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2018-11-02: Social Media Postees

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Indigenous Peoples Declare State of Environmental Emergency in the Peruvian Amazon
Miluska Elguera | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-02
Indigenous communities on agro-industrial frontier declare state of environmental and territorial emergency amidst land grabs and deforestation. | Communities in the Bajo Huallaga area of the Peruvian Amazon declared an "environmental and territorial emergency" on 16 September this year following serious … | The post Indigenous Peoples Declare State of Environmental Emergency in the Peruvian Amazon appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-peoples-declare-state-of-environmental-emergency-in-the-peruvian-amazon/5658741

Five new books for ecosocialists
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-02
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…
greenleft.org.au/content/five-new-books-ecosocialists-0

Brazilian social leader: 'We defeated the military dictatorship, we'll defeat Bolsonaro'
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-02
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…
greenleft.org.au/content/brazilian-social-leader-we-defeated-military-dictatorship-well-defeat-bolsonaro

Trump's Tribalism (And Ours)
Tommy Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-02
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…
counterpunch.org/2018/11/02/trumps-tribalism-and-ours/

Geoengineering and environmental capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-11-02
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…
mronline.org/2018/11/02/geoengineering-and-environmental-capitalism-2/

Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point
Daniel Aldana Cohen | thenation.com | 2018-11-02
Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point…
thenation.com/article/mainstream-media-un-climate-report-analysis/

Bolsonaro and Indigenous Rights in Brazil: A Glimmer of Hope in Difficult Times
Vanessa Jiménez | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-02
In the past month, Brazil's first indigenous woman was voted to Congress while the nation's newly elected President is expected to pursue assimilation policies toward indigenous peoples and seek an end to demarcations of their lands and protections to the … | The post Bolsonaro and Indigenous Rights in Brazil: A Glimmer of Hope in Difficult Times appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-and-indigenous-rights-in-brazil-a-glimmer-of-hope-in-difficult-times/5658714

Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-02
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…
counterpunch.org/2018/11/02/rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal/

Thousands attend funerals for victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-02
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/02/pitt-n02.html

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Renews Legal Challenge Against DAPL
Earthjustice | indybay.org | 2018-11-02
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers downplayed oil spill risk; ignored Tribe's well-documented concerns…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/01/18818667.php

Brexit–another day in the death of the old world order
John Smith | mronline.org | 2018-11-01
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…
mronline.org/2018/11/01/brexit-another-day-in-the-death-of-the-old-world-order/

Victorian Socialists push new jobs, real action on climate change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-01
"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…
greenleft.org.au/content/victorian-socialists-push-new-jobs-real-action-climate-change

Warehousing Immigrant Children in the Texas Desert
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-01
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…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/warehousing-immigrant-children-texas-desert

Employees Who Have Babies Are Still Getting the Axe
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-31
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…
aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/pregnancy-and-parenting-discrimination/employees-who-have-babies-are-still

GOP Rep. Tom Reed Founded Medical Debt Collection Firm That Harasses His Own Constituents
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2018-10-31
GOP Rep. Tom Reed wants to unravel the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that polices debt collection firms like the one he founded. | The post GOP Rep. Tom Reed Founded Medical Debt Collection Firm That Harasses His Own Constituents appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/10/31/tom-reed-new-york-debt-collection-company/

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

Salt Lake City: 'We Exist, We Resist' rally defends transgender rights
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-30
Salt Lake City, UT – More than 70 people rallied in downtown Salt Lake City, October 27, to protest Trump's proposed policies that would erase protections for transgender and non-binary individuals. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of Utah organized the event, in conjunction with other protests by SDS chapters around the country. | There were two speakers from SDS, and they reminded the crowd that trans women, especially trans women of color, are targets of transphobic violence and that 22 trans women have been killed so far this year. With Trump's blatant attack on the trans community th…
fightbacknews.org/2018/10/30/salt-lake-city-we-exist-we-resist-rally-defends-transgender-rights

Trump Plays Pocahontas Card Again. . . And Takes the Trick!
Mark Anthony Rolo | progressive.org | 2018-10-29
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.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-plays-the-pocahontas-card-181029/

While Trump Calls Climate Change a Hoax, Hurricane Michael Damaged US Fighter Jets Worth $6 Billion
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-26
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…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/26/while_trump_calls_climate_change_a

Nuclear Power & Climate
Don Fitz | zcomm.org | 2018-10-18
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…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/nuclear-power-climate/

Venezuela to Donate US$10m to Indonesia Earthquake Victims
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-04
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.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14083

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2018-11-01: News Headlines

Staff (2018-11-01). A Change of Diet Can Help Save the Planet. truthdig.com A change of diet can work wonders. European scientists have established one priority for the shopper concerned about climate change: don't worry about shopping for local produce, worry about the meat and dairy products in the shopping basket instead. | Agricultural emissions are a huge factor in the global greenhouse gas budget. But when scientists from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria…

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…

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…

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

Craig Collins (2018-11-01). Catabolism: Capitalism's Frightening Future. counterpunch.org "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" is an apt description of our current place in history. No matter what you think of globalization, I believe we'll soon discover that capitalism without it is much, much worse. No one needs to convince establishment economists, politicians and pundits that the absence of globalization and growth spells trouble. They've pushed globalization as the Viagra of economic growth for years. But globalization has never been popular with everyone. Capitalism's critics recognize that it generates tremendous wealth and power for a tiny fraction of the Earth's seven billion people, makes…

wsws (2018-11-01). World vertebrate populations have fallen 60 percent since 1970. wsws.org The latest Living Planet Report demonstrates the far-reaching implications of human activity on both the climate and the degradation of the natural environment.

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

Lorraine Chow (2018-10-31). 3 Things That Horrify Us and 3 Things That Make Us Happy. peoplesworld.org Much like Halloween, the environment can be terrifying and bring us joy at the same time. On All Hallows' Eve, let's revisit some of Earth's biggest ups and downs this October: 3 Things That Scared Us: 1. UN Releases Dire Climate Change Report Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its highly …

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.

Andy Rowell (2018-10-31). Scientists Warn That Canadian Glacial Melting Is "Outside the Scope of Normal" globalresearch.ca Canadian scientists are becoming progressively alarmed at the increasing rate of melting of the country's glaciers, warning that climate change is having a severe impact on the region. | Anyone concerned about climate change and sea level rise often thinks about …

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…

Arshad Khan (2018-10-31). Weather Disasters: Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict. counterpunch.org East Island was an uninhabited remote island in the Hawaiian chain, but it was an important refuge for wildlife: Many of the endangered Hawaiian monk seals numbering about 1400 raised their young on that island; others like the green sea turtle and the albatross used it as a shelter. Not any more because Hurricane Walaka washed away most of the island a few days ago. More

Fight Back (2018-10-30). Salt Lake City: 'We Exist, We Resist' rally defends transgender rights. fightbacknews.org Salt Lake City, UT – More than 70 people rallied in downtown Salt Lake City, October 27, to protest Trump's proposed policies that would erase protections for transgender and non-binary individuals. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of Utah organized the event, in conjunction with other protests by SDS chapters around the country. | There were two speakers from SDS, and they reminded the crowd that trans women, especially trans women of color, are targets of transphobic violence and that 22 trans women have been killed so far this year. With Trump's blatant attack on the trans community th…

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…

stuart_m (2018-10-26). New York sues Exxon over climate denial. greenleft.org.au After a three-year probe and amid mounting demands that the fossil fuel industry be held accountable for driving the climate crisis, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed suit on October 24 against ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil and gas company. | The suit accuses the oil giant of defrauding investors by downplaying the financial threat of regulations crafted to mitigate human-caused global warming. | "Big oil may finally face some consequences for its role in wreck…

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.

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