(2021-06-23). Censored News: The Twin Forces of Light and Darkness. indybay.org Duane Chili Yazzie, Dine', describes the Earth's defense to extractive industries and white supremacy. The Zapatistas have just arrived in Spain. At the same time, Yaqui Water Protectors are assassinated, and mass graves reveal genocide at residential schools. — Censored News…
(2021-06-23). Police Escalate Line 3 Standoffs at Indigenous, Water Protector-Led Treaty Sites. truthout.org The struggle against Enbridge Energy's Line 3 tar sands pipeline continued with another civil disobedience action Wednesday morning. Five Water Protectors Water Protectors prot…
(2021-06-23). Small businesses unprepared for pandemic-sized climate shock 'every decade'. news.un.org Small businesses which make up more than half of the global workforce were 2.5 times more likely to go under than larger firms in the first months of COVID-19, the International Trade Centre (ITC) said on Wednesday, warning that the impact of climate change could cause pandemic-scale disruption "every decade".
(2021-06-23). Indigenous sovereignty, climate justice and #JustTransition. mronline.org In early 2020, the #ShutDownCanada movement in solidarity with Indigenous Wet'suwet'en people sparked a wildfire of resistance across the country. | June 23, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-06-23). Thursday 6/24: Saving Life on Earth: "8 Billion Angels" Film and Q&A on Over Population & Climate Crisis. indybay.org On demand film screening and virtual discussion…
(2021-06-23). Sunrise Ends 400-Mile Climate March With Arrests at Ted Cruz's House. zcomm.org The Gulf South marchers demand that Congress and the Biden White House pass bold climate jobs legislation, including a bill to create a Civilian Climate Corps…
(2021-06-22). Peruvians defend Pedro Castillo's victory as Keiko Fujimori continues coup attempts. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets in Lima and other cities on June 19 to defend the electoral victory of socialist candidate Pedro Castillo from the Free Peru party. Right-wing Keiko Fujimori from Popular Force is still refusing to concede. Castillo won the elections with a margin of at least 44,000 votes. | As the electoral authorities are working to check all votes challenged by the opposition, Fujimori has been creating a climate of doubt in order to justify a coup.
(2021-06-22). Indigenous and environmental victory ‚àí Keystone XL pipeline 'dead in the water'. workers.org In an immense victory for Indigenous water protectors and land defenders on this continent, TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, revealed its investors have quit the Keystone XL pipeline. Work has completely halted — the KXL tar-sands pipeline is "dead in the water." Indigenous members of the Cowboy Indian Alliance . . . |
(2021-06-22). Censored News: The Twin Forces of Light and Darkness. indybay.org Duane Chili Yazzie, Dine', describes the Earth's defense to extractive industries and white supremacy. The Zapatistas have just arrived in Spain. At the same time, Yaqui Water Protectors are assassinated, and mass graves reveal genocide at residential schools. — Censored News…
(2021-06-22). Indigenous activists fighting Enbridge pipeline in US arrested, allege treaty violation. peoplesdispatch.org Three Indigenous activists protesting the construction of an oil pipeline in the US State of Minnesota were arrested by the police on Monday, June 21. The arrests come at a time when Indigenous and environmentalist groups have ramped up efforts to prevent progress on the Line 3 pipeline project by Canadian oil giant Enbridge Inc. | According to a statement released by the Stop Line 3 campaign, the three activists or "water protectors" were part of a protest camp near Palisade, Minnesota. They were arrested at the Mississippi River crossing of the proposed pipeline. In a video of the arrests released by the campai…
(2021-06-22). Biden Must Stop Pipelines To Deliver Climate And Environmental Justice. popularresistance.org Four years of President Donald Trump have cost America dearly. We lost our global leadership on addressing climate change and saw the struggle for environmental justice thwarted here at home. President Joe Biden has defined both of these objectives as cornerstones of his legacy, but a huge interstate methane gas pipeline now being rammed through the Appalachian Mountains threatens to undermine the progress his administration has promised. | The 42-inch diameter Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) would run 303 miles from West Virginia to Virginia, and it is one of the biggest U.S. gas pipelines in process. The pipelin…
(2021-06-22). Biden must stop pipelines to deliver on climate change and environmental justice. popularresistance.org Four years of President Donald Trump have cost America dearly. We lost our global leadership on addressing climate change and saw the struggle for environmental justice thwarted here at home. President Joe Biden has defined both of these objectives as cornerstones of his legacy, but a huge interstate methane gas pipeline now being rammed through the Appalachian Mountains threatens to undermine the progress his administration has promised.
(2021-06-22). Western States Face Record Heat & Historic Drought, But GOP Rejects Green Infrastructure Funding. democracynow.org As lawmakers in Washington continue to negotiate over an infrastructure bill that Democrats say needs to include major new funding to address the climate crisis, much of the U.S. is experiencing record heat, with many western states seeing record temperatures, drought and water shortages. "The climate crisis is here now," says climate and energy researcher Leah Stokes, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "The climate crisis is really happening right now, and every single year we delay on passing a climate bill, the worse the crisis gets."
(2021-06-22). GOP Rejects Green Infrastructure Funding in Face of Historic Drought and Heat. truthout.org As lawmakers in Washington continue to negotiate over an infrastructure bill that Democrats say needs to include major new funding to address the climate crisis, much of the U.S. is experiencing record heat, with many western states seeing record temperatures, drought and water shortages. "The climate crisis is here now," says climate and energy researcher Leah Stokes, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "The climate crisis is really happe…
(2021-06-22). Sunrise Movement's 400-Mile Climate March Ends With Arrests at Ted Cruz's House. truthout.org After six weeks of Eight demonstrators with the movement's "Generation on Fire" campaign were arrested on th…
(2021-06-22). Thursday 6/24: Saving Life on Earth: "8 Billion Angels" Film and Q&A on Over Population & Climate Crisis. indybay.org On demand film screening and virtual discussion…
(2021-06-22). Planet Earth is Heating Up Faster. counterpunch.org A new scientific paper just accepted for publication by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) shows that, on the basis of both computations and experimental measurements, the net rate at which Planet Earth is absorbing solar energy has increased between years 2005 and 2019. Planet Earth is heating up — global warming — at a faster
(2021-06-22). What to do with piles of plastic waste? nationofchange.org Other countries get creative.