Mark Bray We are living in ominous times. Every week something new: white supremacist murders in Kentucky and Pittsburgh; the continued rise of the far right in Europe; Trump’s attack on transgender rights; the election of aspiring tyrant Jair Bolsonaro to the Brazilian presidency; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that climate catastrophe is likely only about 20 years away. What’s next? At a time…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
Internationalist Seminar Concluded in Bogotá
Colombia Informa Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle”, concludes: “Construction of Popular Power, in the dispute for the hegemony that allows us the emancipation of all forms of domination and the construction of a just society, in unity, in harmony with mother Earth”. From October 6-11, the Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle” was held…
Fighting for Their People: Meet Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Warriors
Mark Melnychuk A look at the men who are continuing the tradition of Indigenous warrior societies in Saskatchewan. A soldier’s helmet, a gas mask and a knife feature prominently on a shelf. There are stacks of gun magazines and books for everything a soldier might need in the field, including a survival manual and a…
Report: 87 Companies Control World Agricultural Production
Brazilian version of Agrifood Atlas provides a comprehensive picture of the agriculture industry in Brazil and the world Rute Pina, Brasil de Fato Eighty-seven corporations alone, based in 30 countries, control the entire world’s agribusiness supply chain. This includes beverage and meat-packing giants, such as Coca-Cola, AmBev, JBS, and Unilever, but also technology companies such…
Berta Cáceres Case: COPINH Denounces Government Obstruction in the Path to Justice
After a month of delays in the evidentiary hearings, the court denied the majority of the evidence presented by attorneys representing Cáceres’ family and COPINH Zoe PC Tuesday, September 4, marked the conclusion of the evidentiary hearing of the first judicial process that will try eight people accused of perpetrating the assassination of Berta Cáceres….
Managua Declaration: “Workers and Peasants of the Land and Water for Climate Justice”
LA VIA CAMPESINA La Via Campesina, in representation of millions of peasant families, farm workers, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, allies from social movements and academics, have met in Managua, Nicaragua, Central America from 24-27 August 2018, to deepen a strategy for environmental and climate justice. We salute the hospitality of the peasant organizations of Nicaragua and…
The Niger Delta in Nigeria: Another Example of Africa on Fire
A-APRP The Niger Delta is a region in the West African country of Nigeria that is known mostly for its vast oil reserves. Like most of Africa, not much more is known about the Niger Delta by most people in the world, particularly those in the West. Equally obscured is the reality that also like…
Prior Consultation and Ideological Kidnapping at the Hands of the Honduran State
OFRANEH Translation by Internationalist 360° After more than two decades since ILO Convention 169 was ratified and a decade after the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Peoples was approved, the State of Honduras is imposing a Law of Prior Consultation for indigenous peoples with which allegedly seeks to “comply” with the commitments made, while dismantling…
Only ‘Collective Intelligence’ Can Help Us Stave Off An Uninhabitable Planet
Nafeez Ahmed The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which points to a near uninhabitable planet by end of century if business-as-usual continues, is perhaps its most apocalyptic dimension. But the ecological crisis is intimately bound up with the business-as-usual political, economic, and cultural structures of industrial civilization-as-we-know it. The crisis…
Scientists Warn ‘Earth Could Enter Permanent ‘Hothouse’ State’
A group of scientists has warned the world’s governments about the increasing threat of greenhouse gases and said if changes are not made the planet will enter a permanent “hothouse” state. Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene In a study published in the multidisciplinary scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
Caribbean States Call on US to Seriously Address Climate Change
Leaders from the Caribbean states are calling on the Donald Trump administration to address in a serious manner the climate change crisis. The call comes amid the Atlantic Hurricane Season, one year after a series of hurricanes devastated several Caribbean countries and concerns that warming oceans could see another season of intense storms. Caribbean leaders…
Global Civilisation to Descend into ‘Hell on Earth’ Unless We Choose a New Paradigm
Nafeez Ahmed Late last year, Dr. Jeremy Leggett — solar energy entrepreneur, former oil man and government advisor — gave an eye-opening talk where he for the first time laid out his vision for two possible futures facing human civilisation. Speaking at an event hosted by Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, he told a gripped audience that the world had…
