Climate Change

At Rio+20: Values versus prices

by Patrick Bond Director the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society [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 … Continue reading →

NO REDD+! – Decolonize the Earth and the Sky!

Declaration of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+ in Rio de Janeiro, June 16, 2012 After more than 500 years of resistance, we, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, peasant farmers, fisherfolk and civil society are not fooled by the so-called Green Economy and REDD+ because we know colonialism … Continue reading →

GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE SUBMISSION FOR RIO+20

GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE SUBMISSION FOR RIO+20 To achieve true sustainability, fundamental changes in laws and governance around the world are necessary – to move us from our current path of environmental harm and destruction, to one in which humankind’s relationship with nature is re-established. The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature … Continue reading →

Why ‘living simply’ isn’t the answer

by Paul D’Amato Paul D’Amato is managing editor of International Socialist Review. This article was first published in the U.S. newspaper Socialist Worker, in March 2001 International protests against globalization have cast a bright light on how transnational corporations run roughshod over ordinary people’s lives everywhere. In reaction, activists have come up with a broad … Continue reading →

Peoples of the world against the commodification of nature

Peoples of the world against the commodification of nature Rio+20: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN OF STRUGGLES: Peoples of the World against the Commodification of Nature La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in the month of June The advance of the capitalist system that has reached … Continue reading →

The people of the world confront the advance of capitalism: Rio +20 and beyond

La Via Campesina Position Paper June 6, 2012 Governments from all over the world will meet in Río de Janeiro, Brazil from June 20-22 2012, to supposedly commemorate 20 years since the “Earth Summit,” the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, that established for the first time a global agenda for “sustainable development.” … Continue reading →

Climate Change and Rio+20: What’s at Stake?

The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to a talk on climate change and the Rio+20 earth summit with Bolivian Representative Rene Orellana. Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 P.M. at the SEIU1199 MLK Jr. Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street between 8 & 9 Avenues in Midtown Manhattan Come to join us for … Continue reading →

International Meeting on Food Security and Food Sovereignty in the Americas

Debajo en Español / below in Spanish Comrades: I sent the call for the International Meeting for Food Security and Food Sovereignty in the Americas; it has to be spread among all organizations in all countries of our continent, for their assistance in this important event. President Evo Morales will chair this meeting, there will … Continue reading →

Lo que está en juego en Río+20

Lo que está en juego en Río+20 Tuesday, 15 May, 2012 Informe del Grupo de articulación internacional de la Cumbre de los Pueblos por Justicia Social y Ambiental Por la unidad y la movilización de los pueblos en defensa de la vida y los bienes comunes, la justicia social y ambiental, contra la mercantilización de … Continue reading →

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