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Systematic over-crediting of Forest Carbon Offsets in CA

Systematic over-crediting of Forest Carbon Offsets in CA By Grayson Badgley, Jeremy Freeman, Joseph Hamman, Barbara Haya, Anna Trugman, William R L Anderegg, & Danny Cullenward https://carbonplan.org/research/forest-offsets-explainer [Excerpts] Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Because offsets effectively allow pollution to continue, however, they must reflect real climate benefits. To better understand whether these climate claims hold up in practice, we performed a comprehensive evaluation of California's forest carbon offsets program — the largest such program in existence, [...]

By |2021-04-30T18:35:35-05:00April 30th, 2021|California, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Energy, Environment, Sustainability, United States, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Murder Incorporated: Book Three-Perfecting Tyranny

MURDER INCORPORATED: Empire/Genocide/Manifest Destiny Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, Foreword by Angela Davis Prison Radio, San Francisco CA, 2020, 420 pp., $20, ISBN  978-7346489-1-1 (softcover) also available as hardcover and e-book (softcover $25 including shipping from Prison Radio, PO Box 411074, SF CA 94141, https://prisonradio.org Reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA-People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The culminating third volume in the history of US empire and the resistance to it by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and film-maker Stephen Vittoria is "passionately [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:19:01-05:00January 30th, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Democracy, Historical, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, Peace and War, Politics, Reviews, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, United States, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Donald Trump Minimizing and Sugarcoating Coronavirus Perils! By Ralph Nader Donald Trump can’t fake his way through the coronavirus. It’s spreading and doesn’t respond to his delusions. Donald is flailing, failing, fibbing, stumbling, and scapegoating. With the stock market collapsing and the economy shaking, Donald fears defeat in November. Trump is a daily clear and present danger and he is the worst person to handle the COVID-19 crisis. Last weekend, Trump and Mike Pence met with Brazilian officials at Mar-a-Lago, after which Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s press secretary [...]

By |2020-03-28T18:39:20-05:00March 28th, 2020|Activism, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Big Business, Capitalism, Commentary, Donald Trump, Economy, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, News, Politics, Ralph Nader, Socialism, United States|0 Comments
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Mexican President Lopez Obrador Writes to pResident 45

EVERYTHING BY REASON AND LAW, THE PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO by Julie Jaman Migrants and refugees are seeking asylum and work, they are not criminals. Yet the US is jailing thousands, separating babies from mothers and children from parents and all manner of trauma and death. Trump wants walls, sanctions, military enforcers and jails. Lopez Obrador, who made an offer many months ago to go in on a plan with the US to develop jobs and education in Central American countries (much less expensive than walls, military and [...]

By |2019-07-04T20:17:08-05:00July 4th, 2019|Donald Trump, Historical, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Latin America, Mexico, Politics, United States|0 Comments
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Letters to the Editor: No Nukes!

Dear lovers of peace and a nuclear free world, For those skeptical about being able to finance a "Green New Deal," there is a bill recently introduced into the House of Representatives that could provide that funding, if Congress would take it seriously. HR-2419, the "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act, calls on the US government to sign and ratify the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, eliminate its nuclear weapons along with those of every other country, and use the money [...]

By |2019-06-01T03:30:35-05:00June 1st, 2019|Activism, Letters to the Editor, Movements, National Security, Nuclear Power, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Security and Insecurity, United States, War|0 Comments
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Family Dairy Farming is Dying

Family dairy farming is dying By Jim Goodman   [Excerpts] httpss://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/dairy-farming-is-dying-after-40-years-im-out/2018/12/21/79cd63e4-0314-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html Ed note: As of 2011 — as is true with much of the country's wealth — the top 10% of farms in size account for more than 70% of cropland in the United States; the top 2.2% take up more than a third. After 40 years of dairy farming, I sold my herd of cows this summer. The herd had been in my family since 1904; I know all 45 cows by name. I couldn’t find anyone [...]

By |2019-04-01T23:24:16-05:00April 1st, 2019|Banks, Big Business, Capitalism, Climate Change, Ecology, Historical, United States|0 Comments
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MURDER INCORPORATED: empire/genocide/manifest destiny – Book Review

MURDER INCORPORATED: empire\genocide\manifest destiny|Dreaming of Empire (Book One) by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria; foreword by Chris Hedges published 2018, Prison Radio, San Francisco CA © Street Legal Cinema, Stephen Vittoria, Mumia Abu-Jamal. ISBN 978-0-9989600-0-5 $20 from prisonradio.org streetlegalcinema.com (Coming Soon: Book Two: America's Favorite Pastime (war, intervention and the military-industrial complex); Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny (mass surveillance, manufacturing consent, SCOTUS: the Imperial Court & the delusion of a post-racial America). Reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles httpss://ara-la.tumblr.com/post/175938787905/murder-incorporated-empiregenocidemanifest Aptly subtitled "Dreaming of Empire," book one [...]

By |2018-08-09T22:46:10-05:00August 9th, 2018|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, Peace, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Reviews, Solidarity, United States, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Singapore Summit: Korean American Activist Response

Korean American Activist on Singapore Summit Response By C. Kim https://resumen-english.org/2018/06/korean-americanactivist-on-singapore-summit-response/ This is long, but I need to get it off my chest because I am seeing way too many well-meaning folks allowing their opposition to Trump to turn into inadvertent opposition to the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Know your history. Korea was colonized by Japan for 35 years. This was a brutally violent occupation. Ex: Koreans were flogged for speaking Korean. Over 100,000 Korean women were abducted and made to be sex slaves for the [...]

By |2018-07-04T04:23:20-05:00July 4th, 2018|Anti-capitalism, Asian-American, Commentary, Historical, Movements, National Security, Nuclear Power, Peace, Peace and War, United States, War|0 Comments
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“WHAT, TO A SLAVE, IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?”

"WHAT, TO A SLAVE, IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?" Excerpt from a speech by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852 ...Who can reason on such a proposition (as the validity of slavery)?  They that can, may; I cannot.  The time for such argument is past. At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.  For [...]

By |2018-07-04T04:19:43-05:00July 4th, 2018|Anti-Racism/Racism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, United States|0 Comments
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US May Impose a Form of Sanctions Against Nicaragua

US Considering a Form of Sanctions Against Nicaragua as Protests Continue by Craig Toennies I support my Nicaraguan friends, many of whom are in the streets bleeding for their cause, in protests over austerity measures by the government of Daniel Ortega of the FSLN, increasing mandatory contributions to, and decreasing benefits from, the country's social security and retirement system. There are very real grievances and the streets are historically where these things are best resolved. Government repression and violence is only making the protests spread, as even [...]

By |2018-04-24T22:16:01-05:00April 24th, 2018|Anti-Racism/Racism, Banks, Capitalism, Economy, Events, Historical, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, News, Police, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, United States|0 Comments
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Why White Supremacy Means White MALE Supremacy

[col. writ. 2/11/18] © 2018 by Mumia Abu-Jamal When Donald Trump lamented at the loss of one of his White House employees’ career, a bomb of female protests went off, for he (not surprisingly) ignored the suffering of his employee’s ex-wives. The only real surprise here was, why the surprise? After the Roy Moore debacle, of a US Senate candidate’s Lolita complex (as in a hankering for young girls), who can plead 'surprise'? Only someone who hasn’t really been paying attention. Trump’s central program is to somehow [...]

By |2018-02-28T23:54:54-05:00February 28th, 2018|Donald Trump, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, United States, Women|0 Comments
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Decolonization, Hurricanes & Solidarity with Puerto Rico

Oscar Lopez Rivera Tours Southern California Feb 5-9 by Lawrence Reyes, Puerto Rican Alliance As Puerto Rico faces its most severe, existential crisis after 120 years as a militarily-occupied colony of the United States, Oscar Lopez Rivera, a recently-released Puerto Rican political prisoner held by the US, is coming to southern California to discuss Puerto Rican resistance and recovery efforts from the devastating impact of a triple whammy: Hurricane Maria, debt to Wall Street hedge funds, and the US response of seeking to de-populate the island. López [...]

By |2018-01-25T01:27:11-05:00January 25th, 2018|Anti-Racism/Racism, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Economy, Environment, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics, Poverty, Puerto Rico, United States|0 Comments
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