2023-06-20: News Headlines

Dan Bacher (2023-06-20). Big Oil's outsize influence on CA and US politics expands to journalism dinners and awards. indybay.org The following is a speech I gave at a climate rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento on June 10 sponsored by the Sacramento Climate Coalition, Sacramento 350, Third Act Sacramento, Oil and Gas Network and other climate groups. The event was part of a national week of action June 8 to 11 sponsored by People vs Fossil Fuels, Fridays For Future U.S., and more. The organizations demanded that President Biden use his executive powers to end the era of fossil fuels and declare a climate emergency:…

Fight Back (2023-06-20). Climate Justice Committee leads march to celebrate Roof Depot victory. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — On June 18, 40 activists, organizers and community members gathered to rally and march in celebration of the recent Roof Depot victory in the East Phillips community of Minneapolis. The march was initiated by the Climate Justice Committee (CJC). | The community has been fighting for nearly ten years to prevent the Hiawatha Expansion Project and Roof Depot demolition, both of which would have poisoned an already environmentally burdened community with diesel fumes and arsenic. Instead, the community wanted the city to give the Roof Depot property back to the people, so they could use the bu…

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-20). Rich countries owe US$192 trillion in climate reparations to global South. greenleft.org.au

Isaac Nellist, Chloe DS (2023-06-20). Green Left News Podcast Ep 12: 'Same job, same pay', fighting council cuts & rich countries owe climate reparations. greenleft.org.au

submedia.tv (2023-06-20). System Fail #23: Life Over Lithium. itsgoingdown.org subMedia.Tv returns with a new episode of System Fail, featuring a look at the fight against Lithium mining in Peehee Mu'huh also known as Thacker Pass, Nevada. As guilt mounts over humanity's inaction in the face of the climate crisis, industrialized capitalists have adapted their tactics to meet the demands of a more environmentally conscious…

Abdul Rahman (2023-06-19). Climate change is intensifying humanitarian crisis in war-affected Yemen. peoplesdispatch.org A fact sheet prepared by SIPRI and NUPI warns that the climate crisis in Yemen needs urgent international attention as competition over scarce water resources and fertile land may jeopardize the possibility of peace in the country…

Robert Hunziker (2023-06-19). Planetary Heat is Happening Fast, and Faster. dissidentvoice.org The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to run roughshod over climate change deniers and the mean-spirited, anti-climate-change Republican Party. Voters better smarten up by 2024 or suffer the consequences. At least the …

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-19). Experts in El Salvador warns on climate threats to food. plenglish.com Risk specialists question how the State faces the threat posed by the El Niño for the country and what are the prevention measures. | The coordinator of sustainability processes for Ahuachapán (western part of the country) and specialist in ecological risk management of the Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña (UNES), Miguel Urbina, pointed out that there will be a lack of food and this will increase prices, due to drought and the effects of the El Niño climate phenomenon. | These assessments coincide with data from a multidimensional study of El Salvador, prepared by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develo…

The Roxy SF (2023-06-19). Sunday 7/9: Film Screening – "Finite: The Climate Of Change" indybay.org The Roxy Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103…

_____ (2023-06-19). Another Act of Terror—How the Media Do PR for Biden and Zelensky. transcend.org 14 Jun 2023 – Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam and Nord Stream Pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts.

No Nukes Action (2023-06-20). Saturday 6/24: No Radioactive Water Dumping in Pacific Ocean at Fukushima. indybay.org Berkeley Main Public Library Community Room 3rd Floor | 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley…

ecns.cn (2023-06-19). Japan urged to halt release of toxic water. ecns.cn Environmental and social experts from across Asia have called on Japan to refrain from contaminating the sea with radioactive wastewater after it began test running the equipment to discharge toxic water from a crippled nuclear power plant into the Pacific.

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