Daily Archives: September 1, 2021

2021-09-01: News Headlines

_____ (2021-09-01). RCMP At Fairy Creek Blockade Ignore The Real Emergency. popularresistance.org On Aug. 9, the one-year anniversary of the Fairy Creek protection efforts, the RCMP raided Fairy Creek's headquarter camp. Twenty-five police vehicles, a helicopter and an emergency tactical unit were deployed against peaceful ancient forest protectors that day, and almost every day since. | What is the emergency that the police are responding to with such a massively expensive show of force? | Since the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a code red warning on Aug. 9, is it the climate emergency that is so clear to us this summer with deadly heat waves and extreme forest fires? | No,…

Faye Wilson Kennedy (2021-09-01). Saturday 9/25: Climate Justice Festival: Carbon Free by 2030. indybay.org McClatchy Park, 3500 5th Ave, Sacramento, CA 95817…

_____ (2021-09-01). Climate-Driven Weather Disasters Increased Fivefold Over Past 50 Years: UN Agency. commondreams.org "President Biden, it is time to call on the Senate to end the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation before it is too late."

Dan Bacher (2021-09-01). California denies 42 new fracking permits, but approves 1,019 oil and gas permits. indybay.org "It's encouraging to see CalGEM denying more fracking permits, particularly as California weathers a devastating drought and wildfire season induced by climate change," said Food & Water Watch's California Director Alexandra Nagy. "This is progress. But make no mistake, it is not enough."

Jessica Corbett (2021-09-01). After Ida's Destruction, Sunrise Movement Urges Biden to Declare Climate Emergency. zcomm.org "What more do politicians need to realize that the climate crisis is here and killing us?"

_____ (2021-09-01). Climate Groups Launch Campaign to Exclude Natural Gas From Key Federal Energy Policy. commondreams.org Please contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to vote for the Build Back Better bill with all the health care provisions included, because care can't wait and neither can we.

Sue Bull (2021-09-01). Surfers highlight fossil fuel outrage. greenleft.org.au Climate activists disrupted, locked on and boarded a seismic testing ship in the port of Geelong on its way to search for new oil and gas deposits off the coast of King Island. Sue Bull reports.

_____ (2021-09-01). National Laws Needed, Say Defenders of Women, After SCOTUS Attack on Roe. commondreams.org "Using gas to fight climate change is like using gasoline to fight a fire," said one renewable energy campaigner.

Jared Hayes (2021-09-01). 'Forever Chemicals' Contamination at Defense Department Sites Threatens Great Lakes Fish and Residents. globalresearch.ca

Dan Bacher (2021-09-01). UC Davis Study Finds Dams Are Ineffective for Cold-Water Conservation for Salmon and Trout. indybay.org Ann Willis, the study's lead author, says the solution to creating cold water habitat to stop the extinction of salmon and trout populations is to remove dams and restructure water management in California.

_____ (2021-09-01). 'A Wake-Up Call': Study Finds Extinction Risk for 30% of Tree Species. commondreams.org In the northern part of India, where nearly 250 million people live, the average person could live eight years longer if air pollution was reduced.

_____ (2021-09-01). As Texas Guts Voting Rights, Progressives Ask: Will Biden Fight to Save US Democracy? commondreams.org "Strengthened action is urgently required to prevent further species extinctions and restore damaged and degraded ecosystems."

By Giniw Collective (2021-09-01). Water Protectors Document Escalating Police Brutality in Minnesota. indybay.org In August police escalated to torture. On August 11 water protectors shut down two different worksites. Police approached them on the site and when the water protectors refused to leave police began to use a torture tactic they refer to as "pain compliance."

_____ (2021-08-31). Afghan Activist: We All Deserve Refuge, Not Just Those Who Served the US. commondreams.org "We can't save this rapidly declining whale population from extinction with half-measures like this."

_____ (2021-08-31). Even as Afghan War Ends, GOP Attempts to Add $25B to Military Budget. commondreams.org "We need a leader at the helm that will take bold and decisive action to eliminate climate risk."

_____ (2021-08-31). An Invitation From People V. Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org We, the undersigned, come from the trenches in the fight against fossil fuels. From fracking sites and oil wells, to pipelines and refineries, to plastic plants and more, we are impacted Indigenous, Brown, Black, and low-income communities living on the frontlines of this climate emergency. Over the years we have written thousands of messages to politicians, attended countless hearings, testified hundreds of times, and have placed our bodies on the line when needed, all the while our government continues to ignore the science and Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and steers us toward climate catastrophe…

Chris Walker (2021-08-31). "There Is No Climate Crisis" dailyposter.com

Staff (2021-08-31). "Stop This Madness": Rev. Lennox Yearwood Calls to Divest from Fossil Fuels Amid Climate Disasters. democracynow.org Hurricane Ida and the increasing threats from extreme weather are a wake-up call to divest from fossil fuels that make climate disasters worse and more frequent, says Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., the president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, who is originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, and established the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign after Hurricane Katrina. "We know who is causing these storms. We know who is causing the climate crisis. They're right there in Louisiana with us: It's the fossil fuel industry. So we've got to stop it," Yearwood says.

_____ (2021-08-31). AOC, Tlaib Lead Call for Biden to Replace Trump Fed Chair With Climate Champion. commondreams.org "We are in a climate emergency," one meteorologist said in response to the massive blaze.

WSWS (2021-08-31). Sixteen years after Katrina: Hurricane Ida devastates southern Louisiana. wsws.org In the decade and a half since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, there has been no improvement in the country's crumbling social infrastructure, leaving millions at the mercy of intensifying storms, heat waves and fires fueled by climate change.

_____ (2021-08-31). Experts Warn NOAA Plan Might 'Delay' Right Whales Extinction, But Not Save Them. commondreams.org "Biden is restarting a broken leasing system that is ripping off taxpayers, polluting our air, lands, and waters, and killing us."

Julia Conley (2021-08-31). Nearly 70 People Arrested for Resisting Line 3. zcomm.org "Water protectors marched 256 miles from the headwaters of the Mississippi River to speak with this gentleman," an Indigenous organizer said of Gov. Tim Walz. "He has not come to listen to their voices and so we came here."

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