Sometimes, men insist “fairness” means admitting that men suffer from women just as women do from men, or even that they suffer more. You might as well argue that white people suffer from racism exactly as much as black people, or that there are no hierarchies of privilege and degrees of oppression in this world. More
Tom Tomorrow on ISIS, or is it ISIL? Tom Tomorrow Daily Kos September 29, 2014
People demand system change, not climate change. When world leaders gathered at a preliminary meeting on climate change at the UN headquarters in New York, and one day after hundreds of thousands (estimates range from 311,000 to 400,000) people marched in the Climate Convergence, there was a coordinated effort to demand accountability for the corporate More
After eight years of negotiation in the UN, and with the current voluntary pledges of governments, we have only reduced 3 gigatons of CO2e per year from the business-as-usual scenario, and we should have reduced at least 16 gigatons per year by 2020. So, putting aside words and speeches, governments reduced less than 20% of More
While many marchers carried signs urging action to “Save the Planet,” others did not hesitate to label capitalism as the cause of planetary destruction and urged “System Change, not Climate Change.” Anti-imperialist contingent at massive New York march, Sept. 21. photo: Joseph Piette By Betsey Piette International Action Center September 23, 2014 Activists in over More
Report on Flood Wall Street Direct Action ...while marches are important and necessary, mass organized political chaos in the streets is more likely to destabilize the status quo, bringing forth a new social equilibrium. By ARUN GUPTA Counterpunch.org SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 New York City. In April 1990 I helped organize the Earth Day Shut Down More
Activists taken away in handcuffs after Wall Street sit-in. Police use pepper spray to disperse climate change protest. Flood Wall Street climate change protest – as it happened Amanda Holpuch in New York theguardian.com Monday 22 September 2014 16.34 Adam Gabbatt speaks to demonstrators at the Flood Wall Street march Click here to see the original article and More
Business as Usual in Manhattan Branding. That’s how the climate crisis is going to be solved. We are in an era or postmodern social movements. The future is unwritten. It’s not about what happens on Sunday. It’s what happens after that. By ARUN GUPTA counterpunch.org September 20, 2014 I’ve never been to a protest march More
Klein writes. “We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe — and would benefit the vast majority — are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.” [youtube=http://youtu.be/8W3scqbuJVQ] Published on Sep 18, More
"Arundhati Roy suggests that the "most appropriate metaphor for the insanity of our times" is the Siachen Glacier, where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have killed each other on the highest battlefield in the world. The glacier is now melting and revealing "thousands of empty artillery shells, empty fuel drums, ice axes, old boots, tents and every other kind of waste that thousands of warring human beings generate" in meaningless conflict. And as the glaciers melt, India and Pakistan face indescribable disaster."
"Arundhati Roy suggests that the "most appropriate metaphor for the insanity of our times" is the Siachen Glacier, where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have killed each other on the highest battlefield in the world. The glacier is now melting and revealing "thousands of empty artillery shells, empty fuel drums, ice axes, old boots, tents and every other kind of waste that thousands of warring human beings generate" in meaningless conflict. And as the glaciers melt, India and Pakistan face indescribable disaster."
"If you take action, you can be a greater peace with yourself and your own conscience" — Archbishop Desmond Tutu By Ann Wright (about the author) OpEdNews.com September 5, 2014 The Elders (image by Ann Wright) The Elders are a group of leaders who were brought together in 2007 by Nelson Mandela to use their More
