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Archive | Greens, NGOs
Syriza: A left-green government in Greece?
Syriza’s colors are red and purple and green, identifying it as socialist, feminist and environmentalist. Its platform includes all the key demands of the Green Party.
An open letter to the UK Green Left
Green Left activist Sean Thompson says ecosocialists should leave the rightward-moving Green Party, and join the effort to build a new political party of the left in Britain.
US Greens propose steps to economic and ecological sanity
A deep green program for saving the world and building better lives: Reduce working hours and ensure that everyone has enough work while no one is overworked, while building safer and healthier communities.
UK Greens shift left
Convention approves changes to focus on social and environmental justice
Australian socialists on the climate change crisis
A defining feature of politics today is the refusal of the capitalist class and its political representatives to confront the global climate crisis.
How can the divided left move forward?
A good starting point would be to learn to ‘fail better.’ There are no predetermined solutions and we have to be open to the possibility of being wrong.
Walmart pumps millions into ocean greenwashing
West Coast fishermen are calling for a boycott of the world’s biggest retailer, which in one year put over $71 million into plans to privatize fisheries for the benefit of giant corporations
Ecosocialist elected International Coordinator of UK Green Party
Congratulations to Derek Wall
Stop EDF's sell-out to the frackers!
Activists outraged as Environmental Defense Fund takes $6 million from Bloomberg to shill for the gas industry
Neoliberals on bikes
Unless Greens come to grips with fundamental economic questions, they will continue to promote policies that are supremely unsuited to their ultimate aim of a more just and sustainable world.
The agribusiness takeover of pale green NGOs
Many of the biggest conservation NGOs have done deals with international agribusiness. They greenwash industrial commodity agriculture in exchange for vague promises of sustainability and social justice. ++++++++++++++++ by Jonathan Latham Independent Science News, February 7, 2012 Imagine an international mega-deal. The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much […]
Why do pale green NGOs support Obama?
The Sierra Club’s advertising campaign and its praise for Obama reveal how little it takes to appease mainstream, corporate-minded environmentalists. (more…)
Coke: helping polar bears, violating human rights
Should the World Wildlife Fund Canada be taking money from a corporation that destroys the environment and wildlife in other parts of the world? (more…)
WWF-endorsed logging companies trade in illegal timber
“It’s shocking that one of the world’s most trusted conservation groups deems it acceptable to take money from such companies” (more…)
Pseudo-green NGO offers to greenwash arms dealer
Is Conservation International any more than a green Public Relations agency? (more…)
Green Trade Unionist: "No Place for Malthus in the Green Party"
“I just don’t see how their bitter philosophy has any place in a party which stands for social and ecological justice …” (more…)
Why Aren’t Greens Kicking the Sh*t Out of Corporate America?
Rogue actors known as corporations have hijacked our democracy, but the environmental NGO industrial complex stays in Washington D.C. without a rudder or a clue (more…)
Green Party of Canada urges public mobilization for Cancun
“We’re aiming to help reinvigorate Canadians to participate in democracy and hold the Harper government’s feet to the fire on the most pressing issue facing the planet.” (more…)
How Three Green Parties Went Wrong
The experience of Greens in Ireland, Czech Republic and Germany shows that you can’t be a progressive force while selling your soul for a seat at the big man’s table. (more…)