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Amy Goodman Detained at the Canadian Border, questioned about speech 
While traveling to Vancouver, BC, Canada on Weds., Nov. 25th, to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. They were detained for well over an hour, and were made an hour late for her speech....
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 12:38pm PST
Australia: Polluters subsidised under Emissions Trading with Households footing the bill 
An Emergency Climate rally in Melbourne attacked the Australian Labor Government on its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) negotiations saying it had made too many concessions to coal and the power industry at the expense of households....
Posted: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 6:51am PST
Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis. Monday, November 23, 2009 :With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks ago, best-selling journalist Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots movement behind the climate debate proposal that argues all the costs associated with adapting to a more hostile ecology—everything from building stronger sea walls to switching to cleaner, more expensive technologies—are the responsibility of the countries that created the crisis. Klein also discusses the 10th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests and th...
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 11:05am PST
Australia: Climate Civil Disobedience on the rise 
Two hundred people blockaded the entrance to the Australian Parliament today calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure a strong, legally binding treaty at the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Police arrested 130 people, although it is believed none were charged....
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 5:26am PST
Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain 
Four Protestors are currently halting balsting on Coal River Mountain in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Two of the nonviolent activists are locked down to a drill rig while two others are offering direct support. This action is part of a larger campaign to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia....
Posted: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 10:25am PST
Are we left behind in the ‘green production’ revolution? Saturday, November 21, 2009 : Yesterday, the Institute for America's Future, headed by Robert Borosage, a progressive policy adviser to many political and labor campaigns, hosted a conference call to hear a report on President Obama's still ongoing trip to Asia, especially China....
Posted: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 9:16am PST
Two Grand Jury Resisters Jailed in Iowa On November 17, Minneapolis-based activists Carrie Feldman and Scott DeMuth refused to testify in front of a grand jury in Davenport, Iowa, and were found to be in contempt of court....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 10:22am PST
Scientists: Climate Treaty more urgent with Global carbon emissions still increasing 
The latest global assessment of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities shows emissions still rapidly increasing according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience by 31 authors from the Global Carbon Project. This increases the importance for meaningful negotiations on emission reduction targets and a legally binding international climate treaty from Copenhagen to start reducing emissions....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 7:00am PST
Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative Tuesday, November 17, 2009 :President Obama's nominee for the Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the office of the US Trade Representative, Islam Siddiqui is currently a vice president at CropLife America, a coalition of the major industrial players in the pesticide industry, including Syngenta, Monsanto, and Dow Chemical. He was previously a lobbyist for CropLife and also served in the US Department of Agriculture under President Clinton and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. A...
Posted: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 7:48am PST
Copenhagen COP15 Logistics - addresses-locations- accomodation This is a newsletter on the logistics concerning COP15, regarding what we know so far and what we are planning. Some things still haven’t been sorted out yet as bureaucracy in Denmark works very slow....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 6:44pm PST
Climate Activists call on Obama to stop Indonesian Deforestation 
Greenpeace and Indigenous Climate activists in Indonesia have unfurled a 20 metre by 30 metre banner protesting Deforestation which said 'Obama you can stop this' calling on President Obama to take a leadership role in climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December and at APEC in Singapore this weekend....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 10:07am PST
Defying Gov't Censorship, EPA Attorneys Speak Out Against White House-Backed Climate Change Proposal "Cap and Trade" Thursday, November 12, 2009 :The Environmental Protection Agency is being accused of trying to silence two longtime EPA enforcement attorneys who have publicly criticized a key component of the climate change legislation being considered by Congress. Last week the EPA directed Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel to remove or edit a video they posted to YouTube that warns a cap-and-trade plan will not effectively combat global warming and is "fatally flawed." The couple instead advocate for a solu...
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 8:13am PST
G20 Finance Ministers fail to agree on Climate Change Finance Package 
Finance ministers failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, according to WWF Scotland. The Finance Ministers of the G20 countries were meeting in St Andrews, Scotland on 6-7 November....
Posted: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 6:25am PST
PHILIPPINES; A CAPITALIST CALAMITY 
Filipinos now see more clearly the calamitous state of the system.In the morning of Sept. 26, tropical storm Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) pounded Metro Manila and the surrounding regions, dumping a month’s worth of rain in just six hours and causing the most massive flooding seen in the last 40 years.
A week later, super typhoon Pepeng (Parma) hit Northern Luzon, inundating farmland and causing mudslides in the mountainous mining region of Benguet, including Baguio City, a U.S.-de...
Posted: Sat, Nov 7, 2009 10:33am PST
Canada, USA shamed at Fossil of the Day Awards at Barcelona Climate Talks 
Fossils of the Day awards are given to those countries who were judged - by vote of the global Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) - to have performed 'best' at blocking progress in the negotiations. Canada was named as the single worst country in the industrialized world at the Barcelona negotiations winning two Fossil of the Day awards and the Fossil of the Week award. The USA also scored 2 awards. Other countries to be named included Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and the European ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 7:30pm PST
"GM's Money Trees": Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of "Cap and Trade" System Thursday, November 5, 2009 :With the Copenhagen climate summit just a month away, a new investigative series looks at how rural Brazilians are being displaced so their forest can be turned into carbon offsets for some of the world's biggest polluters, including General Motors and Chevron. With deforestation amounting to a fifth of the world's emissions, planting and preserving trees are seen as key elements to offset pollution. We speak to Mark Schapiro of the Center for Investigative Reporti...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 5:15pm PST
As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining Thursday, November 5, 2009 :There have been a number of recent developments around the controversial practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, wherein coal companies remove the tops of mountains with explosives. Last week, the Obama administration indicated it will not immediately cancel Bush-era changes to a rule protecting streams from mountaintop removal mining. The move came as groups opposed to mountaintop removal mining organized nationwide sit-ins demanding EPA intervention to stop ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 5:14pm PST
Climate Defenders Camp established to preserve Indonesian Rainforest Peatlands 
Fifty members of Greenpeace and members of the local forest community have set up a Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They have spent the last week constructing a dam across one of the many canals built to drain the rainforest and peat soils in order to make way for plantations. This forest destruction emits huge quantities of CO2 and has led Indonesia to become the world's third largest climate polluter after China and the US. Global defores...
Posted: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 6:57am PST
Venezuela: The error of being Lusbi Portillo 
* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 6:57pm PST
CPDF BLAMED DISASTERS DUE TO FOREIGN EXTRACTIVE MINING AND LOGGING - Pesante News learned through news sources today that the CPDF blamed the recent disastrous flooding and numerous landslides in Northern Luzon that inflicted heavy losses in lives and property highlight the often overlooked cost of developmental aggression. In more ways than one do the common people pay for huge projects that generate super-profits for foreign big business interests and their local lackeys....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 7:49am PST
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