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By Eric Holt Gimenez Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. For the first time in recorded history the next generation is expected to die younger than their parents due to malnutrition and diet-related disease. This is because some will not get enough food to eat. Others will have no choice but to eat … Continue reading
By Martin Khor Below is an overview of the outcomes of the UN Climate Conference (known as COP19 of the UNFCCC) that took place in Warsaw for two weeks, ending on 23 November. The UN Climate Conference held in Warsaw has set up a new international mechanism to help developing countries affected by loss and … Continue reading
At the climate talks in Warsaw, rich countries stalled, poor countries walked out, and climate justice activists chanted ’The Philippines, Pakistan, New Orleans: Change the System, by Chris Williams “The smell of inaction” is how Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth Mozambique’s international program director for climate justice and energy, summed up the atmosphere inside the … Continue reading
Nov 22nd 2013, by Correo del Orinoco International Duilliam Virigay is a national spokesperson of the Simon Bolivar National Communal Front (FNCSB) and the Bolivar and Zamora Revolutionary Current (CRBZ). (agencies) Last week, as hundreds of community activists gathered in downtown Caracas to demonstrate their steadfast support for the socialist policies of Venezuelan President Nicolas … Continue reading
By DEMOCRACY NOW! http://www.democracynow.org – A group of 133 developing nations have walked out of a key part of the climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, amidst a conflict over how countries who have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases should be held financially responsible for some of the damage caused by extreme weather in nations with low … Continue reading
As continents burn and extreme weather accelerates, three of the world’s richest countries are leading the fight to do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions by Binoy Kampmark The climate change saboteurs are mucking in with their bits of devastating advice. Australia, as it promised to do with its new conservative government, has taken the lead … Continue reading
By Alba Tv, Hispan Tv and Revolucion Alimentaria Last Saturday November 16, the 1st. National Meeting of Comuneros (commoners) took place in Caracas, Venezuela. They debated proposals and actions built along the 5 regional meetings developed in recent months across Venezuela. More than 500 communes and more than 6,000 commoners from across the country participated … Continue reading
Filipino socialists respond to Typhoon Haiyen disaster: To save lives, redistribute food now! To prevent future catastrophes, stop economic and environmental plunder! Statement released by the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM, a Filipino socialist party) in response the humanitarian disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Details on how to donate to the PLM’s relief efforts follow the … Continue reading
By TAMARA PEARSON VENEZUELANALYSIS.COM, November 6th 2013 1) What scarcity really is – It’s been a long time since we last found powdered milk, perhaps it was three months ago in a government Mercal. The other week, though, I saw some for sale in a small shop down by Avenue Las Americas. There were three 1kg cans of … Continue reading
By Leonardo Boff Theologian-Philosopher Earthcharter Commission On September 27th the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, IPCC, consisting of a few hundred scientists, gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, to evaluate the level of global warming, and they shared with us some worrisome data: «the concentrations of carbon dioxide, (CO2), methane, (CH4), and nitrous oxide, (N2O), … Continue reading
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