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Direct Action!
| Rising Tide Spring 2007 USA Climate Action Tour!
| Dissent! Anti-G8 USA West & East Coasts Infotour, Feb. 19 to April 7!
| Converge against Nuclear Weapons Testing and War, March 27 - April 1 at the Nevada Test Site!
* Oaxaca: La Resistencia Continúa - For daily news from Oaxaca, see Chiapas Indymedia, NYC Indymedia, IndyBay Global Justice, The Narco News Bulletin, El Enemigo Común & the official APPO site.
| Indigenous Solidarity at Black Mesa, Arizona * BLACK MESA NEEDS LIST
Reclaim the Commons!
RTC Friends and Allies!
* Beehive Collective
* Delete the Border
* Earth First! Journal
* Free Radio / Pirate Radio
* Friends of Brad Will
* GE Action Network
* Indigenous Action Media
* Mobilization for Global Justice
* Mountain Justice Summer
* People's Global Action
* Riot Folk Collective
* Rising Tide North America
* Trees Not Walls Network
Climate Justice!
Rising Tide North America's Spring 2007 Roadshow!
* G8 + 5 Background Info
| ¡JUSTICIA CLIMÁTICA YA! Este Octubre 3 y 4 en Ciudad de México: Un Llamando Movilizar en Contra la Cumbre Climatico del G8 + 5!
* Más en Español --> Cambio Climático, Justicia Climática y Accion Global contra G8
| July 15, 2006 --> International Day of Direct Action for Climate Justice, against Climate Change and the G8! (es)
* Chronicle of Global Actions!
*Worldwide Protests Slam G8 Support of Nuclear, Coal, Oil
Required Reading!
2007 Counter-G8 Links
Visits!
G8 Protest Resources!
A Space Outside Reader: Notes & Analysis from Australia's 2006 Mobilization against the G20
Archived from 2005 (and still Gr8!)
G8 History and In-Depth Reports
* Bringing Home the G8: A 52 page Corporate Watch report
* What is the G8 (pdf): from Dissent!
* People and Planet G8 Briefing (pdf)
* The G8: A Study in Power (or why people should protest)
Environment and Climate Change
* The G8 Way to Climate Chaos: Facts about the G8 governments (PDF)
* Beyond the G8 - Capitalism and Climate Change: An analysis of the interconnections and why we cannot leave solutions to world leaders.
* Climate Chaos And The G8
* Africa Pays Price of G8 Climate Blindspot
* Beyond Oil: The oil curse and solutions for an oil-free future (pdf)
* Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases
* The Sky is not the Limit - Critique of the emerging market in greenhouse gases (pdf)
* Rising Tide Coalition for Climate Justice Political Statement
* Stop Exxon - Global Warming page
* Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: G8, climate change and free-market environmentalism (pdf)
Arms Trade and Anti-Militarism
* The G8 Arms Dealers to the World (pdf): A report by the Campaign Against Arms Trade
* Anti-Militarism and the G8: Links between militarism and the G8 colonial policies.
Market and Corporate Free Trade
* Hydrating the G8: Water Exploitation from UK to Brazil by Corporate Watch
* Directing destiny: An article first published at The Guardian arguing that giving more power to the G8 nations will not eradicate poverty, but autonomous grassroots alternatives to capitalism will.
* The Corporate Assault on Africa aka The Africa Action Plan: By Corporate Watch.
Borders and Migration
* Borders at the G8: An IndyMedia feature discussing the borders policies of the G8 countries.
G8 Audio Materials for Download
* Why Close the G8?: Audio from the film made by Camcorder Guerrillas from Glasgow.
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BioJustice 2007 Convergence!
by rtc
Rising Tide Spring 2007 Climate Action Tour!
by rtc
This spring, Rising Tide will bring the global struggle for climate justice to the belly of the beast, connecting the dots between the overarching crisis of climate change and the grassroots struggles of communities resisting the fossil fuel industry’s assault on their land and culture.
Through partnering with local environmental and climate justice organizations in each region, we seek to amplify the voices of those most affected by climate change and the fossil fuel industry, boosting support for these revolutions on the local level and creating a culture of solidarity across lines of race, class and gender.
Dissent! Anti-G8 USA West & East Coasts Infotour
by rtc
ABOUT Dissent! G8 Infotour
Once a year the leaders of the 8 richest nations meet behind closed doors in secret with no publicized agenda or published minutes, to discuss the fate of the world. They’ve been making empty promises for decades about improving the environment, poverty in Africa, and lots more, but the fact is that the G8 is not the solution to these ills, it is the problem! We are preparing in Germany for large scale protests against the G8 meeting this June 6-8, 2007, and plan to come tell you about what is going on here. We have done over 200 presentations in 25+ countries since November 2005, and are now coming to your town!
Converge against Nuclear Weapons Testing and War, March 27 - April 1 at the Nevada Test Site!
by rtcIn response to the urgent threats of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, we are calling members of concerned groups to gather in the desert near the Nevada Test Site. We will be speaking out against nuclear proliferation at home and abroad and building momentum for nuclear abolition, which includes transforming the Test Site into a facility that serves human and environmental needs.
Firestone Under Fire
by rtcFirestone Catches Heat for its Treatment of Liberian Workers HARBEL, Liberia — The wake-up call comes each morning before 4:30. In the dark, 6,000 weary men follow the faint beams of flashlights to their assigned spaces on a massive farm of rubber trees. Moses Kollie, 51, carries an estimated 150 pounds of latex on his shoulder at the Firestone rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia. Kollie says he supports his wife and nine children on $80 a month. The Navajo Nation President's office has been giving out a lot of misinformation, pretending that they're actually HELPING the protesters (President Joe Shirley told us a few hours ago that they were helping with wood hauling, which is not true at all). The police are not allowing press to the site and there is no independent monitoring of the situation. Based on my conversations with some of those on the ground, it appears that police dismantled the camp site and dispersed the protesters' personal belongings along the road. They wouldn't let elders use the bathroom or eat or allow any wood hauling. They even threatened arrest if they left the site to use the bathroom and are refusing to let them use port-a-potties that they paid for (there are no convenient places to go to the bathroom). A local family was even told that they cannot return to their own land where they live and that their land belongs to BHP (a big coal company). Days of Resistance to the War: March 19 and 20th, 2007 This call to action comes from a number of different organizations and individuals involved in the anti-war movement. Our organizing experiences have left us feeling disappointed in ourselves and in the movement as a whole. Organizing against the war in Iraq has led us to believe that marching and chanting has not made enough of an impact nor done enough to end the brutal realities of the occupation. This has got to change. On March 19 and 20th 2007, we call for worldwide days of resistance to the imperialist, racist and senseless war in Iraq. We propose occupations, acts of civil disobedience, and direct action. We propose that these acts of resistance be directed towards governments, military recruitment centers, corporations, and other institutions that perpetuate American empire and war. Burnham, Sanostee & Nenanezah Elders and citizens are braving the cold to protect the land from the encroaching Diné Power Authority (DPA) and Sithe Global LLC at the proposed Desert Rock site. Navajo residents confronted the Diné Power Authority/Sithe Global on Tuesday afternoon after learning of water drilling that had been occurring without the knowledge and notification of local residents. SUMMER OF INTERNATIONAL DISSENT AGAINST HEAVY INDUSTRY - GATHERING STARTS 6 JULY 2007 The campaign to defend Europe's vastest remaining wilderness continues. The 2007 G8 summit mobilisation is starting to take shape. The following is a very rough and certainly not set-in-stone overview of what the days of resistance will most likely look like: Convergence Centre - Hamburg From 26th May 2007 onwards there will be a convergence center open in Hamburg. The convergence center will be located in the autonomous social center "Rote Flora". The idea behind this convergence center is to offer a possibility for activists from other parts of Germany and especially for activists from abroad to gather already some days before the actual summit, to have a place to arrive in Germany and to prepare actions or get the latest information. We are calling: A national day of multi-ethnic community, youth, peace and justice movement in solidarity with immigrant workers and support immigrant rights! WE ARE ALL HUMANS! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! On May 1st 2006, we showed the world that our force, our strength and our voice cannot be silenced from this moment on! This is the birth of a new civil rights movement for the 21st century, and we will fight for our demands until we prevail. A looming medical crisis could have been mitigated by swift, decisive action on the part of the EPA. But rather than declare lower Manhattan off limits until it performed a comprehensive evaluation of the hazards posed by airborne toxins emitted from the "pile" and provide appropriate protective gear to volunteers sifting through the debris, the White House pressured the EPA into declaring the air at Ground Zero safe. And now that hundreds of Ground Zero first responders are dying from rare cancers, diminished lung capacity, and toxins in their blood, the same politicians have yet to respond to their plights and pleas for help. Apparently, there isn't adequate funding for monitoring, testing and treating the heroes politicians were all too happy to use for political gain. Even the medical community has been in denial about the connection between their work after 9/11 and the rapid development of diseases that normally take significantly longer to appear. When these diseases appear in clusters, as they have in those who worked to clean up Ground Zero and those exposed to toxic clouds for months, it is time to drop the word 'coincidence' and take responsibility for caring for the men and women we lauded for their heroism and courage. We cannot let them become disposable heroes. See also: "Green Energy" Panacea or Just the Latest Hype? by Brian Tokar, WW4 REPORT You can hardly open up a major newspaper or national magazine these days without encountering the latest hype about biofuels, and how they're going to save oil, reduce pollution and prevent climate change. Bill Gates, Sun Microsystems' Vinod Khosla, and other major venture capitalists are investing millions in new biofuel production, whether in the form of ethanol, mainly derived from corn in the US today; or biodiesel, mainly from soybeans and canola seed. It's virtually a "modern day gold rush," as described by the New York Times, paraphrasing the chief executive of Cargill, one of the main benefactors of increased subsidies to agribusiness and tax credits to refiners for the purpose of encouraging biofuel production. These Comments are from participants in the Reclaim the Commons convergence in Chicago this April 9-11, 2006. John Peck, Family Farm Defenders, Madison, Wisconsin: Hunter-gatherer societies' understanding of "ownership" was quite different from our modern conception. To primitive humans, no one owned the land, water, air, or sky; they belonged to whomever was using it at the time. With the rise of civilization came the rule of private property. However, even dominator societies such as the Roman Empire codified the Commons into their laws: land was set aside and water sources belonged to everyone (Res Communes). The State of Missouri state and the City of St. Louis announced plans this year to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars to the biotechnology industry. Although this transfer of public funds has gotten a fair amount of press, two important questions have been overlooked: Can the biotechnology industry survive without public subsidies? Is biotechnology good for Missouri's economy? Governor Matt Blunt announced in early February that he wanted to "sell off the assets" of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), the quasi-governmental, non-profit corporation set up and regulated by the state to distribute student loans. He proposed giving the proceeds from the sale (a whopping $450 million) to the biotech industry. According to a February 2 St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, the money would be used to further "Life Sciences" (the euphemism the industry uses for biotechnology) research, help biotech start ups and assist state universities in setting up Life Sciences departments. Familiar promises were made that many high-paying jobs would be created and millions of dollars would be added in the future to state coffers. December 7: · click here to see participating cities and organizing resources · The term Green Scare refers to the Red Scares of the early twentieth century, made famous by the McCarthy hearings and the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Green Scare demonstrates a similar systematic criminalization of dissent as the U.S. government is using all its tactics (e.g., grand juries, specialized legislation, paid agents provocateurs) to target the radical environmental and animal rights movements, those who publicly support them, and others who struggle for a healthy, diverse eco-system and the rights of animals. 1. As reported in today's Mexico City daily La Jornada, late last night in Mexico City government agents arrested APPO leader Flavio Sosa, together with three other activists. They were pulled out of their car two hours after APPO held a press conference announcing that it would be meeting with the federal government for negotiations in the capital city. 2. Arrests continue to spread not only in Oaxaca but in Mexico City, as Federal Investigative Agency (AFI) and Preventive Police (PFP) agents carry out house-to-house detentions of members of the FPR (Revolutionary People's Front, a left tendency active in the teachers' union) and other APPO supporters. Groups say Big Greens brokered a bad deal, and now ramped-up logging is devouring coastal old-growth. by Zoe Blunt, Guerrilla News Network In February 2006, Greenpeace, Sierra Club and other groups celebrated a historic agreement with government and industry to bring an end to the “war in the woods” in the Great Bear Rainforest area of coastal British Columbia. Less than a year later, observers say the agreement may be unraveling. Timber companies have ratcheted up the rate of clearcut logging to unprecedented levels, and guidelines for sustainable logging are not being implemented. by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT When Mexico's President Vicente Fox was elected six years ago, he pledged he would end the long-simmering Chiapas revolt "in fifteen minutes." Now, as his successor Felipe Calderon prepares to take office, new social crises are emerging all over the country—from the challenge to Calderon's election as fraudulent by the left opposition, to the dilemma of Oaxaca, where an occupation of the state capital by federal police has failed to quell a civil rebellion. And Chiapas remains as divided as it was in 2000, with much of the mountains and jungles under the real control of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), the indigenous Maya rebels whose brief 1994 armed uprising was a catalyst to the international anti-globalization movement.
by Shashank Bengali
How YOU Can Help the Desert Rock Blockade
by rtcDays of Resistance to the War - March 19 and 20th, 2007
by rtcSUPPORT NEEDED: Dine' Establish Blockade Near Proposed Power Plant Site
by rtc
Lucy A. Willie, right, stands at the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant site outside of Burnham on Wednesday where she and several friends and family stayed overnight to stop a contractor for Desert Rock Energy Company from doing preliminary work.Iceland: Summer of International Dissent Against Heavy Industry - Gathering Starts 6 July 2007
by rtc
http://www.savingiceland.org/Early info on the 2007 G8 Summit
by rtc
Call to Action: May Day 2007 National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers!
by rtc
From the National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Death by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer
by rtc
by Kristen Lombardi
November 28th, 2006
Village Voice
Believe 9-11 is causing cancer?
An open thread in Power PlaysBiofuels: "Green Energy" Panacea or Just the Latest Hype?
by livetriiWhat is the Commons and Why Is It Important?
by rtc
Published in The Confluence
Autumn 2006 - v.12, no.2
Reclaim the Commons Issue
"Most of our our life is based on Commons. We're talking about water, the air, our food. Many believe that food should be a human right; not a commodity. If the Commons are taken away from us and privatized, commodified and corporatized, our freedoms as a people are diminished, our communities are vulnerable. We lose local control and we are at the mercy of corporations."In Defense of the Commons: A Brief History
by rtc
Published in The Confluence
Autumn 2006 - v.12, no.2
Reclaim the Commons Issue
Biotechnology in St. Louis: Economic Boom or a Sham?
by rtc
Published in The Confluence
Autumn 2006 - v.12, no.2
Reclaim the Commons Issue
December 7: Organize Solidarity with Green Scare Defendants! Oppose the New War on Dissent!
by rtc
ORGANIZE A GREEN SCARE SOLIDARITY EVENT IN YOUR CITY!
An International Day of Solidarity with Green Scare Indictees,
Detainees, and Political PrisonersRepression escalates in Oaxaca and Mexico's capitol
by rtcGreat Bear Rainforest: The Clearcut Truth
by rtcChiapas-Mexico: The Struggle for the Lacandon Selva
by rtc