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2021-06-02: Social Media Postees

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Thursday 6/3: "The Condor & The Eagle": Film & Discussion on Indigenous Climate Justice w/ CBD
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842872.php

Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-06-02
By Steve Turton | — What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it having, both in the region and for the world? Is Antarctica experiencing the same thing? Human civilisation and agriculture first emerged about 12,000 years ago in the early Holocene. Our ancestors benefited from a …
juancole.com/2021/06/climate-explained-heating.html

Carbon sequestration: Climate solution or bridge to more fossil fuel profits?
Len Yannielli | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-02
Connecticut gets almost half its energy from methane, also called natural gas. Some, especially in certain ruling circles, see this fossil fuel as a bridge to renewable energy. While methane makes up much less of the carbon in our atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it does so in an unfortunate, powerful way. Methane molecules trap 25x …
peoplesworld.org/article/carbon-sequestration-climate-solution-or-bridge-to-more-fossil-fuel-profits/

Sunday 6/6: Climate Action Mural Unveiling & Celebration In Clarion Alley
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
Clarion Alley, between Mission and Valencia Streets, and between 17th and 18th Streets in San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/02/18842898.php

Making "Build Back Better" Better: Aligning Climate, Jobs, and Justice
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2021-06-02
What policies can integrate the needs of working people, the most oppressed, and our threatened climate and environment?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/making-build-back-better-better-aligning-climate-jobs-and-justice/

Was Marx a climate warrior?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-06-01
This is a talk given online at the ESRC Festival of Social Science on November 11, 2020: 'Was Marx a climate warrior?' for a panel organized by Bangor University. | June 1, 2021 | Newswire…
mronline.org/2021/06/01/was-marx-a-climate-warrior/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=was-marx-a-climate-warrior

Thursday 6/3: "The Condor & The Eagle": Film & Discussion on Indigenous Climate Justice w/ CBD
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2021-06-01
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842872.php

Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-06-01
By Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson | — The Federal Court today dismissed a bid by a group of Australian teenagers seeking to prevent federal environment minister Sussan Ley from approving a coalmine extension in New South Wales. While the teens' request for an injunction was unsuccessful, a number of important developments emerged during the …
juancole.com/2021/06/climate-teenarger-lifetime.html

Appleton, WI: Rally to shut down Enbridge Lines 3 and 5 extends solidarity to land and water protectors
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-06-01
Appleton, WI – On May 29, nearly 30 people gathered at Houdini Plaza in downtown Appleton to demand that the Canadian energy company Enbridge be forced to cease production on their Line 3 and Line 5 projects. These pipelines transport tar sands – some of the dirtiest fossil fuel out there – across hundreds of miles of Canada, into northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and through Michigan. | The vast majority of the land that the pipelines cut through is treaty land, and many of the Anishinaabe tribes have no interest in the project and in fact have repeatedly sought its complete removal. As in many other struggles,…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/6/1/appleton-wi-rally-shut-down-enbridge-lines-3-and-5-extends-solidarity-land-and-water-protec

Sleep and the Discovery of Brain Waste Management Systems
Komaroff AL. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-06-01
This Viewpoint explains emerging science that suggests sleep activates the meningeal lymphatic and glymphatic systems to flush fluid and waste products out of the brain and discusses associations between disrupted sleep and neurological disease that may be mediated by glymphatic dysfunction.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2780296

On The Hunt For Gas: Tel Aviv And Athens VS Ankara
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-06-01
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (L) shakes hands with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu | Written by Piero Messina | Tel Aviv wants to change the face of the Mediterranean leadership and does so by aiming for control of the Eastern Mediterranean. The instrument of the Israeli government is the gas quadrumvirate, the Eastmed project with its other three geostrategic pillars Egypt, Cyprus and Greece also in order to change the face of the Mediterranean leadership. Thanks to that network of pipelines, it…
southfront.org/on-the-hunt-for-gas-tel-aviv-and-athens-vs-ankara/

Aotearoa New Zealand: Western Sahara activists, XR picket fertiliser plant
Kerry Smith | greenleft.org.au | 2021-06-01
Western Sahara Solidarity Aotearoa and Extinction Rebellion successfully blockaded the headquarters of Ballance Agri-Nutrients on May 29, reports Kerry Smith.
greenleft.org.au/content/aotearoa-new-zealand-western-sahara-activists-xr-picket-fertiliser-plant

Making "Build Back Better" Better: Aligning Climate, Jobs, and Justice
Jeremy Brecher | commondreams.org | 2021-06-01
"We need to keep our eyes on the ultimate prize: combining climate, jobs, and justice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sunrise_jobs_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2021/06/01/making-build-back-better-better-aligning-climate-jobs-and-justice?cd-origin=rss

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2021-06-01: News Headlines

Center for Biological Diversity (2021-06-01). Thursday 6/3: "The Condor & The Eagle": Film & Discussion on Indigenous Climate Justice w/ CBD. indybay.org Online event…

Eds. (2021-06-01). Was Marx a climate warrior? mronline.org This is a talk given online at the ESRC Festival of Social Science on November 11, 2020: 'Was Marx a climate warrior?' for a panel organized by Bangor University. | June 1, 2021 | Newswire…

The Conversation (2021-06-01). Climate change will cost a teenager up to $245,000 over their lifetime, court case reveals. juancole.com By Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson | — The Federal Court today dismissed a bid by a group of Australian teenagers seeking to prevent federal environment minister Sussan Ley from approving a coalmine extension in New South Wales. While the teens' request for an injunction was unsuccessful, a number of important developments emerged during the …

Kerry Smith (2021-06-01). Aotearoa New Zealand: Western Sahara activists, XR picket fertiliser plant. greenleft.org.au Western Sahara Solidarity Aotearoa and Extinction Rebellion successfully blockaded the headquarters of Ballance Agri-Nutrients on May 29, reports Kerry Smith.

_____ (2021-05-31). The Healing Web Of Solidarity. popularresistance.org As most of us sat at home during the past year, seeking safety from the pandemic and isolated from each other, we had little to protect us from the onslaught of historic national traumas and anxieties. We watched in horror as over half a million Americans died, millions lost their livelihoods while others had to face the virus at work, an unarmed Black man was slowly murdered by a policeman on camera, and our President encouraged a white rightwing insurrection. All of this is superimposed on the global existential crisis of climate change and the economic abandonment of many places across the country. If years ca…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-31). Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline? counterpunch.org A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade sparking fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route. Line 3 is being replaced in order to enable the transport of nearly 800,000 barrels of dirty tar sands crude oil per day from Calgary,

_____ (2021-05-31). Activist Investors Score Surprise Win With ExxonMobil Board Seats. popularresistance.org During Exxon's annual shareholder meeting, an activist hedge fund called Engine No. 1—which "owns only about 0.02%" of the oil company's stock, according to climate reporter Emily Atkin—ran four of its own director candidates in opposition to the fossil fuel corporation's hand-picked board members. At least two of Engine No. 1's candidates won, with the races for additional boardroom seats too close to call as of this writing.

_____ (2021-05-31). 'A Seismic Shift' for Big Oil: Activist Investors Score Surprise Win With ExxonMobil Board Seats. popularresistance.org During Exxon's annual shareholder meeting, an activist hedge fund called Engine No. 1—which "owns only about 0.02%" of the oil company's stock, according to climate reporter Emily Atkin—ran four of its own director candidates in opposition to the fossil fuel corporation's hand-picked board members. At least two of Engine No. 1's candidates won, with the races for additional boardroom seats too close to call as of this writing.

_____ (2021-05-31). There can be no biodiversity without human diversity. popularresistance.org The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term 'human' encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely different relationship with nature and do not, like Western societies, have this profound dissociation between human and nature. As the famous French anthropologist and student of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Philippe Descola, says: "t…

Jonathan Matthews (2021-05-31). Swiss Voters to Cast Ballots on Pesticide-free Farming Amid Climate of Fear. globalresearch.ca In the run-up …

Jayati Ghosh (2021-05-31). World Trade Organization Is Threatening Vaccine Equity and Climate Goals. zcomm.org Even globally desirable environmental goals are threatened by the way that the WTO functions…

Julia Conley, staff writer (2021-05-31). Climate Crisis and Negligent Policymakers Blamed for 'Record Sickening Levels' of Manatee Deaths in Florida. commondreams.org "Manatees are literally that sentinel species. They're warning us of what else is going to come if we don't do a better job while there's still time to do something about it." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/manatee1300x681.jpg …

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