2020-03-09: News Headlines

Watsonville Wetlands Watch (2020-03-09). Speaker Series: The Edge of Extinction. indybay.org Watsonville Wetlands Watch | 500 Harkins Slough Rd, Watsonville…

Alfons Pérez (2020-03-09). Climate activism for the new decade. zcomm.org The fight against global warming has entered a new phase. What strategies will help us halt catastrophe?

No Nukes Action (2020-03-09). On 9th Anniversary of The Nuclear Explosions At Fukushima Speak Out At Japanese Consulate. indybay.org Japanese Consulate | 275 Battery/California | San Francisco…

Organizing Committee of March 11 Anti-Nuclear (2020-03-09). Japanese PM Abe & Capitalist Governments Helped Escalate Coronavirus Epidemic. indybay.org The Organizing Committee of March 11 Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima Action has warned that the Coronavirus outbreak is a man made disaster which is being used by the reactionary Abe government to prevent mass testing of the population. It has also stopped testing the people of Fukushima.

Climate health now (2020-03-09). CalGEM prerulemaking hearing about the health harms of fossil fuel extraction. indybay.org Greenlining Institute, | 360 14th St., Oakland‚Äã, ca…

RT (2020-03-08). Protests, clashes & bare breasts: Rallies mark International Women's Day worldwide (VIDEOS). rt.com Women, and some men, have marched in capitals around the globe over issues ranging from violence against women to patriarchy to climate change. Some chose topless protests, while some others got a rough response from police. | Late on Sunday, activists took to the streets of Turkey's largest city, condemning violence against women, only to be met with a violent police response. | Clashes break out between police & activists at

Nanticha Ocharoenchai (2020-03-08). What I Learned From the Women Fighting to Save Our Planet. commondreams.org "Climate activism has its lows, and you just have to learn how to get back up." (Photo: Nanticha Ocharoenchai) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/nanticha_ocharoenchai1.jpg

Osprey Orielle Lake & Katherine Quaid (2020-03-08). Celebrating Climate Women on International Women's Day. commondreams.org Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation leader, speaks out during an action inside the UNFCCC COP25 in Madrid. (Photo: Katherine Quaid/WECAN International) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/photo_1_1.jpg

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-03-08). Green New Deal Champion Romanoff Claims Victory Over Ex-Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper in Senate Caucuses. commondreams.org U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff, who is backed by various progressive and climate groups, claimed a grassroots victory over former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and "the political establishment" late Saturday following the state's Democratic caucuses. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/andrew_romanoff.jpg

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-03-07). 'We Have to Get a Climate President in Office': Jane Fonda Says Bernie Sanders Is the Only Climate Candidate. commondreams.org Octogenarian actor and activist Jane Fonda declared ahead of a climate action protest in California Friday that the United States needs a "climate president" and she is now backing Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is leading a grassroots movement challenging the Democratic Party establishment coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/janefonda_firedrillfridays_greenpeace.jpg

Eds. (2020-03-06). From fossil capitalism to energy democracy? mronline.org As the 21st Century's second decade opens, the increasingly severe symptoms of climate change comprise a pivot in the struggle for hegemony, globally and within national formations. With the highest per capital carbon emissions among the G20 states, Canada is a climate laggard and, in some respects, a first-world petro-state (Nikiforuk 2010), organized as a […] |

Tracy Keeling (2020-03-06). A new graphic novel tackles climate crisis anxiety in a truly exceptional way. thecanary.co SelfMadeHero, a small Author Cédric Taling explores the issues in an exceptional way. He brings in the spirit of an influential 19th century writer to converse with the protagonist on how to tackle his anxiety and, indeed, the climate crisis itself. | Get back to natur…

Robert Hunziker (2020-03-06). Global Warming on a Rampage. dissidentvoice.org Global warming is not waiting around for the signatories to the Paris climate accord '15 to go to net zero emissions 2030/50. Sorry, those bold plans are way too little way too late. Already, across the board, the planet is on a hot streak that defies all projections. It's starting to look downright scary! Listen… …

Chris Busby (2020-03-06). Cancer in US Navy Nuclear Powered Ships. counterpunch.org In 2011, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100km off the coast of Japan at the time of the Tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima reactor explosions. It was directed by the US government to ride to the rescue in what was later called Operation Tomodachi (friendship)–to provide assistance to the victims of the floods. What no-one on board was told was that the reactors had exploded and a plume of highly radioactive material was blowing east from the site into the path of the vessel. Of course, when this arrived, all the radiation monitors on the boat started screaming, and the planes…

Fight Back (2020-03-04). Minnesota to protest Vice President Pence appearance. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – The Anti-War Committee is joining with the Climate Justice Committee to unwelcome Vice President Mike Pence when he comes to Saint Paul, 5 p.m., March 5, at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront, 11 E Kellogg Boulevard. | The Anti-War Committee has consistently organized against the Trump administration's repeated attempts to use bigotry. The Anti-War Committee's call for the protest includes, among other demands: "Muslims are welcome here! Racist, sexist, anti-gay – Mike Pence go away! No ban, no wall! Amnesty for all!" | CJ McCormick, a member of the Anti-War Committee said, "Wherever Trump…

Stuart Munckton (2020-03-04). Eight new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf. greenleft.org.au By John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark
| Monthly Review Press, 2020 | Foster and Clark examine how capitalism plunders natu…

pip.hinman (2020-03-04). 'Quiet Australians' organise for climate action. greenleft.org.au

pip.hinman (2020-03-03). After the rain, water is still being stolen. greenleft.org.au

CounterSpin (2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.

Lawrence Wittner (2020-01-26). Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"? zcomm.org 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

Jon Rainwater (2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …