Monthly Archives: September 2023

2023-09-05: News Headlines

Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-05). Criminalising Activism: Woodside, Protest and Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org On August 1, protesters against the Burrup Hub expansion in Western Australia, a project of one of Australia's most ruthless fossil fuel companies, took to the Perth home of its CEO, Meg O'Neill. The CEO of Woodside was not impressed. In fact, she seemed rather distressed. "It doesn't matter if you're a member of the …

End Fossil Fuels website (2023-09-05). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Mill Valley. indybay.org Intersection of Miller Ave & Camino Alto | Mill Valley, California 94941…

FFF Global Climate Strike website (2023-09-05). Friday 9/15: SF: End Fossil Fuels! Bike Ride Protest & Rally. indybay.org Meet at Great HWY and Judah Street | Ocean Beach, San Francisco | We will ride to JFK Drive, then head to Civic Center Plaza for speakers and music…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-05). WA gov't, police go after climate protesters. greenleft.org.au

Michelle Cook (2023-09-05). Bvlbancha Radio is Live on Traditional Houma Land. indybay.org Radio Bvlbancha! Seven years after Standing Rock we are back in the community on the ground, setting up and sustaining community lead radio! Community begins with communication. Being prepared for climate chaos is essential for the survival of our peoples and Earth. I'm so thankful to be here on the traditional lands of the Houma Nation in beautiful New Orleans! Back to the grass-roots where it matters and where it starts. Human rights include communication systems!

Pete K. (2023-09-05). Sunday 9/24: Music for the Climate Revolution. indybay.org Bottom of the Hill, located at 1233 17th Street in San Francisco…

Staff (2023-09-05). Headlines for September 5, 2023. democracynow.org Biden Administration to Supply Ukraine with Depleted Uranium Munitions, Russia and Ukraine Trade Drone Attacks; Zelensky Sacks Defense Minister Amid Graft Probe, Putin Rules Out Renewal of Black Sea Grain Deal, U.N. Predicts Conflict in Sudan Will Produce 1.8 Million New Refugees by Year's End, Coup Leader Brice Oligui Nguema Sworn In as Interim President of Gabon, Massive Protests in Niger Demand Withdrawal of French Troops, Chinese Leader Xi Jinping to Skip G20 Summit in India, U.N.-Backed Report Finds Accelerating Spread of Harmful Invasive Species, First Africa Climate Summit Opens in Kenya, Torrential…

Thomas Meyer (2023-09-05). Climate catastrophe and 'freedom of consumption'. indybay.org It is not five to twelve, but five past twelve, as philosopher Slavoj Žižek writes. The fact that climate change is a fact (the details may well be debated) and poses a serious threat to humanity is something that the last fool should have realized by now.1 It is also clear that the emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases must be radically and rapidly reduced.

Editor (2023-09-04). Burning out of control: Capitalism's climate catastrophe. mronline.org Canada's unprecedented wildfires drive home the harsh realities of climate change, in all their enormity. We are fighting an incorrigibly destructive social and economic system, but we are also, at the same time, engaged in a struggle for survival.

Editor (2023-09-04). Net Zero Minister Linked to Oil-Funded Group That Targeted Climate Protesters. scheerpost.com

Ethan Huff (2023-09-04). More Than 1,600 Scientists Sign Declaration: "No Climate Emergency" Exists at All. globalresearch.ca

Olivia Rosane (2023-09-04). New Report Shows Major Banks Continue to Fund Climate Chaos in Global South. truthout.org Since the international community promised to limit global heating to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, the world's major banks have funneled 20 times more money to climate-polluting industries in the Global South than Global North governments have given those same countries to address the climate emergency. That's just one of the findings of How the Finance Flows: The Banks Fueling the Climate… |

Staff (2023-09-04). "The Great Escape": Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S. democracynow.org As extreme weather disasters intensify, the workers who are hired by corporations to clean up after hurricanes, floods, blizzards and wildfires are increasingly on the frontlines of the climate crisis. | For Labor Day 2023, we are rebroadcasting an interview with author and organizer Saket Soni. His book, The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America, focuses on hundreds of Indian workers who were brought to the United States with false promises and subjected to grueling working conditions at a shipyard in Mississippi. When one of those workers called Soni in 2006 for help, it set…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-05). UN Secretary General calls for leap in climate action for Africa. plenglish.com Nairobi, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a quantum leap in climate action for Africa, which is affected by the worst effects from the increase in global temperatures.

Fridays for Future Palo Alto (2023-09-04). Friday 9/15: Protest/Music/Dance with the Climate Strikers in Palo Alto. indybay.org Lytton Plaza | 200 University Ave | Palo Alto CA 94303…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-05). Children in 48 African countries at high risk from climate change. plenglish.com New York, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) Children in 48 African countries are at high risk of suffering the impact of climate change, according to a UNICEF report on the occasion of the regional climate summit in Nairobi.

teleSUR (2023-09-05). The Climate Crisis Demands a New Financial System: Colombia. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez advocated a reform of the international financial system that allows developing countries to face the climate crisis. | RELATED: | "The lack of political will to act is not the real problem. We do not have sufficient resources to meet the planetary challenge. That is the underlying problem," she said when speaking at the first Africa Climate Summit (ACS). | "We cannot deal with th…

krish-rad_ind (2023-09-04). In A New Climate Reality, Community May Be A Farmer's Greatest Resource. popularresistance.org

End Fossil Fuels website (2023-09-04). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Mill Valley. indybay.org Intersection of Miller Ave & Camino Alto | Mill Valley, California 94941…

FFF Global Climate Strike website (2023-09-04). Friday 9/15: SF: End Fossil Fuels! Bike Ride Protest & Rally. indybay.org Meet at Great HWY and Judah Street | Ocean Beach, San Francisco | We will ride to JFK Drive, then head to Civic Center Plaza for speakers and music…

Michelle Cook (2023-09-04). Bvlbancha Radio is Live on Traditional Houma Land. indybay.org Radio Bvlbancha! Seven years after Standing Rock we are back in the community on the ground, setting up and sustaining community lead radio! Community begins with communication. Being prepared for climate chaos is essential for the survival of our peoples and Earth. I'm so thankful to be here on the traditional lands of the Houma Nation in beautiful New Orleans! Back to the grass-roots where it matters and where it starts. Human rights include communication systems!

Pete K. (2023-09-04). Sunday 9/24: Music for the Climate Revolution. indybay.org Bottom of the Hill, located at 1233 17th Street in San Francisco…

Thomas Meyer (2023-09-04). Climate catastrophe and 'freedom of consumption'. indybay.org It is not five to twelve, but five past twelve, as philosopher Slavoj Žižek writes. The fact that climate change is a fact (the details may well be debated) and poses a serious threat to humanity is something that the last fool should have realized by now.1 It is also clear that the emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases must be radically and rapidly reduced.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-04). WA gov't, police go after climate protesters. greenleft.org.au

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-04). African Climate Summit will focus on green growth and call for action. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) The agenda of the African Climate Summit in Kenya will focus on green growth, solutions for the financing against climate change, and a call to action to the member states of the African Union (AU) and its partners for its implementation.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-04). Venezuela to hold National Congress on Climate Crisis. plenglish.com The Minister for Ecosocialism, Josué Lorca, invited researchers from the Ecological Community, Popular Power, Communal Councils and Social Movements to participate in the meeting, whose sessions will alternate between this capital and the states of Mérida and Falcón, Venezolana de Televisión reported. | The authority called on all Venezuelans to join the purpose of the event to "build strategies for the preservation of Mother Earth", as a continuity to the agreements of the previous Congress on the subject in May 2022. | The first National Congress on Climate Crisis assumed strategies to stop such process and tr…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-09-04). Japanese Scientists Find that Covid-19 and all of the variants are Laboratory creations. thealtworld.com Our rulers are mimicking the Book of Revelation. War has been unleashed on us for years. Covid and its laboratory-made variants are the beginning of Pestilence. Famine is in the works with the slaughter of cattle to combat a disputed global warming, withholding of fertilizers from farmers, sanctions, and the replacement of the human diet with bugs and artificial food. When these three horsemen accomplish their deeds, Death on the Pale Horse will sweep through our ranks. It is difficult to believe in prophecy, especially over thousands of years, but it is happening before our eyes. | War has done his job. Since th…

ecns.cn (2023-09-05). E-commerce progress high on agenda. ecns.cn More measures are in the pipeline to boost development of e-commerce, which plays a vital role in driving growth of the real economy, promoting trade and boosting capital flows, officials and experts said.

Ethan Huff (2023-09-04). China Bans Sale of Japanese Seafood Due to Fukushima Radiation Contamination. Tokyo to File Appeal at WTO. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-09-05). S. Koreans condemn Japan's nuclear-contaminated wastewater discharge. ecns.cn Thousands of South Koreans, including politicians and more than 90 civic groups, continued a weekend rally in central Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan's dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean and call for government action on Fukushima wastewater. "ÄÄ…

ecns.cn (2023-09-04). S. Koreans condemn Japan's nuclear-contaminated wastewater discharge. ecns.cn Thousands of South Koreans, including politicians and more than 90 civic groups, continued a weekend rally in central Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan's dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean and call for government action on Fukushima wastewater. "ÄÄ…

_____ (2023-09-04). Japanese Expert: Nuclear-Contaminated Water Sacrifices the Public Interests. transcend.org 31 Aug 2023 – "The Japanese government rejected all plans and made the decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea," said Hayashi Kumpei, associate professor at the Fukushima University…

_____ (2023-09-04). Why Do Many Scientists Oppose Fukushima Radioactive Waste Discharge? transcend.org 30 Aug 2023 – The release of treated waste water from the nuclear plant has begun, despite concerns from major scientific organisations. IAEA is monitoring the operation but many experts are questioning the amount of data being collected.

Otis Grotewohl (2023-09-04). Release of Fukushima wastewater threatens workers. workers.org The Japanese government began releasing wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 24. The controversial move has angered workers throughout the region, sparking numerous protests in South Korea, China and Japan. Following the T≈çhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 — which destroyed the . . . |

Ann Brown (2023-09-04). Deion Sanders' Colorado Shocks America With Upset of TCU as 20 Point Underdog. moguldom.com Deion Sanders hasn't wasted any time since taking over as head coach at University of Colorado Boulder for the Colorado Buffaloes. On Sept. 3, the underdog pulled off a surprising win over No. 17 Texas Christian University. It was an upset victory, a 45-42 triumph over TCU. The Buffaloes started the game as a 20-point …

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2023-09-02: News Headlines

Ellyn Lapointe, Sierra Club. (2023-09-02). In A New Climate Reality, Community May Be A Farmer's Greatest Resource. popularresistance.org The 10th of July had been a typical day at work for Caroline Hauser until she received an urgent email from the Intervale Center and its farms. They were calling for volunteers. The Intervale Center, a nonprofit farming cooperative in Burlington, Vermont, was bracing for intense rains and flooding forecasted to hit in the next 24 hours. It needed all hands on deck to harvest everything they could before disaster struck. Hauser messaged her manager to say she needed the day off. | Hauser has been a Burlington resident since 2015 and a regular volunteer at the Intervale Center since 2019. She and her husband are su…

Fridays for Future Palo Alto (2023-09-02). Friday 9/15: Global Climate Strike in Palo Alto. indybay.org Lytton Plaza | 200 University Ave | Palo Alto CA 94303…

Judith Deutsch (2023-09-02). Climate Change, Record Temperatures, and Human Fatalities. internationalviewpoint.org How many people are dying due to climate change? How does climate change cause death, and what are some of the omissions, deceptions, and confusions about fossil fuels, climate change, and mortality? | – |

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-02). The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends. popularresistance.org The March to End Fossil Fuels will take place in New York City on September 17, days before the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit . Considering that July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on earth, the role of fossil fuel production in the climate crisis surely needs public attention and action. | But there is something highly problematic about marches and meetings that don't address two large elephants in the room: capitalism and militarism. The United States military is the world's biggest emitter of fossil fuels, having emitted 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere since…

WSWS (2023-09-02). Two US academics protest ongoing political censorship of IYSSE at Sydney's Macquarie University. wsws.org "This generation of young people faces the threat of world war, the rise of fascism, the COVID pandemic, and the global climate crisis. It is imperative that students' capacity to address these questions not be arbitrarily limited in the name of administrative bookkeeping."

Amy Goodman (2023-09-01). Justice vs. Urgency Is a False Choice for Climate Action, Says GND Architect. truthout.org As the cost of the climate crisis continues to rise and climate justice groups demand more government action to halt the heating of the planet, we speak with policy expert Rhiana Gunn-Wright, one of the architects of the Green New Deal. She says the Inflation Reduction Act championed by President Biden, which is the largest climate bill in U.S. history, has many provisions that "structurally leave… |

Fight Back (2023-09-01). Climate Justice Committee rallies against major fossil fuel funder Wells Fargo. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Wednesday, August 30, the Climate Justice Committee held a rally outside the corporate offices of Wells Fargo in downtown Minneapolis to call attention to the key role that big banks and their government allies play in funding fossil fuel projects and manufacturing the conditions for what is now the planet's hottest summer in recorded history. | The Wells Fargo offices are a sprawling complex of interconnected buildings, all loudly sporting its red and gold logo. Directly across the street looms the towering silhouette of another major financial institution, U.S. Bank, whose name adorns the T…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-01). Weather Warfare: "Beware the US Military's Experiments with Climatic Warfare" globalresearch.ca 'Climatic warfare' has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.

Staff (2023-09-01). Enbridge Is the Guilty Party, Not Me: Meet the Pipeline Protester Facing 5 Years for Peaceful Action. democracynow.org We speak with climate activist and water protector Mylene Vialard, whose trial for peacefully protesting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline began this week in Minnesota. Vialard faces up to five years in prison for her 2021 protest, when she attached herself to a 25-foot bamboo tower erected to block a pumping station in Aitkin County. Vialard, who lives in Colorado, had come to Minnesota to take part in a wave of Indigenous-led acts of civil disobedience to stop the pipeline. Between December 2020 and September 2021, police in Minnesota made more than 1,000 arrests. Mylene Vialard is just the second water protector fa…

Staff (2023-09-01). Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright Warns the Green Transition May Leave Black People Behind. democracynow.org As the cost of the climate crisis continues to rise and climate justice groups demand more government action to halt the heating of the planet, we speak with policy expert Rhiana Gunn-Wright, one of the architects of the Green New Deal. She says the Inflation Reduction Act championed by President Biden, which is the largest climate bill in U.S. history, has many provisions that "structurally leave out Black people." She urges a more inclusive green transition that centers the needs of communities of color. "There is an increasing sort of narrative about the tension between justice and urgency th…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-01). Wastewater Pipeline Dig Leads to Discovery of Rare Fossil 'Treasure Trove' in New Zealand. sputnikglobe.com Officials have indicated that the recent discovery is one of the richest and most diverse fauna of its age ever found in New Zealand, noting that hundreds of thousands of fossils date back to the Late Pliocene age.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-01). Tritium Found in Seawater Near Japan's Fukushima Amid Treated Radioactive Water Dump. sputnikglobe.com With unease about tank failures during natural disasters, Japan strives to secure the land where treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power station has been stored in tanks for an extended period.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-02). Japan to Allocate Extra $137Mln to Fishermen Amid China's Seafood Import Ban – Reports. sputnikglobe.com TOKYO (Sputnik) – The Japanese government intends to allocate an additional 20 billion yen ($136.8 million) to support fishermen and fisheries after China imposed a ban on imports of Japanese seafood over the release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, Japanese media reported on Saturday.

David Bollier. (2023-09-02). Hannes Gerhardt: From Capital To Commons. popularresistance.org Gerhardt has a firm grasp of the extensive literature on Internet culture over the past fifty years — the critiques, histories, and technical controversies. What distinguishes his book from many others about the Internet is his political acuity in assessing the challenges. He offers chapters on "democratizing infrastructure" such as the electric grid and the Internet itself, as well as on how to support "design global, manufacture local" production. Unlike many techies, Gerhardt is also mindful of the limits of the natural world, so he devotes space to localism, urban waste, and agriculture as a renewable r…

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