2023-04-19: News Headlines

Coral Wynter (2023-04-19). Rising Tide activists stop coal train, seek support for more civil disobedience. greenleft.org.au Rising Tide stopped a coal train for 5 hours on April 16 at the Port of Newcastle, after a successful camp for climate action. Coral Wynter, Rachel Evans and Richard Boult report.

Niko Leka (2023-04-19). Video: A participant reflects on the Newcastle Climate Camp 2023 and direct action that stopped a coal train. greenleft.org.au Niko Leka reflects on the April 15—16 Climate Camp protest in Mulubinba/Newcastle that took direct action to stop a coal train.

Cartie Werthman (2023-04-19). The meat industry is advertising like Big Oil. nationofchange.org The animal agriculture industry is forging ahead with slick advertising campaigns that downplay its impact on climate change, backed up with statistics from Checkoff-funded research programs.

Niko Leka (2023-04-19). Video: A participant reflects on the Newcastle Climate Camp 2023 and direct action which stopped a coal train. greenleft.org.au Niko Leka reflects on the April 15-16 Climate Camp protest in Newcastle which took direct action to stop a coal train…

Jason Hickel, Resilience. (2023-04-18). Universal Public Services: The Power Of Decommodifying Survival. popularresistance.org One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. | Capitalism relies on maintaining an artificial scarcity of essential goods and services (like housing, healthcare, transport, etc), through processes of enclosure and commodification. We know that enclosure enables monopolists to raise prices and maximize their profits (consider the rental market, the US healthcare system, or the British rail system). But it also has another effect. When essential goods are privatized and expensive, people need m…

Lucrecia Franco (2023-04-18). Brazil's reforestation project. america.cgtn.com Tropical forests are key to fight climate change and the loss of wild species.

Coral Wynter (2023-04-19). Rising Tide activists stop coal train, seek support for more civil disobedience. greenleft.org.au Rising Tide stopped a coal train for 5 hours on April 16 at the Port of Newcastle, after a successful camp for climate action. Coral Wynter, Rachel Evans and Richard Boult report.

Niko Leka (2023-04-19). Video: A participant reflects on the Newcastle Climate Camp 2023 and direct action that stopped a coal train. greenleft.org.au Niko Leka reflects on the April 15—16 Climate Camp protest in Mulubinba/Newcastle that took direct action to stop a coal train.

Cartie Werthman (2023-04-19). The meat industry is advertising like Big Oil. nationofchange.org The animal agriculture industry is forging ahead with slick advertising campaigns that downplay its impact on climate change, backed up with statistics from Checkoff-funded research programs.

Niko Leka (2023-04-19). Video: A participant reflects on the Newcastle Climate Camp 2023 and direct action which stopped a coal train. greenleft.org.au Niko Leka reflects on the April 15-16 Climate Camp protest in Newcastle which took direct action to stop a coal train…

Jason Hickel, Resilience. (2023-04-18). Universal Public Services: The Power Of Decommodifying Survival. popularresistance.org One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. | Capitalism relies on maintaining an artificial scarcity of essential goods and services (like housing, healthcare, transport, etc), through processes of enclosure and commodification. We know that enclosure enables monopolists to raise prices and maximize their profits (consider the rental market, the US healthcare system, or the British rail system). But it also has another effect. When essential goods are privatized and expensive, people need m…

Lucrecia Franco (2023-04-18). Brazil's reforestation project. america.cgtn.com Tropical forests are key to fight climate change and the loss of wild species.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-18). The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges Into Prosecutors. orinocotribune.com By Eve Ottenberg — Apr 14, 2023 | So the truth is out: the three so-called liberals on the supreme court are phonies. More precisely, they, like most of their conservative brethren, are corporate hacks. We learned this a couple of weeks ago, when the high court ruled against Steven Donziger, a climate-activist attorney, long persecuted and then literally prosecuted by Chevron. In a pro-corporate decision about as subtle as a heart attack, seven of the nine justices declined to hear Donziger's appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron. Two fa…

Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (2023-04-18). Forests, Fires, and Biomass. dissidentvoice.org

Sustainability Times (2023-04-18). America's Climate Refugees are Swelling, driven by Rising Seas, Wildfires and Extreme Heat. juancole.com By Laureen Fagan ( Sustainability Times) — News of an accelerating sea level rise along the Gulf Coast of the United States has renewed attention on climate migration, and the degree to which people in the U.S. have begun to retreat from climate challenges due to flooding, wildfire and other impacts. The new study, …

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-04-18). Monsanto's Evil Is Not Gone, It's Just In Disguise. popularresistance.org Monsanto has been voted the evilest corporation in the world several times over. | Yet, we don't hear anything about them now. What happened? Did they complete the evil? Did they retire after all their evil wrapped up? No, not so much. | Monsanto was one of the most hated companies in the Americas. There were protests just a few years ago, attracting hundreds of thousands into the streets — which is not easy to do. | The most shocking thing was that at Monsanto's lowest point, even the mainstream media started revealing the truth. Here's from Reuters ten years ago: | Monsanto's genetically modified seeds an…

Matthew Cunningham-Cook (2023-04-19). As The Midwest Burns, Biden Ignores Plastic Waste Dangers. levernews.com

Walter Smolarek (2023-04-18). Three massive ways the government wastes your tax dollars. liberationnews.org While the right wing points to vital social programs as sources of "waste" in the federal budget, the reality is that a huge part of what the government spends money on serves no purpose but to bolster the wealth and power of the ruling elite.

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