Women/feminism

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm

Team, System Change Not Climate Change, April 22, 2020

We encourage you to participate in Earth Day events/actions -- and to share this info with relatives, friends, neighbors, youth, parents, grandparents, etc.

Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis.

Tithi Bhattacharya, Blog, April 2, 2020

Graffiti from Melbourne - Less Cops More Nurses

When I think back on this crisis in the years to come, two images will stay with me. One is of ordinary Italians singing to one another across balconies in solidarity with neighbors in isolation and caregivers on the frontlines. The other is that of the Indian police hosing down migrant workers and their children with bleach for ‘daring’ to walk cross country once their workplaces closed during lock down and no public transport was available for them to get home.

Socialist Foreign Policy Must Center Climate Change

Meredith Tax, In These Times, October 13, 2018

wo High Representatives of the Petro Elite: U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Saudi Dictator Mohammed bin Salman

Meredith Tax argues that a socialist foreign policy must address climate change, globalism, neofascism, and a new paradigm for social justice.

Interview with a Militant of the MST

Eliane Oliveira, Global Justice Ecology Project, May 12, 2017

This video is an interview with an MST militant, Eliane Oliveira, that we conducted in March during a delegation of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees in Chile.
We were there investigating the social and ecological impacts of industrial timber plantations on people, water, wildfires and ecosystems, as well as the potential for GE tree plantations to worsen these already severe impacts.

Why Environmentalists Must Be Antifascists

Skyler Simmons, Earth First! Journal, April 25, 2017

In this age of Trump, with its’ rising white nationalism and escalating acts of terror against people of color, there can be no ambiguity when it comes to resisting white supremacists in particular and the far Right in general. And the environmental movement is no exception.

Our activism will be intersectional, or it will be bullshit…

Ali Tamlit, Red Pepper, April 25, 2017

To begin this story, cast your mind back a few months…

It’s May 2016. My facebook feed (the ultimate source of truth in our post-truth world) seems to be schizophrenic, or at least representing two entirely different worlds.

One world is the ‘green’ activists, who are in the middle of two weeks of global actions against fossil fuels. The spectacular actions in the US, Australia, the UK and most notably Ende Galende in Germany, have led some of my comrades to claim: “WE ARE WINNING!”