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Food News: You Are What You Eat
How to Grow Vegetables From Kitchen Scraps Latest Video on Lifehacker by Joel Kahn and Therese McPherson Contributed to Change Links by Bella De Soto Between long grocery lines, heated competition for delivery slots and the blessed arrival of springtime weather, you may be tempted to try your hand at growing your own vegetables. You and everyone else: There’s also been a run on seeds. Luckily, many vegetables you take home from the produce section are easy to re-grow at home, no seeds required. With just scraps [...]
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Solidarity Forever: Social Cohesion as the Antidote to Social Distancing GallerySolidarity Forever: Social Cohesion as the Antidote to Social Distancing
Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Non-violence, Palestine, Peace, Poverty, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions, Volunteer
Solidarity Forever: Social Cohesion as the Antidote to Social Distancing
Social Cohesion and Social Solidarity as the Antidote to Social Distancing by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles I think we should try to rename "Social Distancing." People in the U.S. are already far too socially distanced from each other, driving in our steel cocoons, riding the buses and trains in unreceptive, unresponsive isolation, each glued to our own screen, ears filled with our own soundtrack. Let's call it socially responsible distancing, adopting it as a sacrifice, and thereby acknowledging our social connection to, interaction with, and responsibility [...]
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Tricontinental: In Light of Global Pandemic, Focus on the People GalleryTricontinental: In Light of Global Pandemic, Focus on the People
Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Climate Change, Cuba, Ecology, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Politics, Poverty, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, Sustainability, Unity
Tricontinental: In Light of Global Pandemic, Focus on the People
In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People MARCH 21, 2020 International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. httpss://www.thetricontinental.org/declaration-covid19/ SARS-CoV-2 or COVID19, now declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has begun to wreak havoc in large parts of the world, with other parts waiting in anticipation. We are in a real struggle, which needs total mobilization; a struggle that needs to put life before profit. We will only win this struggle – as China has already done [...]
The Fire This Time by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Australia: The Fire This Time © by Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1/26/20 Australia, the fire this time. Tongues of fire licked the trees of New South Wales, a state in SouthEast Australia. Like a beggar at a feast, red flowers of flame jumped across the nation, eating all in its path. A living expression of what Aussies call, ‘Fire Season’. Honestly. ‘Fire Season’. This, the time of Australian summer is the hottest summer since records were kept. And fire season gives a whole new meaning to the passive term [...]
Greta Thunberg Speaks on the Climate Crisis
Greta Thunberg Speaks on Climate Crisis A year and a half ago, I didn’t speak to anyone unless I really had to. But then I found a reason to speak. Since then, I have given many speeches and learned that when you talk in public, you should start with something personal or emotional to get everyone’s attention, say things like, “Our house is on fire,” “I want you to panic,” or “How dare you!” But today I will not do that, because then those phrases are [...]
Earth Day 2020: Planet on the Brink
Earth Day 2020: Planet on the Brink by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. April 22, 2020 will mark the 50th anniversary of the original "Earth Day" in 1970. It is a sad commentary that 50 years on, the earth system, and the lives of hundreds of millions of people, particularly people in the global South, people of color, and poor and working people generally, are at greater risk and in greater peril than ever before in human history. Gains in environmental regulation to insure safe water, air [...]
The Looming US Water Crisis
The Looming U.S. Water Crisis by ANDREEA STEREA According to the World Economic Forum, the global water crisis is the fourth major threat of our civilization. In fact, studies warn that two-thirds of the global population could be living in water-stressed countries by 2025 — just a few short years away. When we think about water scarcity, many Americans may immediately call to mind countries in Africa, the Middle East, or Asia. But Europe and North America are also facing unprecedented water shortage issues — [...]
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Earth Day 2020: Clear Vision for Environmental Action GalleryEarth Day 2020: Clear Vision for Environmental Action
Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Climate Change, Ecology, Elijah Carder, Energy, Environment, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Los Angeles, Lydia Ponce, Movements, Politics, Solidarity
Earth Day 2020: Clear Vision for Environmental Action
Open Invitation for entities committed to the Earth and her children: Co-Sponsor the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2020: Clear Vision for Environmental Action. Dear First Nation, non-government organization, local jurisdiction or entity, April 22, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day and as you may know we are facing environmental crises greater than ever. Pollution and production processes threaten life on this planet. And they are projected to get worse. We must change this course. We must transform. Quickly and soundly. We are [...]
Excesses of Capitalism
How Capitalist Excesses Discredit the Market Economy by Gerd Zeitler An article in the Compendium of Market-Based Social-Ecological Economics httpss://gerdzeitler.wordpress.com/excesses-of-capitalism/ httpss://gerdzeitler.wordpress.com/excesses-of-capitalism/ Key issues in view of the neoliberal crisis: How can we guarantee employment and fair income? How can we protect the environment effectively? How should we shape the economic globalization? What should the economic sciences contribute? What must be the vital tasks of economic policy? How can we legitimize economic policy democratically? Search here for the list of all articles: Compendium: httpss://gerdzeitler.wordpress.com/compendium-of-social-ecological-economics/
Bolivia re-elects Evo Morales
New blow for US imperialism as Bolivia re-elects Evo Morales by Fiona Edwards httpss://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/10/24/new-blow-for-us-imperialism-as-bolivia-re-elects-evo-morales/ Bolivian president Evo Morales, whose government has overseen improving living standards and a dramatic reduction in poverty while in power, has been re-elected. This is yet another blow for the ongoing US campaign to get rid of left-of-centre governments in Latin America and boost their austerity-supporting opponents. Right-wing hits out despite “no evidence” of irregularities With around 99% of the final vote counted in the presidential election, Morales had secured almost [...]