crisis and the upsurge in climate concern, the federal Coalition wants to give the impression that it is acting on climate change. Andrea Bunting debunks 14 claims made by the Coalition government in an email sent to a constituent. | Claim 1: "We will be…
greenleft.org.au/content/answering-coalition-climate-trickery

Building a climate movement that can win
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate Sue BoltonIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Australia is burning and unless we all step up, it will continue to burn. While firefighters and emergency personnel and thousands upon thousands of ordinary people have stepped in to fill the breach, in the cities we too can play our part. | I am one of the initiators of a broad-based clim…
greenleft.org.au/content/building-climate-movement-can-win

Union motion: Support real action on the climate
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate workers' rights & unionsIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Unionists active in the climate change movement have drafted the following model motion to help break the silence on the fact that the catastrophic bushfires are connected to climate change. | It also seeks to build support for the February 22 national day of action…
greenleft.org.au/content/union-motion-support-real-action-climate

Most Schools Stifle Indigenous Youth. Standing Rock Offered a Different Vision
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-30
"The camps at Standing Rock produced an environment substantially and holistically more supportive for Native youth," writes activist Sarah Sunshine Manning. In this excerpt from her essay, which is a part of the collection Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, the actualization of self and community that sprang from the Oceti Sakowin camps speaks to how Western education fails to meet the needs of Indigenous youth. | In early August 2016, tribal nations throughout N…
truthout.org/articles/most-schools-stifle-indigenous-youth-standing-rock-offered-a-different-vision/

Siding With Monsanto, Trump EPA Once Again Greenlights Roundup
commondreams.org | 2020-01-30
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/30/siding-monsanto-trump-epa-once-again-greenlights-roundup?cd-origin=rss

What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2020-01-30
What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-refugees-borders/

How Australia could have already transitioned to 100% renewable energy
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-30
Climate Zane AlcornIssue 1251 Australia 100% renewable energyJanuary 30, 2020Released in 2010, The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan (ZCA2020)

Critics: Trump EPA's Formal Assertion Glyphosate Poses No Risk to Human Health Indication of 'Troubling Allegiance' With Bayer/Monsanto
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-30
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Long shaped by fire, Australia enters a perilous new era
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-29
Australia has always been a dry continent where fire has played an important ecological role. But the latest massive conflagrations there are evidence that a hotter climate has thrust Australia into a new normal where fires will keep burning on an unprecedented scale. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/29/long-shaped-by-fire-australia-enters-a-perilous-new-era/

Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-29
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to "the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/

Austria's Green-right alliance sells out migrants
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-29
climate justice immigration rights Jacob Andrewartha Margarita WindischIssue 1251 Austria Austrian Greens…
greenleft.org.au/content/austria-green-right-alliance-sells-out-migrants

FROM THE FIELD: Sourcing clean water in Ghana
news.un.org | 2020-01-28
Communities in northern Ghana are benefiting from the rehabilitation of water sources which is expected to boost livelihoods and build resilience against climate change, thanks to a project supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1056072

'Trojan Horse': New nanoparticle can prevent heart attacks by 'eating' artery blockages FROM THE INSIDE
rt.com | 2020-01-28
US scientists have developed a "Trojan Horse" nanoparticle that eats away at the fatty deposits which cause heart attacks and strokes from the inside out. | These fatty deposits, or plaques, are made up of cholesterol, fatty substances, cellular waste and other material. | The new nanoparticles are designed to selectively target a particular immune cell type and then deliver a drug payload which causes the cells to engulf and consume this accumulated material on blood vessel walls, thus removing the diseased or dead cells at the core of the plaque. | In other words, they cause the plaques to eat themselves fro…
rt.com/usa/479400-scientists-trojan-horse-nanoparticle-cholesterol/

Dystopia in the land of Oz: A climate change story
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-28
climate emergency Hans BaerIssue 1251 Australia ecosocialism bushfiresJanuary 28, 2020Climate scientists and other observers often refer to various regions, such as the Arctic, low-lying islands, the Ande…
greenleft.org.au/content/dystopia-land-oz-climate-change-story

Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-01-26
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to…
zcomm.org/zblogs/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/