Dec 2016 – Page 4

The Evidence: Is Rex Tillerson of Exxon the Top Climate Killer?

reblogging evidence against Rex…Exxon Climate Criminal Rex Tillerson has knowingly caused runaway Climate Change, which is leading to the extinction of millions of species, including YOU and ME, and is already killing thousands around the planet.

Climate criminal number one — Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson

by Gaius There’s no better face of climate catastrophe than ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Exxon’s size alone makes Tillerson our “Ace of Spades” climate criminal. (And I vote David and Charles Koch, in that order, as the King and Queen — but more on these rankings in a bit.)

Mr. Tillerson first hit these pages (and our radar) in this post — Who is the enemy leading us to Climate Catastrophe? Here we quote Bill McKibben, who quotes Naomi Klein: Continue reading “The Evidence: Is Rex Tillerson of Exxon the Top Climate Killer?”

Your Help Needed: Life on Earth is Dying. 200 Species Extinct every Day

Life on Earth is Dying. Thousands of Species Cease to Exist

By Robert J. Burrowes from “Information Clearing House”

– On the day that you read this article, 200 species of life on Earth (plants, birds, animals, fish, amphibians, insects, reptiles) will cease to exist. Tomorrow, another 200 species will vanish forever.

Five ways to stop mass extinction |
Avaaz – Days left to stop mass extinction
Nature recently published Life – a status report.

The human onslaught to destroy life on Earth is unprecedented in Earth’s history. Planet Earth is now experiencing its sixth mass extinction event and Homo sapiens sapiens is the cause. Moreover, this mass extinction event is accelerating and is so comprehensive in its impact that the piecemeal measures being taken by the United Nations, international agencies and governments constitute a tokenism that is breathtaking in the extreme. Continue reading “Your Help Needed: Life on Earth is Dying. 200 Species Extinct every Day”

Brazilians Revolt: Post-Coup Politicos to pass ‘Social Massacre’ Package and block Anti-Corruption

>> Parlamento de Brasil aprueba enmienda que congela inversión social por 20 años

Brazil’s Congress voted by 400 to 1 to reject an anti corruption bill signed by 2.5 million citizens, and gave themselves more immunity. Now they vote through massive cuts and sell off public assets to foreign corporations at bargain prices.

Amid massive protests, neoliberal government installed after coup aims to lock 20-year spending freeze into constitution

by Nadia Prupis, 12 Comments Brazil’s new neoliberal government has pushed through the most socially retrogressive austerity package in the world, as a United Nations official had warned on Friday, calling the proposed 20-year freeze on social spending a “radical measure, lacking in all nuance and compassion.”

Under President Michel Temer, who seized power after a coup ousted the democratically elected Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, the spending freeze will be locked into the country’s constitution.

The senate held a final vote on the measure Tuesday 13th and it was passed by the servile corrupt politicians.

In response to the news, Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, decried the bill known as PEC55.

“This is a radical measure, lacking in all nuance and compassion,” he said in a statement, calling the package an attack on the poor. “It is completely inappropriate to freeze only social expenditure and to tie the hands of all future governments for another two decades. This amendment will place Brazil in a socially retrogressive category all of its own.” Image result for brasil protesta dec 12

Continue reading “Brazilians Revolt: Post-Coup Politicos to pass ‘Social Massacre’ Package and block Anti-Corruption”

LA ROSA NEGRA, EDITORIAL PROJECT / BOOKSTORE, OPENS IN MADRID

La Rosa Negra Ediciones (Black Rose Publishers), anarchist bookstore and publisher, has opened a place in the heart of the Vallecas , the inauguration of the bookstore aims to be the beginning of a new stage within the Project, whose inspiring idea – unaltered and firmer than ever – has always been to facilitate the acquisition of libertarian texts for a critical reflection of reality;….

Determined to create a society with the necessary mechanisms, always horizontal and in assemblies, for the effective resolution of our needs, conflicts and desires.

Today, the same inspiring idea remains alive, burning, ..As a saber to wield before the enemy; As a tool available to all against the State and Capital; As a weapon for those who conspire to sustain a high and sustained level of social conflict …, at the birth of our, and your, Vallecan bookshop.

The bookstore is located in the C / Santa Julia, 6 – 28053, Puente de Vallecas. Opening hours ar limited for now: on Thursdays and Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.; And on Saturdays from 11:00 to 14:30.

La Rosa Negra, madrid

USA: Activists Vow to Continue Blocking Trains Shipping Fracking Sands to North Dakota Oil Fields

Insurrection News

Press Release

Activists Vow to Continue “BLOCKING TRAINS” Shipping Fracking Sands to North Dakota Oil Fields – Following Para-Military Raid Last Week

Olympia, WA November 22, 2016:

A train transporting fracking proppants to the Bakken Basin in North Dakota, the source of oil for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and explosive Bakken oil trains, was prevented from leaving the Port of Olympia for almost 7 days before mass police repression dispersed a blockade in downtown Olympia, WA. The action began on Friday, Nov. 11th, when activists got word a train shipping fracking proppants was set to depart. People immediately mobilized and confronted the train—forcing it to reverse direction back into the port.

Protesters assembled an encampment, complete with tents, seating arrangements, food, music and a dishwashing station on the tracks at the edge of downtown Olympia. Other physical barricades to complement the encampment were constructed along the tracks to shut…

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A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IS AWAKENING IN NORTH AMERICA.

WHAT ANARCHISTS HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS, AND WHAT LIBERALS NEED TO START HEARING

Originally published to It’s Going Down

On Wednesday, December 7th at Texas A & M University, as FBI agents monitored hundreds of protesters from the tops of roofs, heavily armed riot police clashed with demonstrators bent on disrupting and shutting down an event organized by Preston Wiginton, a 51 year old former student of the campus and long time white supremacist.

The event featured a talk by Richard Spencer, a leading ideologue within the growing “Alt-Right,” which attempts to re-brand fascist, Neo-Nazi, and white nationalist ideas for the millennial generation in order to create an all-white fascist “ethno-state.”

The clashes that erupted on the campus are just the latest in a string of growing confrontations between autonomous revolutionaries and the racist far-Right which is acting as an auxiliary force of the Trump regime while attempting to push it farther to the right.

Suddenly, anarchists and antifa, who have been demonized and sidelined by the wider Left have been hearing from liberals and Leftists, “you’ve been right all along.” But while revolutionary anarchist ideas and starting to have a broader currency, many of the things that people are starting to pick up on, we have been saying for years. Continue reading “A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IS AWAKENING IN NORTH AMERICA.”

Exxon’s top Climate Murderer to be Secretary of State: 350.org comment

NEW YORK CITY – President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday afternoon that he has selected ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State nomination. 350.org Executive Director May Boeve issued the following reaction:

“This is unfathomable. We can’t let Trump put the world’s largest oil company in charge of our international climate policy. Tillerson may be a friend of Putin’s, but he’s no friend of the planet. ExxonMobil is still a leading funder of climate denial and is pursuing a business plan that will destroy our future. Tillerson deserves a federal investigation, not federal office.

dapl_protest_0 We’ll be pressuring Senators to turn the confirmation process into a hearing on ExxonMobil’s history of climate deception. If Exxon is found guilty of working with other oil companies to deceive the public and their shareholders about the threat of climate change, they could be on the hook for fraud and racketeering charges. It would be the largest corporate scandal in history and could not only stop Tillerson’s appointment, but take down the entire company. Continue reading “Exxon’s top Climate Murderer to be Secretary of State: 350.org comment”