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November 29, 2013

Oakland Frackdown

About 90 members of environmental and community groups gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza for “Oakland Frackdown” to protest passage of State Senate Bill 4 authorizing hydraulic fracturing in California. Continue reading

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California, environment, Food & Water Watch, fracking, Global Frackdown, Hydraulic fracturing, Oakland Frackdown
November 28, 2013

Movements confront climate change

Occupations of planned fracking sites in Canada and Romania showed the intensification of struggles against the damage fossil fuel exploitation is inflicting. The urgency of stopping the headlong rush to extract and burn fossil fuel was underscored by the latest comprehensive report from the International Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading

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Brazil, Canada, capitalism, carbon budget, Chevron, China, climate change, climate justice movement, coal, Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nation, environment, fossil fuels, Fox News, fracking, Global Frackdown, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, James Hansen, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, New Brunswick, Pungesti, Rexton New Brunswick, Saudi Arabia, tar sands
November 21, 2013

Canada’s First Nations against fracking

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attacked men and women of the Mi’kmaq and Elsipogtog First Nation for blocking a New Brunswick highway in protest of Southwestern Energy doing seismic testing to determine whether local shale gas deposits merit fracking. Continue reading

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Alphonse Metallic, Canada, climate change, Elsipogtog First Nation, environment, environmental justice, First Nation, fossil fuels, fracking, global warming, Idle No More, Indigenous people, Karl Marx, Kyoto Protocol, Mi’kmaq people, Mi’kmaq-Nova Scotia-Canada Consultation Process, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Police brutality, Political Repression, primitive accumulation of capital, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Southwestern Energy, Stephen Harper
March 29, 2013

Arctic ice in retreat

From the March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: World in View by Gerry Emmett Arctic ice in retreat The National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA indicate that the extent of Arctic sea ice this January was the sixth lowest since satellite observation began. Air temperatures were 2 to 5 degrees Celsius higher… Continue reading

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Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Artur Chilingarov, Canada, capitalism, Chelyabinsk, Chernobyl, climate change, Denmark, development, fossil fuels, fracking, global warming, Greenland, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Norway, oil drilling, Oil sands, Polar ice packs, Russia, Soviet Union, tar sands, United States, Vladimir Putin
March 22, 2013

Chicagoans rally: Forward on Climate

From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: Chicagoans rally: Forward on Climate Chicago–“Hey! Obama! We don’t want your climate drama!” we chanted at the Forward on Climate rally here on Feb. 17. There were at least 20 rallies that day, with 40,000 people in Washington, D.C. Most of the 400 here were… Continue reading

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Barack Obama, Canada, capitalism, Chicago, Chicago Youth Climate Coalition, climate change, Climate Forward, CYCC, environment, Fisk coal-fired power plant, fracking, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL, Oil sands, PERRO, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, Roosevelt University, students, tar sands
April 2, 2011

Readers’ Views (March-April 2011)

From the March-April 2011 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views THE MIDDLE EAST EXPLODES: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER? The Middle East events are bringing lots of people to talk about 1979 as well as the 2009 movements in Iran. I appreciated Raha’s essay in the Jan.-Feb. issue, “Philosophy and Iran’s revolution: Where to now?” because… Continue reading

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Abortion, Bahrain, bullying, China, Critique of the Gotha Program, death penalty, dialectics of philosophy and organization, Egypt, feminism, fracking, Iran, Karl Marx, labor, Marcellus Shale, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, Persian Gulf, Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao, prisoners, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Suze Rotolo, Tea Party, teachers, Walk for Choice, Wisconsin, women’s liberation, workers, world food crisis, youth
February 28, 2011

Readers’ Views (Jan.-Feb. 2011)

From the Jan.-Feb. 2011 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views THE OPPOSITE OF WAR IS NOT PEACE BUT REVOLUTION Your Statement, “War threat over Korea,” issued on your website on Dec. 9 had it just right! “The continuing threat of war on the Korean Peninsula underscores the urgency of the Marxist-Humanist perspective that the opposite… Continue reading

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abolitionism, American Revolution, Ben Epstein, Chagos, Civil rights movement, climate change, criminal injustice, environmental justice, environmental racism, floods, fracking, global warming, Hazel Johnson, healthcare, Javan Deloney, Jon Burge, Korea, Lalit, lgbt, Mark Clements, Marxist-Humanism, Mauritius, medicare, News and Letters Committees, Prison, prisoners, Raya Dunayevskaya, sharia, Social Sciences, Tea Party, teabaggers, torture, United States, war