Daily Archives: January 5, 2022

2022-01-05: News Headlines

Gidimt'en Yintah Access (2022-01-05). Wet'suwet'en Water Protectors Evade RCMP as Police Mobilize For Raid. itsgoingdown.org Report on current situation on Wet'suwet'en territory from the Gidimt'en Camp, as RCMP troops again begin to mobilize for a raid. Two weeks after Wet'suwet'en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors executed a strategic retreat to avoid arrest and violence at the hands of dozens of…

_____ (2022-01-05). Occupy Biden Demonstrates How To Hold Politicians Accountable. popularresistance.org During the 2020 presidential campaigns, it was common for people who planned to vote for Joe Biden to say that they recognized he was a corporate-friendly candidate but that we just needed to elect him and then he could be pressured to act in the interests of the people. Well, unlike the marches after President Trump was elected, that mass pressure on Biden has not materialized. Now, a coalition of smaller climate justice groups (not the Big Greens) has just completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President's home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and that he stop any new fossil f…

_____ (2022-01-04). FBI Is Recklessly Misusing Trump-Era Espionage Policy To Create 'Climate Of Fear' Among Scientists. popularresistance.org On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted by a federal jury of lying to the U.S. about his involvement with China's government and failing to disclose income from China on his tax returns. He faces up to five years in federal prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. | Lieber had been prosecuted as part of the Justice Department's China Initiative, which was established in 2018 to crackdown on Chinese economic and scientific espionage. | An investigation by MIT Technology Review found that instead of focu…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-04). The Monómeros Case Becomes a Factor in Colombia's Presidential Campaign. orinocotribune.com With the presidential elections in Colombia only five months away, the political climate has begun to intensify and new arguments are arising regarding the destiny of the country. For example, the many mistakes of current President Iván Duque are recurrently referenced on social media by leftist candidate Gustavo Petro. | Petro recently mentioned the responsibility that Duque has for the theft of the Venezuelan fertilizer company Monómeros headquartered in Barranquilla, Colombia, which was stolen in complicity with self-proclaimed "interim president" of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó. On this subject, Petro also commente…

Editor (2022-01-04). Year in review: China's climate goals withstand heat. mronline.org Chinese policymakers have been rapidly developing new climate policies even as major events have threatened to derail them.

GuardiansWorldwide (2022-01-04). Tuesday 1/18: Open Climate: Moving Toward an Indigenous Climate Economy. indybay.org Online event (English & Spanish translation)…

Christian Zeller (2022-01-04). Ecosocialist strategy: industrial restructuring as a joint project of the climate movement. indybay.org The findings of international climate research and the IPCC are clear. World society is heading for tipping points that will abruptly change the earth and climate system. As a result, several billion people will lose their previous livelihoods in a few decades.

Jennifer Balch (2022-01-04). Climate Change-Fueled Blaze Destroys 1,000 Homes in Colorado. zcomm.org "We've known that there's a link between climate change and wildfires for over a decade, and it takes just a little bit of warming to lead to a lot more burning"

WSWS (2022-01-04). Marshall Fire displaces thousands in worst wildfire in Colorado history. wsws.org The search continues for two missing people following the devastating climate change-fueled firestorm that destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced thousands of people last week.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-01-04). FBI is recklessly misusing Trump-era espionage policy to create "Climate of Fear" among scientists—terrorizing families and ruthlessly destroying careers. mronline.org On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted by a federal jury of lying to the U.S. about his involvement with China's government and failing to disclose income from China on his tax returns.

Sam Carliner (2022-01-04). Hawaii's water protectors lead a growing movement to close Navy fuel site. zcomm.org In the wake of a major leak by the Navy that contaminated O'ahu's water supply, water protectors found unlikely allies among outraged military families…

Sam Carliner (2022-01-04). Hawaii's water protectors lead a growing movement to close Navy fuel site after poisonous leak. nationofchange.org Upwards of 100 water protectors rallied outside the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu on Dec. 10. Their greatest fears had just come true. The U.S. Navy had kept decaying fuel storage tanks just 100 feet above a water aquifer that functioned as the main source of drinking water on the island of O'ahu. Those tanks recently leaked …

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