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San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West
David Solnit & Julie Searle | Common Dreams | September 28, 2019
"This is what arts and resistance looks like in San Francisco!" declared one of the many groups involved in the collective action. "Shutting down 2 blocks of... read more

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
Jessica Garraway | Common Dreams | September 25, 2019
By Jessica Garraway - Common Dreams, September 22, 2019 Land and Water Defender Beginnings In 2011, as a 20 year old activist new to the environmental movement I joined up with other like-minded... read more

Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism
An Interview | Rebel, The New Socialist Website (Ireland) | August 26, 2019
Rebel interviews Ian Angus — editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism, and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth, and A Redder Shade of Green:... read more

Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019
| 350.org | August 21, 2019

Protest Outside a Hong Kong Police HQ | Iris Tong - VOA.

“We’re all Hong Kongers now”
Richard Smith | System Change Not Climate Change | August 12, 2019
Ecosocialists must stand in support of the millions of democracy protesters in Hong Kong and call on American trade unions and the Left to join us. The Chinese Communist Party is on a suicide mission... read more

Mountaintop removal Chris Jordan-Bloch Earthjustice

'Coal is over': the miners rooting for the Green New Deal
Michael Sainato | The Guardian | August 12, 2019
Appalachia’s main industry is dying and some workers are looking to a new economic promise after Trump’s proves empty Set in a wooded valley between the Tug Fork river... read more

Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be "Good Business"
Paul Fleckenstein | Jacobin | July 30, 2019
Bill McKibben, climate justice activist and founder of 350.org, professor of environmental studies, best-selling author, and journalist, needs little introduction. He has made enormous contributions... read more

SCNCC Perspectives & Guest Commentaries

“We’re all Hong Kongers now”

Richard Smith | System Change Not Climate Change

Sheet Metal Workers Belt Buckle | credit: coolbuckles.com

Blue Collar Workers: Let's Support the Green New Deal

Steve Morse | System Change Not Climate Change

What To Do About Predictions of Imminent Food Collapse

Sandra Lindberg | System Change Not Climate Change

"All eyes of the world are on Juliana" - Tune in Tuesday

Editors | SCNCC

What Do Eco-Socialists Have to Say About the Climate Movement?

Nancy Romer | New Politics

How Can We Prevent Climate Catastrophe?

Phil Gasper | International Socialist Review

One, Two, … Many Green New Deals: An Ecosocialist Roundtable

Carol Dansereau, John Foran, Ted Franklin, Brad Hornick, Sandra Lindberg, Jennifer Scarlott | resilience.org

Palestine and the Climate Crisis

David Klein | Mondoweiss

Sunrise Movement "Dear Democrats - Step Up or Step Aside"

The Green New Deal -- An Ecosocialist Study Guide

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Is there still time to stop climate catastrophe?

Phil Gasper | SocialistWorker.org

IPCC Report: First Thoughts on Next Steps

Sydney Azari | Medium.com

The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism

David Klein | truthout.org

Scientists propose changing the rules of history to avoid environmental collapse

University College London | Phys.org

Trump’s war on science

Cliff Connor | Socialist Action

The Sea Level Threat To Cities Depends On Where The Ice Melts — Not Just How Fast

Christopher Joyce | NPR

Ice Apocalypse

Eric Holthaus | Grist

Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Climate Change & Key Researcher Urges “Changes in How We Live”

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

Abrupt Climate Justice

John Foran | Resilience

Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism

An Interview | Rebel, The New Socialist Website (Ireland)

Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be "Good Business"

Paul Fleckenstein | Jacobin

Climate Emergency Declarations Guarantee Nothing; We Need Total System Transformation for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

Sandra Lindberg |

Making the Green New Deal Real

Dianne Feeley | Solidarity

Rethinking Approaches to Climate Change

Richard Fidler | Life on the Left

Rethinking Approaches to Climate Change

Richard Fidler | Life on the Left

An Ecosocialist Green New Deal: Guiding Principles

Democratic Socialists of America Ecosocialist Working Group | ecosocialists.dsa.org

Black folks have built some of the most powerful movements in U.S. history. And we have a whole lot to teach you about building an inclusive movement. Photo: Montecruz Foto via Flickr

Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat

Mary Annaïse Heglar | medium.com

“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”: An Interview With Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson

Editors | Jacobin

San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West

David Solnit & Julie Searle | Common Dreams

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Jessica Garraway | Common Dreams

Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism

An Interview | Rebel, The New Socialist Website (Ireland)

Blue Collar Workers: Let's Support the Green New Deal

Steve Morse | System Change Not Climate Change

Teachers at The Accelerated Schools, a community of public charter schools in South Los Angeles picket outside the school on second day of the Los Angeles school teachers strike on January 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change

Nato Green | In These Times

A Green New Deal for American Labor?

Saurav Sarkar | Labor Notes

New Deal Soil Conservation Postage Stamp

Beyond the Green New Deal

Max Ajl | The Brooklyn Rail

What Is The Climate Equivalent of “Medicare For All”?

Nathan J. Robinson | Current Affairs

Can Ecosocialist Praxis be a Real Alternative?

Gordon Peters | London Left Green Blog

Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019

| 350.org

"All eyes of the world are on Juliana" - Tune in Tuesday

Editors | SCNCC

March Against Death Alley | Photo by Julie Dermansky for DeSmog Blog

Breaking: Environmental Justice March Hits Road Block in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

Julie Dermansky | DeSmog Blog

New Calls for a General Strike in the Face of Coming Climate Catastrophe

Joe Maniscalo | Labor Press

COP24: No Response to the Crisis

Nadja Charaby, Maria Theresa Lauron, Till Bender, Katja Voigt, Tadzio Müller and Alanah Torralba | The Bullet

Sunrise Movement in the Halls of Congress

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What’s Next Is Up to Us

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Singers perform at the Extinction Rebellion rally in London, England, on October 31, 2018. Kay Michael / Extinction Rebellion

The Global Extinction Rebellion Begins

Dahr Jamail | TruthOut

Fracking protestors jailed by UK 'Banana Monarchy' judiciary

Allan Todd | London Green Left Blog

Ecosocialism’s Greatest Challenge: The Color-Line and the Twenty-First Century Ecoleft

Ted Franklin | SCNCC

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Jessica Garraway | Common Dreams

Native rights and resistance after Standing Rock

Nick Estes and Ragina Johnson interviewed by Khury Petersen-Smith | Socialist Worker

Groundbreaking “Carbon Pricing Report” Released by Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance at COP 23

Jade Begay | Common Dreams

Will You 'Promise to Protect'? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL

Jake Johnson | Common Dreams

Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance

Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance |

Special Report: Revolt at Trump’s Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear & Pro-Gas Panel Rocks U.N. Climate Summit

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

LIVE: GENEVA SWITZERLAND / DIRECT ACTION @ Credit Suisse

Oil pipeline opponent uses 'necessity defence' - What is it?

CP | CFJC Today

Indigenous-Led Protest Shuts Down Banks in Seattle

Sydney Brownstone | The Stranger

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