Environment
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Flow the trailer
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces… Continue reading
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Ben Werschkul and Tom Zeller, Jr., “The Fight for a Mountaintop”
“Someday coal’s gonna run out. And we’re going to have to have jobs, we’re going to have to have energy, when that happens. So, why not start now?” — Lorelei Scarbro, Coal River Mountain Wind Project Continue reading
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Yeoville in 2 Genres Parts 1 & 2
As quiet as it is kept, Aura Msimang is a legend in our midst. To the Yeoville community where she lives, to the artistic fraternity, the Rastas and the local street kids, she is known endearingly as M’Aura. Excerpt from Mam Aura Msimang, A Legend In Our Midst (by Nhlanhla Hlongwane) This documentary highlights the… Continue reading
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The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf By Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld
The scope and scale of this disaster are impossible to communicate. While flying in giant, arcing circles around the source, I saw nothing but oil in every direction. Jonathan Henderson works for the Gulf Restoration Network. While looking out at the literal sea of oil beneath us, he reminded us that, at the moment, 75,000… Continue reading
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Fending For Themselves By Dahr Jamail
Theresa is a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. They are a small community of self-described Indians that live in southern Louisiana along a small stretch of the Bayou Pointe-au-Chien. Now, oil from the BP disaster threatens their very existence. Continue reading
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Gulf Fisherman: ‘It’s Heartbreaking’
Dwayne Price, a charter boat fisherman, gave the AP’s Bonny Ghosh a tour of oil-soaked Barataria Bay in Louisiana. Price decried the impact of the oil spill on the areas wildlife and pleaded for more help cleaning it up. Continue reading
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A deadly bubble? The Earth in Revolt?
21 June, 2010 — Brasscheck I have no idea whether what these videos propose is true, but it has the ring of plausibility (see also The Final End of the Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm By Dr. Tom Termotto). Part One Part Two Continue reading
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Hurricane Season: The Oil is Headed Up the East Coast
News, background and links to information. Continue reading
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The Malthus Myth: Population, Poverty and Climate Change
22 May, 2010 — Left Streamed http://blip.tv/play/AYHirDcC View it on Blip.tv website Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, author of The Global Fight for Climate Justice, Anti-capitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction. Ian is also Associate Editor of Socialist Voice. This was recorded at the Socialism 2010: Socialism or Barbarism Conference in… Continue reading
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Corporations fight over oil leak as spill continues – RT Top Stories
A month after a BP oil rig explosion led to crude oil being pumped directly into the Gulf of Mexico, the scandal over who is to blame for it is only gathering momentum. An estimated 28 million liters of oil has gushed in the water, though some scientists say the real figure is much higher. Continue reading
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Gulf Oil Spill may be 19 times larger than BP & Gov’t say
One month after explosion of Deepwater Horizon rig, journalists update situationJesse Freeston interviews journalists at McClatchy’s DC bureau to get the latest on the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Journalists believe that BP and the Government may be hiding information on the severity of the leak. Those who fish for a living in the Gulf of Mexico… Continue reading
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Report-back from Cochabamba: World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
7 May, 2010 — LeftStreamed http://blip.tv/play/AYHdwkYC View part 1 on Blip.tv website Part 1: with delegates to the Cochabamba climate conference: performance by Red Slam collective Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (transcript) Ben Powless, Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, member of the Indigenous Environmental Network http://blip.tv/play/AYHd5wwC View part 2 on Blip.tv… Continue reading
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BP: The Worst Safety and Environmental Record of All Oil Companies Operating in the United States By Tyson Slocum
BP is a London-based oil company with the worst safety and environmental record of any oil company operating in America. In just the last few years, BP has pled guilty to two crimes and paid over $730 million in fines and settlements to the US government, state governments, and civil lawsuit judgments for environmental crimes,… Continue reading
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Spill Here, Spill Now by Firedoglake
“It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore.” — Barack Obama Continue reading
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Danish SHAME! The Faroe Islands slaughter of Calderon dolphins
Every year, in Denmark, specifically the Faroe Islands, innocent and helpless Calderon Dolphins are slaughtered brutally by the Danes. Why you may ask, simply because. A pointless and stupid right of passage to manhood. Continue reading
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Cuba: Gardening its Way Out of Crisis
Cuba is the only country in the world that has developed an extensive state-supported infrastructure to support urban food production. Functionally, this system was established in response to acute food shortages in the early 1990s, which occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the island was forced to find an alternative manner of… Continue reading
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Video: Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government Pt.1
Video: The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt. 1 Continue reading
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Video: ‘The End of the Line’ Imagine a world without fish
Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act. The End of the Line, the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in… Continue reading
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Two New Pamphlets on Farming and Darwin
Around the world, farm income is plummeting, pushing farmers off the land and into destitution. Militant farmers and farmworkers are fighting back. Why Karl Marx described Darwin’s Origin of Species as “the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view.” Continue reading
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Video: John Bellamy Foster, “One World Ecology”
John Bellamy Foster: There’s no way you can separate peace and ecology. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 