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

Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, May 31, 2019

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

On May 30, around 100 people took part on the first day of a planned five-day march for environmental justice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. Amid sweltering heat, the march kicked off in St. John the Baptist Parish, but extreme obstacles have developed on their route to Baton Rouge, about 50 miles away. Today a judge ruled that the organizers did not have permission to cross two bridges along the route.

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

Joe Maniscalo, Labor Press, May 13, 2019

New York,, NY – Shut. It. Down. Amalgamated Transit Union VP Bruce Hamilton, this weekend, urged U.S. trade unionists to “learn from our past” and start building towards a general strike in a last ditch effort to avert climate disaster.

“What we need to understand is that climate struggle is class struggle,” Hamilton told the NY Labor History Association’s Annual Spring Conference at NYU on Saturday. “Workers really do want to engage in radical action with a clear chance of making their lives better.”

COP24: No Response to the Crisis

Nadja Charaby, Maria Theresa Lauron, Till Bender, Katja Voigt, Tadzio Müller and Alanah Torralba, The Bullet, December 21, 2018

Why the Outcome of Katowice is Far From Sufficient

The climate crisis is looming large and threatens to go beyond our capabilities. In addition, COP24 at Katowice has decided on a rulebook that in parts both lacks in substance and is unjust. The resolutions agreed are not enough to prevent disaster, by a long shot.

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

Ted Franklin, System Change Not Climate Change, December 6, 2018

Sunrise Movement in the Halls of Congress

Climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal.

The Global Extinction Rebellion Begins

Dahr Jamail, TruthOut, November 25, 2018

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

Dr. Gail Bradbrook, a mother of two boys, has seen enough of her government’s complicity in pumping increasing amounts of CO2 and methane into an already overburdened atmosphere.

A professor of molecular biophysics, her deep understanding of science has led her to confront the existential crisis facing humans. Acting on her love for her children and the disrupted world that is being left to them, she has channeled her horror about this crisis into action.

Fracking protestors jailed by UK 'Banana Monarchy' judiciary

Allan Todd, London Green Left Blog, October 9, 2018

Although I’m the organiser of the anti-fracking Green Mondayprotests at Preston New Road, and am also the Membership Secretary of my local Green party, what follows is very much my own individual view, and must in no waybe taken as necessarily representing the opinion of any other individual involved in the Preston New Road, Lancashire, protests, or of any organisation.

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

Ted Franklin, SCNCC, September 18, 2018

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.”

—W.E.B. Du Bois

Shortly before protesters gathered around the world on the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit, an ecosocialist friend commented on the pointlessness of engaging in more “feel good” marches. Something struck me as horribly wrong about this casual dismissal of mass actions in which we take to the streets to bear witness to the mounting opposition to global ecocide.

Tracking the battles for environmental justice: here are the world’s top 10

Julie Snorek, The Conversation, June 8, 2018

Environmental justice activism is to this age what the workers’ movement was for the industrial age - one of the most influential social movements of its time. Yet, despite its consistent progress since the 1970s, environmental justice protests seem to get lost in the morass of information on broader environmental issues.

Fighting for System Change by Song

Bonnie Lockhart, SCNCC, June 4, 2018

Occupella performing at April 29, 2017 Climate Mobilization in Oakland

In the belief that every good social justice movement needs song, the women's singing group Occupella has become a presence at many climate and environmental justice events in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Ecosocialist Songbook is a compilation of songs we have performed and led at rallies, marches, and demonstrations. Here is the introduction to our 18-page songbook which is free to download and use by clicking here..

Organizing on a Sinking Ship: The Future of the Climate Justice Movement

Kevin Buckland, ROAR Mag, January 4, 2018

Climate change rarely comes up at the top of the list when people are asked about issues that concern them most. While this is not surprising, it is nonetheless disturbing considering the gravity of the climate crisis. Yet the key problem of our collective negligence of the climate crisis is reflected in the question itself, rather than the answer. Let us be clear: climate change is not an “issue.” Rather, it is now the entirety of the biophysical world of which we are part. It is the physical battleground in which every “issue” is played out — and it is crumbling.

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