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Climate Change is too important to be left to the polititians

As the same tired responses and apparently ludicrous solutions keep on being advocated for climate change, I keep thinking, 'I'm just an amateur, what do I know? It may look wrong to me, but surely there's something those in power know that I don't'. I mean, they wouldn't carry on with these schemes and saying these untrue things otherwise, right? If I've got such a point in fields like medicine and architecture, whenever I dig deep I tend to find that yes, there is indeed some serious thing I was unaware of that disabuses me of my opinion.

Earth Day 2009

I want you to forget about April 22, 2009. Just do whatever you normally do on that day; don’t write anything in your diary; don’t put a circle round the date on your calendar; don’t make a special effort to talk about the environment. Why should you? If you are not a hypocrite then Earth Day will mean nothing special to you because like all other days it will just be sustainable living as usual.

Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth

The word "persecuted" springs to mind in this article by editor of total liberation and animal rights. Associate professor of philosophy at UTEP, award-winning writer, noted speaker, public intellectual, and seasoned activist. Steven Best engages the issues of the day such as animal rights, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media, globalization, and capitalist domination.

Reduce Repair Reuse Recycle - Transforming Oil Rigs into Eco-Resorts

21-02-2009 16:03 | Ecology | Ocean Defence | Technology | World

Once we complete the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, there’ll be a lot of unused oil rigs sitting around. One architecture firm, the Morris design team, already has an idea that’s making waves: turning them into oceanic eco-resorts. Their ‘Rig Hotel’ concept reuses an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, transforming it into a luxury resort offering amenities like boating, snorkeling, and diving as well as acting as a destination for conferences and business meetings.

University anti-Zionist twinning with Palestine

Last week, at a relatively well-attended meeting, my branch Executive seconded a motion to support a twinning with a Palestinian university, building on existing Student Union work. A few of us decided to propose an additional note about “the increase in antisemitic atmosphere on British campuses associated with Israel’s conflicts”. We are all broadly supportive of the twinning but conscious that in our institution it has been a vehicle for intensifying calls for the ostracisation and dissolution of Israel. Our intervention was fairly puny and didn’t say what needed to be said about this twinning - in retrospect since it was almost certain to fall we should have made more amendments.

Group 4 Securicor Attacks South African Shack Dwellers' Movement Against

21-02-2009 15:05 | Anti-militarism | Energy Crisis | Free Spaces | World

Group 4 Securicor private security guards are being used on the increasingly violent war on the poor in South Africa as the ANC continues with its project to drive the poor out of the cities. For useful links giving background to this statement see

http://abahlali.org/node/4807

I’ll Get Arrested to Stop the Burning of Coal

Coal is killing the planet. It’s as simple as that – so it’s easy to understand why 350.org founder Bill McKibben is willing to risk getting arrested in order to participate in a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant next month.

Student University Occupations: A Growing Movement

21-02-2009 14:32 | University Occupations for Gaza | Education | Social Struggles | World

Around 200 students from the University of St. Andrews have been in occupation of Lower College Hall, a key University building, since Wednesday at 12 when a petition signed by over 600 students and staff was handed to the university.

CND and the inconsistencies of anti-unilateralists

I am in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament. I’m not a peacenik, in that I don’t hold all violence to be inherently unjustifiable, but the very idea of nuclear war makes my mind boggle. That we, that is, the UK, retain a nuclear arsenal with the capacity to wipe out millions if not hundreds of millions of lives is effectively a crime against all humanity. I’ve met a few Labourite activists who believe we should keep our weapons, but I’ve never yet met one who is consistent about it.

Murder of Small Farmer Rights Organizer Sparks Protests in Yaracuy, Venezuela

Small farmer rights groups plan to march across the city of San Felipe in Venezuela’s Yaracuy state this Saturday to demand that the hired assassins of Nelson López, a small farmer rights organizer, be brought to justice. López, who was shot fifteen times in the back last Thursday, is the 213th small farmer (campesino) to be murdered since 2001, the year the government of President Hugo Chávez passed a sweeping land reform law which set the conditions for re-distribution of idle sections of large estates to small farmers, according to the Ezequiel Zamora National Farmers’ Front (FNCEZ), one of the groups convoking Saturday’s marches.

Two of Top Five HLS Investors Sell Their Shares

Wells Fargo, who were one of the top 5 institutional investors in LSR (Huntingdon Life Sciences), have sold all their shares and Bank of New York Mellon, which was also one of the top 5 institutional investors, has sold most of their holding in LSR.

Finkelstein talks: The misuse of anti-Semitism and abuse of history - Mon 23 Feb

21-02-2009 12:40 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Please note that professor finkelstein will be speaking at two different venues on the same day.

Norman Finkelstein explores the corruption and bias of scholarship surrounding the Palestine-Israel conflict. The talk will examine the growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel.

Jews Sans Frontieres: Joel Kovel fired from Bard College for anti-Zionism

21-02-2009 11:02 | Anti-militarism | Education | Palestine | World

"A fundamental principle of mine is that the educator must criticize the injustices of the world, whether or not this involves him or her in conflict with the powers that be. The systematic failure of the academy to do so plays no small role in the perpetuation of injustice and state violence. In no sphere of political action does this principle apply more vigorously than with the question of Zionism; and in no country is this issue more strategically important than in the United States, given the fact that United States support is necessary for Israel's behavior. The worse this behavior, the more strenuous must be the suppression of criticism."

Public Action Against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures in the UK

Demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Convention Rights Violations, Institutional Failures and unaccountability in the UK; Every Week outside HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS, DU CANE ROAD, LONDON W12 0AE; Commencing 12pm - 3pm.

Obama goes to WAR! (three cartoons by Latuff)

21-02-2009 07:29 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

Copyleft artworks by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Camden "Super Virus" Lab consortium start exploratory work at site

There are plans to build a high level virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden council house estate Somers Town, alongside St Pancras International behind the British Library. The lab has been criticised by MI5, MPs, councillors and local people. Foot & Mouth disease was leaked from similar govt facility Pirbright in Surrey. Exploratory works have begun this week at the site.

G-20 Bank of England reclaim the streets Party

20-02-2009 23:36 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | World

Capitalism has been heating up our world for years, melting the icecaps, burning up the rainforests, pushing the planet to tipping point. Now we're going to put the heat on them. At the London Summit , the G20 ministers are trying to get away with the biggest April Fools trick of all time. Their tax-dodging, bonus-guzzling, pension-pinching, unregulated free market world in meltdown, and those fools think we're going to bail them out. They've gotta be joking!

nuke mark lynas

Mark Lynas is a seriously well informed person. While many of us use broad phrases like 'climate change impact', he has very precise knowledge.

To show that climate change isn't something that's going to happen but is already here, he visited many parts of the world already affected, reporting it in the book High Tide: Notes From A Warming World.

As the global temperature is likely to rise up to six degrees this century, he wrote Six Degrees. Six chapters, each detailing the results of extensive research on what the next degree of warming is likely to cause.

He's also a prolific writer of articles, and has spoken out in favour of radical activists such as the Camp for Climate Action.

So it was surprising when, in May 2005, he came out as a convert to the idea of nuclear power using some questionable lines of thinking.

The biggest online portal in Azerbaijan- day.az- was shut down today

20-02-2009 22:49 | Other Press | Repression | Technology | World

Today, Azerbaijan saw yet again, how far the government can go in its quest for achieving full power over freedom of speech in this country.

"The site was closed for reconstruction work and will resume its work in a week" stated Anar Mammedxanov, a parliament member in his official statement on the closer of one of hte biggest news portals in Azerbaijan in Russuan and English languages- www.day.az (www.today.az).

Protest to take Tamil Tigers off Terrorist List

20-02-2009 22:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

There was a marching protest today in front of the White House where activists shouted out for President Obama to “help us”; meaning to take the Tamil Tigers off the terrorist list.

World Newswire Archive

Climate Change is too important to be left to the polititians

Earth Day 2009

Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth

Reduce Repair Reuse Recycle - Transforming Oil Rigs into Eco-Resorts

University anti-Zionist twinning with Palestine

Group 4 Securicor Attacks South African Shack Dwellers' Movement Against

I’ll Get Arrested to Stop the Burning of Coal

Student University Occupations: A Growing Movement

CND and the inconsistencies of anti-unilateralists

Murder of Small Farmer Rights Organizer Sparks Protests in Yaracuy, Venezuela

Two of Top Five HLS Investors Sell Their Shares

Finkelstein talks: The misuse of anti-Semitism and abuse of history - Mon 23 Feb

Jews Sans Frontieres: Joel Kovel fired from Bard College for anti-Zionism

Public Action Against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures in the UK

Obama goes to WAR! (three cartoons by Latuff)

Camden "Super Virus" Lab consortium start exploratory work at site

G-20 Bank of England reclaim the streets Party

nuke mark lynas

The biggest online portal in Azerbaijan- day.az- was shut down today

Protest to take Tamil Tigers off Terrorist List

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