Ian Angus's Blog, page 158

Walmart pumps millions into ocean greenwashing

West Coast fishermen are calling for a boycott of the world's biggest retailer, which in one year put over $71 million into plans to privatize fisheries for the benefit of giant corporations

Canada’s deadly auto factories cause breast cancer

Women working in the Canadian automotive plastics industry are almost five times as likely to develop breast cancer as women working elsewhere

Weekend reading, 14

Land grabbing ... Agroecology and peasant seeds ... Diabetes and climate change ... Germany's nuclear phase-out ... Fracking fraud

AlGoreRhythm

Translating climate science into music

Chevron tries to hide assets from Ecuador judgment

After repeatedly failing to overturn the $19 billion judgment for destroying rain forest, Chevron is now trying to hide its vast wealth in international subsidiaries.

Who defends earth’s legacy?

A Canadian cabinet minister promotes environmental destruction

Should Chiapas farmers pay for California’s emissions?

To peasants in the Lacandon jungle, the pending carbon offset agreement has all the hallmarks of a land grab. REDD continues the colonial assault on indigenous communities and lifestyles

Oil boom threatens climate catastrophe

If we don’t shut down the Alberta Tar Sands, the world is cooked.

Latin American rural groups urge united action against capital

Peasant communities, indigenous peoples and afro-descendants are today the greatest bastion of rebellion and resistance across the world. Against the looting by capital and empire! For land and sovereignty of our peoples! No socialism without feminism!

Ecuador’s president responds to ‘leftist’ critics

Those who oppose any use of natural resources would condemn our people to perpetual poverty. What's needed is not a ban on development, but a democratic effort to use the country's wealth to benefit the people and the environment