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Environmentalists who oppose ‘extractivism’ on principle are oversimplifying the complex issues faced by the peoples and governments of Latin America today by Federico Fuentes A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America. Understanding their … Continue reading
On Nov. 4th. to 7th. 2014 Venezuela will held the first world public forum on Climate Change. This forum which is organized by Venezuela is part of a process of negotiations from the United Nations and constitutes a space where the people of the world can contribute in the construction of a new climate agreement … Continue reading
by Dada Maheshvarananda – Prout Institute On only 3.5 hectares (8 acres) of fertile land near San José de Barlovento in the state of Miranda, a two-hour drive from Caracas, this holistic farm integrates fruit trees, vegetables, medicinal plants, bee-keeping, fish ponds, egg-laying chickens, worm production and a commercial guava nursery. For five years Cuban … Continue reading
by Ewan Robertson Mérida, 12th May 2014 Venezuelan leftists met in two conferences over the weekend as part of efforts to design the direction and strategy of the country’s Bolivarian revolution in the coming period. One of the conferences was aimed at discussing the political ideology of Venezuelan socialism based on the ideas of key … Continue reading
Source: Climate & Capitalism The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers. Left Unity describes itself as “the new party of the left in Britain – established to offer an alternative to the main parties’ agenda of blaming the poorest … Continue reading
by Various Collectives Preliminary message by Aana Wainjirawa, of La Guarura, Venezuelan revolutionary newspaper. We publish for the debate of the purposeful efforts of collectives that are currently in discussion over a possible Seed Law that is constructed from the grassroots. We do not subscribe to the epithets of power that adorn [this] statement in … Continue reading
November 2 to 12-2014 System Change Not Climate Change From Nov. 4th. to 7th. 2014 Venezuela plans to host the first “Social Pre-COP” aspiring to put civil society at the heart of the global climate change debate. In which ministers would not only talk to each other but also their people about the agreement … Continue reading
Bolivia is the first country in the hemisphere governed by a progressive indigenous. Learn about indigenous struggles for sovereignty over food, land, and water. Meet with farmers, community leaders, government leaders, and others. Experience the rich culture of the Andes and soak in the sights, sounds, people, and politics in this historic moment in Bolivia. … Continue reading
Source: eradicatingecocide.com Definition Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished. proposed amendment to the Rome Statute, by Polly Higgins, … Continue reading
By Renfrey Clarke Source: Green Left If modern industrial capitalism were a person, he or she would be on suicide watch. The system that has brought us quantum physics and reality television, modern medicine and the columns of Andrew Bolt is set on a course which, by all the best reckoning, points directly to its … Continue reading
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