Tag: ecology
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Bay Area Local Marches to Name & Shame Cop City Funders
Photographs by Shay Horse | Instagram @huntedhorse On Tuesday, May 30th members of the Bay Area Local of Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation participated in a march alongside a larger coalition which sought to name and shame funders of Cop City. The march took place in Oakland, beginning at Oscar Grant Plaza before…
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Agroecology and Organized Anarchism: An Interview With the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ)
In response to the industrial, capitalist model of food production that has decimated rural lifeways and our mother earth, social movements around the world have identified agroecology as their alternative proposal for rural development. Grounded in peasant and indigenous knowledges, struggles for food sovereignty and agrarian reform, agroecology is understood by social movements as “a…
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How to Win: Blockades in Canada Point To Climate Solution
Update: Since the publication of this article the RCMP federal Canadian police have offered to withdraw from Wet’suwet’en territory as a condition to negotiate the end of the railroad blockades. This is not a victory but a significant step showing that the blockades have forced the Canadian state to back down. Direct Action Gets the…
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Green Power: Strong Movements to Face the Climate Crisis
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Speaking on climate crisis and social movements is Seattle, WA based Black Rose/Rosa Negra member Arthur Pye. Providing a survey of the depth of the crisis and various responses, above all Pye stresses that ultimately building popular power outside of the constrains of institutional forces is what will push the dramatic…
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The Syndicalist Alternative for an Eco-Socialist Future, Part II
As debates over the climate crisis and the proposed “Green New Deal” unfold, veteran activist and writer Tom Wetzel speaks to its short comings and proposes an eco-syndicalist alternative. Read Part I of this series “A ‘Green New Deal’?: The Eco-Syndicalist Alternative.” This first appeared in Ideas & Action. By Tom Wetzel As difficult as…
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A “Green New Deal”?: The Eco-Syndicalist Alternative, Part I
As debates over the climate crisis and the proposed “Green New Deal” unfold, veteran activist and writer Tom Wetzel speaks to its short comings and proposes an eco-syndicalist alternative. Read the second part, “The Syndicalist Alternative for an Eco-socialist Future.” This first appeared in Ideas & Action. By Tom Wetzel Capitalist dynamics are at the…
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Avoiding “Hothouse Earth”: Organizing Against Climate Catastrophe and Extinction
By BRRN Radical Ecology Committee Climate alarms are going off all over Earth, from the devastating wildfires that have raged recently in California to the mass-bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, the warming of Antarctica from below, and the continued melting of Greenland, even in winter. In August of last year, 2017 was found to…
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A Green New Deal vs. Revolutionary Ecosocialism
Proponents of the Green New Deal put this forward as a “realistic” alternative to climate catastrophe but writer Wayne Price asks whether the proposal would be fundamentally effective or politically possible. By Wayne Price The idea of a “Green New Deal” has been raised in response to the threat of climate and ecological catastrophe. Two…
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Decolonize the Frontiers: The Mississippi Delta
By BRRN Radical Ecology Committee Coastal Louisiana is home to 41% of the United States coastal wetlands and is the world’s seventh largest delta ecosystem. The region is covered with natural levees, barrier islands, forested wetlands, and marshes formed by Mississippi River deposits. Historically the state’s wetlands provided protective barriers for diverse coastal communities against…
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Organizing at the Frontiers: Appalachian Resistance to Pipelines
By BRRN Radical Ecology Committee (REC) The history, ecologies, and cultures of Appalachia are interwoven with the expansion of fossil fuel industries. Appalachia, both across its landscape and within its depths, has historically been a commodity frontier for Capital investment in low-wage and low-cost energy production. Appalachia, particularly Central Appalachia, serves as an “appropriation zone”…