Daily Archives: December 8, 2020

2020-12-08: News Headlines

Liberation Staff (2020-12-09). Record breaking heat in November: What can we do about the climate crisis? liberationnews.org "By demonstrating to others that there is hope for our survival, humanity has a future to fight for."

Media Lens (2020-12-08). Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger. dissidentvoice.org Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: 'You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else — congrats.' ((Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012.)) If that was true then, our relationship …

Ralph Nader (2020-12-08). Action for Change Starts in Congress. counterpunch.org We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials

Stop the Money Pipeline & partners (2020-12-08). Wednesday 12/9: National Digital Rally to #StopLine3 w/ Indigenous Frontline Water Protectors & More. indybay.org Online rally against pipelines & dirty fossil fuels…

ClimateCrisisPolicy (2020-12-08). Wednesday 12/9: The Climate Convergence: Uniting For Victory in 2021 Symposium (Day 1). indybay.org Online symposium (free or donation)…

Earth Day Network (2020-12-08). Thursday 12/17: Activist Artists Shifting Perspectives on Climate Change w/ Earth Day Network. indybay.org Online via FB livestream and Zoom…

ClimateCrisisPolicy (2020-12-08). Thursday 12/10: The Climate Convergence: Uniting For Victory in 2021 Symposium (Day 2). indybay.org Online symposium (free or donation)…

David Edwards (2020-12-07). Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger — 'News And How To Use It' by Alan Rusbridger. zcomm.org Pilger tells the unfiltered, uncompromised truth about the foundations of power. His focus is on speaking up for the victims of power, not on serving power…

Staff (2020-12-07). To Turn Fear to Action, We Must Confront the Emotions of the Climate Emergency. truthout.org Humans rely on core metaphors to make sense of the world. These metaphors have a powerful impact on our values. For example, if you believe "nature is a machine," it's easy to exploit the natural world without feeling any remorse; whereas if you believe, like many Indigenous communities, that all living beings are related, you naturally feel a moral compunction about how you treat your nonhuman relatives. | When

Brett Wilkins (2020-12-07). 'Strong hearts to the front!': Indigenous water protectors take direct action against Minnesota tar sands pipeline. nationofchange.org "Clean water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential to our survival… [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our well-being."

Brett Wilkins (2020-12-07). Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline. zcomm.org Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil daily—began earlier this week, despite strong Native opposition…

WSWS (2020-12-07). Food prices, waste rise as food insecurity affects tens of millions in the US. wsws.org Supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic have forced farmers to destroy food and prices to rise while tens of millions of people struggle to put enough food on the table.

John Scales Avery (2020-12-07). Human Society And The Biosphere. zcomm.org As the greenhouse gas emissions of human society push the earth towards catastrophic climate change, rates of extinction in the biosphere will certainly become higher…

Celia McMichael, Ilan Kelman and Shouro Dasgupta, and Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson (2020-12-07). Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say. zcomm.org If responses to the economic impacts of COVID-19 align with an effective response to climate change, we'll see immense benefits for human health, with cleaner air, healthier diets and more liveable cities…

Pip Hinman (2020-12-07). Labor needs to change policy on refugees. greenleft.org.au Polls show a majority of Australians are fed up with the waste of money and needless cruelty of immigration detention, argues Niko Leka.

Extinction Rebellion (2020-12-07). Biodiversity is not 'cute'. zcomm.org 'Humanity is waging war on nature,' he said, 'This is suicidal.'