(2021-06-22). Peruvians defend Pedro Castillo's victory as Keiko Fujimori continues coup attempts. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets in Lima and other cities on June 19 to defend the electoral victory of socialist candidate Pedro Castillo from the Free Peru party. Right-wing Keiko Fujimori from Popular Force is still refusing to concede. Castillo won the elections with a margin of at least 44,000 votes. | As the electoral authorities are working to check all votes challenged by the opposition, Fujimori has been creating a climate of doubt in order to justify a coup.
(2021-06-22). Indigenous and environmental victory ‚àí Keystone XL pipeline 'dead in the water'. workers.org 
In an immense victory for Indigenous water protectors and land defenders on this continent, TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, revealed its investors have quit the Keystone XL pipeline. Work has completely halted — the KXL tar-sands pipeline is "dead in the water." Indigenous members of the Cowboy Indian Alliance . . . |
(2021-06-22). Censored News: The Twin Forces of Light and Darkness. indybay.org Duane Chili Yazzie, Dine', describes the Earth's defense to extractive industries and white supremacy. The Zapatistas have just arrived in Spain. At the same time, Yaqui Water Protectors are assassinated, and mass graves reveal genocide at residential schools. — Censored News…
(2021-06-22). Biden must stop pipelines to deliver on climate change and environmental justice. popularresistance.org Four years of President Donald Trump have cost America dearly. We lost our global leadership on addressing climate change and saw the struggle for environmental justice thwarted here at home. President Joe Biden has defined both of these objectives as cornerstones of his legacy, but a huge interstate methane gas pipeline now being rammed through the Appalachian Mountains threatens to undermine the progress his administration has promised.
(2021-06-22). GOP Rejects Green Infrastructure Funding in Face of Historic Drought and Heat. truthout.org 
As lawmakers in Washington continue to negotiate over an infrastructure bill that Democrats say needs to include major new funding to address the climate crisis, much of the U.S. is experiencing record heat, with many western states seeing record temperatures, drought and water shortages. "The climate crisis is here now," says climate and energy researcher Leah Stokes, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "The climate crisis is really happe…
(2021-06-22). Sunrise Movement's 400-Mile Climate March Ends With Arrests at Ted Cruz's House. truthout.org 
After six weeks of Eight demonstrators with the movement's "Generation on Fire" campaign were arrested on th…
(2021-06-22). Western States Face Record Heat & Historic Drought, But GOP Rejects Green Infrastructure Funding. democracynow.org 
As lawmakers in Washington continue to negotiate over an infrastructure bill that Democrats say needs to include major new funding to address the climate crisis, much of the U.S. is experiencing record heat, with many western states seeing record temperatures, drought and water shortages. "The climate crisis is here now," says climate and energy researcher Leah Stokes, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "The climate crisis is really happening right now, and every single year we delay on passing a climate bill, the worse the crisis gets."
(2021-06-22). Planet Earth is Heating Up Faster. counterpunch.org A new scientific paper just accepted for publication by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) shows that, on the basis of both computations and experimental measurements, the net rate at which Planet Earth is absorbing solar energy has increased between years 2005 and 2019. Planet Earth is heating up — global warming — at a faster
(2021-06-22). What to do with piles of plastic waste? nationofchange.org Other countries get creative.
(2021-06-22). Thursday 6/24: Saving Life on Earth: "8 Billion Angels" Film and Q&A on Over Population & Climate Crisis. indybay.org On demand film screening and virtual discussion…
(2021-06-21). Censored News: The Twin Forces of Light and Darkness. indybay.org Duane Chili Yazzie, Dine', describes the Earth's defense to extractive industries and white supremacy. The Zapatistas have just arrived in Spain. At the same time, Yaqui Water Protectors are assassinated, and mass graves reveal genocide at residential schools. — Censored News…
(2021-06-21). Gaza's Summer: Destruction, Pandemic, and Climate Change. juancole.com By Asmaa Abu Mezied | — ( Al-Shabaka ) — In 2013, the UNDP warned of the increasing occurrence of dangerous heatwaves in Palestine over the coming years as a result of climate change. Indeed, at the end of August 2020, the Palestine Meteorological Office issued a warning about an impending heatwave, where the temperature …
(2021-06-21). United Nations Climate Talks Slowed. popularresistance.org The international goal to limit global warming seemed far away this week, as the most recent round of United Nations climate negotiations ended with concerns about a lack of progress on key issues like climate financing for developing countries and a global framework for a carbon market, seen as a key tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | The dearth of results will make it even harder to reach the target of preventing the average global temperature from rising much more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), with time slipping away, said Saleemul Huq, director of the International Center for Clim…
(2021-06-21). Thursday 6/24: Saving Life on Earth: "8 Billion Angels" Film and Q&A on Over Population & Climate Crisis. indybay.org On demand film screening and virtual discussion…
(2021-06-21). Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy. counterpunch.org The going assumption is that the impacts of climate disasters on institutions and economics will be negative. However, this is not always the case. Climate disasters can actually have the opposite effect, historically, as shown in a recent article about climate-related disasters in ancient Mesopotamia. The study found that climate-related tensions in effect forced greater
(2021-06-21). The Young People Fighting for Climate Justice in Argentina. latinorebels.com "Environmental issues deepen all pre-existing social inequalities and as such also deepen gender inequalities," Mercedes Pombo told Latino Rebels.
(2021-06-21). Making Juneteenth a Holiday Was the Easy Part, Will Real Justice Follow? counterpunch.org After the United States Senate and House in quick succession passed a federal bill to make "Juneteenth" a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, President Joe Biden wasted no time in signing the bill into law. "Making Juneteenth a federal holiday is a major step forward to recognize the wrongs of the past,"