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The Philippines has replaced Brazil as the most murderous country in the world for people defending their land and environment, according to research that puts a spotlight on the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
More than three defenders were killed across the world every week in (...)
“If you think that hackers are just a bunch of anarchists ready to put everything on fire because it amuses them, you are wrong at all. We are much worse than that.” (No One Is Innocent)
Reminder of the hackers principles
Before addressing the different forms that hacktivism can currently take, (...)
As the biomass industry scales up, Frances Howe warns of the dangers of relying on a volatile, destructive industry to solve our energy problems.
April sees two major events in the biomass industry’s calendar. Activists are planning responses in solidarity with communities affected by the industry.
From 17th-19th April, London will host the world’s largest biomass conference. Wood pellet and energy companies will be joined by government ministers including from the EU and (...)
Monthly edit-a-thons seek to increase representation of different genders on Wikipedia, the internet’s largest source of free information, also the most gender-biased.
New Delhi: Inside the only unlatched classroom in a dimly-lit slate-grey building of a university in New Delhi, a group of 15 (...)
The SciHub database contains 85% of all papers published in paywalled journals, including 97% of all papers in Elsevier’s database. There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
In December 2016, negotiations between the publishing behemoth (...)
“Enclosures have appropriately been called a revolution of the rich against the poor.”
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation. 1944. (p. 35)
Shared access, reliance, use and governance of natural resources is a common form of tenure in the world, North and South, rural and urban. The specific (...)
Declaration of the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles
Published on Saturday, 04 April 2015 13:27
Rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle
Dakar to Tunis: Declaration of the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles (Tunis, 28 March 2015)
We, social movements, grassroots (...)
Some mainstream environmental organizations are trying to wean themselves from fossil fuel investments—but some aren’t.
The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. At last count, there were active divestment campaigns on (...)
This nascent project whose elaboration is fruit of an international collaboration of jurists and social leaders, is presented by the World Forum for Alternatives to the social movements and organizations attending the “peoples’ summit” in Rio de Janeiro in June, 2012, to solicit their observations (...)
[RIO DE JANEIRO, JUNE 18, 2012] – Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to ‘Green Economy’ rhetoric looms as a potential saviour for footloose financial capital, and is also enormously welcome to those corporations panicking at market chaos in the topsy-turvy fossil-fuel, water, (...)
Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD and for Life
NO REDD+! in RIO+20 - A Declaration to Decolonize the Earth and the Sky
Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+
After more than 500 (...)
For Unity and Mobilization of peoples
For Life and Commons, social and environmental Justice
Against Commodification of Nature and « Green economy »
Rio de Janeiro, 12th of May 2012
One month before the United Nations Conference Rio+20, peoples of the world don’t see any positive advances in (...)
La Vía Campesina Call to action
On 20-22 June 2012, governments from around the world will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to commemorate 20 years of the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that first established a global agenda for “sustainable (...)
Davy Jones talked to Caroline Lucas about the fate and future of the Green New Deal, which she helped to launch nearly a year ago along with the New Economics Foundation and others. How do you feel about the fact that everyone now has their own ‘green new deal’, though obviously yours was the (...)
Susan George is known for her critiques of corporate-driven globalisation and hard-hitting books on hunger, development and debt. Now,she argues, we can borrow lessons from the early 1940s to transform our shattered economies and halt runaway climate change before it’s too late.
Our poor (...)
Contribution presented at the seventh Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) – Beijing, China, on October 13-15, 2008 – for the workshop “Climate change and ecological justice from Asia and Europe: people’s perspectives”, part of Cluster 2: “Social and Economic Rights and Environmental Justice”.
Because (...)
According to the June 26 Solidarités, the Swiss multinational Nestle infiltrated and spyied on the anti-globalisation activist group Attac in the Swiss canton of Vaud during the publication of a book critical of the company.
* Solidarités’s full report in French is posted on ESSF: Nestlé, un (...)
The international eco-logical call is a common strategy to save the areas of greatest diversity, leaving the captured carbon underground, based on the Climate Change Agreement and other international agreements via which the world’s governments committed to conserve the world’s biodiversity, (...)
The developing world’s stance towards the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious comments of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, such as his famous lines at the Rio Conference on the Environment and Development in June 1992:
"When the rich chopped (...)
In 2005, Americans sat before our television sets, horrified by images of an American city underwater. In 2006, we sat in the nation’s movie houses, watching Al Gore make the case for urgent action. In 2007, Americans are finally rising from our seats and demanding action to reverse global (...)
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