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US Blackmails Opponents of Copenhagen Accord by Withholding Climate Aid By Suzanne Goldenberg
The US State Department is denying climate change assistance to countries opposing the Copenhagen accord, it emerged today. The new policy, first reported by The Washington Post, suggests the Obama administration is ready to play hardball, using aid as well as diplomacy, to bring developing countries into conformity with its efforts to reach an international… Continue reading
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Videos from Left Bloc Climate Conference
O Clima Farto de Nos? (Is the climate sick of us?) was held in Lisbon, March 26-27. It was organized by Portugal’s Left Bloc and the parties of the European Left. This important event drew left socialist and green activists from a dozen European countries, to discuss how to build a mass movement for climate… Continue reading
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Climate Justice Newsletter 24 March, 2010
The COP15 process has been and gone. Grassroots pressure came up against an ineffective process as well as resistance by governments and corporations to basic parameters of social justice in dealing with the climate crisis. Since then many things have been happening in the networks built during the lead up to Copenhagen. Attached you will… Continue reading
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10 Lessons for the Climate Movement By Damien Lawson
Last year we got comprehensively rolled. While it was important and correct that we opposed the polluter-friendly carbon trading scheme (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme – CPRS), we failed to successfully communicate why we opposed something that most people didn’t understand in the first place. Continue reading
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Haiti and the politics of climate change By Op Rana
Haiti is not a bank. It cannot expect to get what it has been promised. So what if it did not bring the disaster upon itself. Haiti is arguably the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere today. But till well into the 19th century it was one of the richest in the Caribbean (the richest… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Round-Up, 5
The 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Challenge and How to Achieve It – Haiti and the Politics of Climate Change – The Climate Killers Continue reading
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The Birth of a New Global Movement By Jonathan Neale
Some people will be hopeless after Copenhagen. Some NGO leaders will be whipped into line. But many will be enraged, and moved to action. Continue reading
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Letter From Climate Prisoners In Denmark By Climate Prisoners
Copenhagen, January 1st 2010: Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark. As a matter of fact, thousands of people have been considered, without any evidence, a threat to the society. Hundreds have been arrested and some are still under detention, waiting for judgement or under investigation. Among them, us, the undersigned. Continue reading
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Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights
Call by Evo Morales for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today Continue reading
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Big Green NGOs: Sleeping With the Enemy
The largest climate change campaign in the world is in bed with the world’s most powerful corporations. … The mainstream environmental movement no longer inspires nor leads society to an enlightened existence – it simply bows down to the status quo. Continue reading
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Curing Post-Copenhagen Hangover By Patrick Bond
Instead of halting the hedonism, Barack Obama and the Euro elites cracked open the mansion door to add a few nouveau riche guests: South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, China’s Jiabao Wen (reportedly the most obnoxious of the lot), Brazil’s Lula Inacio da Silva and India’s Manmohan Singh. By Saturday morning, still punch-drunk with power over the… Continue reading
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Excellent News from Copenhagen By Daniel Tanuro
More and more people understand that climate degradation is not the outcome of ‘human activity’ in general but of a mode of an unsustainable mode of production and consumption Continue reading
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COPOUT15: It’s the poor wot gets the blame By William Bowles
It seems the ruling classes of the most powerful capitalist states just don’t learn any lessons from the past. It’s as if they wipe the slate clean every time they get us all in a jam and we have to relearn everything all over again! Why do we tolerate such bullshit from the gangster class… Continue reading
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Shambles in Copenhagen By Greg Albo
The turn to market environmentalism of so much of the environmental movement in North America has been in equal parts political and ecological disasters. This effort to form alliances with the capitalist classes and the state within the confines of neoliberalism has done nothing to advance solutions to the most crucial ecological issue of the… Continue reading
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Pentagon's Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes By Sara Flounders
By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements. The Pentagon wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; its secret operations in Pakistan; its equipment on more than 1,000 U.S. bases around the world; its 6,000 facilities… Continue reading
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The Truth About Copenhagen By Fidel Castro Ruz
If anything significant was achieved in the Danish capital, it was that the media coverage allowed the world public to watch the political chaos created there and the humiliating treatment accorded to Heads of States or Governments, ministers and thousands of representatives of social movements and institutions that in hope and expectation traveled to the… Continue reading
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Copenhagen: A Turning Point for the Climate Movement By Terry Conway and Thomas Eisler
On Saturday Dec 12, 100,000 demonstrated in the streets of Copenhagen outside the COP 15 summit demanding urgent action against global warming – more than double the numbers that organisers had predicted – or even dared expect. While of course a high percentage of demonstrators came from Denmark itself and from neighbouring countries Sweden and… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez: A Battle for the Planet Has Begun
I must say: in Copenhagen the Obama illusion was definitively destroyed. He was confirmed in his position as head of the empire and winner of the Nobel War Prize. The enigma of the two Obamas has been resolved. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 