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Copenhagen Climate treaty may Subsidise Forest Destruction 
Conservation organisations have warned that the Copenhagen climate treaty threatens to subsidise the destruction of the world's remaining rainforests instead of financing their protection....
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 3:24am PDT
Dr. Helen Caldicott Speaks in San Diego 
Dr. Helen Caldicott, a powerful international activist against nuclear weapons and nuclear power for over a quarter-century, spoke at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in San Diego October 23 and painted a picture of global warming as an imminent apocalypse that requires immediate action to develop alternative energy sources and stop using fossil fuels. She also denounced the public-relations campaigns aimed at convincing people that global warming isn't a threat, and said climate-chang...
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 5:47pm PDT
Video: blockade in Brussels by climate activists halts European Business Conference October 28the around 9:00am dozens of costumed activists have blocked all access to the Charlemagne Building in Brussels, next to the Commission’s HQ, where Business Europe, the EU lobby of bosses and industrialists, is supposed to hold their conference on Copenhagen and climate change and hear Barroso self-congratulate himself on green capitalism. Belgian activists retort: Our Climate Ain’t None of Your Business! (more: http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/10/28/breaking-news-from...
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 2:49am PDT
$8.5-M US food aid to RP, Real Aid or Future Business Edge? 
The United States on Monday announced it was giving $8.5 million (about P399 million) in food aid to the Philippines to help it recover from back-to-back storms that killed more than 900 people. But for the Pesante-USA, we ask is this real aid or just a Trojan horse for more benefits for the US in the future? Pesante said this comes at the heels of Tropical Storm “Ondoy” (international codename: Ketsana) last month triggered the worst flooding in Metro Manila in more than 40 years, and Tropic...
Posted: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 9:50am PDT
Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum a Success This past weekend Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. Although the forum focused on the uranium developments being proposed at Mount Taylor and throughout the grants mineral belt of New Mexico, it also provided an opportunity for networking....
Posted: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 7:25am PDT
Amidst Uncertainty on US Role in Upcoming Climate Talks, 350.org Holds International Climate Action Day in 170 Nations Friday, October 23, 2009 :Seven weeks before the UN Copenhagen Climate Conference, the group 350.org is organizing an International Climate Action Day. More than 4,500 events are scheduled to take place in 170 nations. We speak to two of the major thinkers and writers tackling climate change: the writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org, and Australian scientist Tim Flannery, chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council and author of the international bestselle...
Posted: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 7:07am PDT
Tree Spiker: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Life of a Radical Environmental Activist From Tree Spiker by Mike Roselle. Copyright © 2009 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.
Greenpeace Confronts the Mahogany Pirates
With a snow-white beard and hair, Marco Kaltofen looks older than his thirty-eight years. Energetic, almost manic, this morning Marco is in no real hurry. He is driving in the rental truck in front of me as we careen down Pico Boulevard in sunny downtown Santa Monica. It's 1986. We are going to a birthday party. We are each joined...
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 10:12pm PDT
Toxic Waters: Regulatory Absence Allows Chemical, Coal and Farm Industries to Pollute US Water Supplies Thursday, October 22, 2009 :We speak to New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg about the latest in his investigative series "Toxic Waters," which examines the worsening pollution in the nation's water systems. Duhigg joined us last month to discuss how chemical companies have violated the Clean Water Act more than 500,000 times in the last five years, most without punishment. Since then he has written articles focusing on how coal-fired power plants and large farms are threatening the nation'...
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 6:23am PDT
STP Relief and Fund Drive for Thypoon Victims Extended Until Dec. 31, 2009 
The Alliance-Philippines STP announced today that its relief campaign will continue until December 31, 2009. The relief drive for goods will continue in Los Angeles area while the monetary donations will go on in other parts of the United States. STP also announced that in the West Coast ,all monetary donations may be sent to: People's CORE, 1610 Beverly Blvd.; Ste. #2, Los Angeles CA, 90026. Checks may be made payable to "People's CORE" with "Typhoon Relief" written in the memo. Donations of...
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 3:25pm PDT
Calabria (Italy) - Italy’s toxic ships: a crime of global proportions Monsters of iron and steel with their bellies full of radioactive waste have been sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea for years....
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 2:07am PDT
PR Executive James Hoggan on "Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming" Tuesday, October 20, 2009 :The Yes Men aren't the only group accused of pulling off a hoax in the debate over climate change legislation. In August, the American Petroleum Institute -- the oil industry's top lobbying group -- was found to have asked member oil companies to help recruit employees, retirees and contractors for anti-climate bill rallies around the country. Critics said the API was trying to fake a grassroots movement to give a false impression of widespread public opposition to ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 7:38am PDT
The Yes Men Pull Off Prank Claiming U.S. Chamber of Commerce Had Changed Its Stance on Climate Change Tuesday, October 20, 2009 :The business community got a shock on Monday when its leading advocacy group appeared to make a startling announcement. A statement purporting to come from the Chamber of Commerce said the group had dropped its opposition to Congressional climate change legislation and would now even support taxing carbon emissions.The news wires quickly picked up the story, and within minutes it was being reported on the websites of outlets including the New York Times and Washingt...
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 7:38am PDT
Global Warming Accelerates While the US Backpedals Two recent studies have shocked the world in regard to global warming. A phenomenon that was to happen “possibly in our lifetime” has evolved into a threat capable of transforming the world in ten years time.
A recent, extensive study of the northern polar ice caps released by climate expert Professor Peter Wadham, concluded that the Arctic Ocean would be “mostly” ice free in 10 years during the summer months.
This study is a stunning compliment to research done by NASA at the South Pole, w...
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 8:12pm PDT
Island Nation of Maldives Holds Cabinet Meeting Underwater to Highlight Danger of Global Warming Monday, October 19, 2009 :Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and eleven of his government ministers wore scuba gear and plunged nearly twenty feet into the Indian Ocean for a special cabinet session on Friday calling for concerted global action on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen conference. Maldives, the lowest-lying nation on earth, could be submerged by rising sea levels due to global warming. We air excerpts of a recent discussion between President Mohamed Nasheed and Mary Robinson,...
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 5:24pm PDT
Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement Hits Stores Today in U.S. and Canada 
Resistance Magazine was created as a vehicle to inform, inspire, and energize the earth liberation movement. Humans have pushed the earth to the brink of catastrophe and each day that passes brings us one step closer to a planet that can no longer sustain life.
The question has now become not what we can do, but what we must do; not what we are comfortable with, but what we are fully capable of; not what is convenient, but what is completely necessary to stop the destruction of our home....
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 1:48pm PDT
Sea Shepherd Renames the Earthrace Vessel in Honor of Benefactor 
Los Angeles, CA- At a fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday, October
17th, 2009, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society unveiled their newest ocean
defense vessel: the Ady Gil.
Photo Credit: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society...
Posted: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 4:17pm PDT
Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast broke EU regulations 
Updated October 15, 2009: The "Minton report" exposes a toxic waste dumping incident which hospitalized thousands. The UK media has been suppressed from referencing the report and its contents since a secret gag order was issued against it on September 11, 2009. The report was commissioned through Waterson & Hicks, a UK law firm, possibly to claim client-attorney privilege should it leak. Client and dump is "Trafigura", a giant multi-national oil and commodity trader. The report assesses ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 3:23pm PDT
The US-Arroyo’s NAPOCOR, Guilty of Criminal Neglect in Recklessly Opening San Roque Dam 
The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante-USA)- a US based environmental and peasant advocacy group expressed outrage over the extreme arrogance of the US-Arroyo regime and its subalterns in the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR) in evading and refusal to account for the latest tragedy caused by the opening of the San Roque dam floodgates. Cordillera region and Pangasinan was greatly affected and was under distress.
More than 40 landslides occurred in the Cordilleras triggered by t...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 7:11pm PDT
Venezuela: Demarcation without land, criminalization and death for indigenous struggle 
* The editorial collective of El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on October 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the Sierra of Perija in Western Venezuela, resulting in two indigenous persons dead and several wounded. The following article –about the tactic and strategy of “Revolutionary Venezuelan” Ethnocide- describes the events....
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 3:09pm PDT
Tempers flare at dog-death meeting In New Zealand - Environmental Activist Thrown Out Of M Injured New Zealand community activist Donna Bird was thrown out of a meeting after protesting the poisoning of animals and people in New Zealand by the biotech/chemical industry...
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 3:38pm PDT
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