Climate and Environmental Crisis

‘Flood Wall Street!’

Mobilizing via the hashtag #FloodWallStreet, thousands of anti-capitalist protesters confronted the profiteers responsible for climate change by sitting down outside…

September 24, 2014

Peoples Climate March protesters say: ‘We know who is responsible’

Activists in over 2,808 cities in 166 countries participated on Sept. 21 in the first international Peoples Climate March. The events took…

September 23, 2014

NorCal People’s Climate rally

More than a thousand people gathered at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Sept. 21 for the Northern California People’s Climate…

September 23, 2014

Seattle protesters challenge polluters

Two thousand people marched in Seattle after a big downtown rally on Sept. 21.  Protesting coal ports and oil trains,…

September 23, 2014

Planet’s warming caused by capitalism

Over the last few years numerous scientific studies have reported that the pace of global climate change is accelerating and,…

September 20, 2014

Against climate change? Fight for system change!

The largest demonstration against climate change ever will take place in New York City on Sunday, Sept. 21. This important…

September 18, 2014

Banks cause Detroit water crisis

The city of Detroit, under a right-wing, state-appointed “emergency manager” who has plunged the city into the largest municipal bankruptcy…

September 18, 2014

N.C. environmental injustice: ’We’re living with a ticking time bomb’

The following interview with Naeema Muhammad, interim director of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, was conducted by Durham, N.C.,…

September 9, 2014

‘Drill, baby, drill’? Not so fast!

Michigan is not exactly a state that an oil and gas industry executive would call “unwelcoming.” In fact, there is…

September 7, 2014

The Pentagon — the climate elephant

There is an elephant in the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even acknowledged. This agreement…

September 4, 2014