Daily Archives: September 17, 2023

2023-09-17: News Headlines

David Goessmann (2023-09-17). Climate strike: How elites have been fighting Generation Alarm for five years. indybay.org Some activists are later sentenced to pay millions in damages, others have to spend months in prison for their civil disobedience. In the Bild newspaper, RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz calls them "eco-terrorists." But neither heat, nor summer drought, nor coal protests led the politicians to ask questions about the climate.

FFF Global Climate Strike website (2023-09-17). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Outside of Santa Cruz City Hall | 809 Center Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060…

Marie Harrison Community Foundation (2023-09-17). Saturday 9/23: Climate Action: BaySpark 2023: Igniting Youth Action for Climate and Environmental Justice. indybay.org Southeast Community Center, | 1550 Evans Avenue San Francisco, CA 94124…

Speak Out Now Berkeley (2023-09-17). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike at UC Berkeley. indybay.org Gather at Sather Gate | UC Berkeley | Sather Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720…

Amy Westervelt, Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog. (2023-09-16). Meet The Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors. popularresistance.org Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in an effort to draw attention to the German government's inaction on climate. A young woman, with her hand glued to a road was ripped off the road by her hair; a young man was run over by a truck driver; a passerby punched the protestors and was cheered on. A few months later, German police raided the homes of Last Generation activists and seized their bank accounts. It all seemed lik…

Editor (2023-09-16). Where now for the Climate Movement? mronline.org It is just four years on from the global mass mobilisations of young people inspired by Swedish climate activist and Friday for Futures (FFF) founder Greta Thunberg.

FFF Global Climate Strike website (2023-09-16). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Santa Cruz. indybay.org Outside of Santa Cruz City Hall | 809 Center Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Climate Justice Committee joins with allies to hold MPCA accountable at air pollution open house. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – The Climate Justice Committee and allies held a press conference at Metro State University to hold the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) accountable as they start the three year rulemaking process for a new cumulative impacts law passed in Minnesota in 2023. This cumulative impacts law would not just take into account air pollution from one business at a particular site but would look at the cumulative impacts of pollution in the area and make permitting decisions based on historic pollution and how the community in the area has already been impacted. | The MPCA is responsible for permittin…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Orlando for Gender Equality announces campaign to ensure trans bathroom access. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – Activists and community members gathered outside of the Orange County courthouse in Orlando on September 1 to protest the agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis, in the wake of his recent attacks on the democratic rights. The community came together to show their support for transgender rights, and to protest the bigotry of DeSantis and the political climate he has orchestrated. | The highlighted issue at the protest was Senate Bill 1674, which was signed into law by DeSantis in May. The new law criminalizes transgender people for using the bathroom that aligns with their gender, with punishments including…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Climate Justice Committee joins with allies to hold MPCA accountable at air pollution open house. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – The Climate Justice Committee and allies held a press conference at Metro State University to hold the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) accountable as they start the three year rulemaking process for a new cumulative impacts law passed in Minnesota in 2023. This cumulative impacts law would not just take into account air pollution from one business at a particular site but would look at the cumulative impacts of pollution in the area and make permitting decisions based on historic pollution and how the community in the area has already been impacted. | The MPCA is responsible for permittin…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). Orlando for Gender Equality announces campaign to ensure trans bathroom access. fightbacknews.org Orlando, FL – Activists and community members gathered outside of the Orange County courthouse in Orlando on September 1 to protest the agenda of Governor Ron DeSantis, in the wake of his recent attacks on the democratic rights. The community came together to show their support for transgender rights, and to protest the bigotry of DeSantis and the political climate he has orchestrated. | The highlighted issue at the protest was Senate Bill 1674, which was signed into law by DeSantis in May. The new law criminalizes transgender people for using the bathroom that aligns with their gender, with punishments including…

Gabriel Vera Lopes (2023-09-16). In final declaration, G77 rejects "digital monopolies" and calls for "reform" of the financial system. peoplesdispatch.org In the final declaration, the G77+China Summit highlighted the importance of technology for development, the impacts of climate change, and called for a reform of the international economic system. The event ended on Saturday September 16 in Havana, the capital of Cuba, and was attended by heads of state from Latin America, Africa, and Asia including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, as well as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and diplomats and delegations from more than 100 countries. | The summit is the larges…

Lucy Dean Stockton (2023-09-16). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: The Kids Are Alright. levernews.com Good things are happening! The country's largest private university just divested from fossil fuels — and we scored a behind-the-scenes account of the victory from one of the organizers responsible. And that's not all: California's legislature passed historic climate legislation and defended Medicare, plus the taxman is coming for the country's negligent millionaires. | NYU Divests From Fossil Fuels: | Following years of pressure from student activists, New York University (NYU) has

Marie Harrison Community Foundation (2023-09-16). Saturday 9/23: Climate Action: BaySpark 2023: Igniting Youth Action for Climate and Environmental Justice. indybay.org Southeast Community Center, | 1550 Evans Avenue San Francisco, CA 94124…

Michael Welch (2023-09-16). Problem. Reaction. Solution. Wildfires About More than CO2 Induced Climate Change? globalresearch.ca

Pankaj Kumar Garg (2023-09-16). Correspondence] Challenges and opportunities for India on the world stage. thelancet.com Although India faces numerous domestic challenges, such as health care, education, and the economy,1 India's Government is striving to address these challenges and is implementing policies that promote the wellbeing and prosperity of its citizens.2,3 India's G20 priorities reflect a commitment to inclusive and resilient growth and focusing on issues such as climate, finance, sustainable development, and global health resilience.4 India advocates for a gradual and systematic approach to sustainable development and reducing carbon emissions while supporting the most affected sections of society.

Speak Out Now Berkeley (2023-09-16). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike at UC Berkeley. indybay.org Gather at Sather Gate | UC Berkeley | Sather Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720…

Tina Landis, Friends of Socialist China. (2023-09-16). Capitalist Urbanization, Climate Change, And The Need For Sponge Cities. popularresistance.org In this fascinating article, first published in Liberation School, environmentalist and author Tina Landis explains the concept of sponge cities: what they are, why they are needed, and China's leading role in developing them. | Tina observes that "the majority of the world's cities today were built for profit and speculation in mind, with little to no consideration given to negative impacts on either ecology or humanity." | "Vast hardscapes—sidewalks, roads, parking lots, buildings—and gray infrastructure that channels water away as it falls, places these urban centers at odds with biodiversity and t…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-16). The Polycrisis Is The Singular Dilemma Of Humanity Called Capitalism. popularresistance.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' in their book Terre-Patrie ('Homeland Earth'). Morin and Kern argued that 'there is no single vital problem, but many vital problems, and it is this complex intersolidarity of problems, antagonisms, crises, uncontrolled processes, and the general crisis of the planet that continues the number one vital problem'.

David Goessmann (2023-09-16). Climate strike: How elites have been fighting Generation Alarm for five years. indybay.org Some activists are later sentenced to pay millions in damages, others have to spend months in prison for their civil disobedience. In the Bild newspaper, RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz calls them "eco-terrorists." But neither heat, nor summer drought, nor coal protests led the politicians to ask questions about the climate.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-17). Angola plans to eliminate refrigerant gases by 2030. plenglish.com Since 2012 the country began to apply the schedule for the gradual elimination of these gases, which are harmful to the ozone layer and cause global warming, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, Ivone Pascoal, the person in charge of the issue in the aforementioned ministry, explained to the Angolan Press Agency. | It is expected that the application of the measure of not importing these gases and their exclusion from consumption will be completed by 2025, leaving a margin until 2030 for their total disappearance. | Reaching this point, required intense awareness-raising work on good refrigeration practices…

Darren Thompson, Native News Online. (2023-09-16). Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Rejects DAPL Environmental Impact Statement. popularresistance.org The Dakota Access Pipeline was the impetus for the resistance at Standing Rock that lasted from April 2016 to March 2017 where tens of thousands of tribal citizens from all over Indian Country and environmentalists protested. The pipeline was built through the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's unceded treaty lands, less than a half mile upstream of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and beneath the Missouri River. | Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) Chairwoman Janet Alkire said the draft EIS should be invalidated and the Corps should "start from scratch" a new environmental review. The tribe is opposed to the firm tha…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-17). Protest calls on NSW gov't, Santos to stop fracking the Pilliga. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-16). Protest calls on NSW gov't, Santos to stop fracking the Pilliga. greenleft.org.au

Nati Garcia, Cultural Survival. (2023-09-16). Violence, Harassment, and Surveillance On Unist' Ot' En Land. popularresistance.org In December 2019, the British Columbia Supreme Court issued an injunction allowing construction of a 669-kilometer-long Coastal GasLink pipeline that will cut through 22,000 square kilometers of unceded Wet ¥suwet ¥en land. The injunction gave the Coastal GasLink pipeline unlimited access to the ancestral lands of the Wet ¥suwet ¥en, and was firmly rejected by the Wet ¥suwet ¥en people. On January 7, 2020, the Wet ¥suwet ¥en Hereditary Chiefs served Coastal GasLink with an eviction notice, effective immediately. | Despite the Hereditary Chiefs' opposition to the pipeline, the Wet &…

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