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Damian Carrington: UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project
By Damian Carrington Canadian interests and oil lobby win coalition’s support for highly polluting process in runup to European fuel quality vote. The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada‘s campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal. At the same time, the UK government was being lobbied by Shell and BP, which both have major tar sands projects in Alberta, and opened a new consulate in the province … Read entire article »
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Harald Welzer: We Should Be Outraged! At Ourselves
By Harald Welzer: Since the announcement of Germany’s new nuclear phase-out and its coming energy revolution, a specter has haunted the country. It’s called “eco-dictatorship.” The people warning us against its dangers, ironically, have not been known as passionate defenders of the democratic process. Leading the way are industrial dinosaur Jürgen Großmann and his loyal assistant on the renewable energy front, Fritz Vahrenholt, both top executives at the major German energy company RWE. In a recent article … Read entire article »
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#OperationGreenRights Press Release
CITIZENS GATHER IN MONTANA TO PROTEST TAR SANDS OIL AND SHIPPING OF EQUIPMENT TO CANADIAN REFINERIES, ANONYMOUS JOINS IN! (video) To all free-thinking citizens of the world: Anonymous’ Operation Green Rights calls your attention to an urgent situation in North America perpetuated by the boundless greed of the usual suspects: Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., Imperial Oil, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and many others. This week, activists are gathering along U.S. Highway 12 in Montana to … Read entire article »
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Jeff Shantz: Green Syndicalism – An Alternative Red-Green Vision
By Jeff Shantz: Most approaches to Red and Green (labour and environmentalist) alliances have taken Marxian perspectives, to the exclusion of anarchism and libertarian socialism. Recent developments, however, have given voice to a “syndical ecology” or what some within the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) call “green syndicalism”. Green syndicalism highlights certain points of similarity between anarcho-syndicalism (revolutionary unionism) and radical ecology. These include, but are by no means limited to, decentralisation, regionalism, direct action, … Read entire article »
Professor A.L.I: The New Muslim Cool – Islamic Eco Rap
A humanities instructor by day and social activist by night, California based hip-hop artist ‘Professor A.L.I.’ is behind a cool new era of enviro-activism in a bid to raise awareness of Islamophobia in America. We’re talking Islamic Eco-Rap. Reporter Zaufishan asks eco-Muslim A.L.I. why his tunes should be on our playlist. Firstly, who is behind ‘Professor A.L.I? I’m a hip-hop poet, artist and activist based out of the Bay Area in California. I identify myself as a human … Read entire article »
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I’m A Climate Scientist (Hip Hop)
In the media landscape there are climate change deniers and believers, but rarely are those speaking about climate change actual climate scientists… Lyrics: yo….we’re climate scientists.. and there’s no denying this Climate Change Is REEEEALL.. Who’s a climate scientist.. I’m a climate scientist.. Not a cleo finalist No a climate scientist Droppin facts all over this wax While bitches be crying about a carbon tax Climate change is caused by people Earth Unlike Alien Has no sequel We gotta move fast or we’ll be forsaken, Cause we … Read entire article »
EZLN 20 Years
