Why Does 350.org Not Fight for the People of Africa & Small Island States? 350.org Cop15 video shows Africans Demand that the World Not Exceed 1C

350.org claims to ‘be building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis – the solutions that science and justice demand’ yet, their organization, sister organizations, partners and ‘green friends’ continue to fight for and support grossly inadequate legislation that condemns Africans and those on Small Island States to certain death. […]

Latin America: Counterinsurgency and Poverty. Interview with Raul Zibechi

Latin America: Counterinsurgency and Poverty. Interview with Raul Zibechi Posted on August 24, 2010 by Gerard Coffey The Uruguayan journalist Raul Zibechi is one of the best, and best known, political analysts in Latin America. He has worked with numerous publications in the region and has a long list of books to his name. His […]

REDD | A False Solution | Indigenous Leaders of the Alto Xingu Region

REDD | A False Solution | Documentary Filmmaker Rebecca Sommer with Indigenous leaders of the Alto Xingu Region Friend and fellow activist / documentary film maker Rebecca Sommer filmed several statements from the Indigenous leaders of the Alto Xingu region. See her videos and photographs below: Indigenous Peoples Alto Xingu: River poisoned by soy plantations […]

Bill McKibben. Eaarth: reviewed by Javier Sethness

August 18, 2010 Earth has died … but Eaarth offers few solutions Bill McKibben. Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Times Books, 2010. 272 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8050-9056-7 reviewed by Javier Sethness According to North American environmental activist Bill McKibben, planet Earth has died. Its replacement does not, however, constitute dialectical progress toward […]

Monthly Undermining Task, August 2010: Crash The Mainstream Environmentalists’ Party | 350.org

They (350.org) refuse to countenance the idea that industrial civilization is the problem – every action leads to the Senate, even requests to non-US “members” lead to the Senate. They are like a stuck record – a really dated record, like Alice Cooper trying to down with the kids when he spends most of his […]

Clicktivism is Ruining Leftist Activism

Published on Thursday, August 12, 2010 by the Guardian/UK Reducing activism to online petitions, this breed of marketeering technocrats damage every political movement they touch by Micah White A battle is raging for the soul of activism. It is a struggle between digital activists, who have adopted the logic of the marketplace, and those organizers […]

U.K. Guardian on Britain’s version of the MLPA – Chagos islanders must be allowed home!

“The British government’s plan for a marine protected area is a grotesquely transparent ruse designed to perpetuate the banning of the people of Mauritius and Chagos from part of their own country,” said Ram Seegobin, of the Mauritian party Lalit de Klas, in a letter to Greenpeace seen by the Guardian. “The conservation groups have […]

Code Green | Someday Soon Animation | 350.org

Someday Soon November 2nd, 2009 The good intentions of participants of 350 aside, requesting world leaders to reduce carbon emissions is unfortunately not going to work. Bill McKibben asserts that world leaders will listen “if we’re loud enough,” but that’s simply untrue. If we stick with symbolic action, the destruction will become progressively worse, and […]

Letter to Bill McKibben | 350.org | Communication & Discussion on Orion

From: Lorna Salzman <lsalzman1> Date: July 30, 2010 1:43:59 PM EDT To: wmckibbe Subject: Green Council Eco-PAC petition sent to you in Dec. 2008 Dear Bill: Thanks for your response on the Orion site. See my response to it. Meanwhile, here is what I sent you on Dec. 16, 2008. You might consider making this […]