(2020-04-17). #ClimateStrike: Virtual Protest Against Chase Bank to #Stop The Money Pipeline. indybay.org Online protest actions…
(2020-04-17). 5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published in 2016. | Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject One-hundred organizations representing more than …
(2020-04-17). Freedom of Assembly is Sick. indybay.org For decades, this country was governed as if the climate crisis were a myth. However, it favors natural disasters and diseases that are difficult or impossible to treat. The denial of these problems and the refusal to deal with the destructive effects of capitalism are the reason why the USA is particularly ill-equipped to face future challenges.
(2020-04-17). Earth Day: Climate & Eco Films on Turner Classic Movies (TCM & Earth Day Network). indybay.org TCM Channel…
(2020-04-17). How to use Social Media to Drive Environmental Change: Why Zero Waste? (livestream). indybay.org Online via Livestream…
(2020-04-17). Detroit Democratic Mayor Duggan outlines layoffs, wage and service cuts amid exploding city budget crisis. wsws.org The dramatic economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced a massive budget crisis in Detroit and the city's mayor has wasted no time in working out a plan to make city employees and residents pay for it.
(2020-04-17). WATCH smoke from Chernobyl & dust turning Kiev sky gray. rt.com Apocalyptic-looking scenes were aplenty on Friday in the Ukrainian capital, when smoke from wildfires and dust borne by strong winds briefly lent Kiev the label of the world's most polluted city. | Kiev's skies remained grey in the morning, and residents had to shut their windows to keep out the nauseous stench of burning, according to complaints on social media platforms. | Air pollution spiked in the city starting late Thursday. Some of it came in the form of dust carried by heavy winds. Ukraine had an unusually dry winter and spring, which led to the large amount of dust, local weather officials explained.
(2020-04-16). Budgets Are Moral Documents: Nuclear Weapons Funding and COVID-19 Response. commondreams.org As physicians and health practitioners we have warned for decades about the existential threats of nuclear war and climate change and vulnerability to global pandemics. (Photo: Scott Howe/DVIDS) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/missile_test.jpg …
(2020-04-16). Amazon's Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemic, adding $24 billion to his fortune. wsws.org Never letting a good crisis go to waste, the financial oligarchy has used the COVID-19 pandemic to enrich itself at the expense of society.
(2020-04-16). 'A Tremendous Victory': Indigenous and Climate Campaigners Celebrate as Federal Court Deals Another Blow to Keystone XL. commondreams.org Indigenous rights groups and climate action campaigners credited their years-long effort to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for securing the latest legal victory against TC Energy on Wednesday, after a federal judge in Montana invalidated the company's water-crossing permit to build the pipeline. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-6326101281_0_0.jpg …
(2020-04-14). Legionnaires Disease Death Linked to Home Water Contamination. jamanetwork.com An immunocompromised Wisconsin man in his 70s died from an infection with a strain of Legionella bacteria traced to water supplies in his home, according to a CDC report.
(2020-04-13). As media warns of WARRING CANNIBAL RATS in US cities, (human) food production quietly crashes from Covid-19 closures. rt.com Rats living in major US cities are resorting to war and cannibalism to survive the coronavirus lockdown, a rodent expert has told the media. But as closures hamper food production, humans may also find themselves in trouble. | While rats feeding off residential waste in places like New York City and Los Angeles are doing just fine, those relying on restaurants — shuttered due to Covid-19 quarantines — are suddenly facing starvation, urban rodentologist Bobby Corrigan told NBC News on Monday. | | Starving rats are resorting to war a…
(2020-04-04). First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike? zcomm.org If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
(2020-04-04). Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis. zcomm.org What we—citizens, corporations, courts and government—do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
(2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
(2019-07-24). MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with XR. peoplesparty.org with Extinction Rebellion climate activists | MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with Extinction Rebellion climate activists after supergluing themselves to Congress in mass civil disobedience: | Washington, D.C. — Movement for a People's Party National Director Nick Brana was arrested during a protest to block Congress and demand that they join the countries of the UK and Canada and declare a climate emergency. | Brana and 15 people affiliated with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) glued themselves to three underground tunnel entrances leading to the Capitol, blocking access…