Staff (2018-11-04). U.K. Scientists Risk Prison to Urge Climate Action. truthdig.com A growing number of British academics, writers and activists say they are ready to go to prison in support of their demands for action on the environment. | Scientists are not normally renowned for their political activism, and the UK is hardly a hotbed of determined and risky protest against its rulers. But, if this group of nearly 100 British scientists and their backers is right, all that may be on the brink of changing. | Today sees the launch of ExtinctionRebellion, which describes itself as an international movement using mass civil disobedience to force governments…

Todd Miller (2018-11-04). Climate Change and Its Staggering Refugee Crisis. zcomm.org Research confirms that massive migration, into the millions, will be an inevitable consequence of global warming…

Staff (2018-11-04). Trump Administration Attempt to Quash Youth Climate Suit Fails. truthdig.com The Supreme Court rules in favor of the group of plaintiffs claiming the U.S. has actively caused climate instability in violation of their rights.

Robert Hunziker (2018-11-04). Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal. zcomm.org On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: "For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse." According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us. Nearly Read more…

WGAR News (2018-11-04). Australian minister used Aboriginal funds to fight Aboriginal land claims. indybay.org The peak organisation representing the rights of Australian indigenous peoples seeks answers from Nigel Scullion, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, for allocating Indigenous Advancement Strategy funds to industry groups to oppose land rights claims.

Wally Johnson (2018-11-04). Thoughts and Reflections on Thanksgiving from a Native American Perspective. indybay.org Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists' Hall | 1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org…

Eds. (2018-11-03). Environmental activists rebel against government's climate inaction. mronline.org 15 arrested as hundreds take part in civil disobedience outside Parliament | Source

Victoria López (2018-11-03). Warehousing Immigrant Children in the Texas Desert. globalresearch.ca Since June, the federal government has been operating a massive tent city in the West Texas desert to detain immigrant children who have traveled to the United States seeking protection from persecution and abuse in their home countries. | Last week, …

Shared by Anton Woronczuk (2018-11-03). How the Loss of Native American Languages Affects Our Understanding of Nature. truthout.org Alaska has a "linguistic emergency," according to the Alaskan Gov. Bill Walker. A report warned earlier this year that all of the state's 20 Native American languages might cease to exist by the end of this century, if the state did not act. | American policies, particularly in the six decades between the 1870s and 1930s, Alleen Brown (2018-11-03). Standing Rock Pitches Last-Ditch Fight for the Right to Vote in North Dakota. theintercept.com To find Honorata Defender's home on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, mention her name to whoever you can find walking down the main street of her tiny town. They'll tell you to turn when you get to the powwow grounds and to take the paved road, rather than the gravel one. Drive until you see a hill, and look for her car. Her house has no number on it, and mail is not delivered there; it goes to a P.O. box instead. | As Defender put it, "We've never believed that a person can own land; it's the land that owns us." She added, "The concept of an address wasn't a big deal." | Defender was working at her job as a…

stuart_m (2018-11-02). Brazilian social leader: 'We defeated the military dictatorship, we'll defeat Bolsonaro'. greenleft.org.au Shockwaves were sent around the world when fascist candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 55% in the second round in Brazil's presidential elections on October 28, defeating Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party (PT). | Infamous for his support for torture and military dictatorship as well as extreme bigotry towards women, the LGBTI community and indigenous peoples, millions in Brazil and globally were horrified and frightened. Not so investors, with Brazil's stock market soaring to new highs on the news of the win by a candidate who has pledged to open up all of Brazil — including ecologically crucial sections of th…

Eric Draitser (2018-11-02). This Website Fights Fascists. counterpunch.org More>

Tommy Raskin (2018-11-02). Trump's Tribalism (And Ours). counterpunch.org Almost two years after the fact, the sting to the American Left has not quite faded. That a bumbling, chauvinistic, vituperative, politically inexperienced real estate scion eked out a victory in a contest for the world's most powerful office still strikes us a monstrous, unforgivable injustice. The feeling is understandable, what with Donald Trump's casual More

pip.hinman (2018-11-02). Five new books for ecosocialists. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at five new books for ecosocialists. Inclusion does not necessarily indicate agreement with a book's contents. | *** | Can The Working Class Change The World?
| By Michael D Yates
| Monthly Review Press, 2018 | Some radicals deny that a working class in the sense meant by Karl Marx even exists — or, if it does, that it is so divided by gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and location that it will never be a radical force for change. | Michael Yates has no illus…

Daniel Aldana Cohen (2018-11-02). Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point. thenation.com Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point…

Robert Hunziker (2018-11-02). Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal. counterpunch.org On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: "For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse." According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us. Nearly More

Eds. (2018-11-02). Geoengineering and environmental capitalism. mronline.org If, as history shows, fantasies of weather and climate control have chiefly served commercial and military interests, why should we expect the future to be different? —James Fleming, Fixing the Sky | Source

wsws (2018-11-02). Thousands attend funerals for victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. wsws.org Pittsburgh residents who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site denounced the president's anti-immigrant tirades, which created the climate for the deadliest act of anti-Semitic violence in US history.

Democracy Now! (2018-11-01). Headlines for November 1, 2018. democracynow.org Pittsburgh Funerals Continue as Trump Focuses on Protests and "Fake News", Racist Kentucky Shooter Indicted for Murder, Trump Threatens to Send 15,000 Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border, Trump Attacks Paul Ryan for Birthright Citizenship Rebuke, Trump Tweets Racist Campaign Ad Ahead of Midterms, Multiple Caravans Head to U.S. Border as Humanitarian Concerns Grow, Trump Tells Reporter "When I Can, I Tell the Truth", Native American Tribe Sues over North Dakota Voter ID Law, Judges Order Ohio to Let Purged Voters Cast Midterm Ballots, Turkey Says Khashoggi Strangled in Consulate as International Fallout Continues, U.S. C…

aclu (2018-11-01). Warehousing Immigrant Children in the Texas Desert. aclu.org The Tornillo detention camp represents a major shift in the policy and practice of putting the best interests of the child first. | Since June, the federal government has been operating a massive tent city in the West Texas desert to detain immigrant children who have traveled to the United States seeking protection from persecution and abuse in their home countries. | Last week, I visited the Tornillo detention camp with colleagues from the ACLU of Texas. There are currently over 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant kids at Tornillo, most from Central America, who were transferred from long-term shelter placements. Th…

John Smith (2018-11-01). Brexit—another day in the death of the old world order. mronline.org Five months before the March 29 leaving date, talks on how to avoid an acrimonious and chaotic exit of Britain from the European Union are on a knife-edge. A 'hard' Brexit would be a political and economic earthquake with global ramifications, but even if an agreement is reached the profound political crisis gripping Britain is […] | Source

pip.hinman (2018-11-01). Victorian Socialists push new jobs, real action on climate change. greenleft.org.au "If climate change is the great moral issue of our time, as one former prime minister famously said, then governments have failed miserably", Victorian Socialists candidate Tim Gooden told Green Left Weekly. | Gooden, who is standing in the November 24 state elections for the Legislative Council electorate of Western Victoria Region, said that an urgent and practical response to the climate crisis has been sorely lacking at both the national and state levels. | "No government has a clear plan to tackle climate change", Gooden said. "[Victoria's] Daniel Andrews government has had to be pushed, largely by grassroot…

Eds. (2018-10-31). Who will control the Earth's thermostat? mronline.org Geoengineering is a risky business. So risky, in fact, that it should be banned. | Source

Lee Fang (2018-10-31). GOP Rep. Tom Reed Founded Medical Debt Collection Firm That Harasses His Own Constituents. theintercept.com GOP Rep. Tom Reed wants to unravel the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that polices debt collection firms like the one he founded.

aclu (2018-10-31). Employees Who Have Babies Are Still Getting the Axe. aclu.org Forty years after Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, discrimination against pregnant and breastfeeding workers remains rampant. | Forty years ago, working women in the United States won the legal protection to become working mothers. On Oct. 31, 1978, Congress enacted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, making it illegal for employers to deny a woman a job — or promotion, or higher pay, or any other opportunity — because she is pregnant. | The statute had an immediate, dramatic impact on women's ability to fully participate in the workforce. Although on-the-job sex discrimination had bee…

Mark Anthony Rolo (2018-10-29). Trump Plays Pocahontas Card Again. . . And Takes the Trick! progressive.org When I hear people like the Cherokee Nation's Hoskins Jr. bashing Warren for her claim, it occurs to me that Trump's racism has found a footing in tribal politics.

Democracy Now! (2018-10-26). While Trump Calls Climate Change a Hoax, Hurricane Michael Damaged US Fighter Jets Worth $6 Billion. democracynow.org On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, just over a week after the base was largely destroyed during Hurricane Michael. The base is home to a fleet of 55 F-22 stealth fighters. Before Hurricane Michael leveled the base, at least 33 of these jets were flown to safety. But at least 17 of the planes, costing $339 million each, were likely left behind and possibly destroyed. There are several air bases located right on the coast in storm-prone areas in states in the South where scientists anticipate that climate change-induced hurricanes will grow more intense and mor…

Don Fitz (2018-10-18). Nuclear Power & Climate. zcomm.org The great environmental challenge of our time is to understand that the many sources of biodestruction are interconnected and must be confronted simultaneously, rather than disparaging one danger to focus on another…

TeleSur English (2018-10-04). Venezuela to Donate US$10m to Indonesia Earthquake Victims. venezuelanalysis.com President Maduro confirms they will use funds from the "solidarity fund" to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Celebes in late September.