Category: ecology

Tipnis: marcha detenido/COB HUELGA/solidaridad masiva

Ya son 40 dias que dura la marcha

Dia 38 de la marcha por el Tipnis. 1000 marchistas por el Tipnis están ‘sequestrados’ por el bloqueo masivo de policias sin sombra y con poca agua, bajo un sol tropical peligroso.

El cordón de policías instalado en el puente del arroyo Chaparina permite el paso de las movilidades, que dejan una estela de polvo a los marchistas sentados o parados al lado del camino, donde sea que hubiere una mancha de sombra. “Aquí estamos totalmente incómodos, directamente al calor del sol. Desde que partió la marcha (de la ciudad de Trinidad el 15 de agosto pasado) siempre hemos enviado una comisión de avanzada que buscaba lugares con arboleadas para poder realizar nuestro campamento. Pero aquí estamos detenidos a la fuerza, estamos a la intemperie, porque la Policía está aquí enfrente y no deja avanzar a la marcha. Además, no permiten que pasen vehículos con donaciones para los marchistas. Incluso los bloqueadores retienen a los vehículos que nos traen alimentos, agua y medicamentos. Esto tiene que saberlo el mundo entero: el gobierno nacional está frenando el derecho de reclamar por el cumplimiento de nuestros derechos. Como pueblos indígenas clamamos justicia, porque en nuestro país pareciera que viviéramos en una dictadura”, sostuvo Vargas.

Ha habido manifestaciones de apoyo en todo Bolivia y en muchas lugares del mundo (incluso en Barcelona) además que una petición gigante hecho por Avaaz

COB iniciarán marchas si no solucionan conflicto de TIPNIS

Última Actualización Viernes, 23 de Septiembre de 2011. 06:57h.
El Comité Ejecutivo Nacional de Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) determinó ayer respaldar la marcha indígena del Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS) y advirtieron con movilizaciones si el Gobierno no soluciona hasta fin de semana el conflicto indígena.

HUELGA PARA EL MIERCOLES….COB !

ultima noticia..La Paz, 23 Sep. (ANF).- La dirigencia Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) determinó, este viernes en su ampliado nacional, ejecutar un paro de 24 horas el miércoles próximo, en respaldo a los indígenas que marchan en defensa del TIPNIS. Los trabajadores exigen al gobierno que se instale el diálogo a brevedad posible.

Agencias.- El alcalde Luis Revilla anunció que se realizará una campaña de recolección de alimentos y vituallas en favor de los indígenas del Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS) que el 15 de agosto iniciaron una marcha en rechazo a la construcción de la carretera Villa Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos y que pasaría por medio de este parque nacional. Asimismo, reiteró el apoyo que brindó la Asamblea de la Paceñidad a la marcha de los indígenas, a su derecho a manifestarse y a transitar libremente por el territorio nacional para hacer conocer su legítimo reclamo para la preservación del Parque Isiboro

”El presidente dijo en Estados Unidos que en Bolivia los pueblos indígenas quieren enfrentar a este gobierno, que queremos que este gobierno sea destruido, que estamos impulsados por la derecha, por las ONG y que estamos cometiendo el delito de conspiración –dijo Vargas-. Creemos que el Presidente debería hacer al revés, más bien debería decir que el gobierno nacional está en una franca conspiración para deshacer a los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía, que conspira para deshacer a la Madre Tierra, para destruir al medio ambiente. Creemos que ese debería ser su discurso, para dejar de estar mintiendo al mundo entero y al pueblo boliviano”.
16:00 Viernes 23 | Sociedad

Rojas pide sancionar a policías por impedir a indígenas recoger agua

Medios radiales, televisivos y escritos registraron lo sucedido con los policías en Chaparina, que además de cerrarles el paso se opusieron a que los indígenas acceden a las aguas del arroyo existente en el lugar, para que se aseen y refresquen, ante las elevadas temperaturas que se registran en el lugar.

Ultimas Noticias. Brutal Represion Niños desaparecidos. Clic aqui  https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/tipnis-brutal-represiongasgolpesdesaparecidos/

 

real ‘Green GDP’ is plummeting everywhere.

GDP is nonsense, but all capitalist economics depends on promoting it.

Our whole idea of Gross Domestic Product as a measure of economic success is an absurd fallacy.

GDP is stupid, like having just one orange and measuring your well being by how fast you can eat it.

Some years ago the idea of Green GDP was put forward in China, but rapidly buried when the results turned out too bad.

Independent estimates of the cost to China of environmental degradation and resource depletion have for the last decade ranged from 8 to 12 percentage points of GDP growth.[4] These estimates support the idea that, by this measure at least, the growth of the Chinese economy is close to zero.

The most promising national activity on the Green GDP has been from India. The country’s Environmental Minister, Jairam Ramesh, stated in 2009 that “It is possible for scientists to estimate green GDP. An exercise has started under the country’s chief statistician Pronab Sen and by 2015, India’s GDP numbers will be adjusted with economic costs of environmental degradation

Now the inventor of Chinese Green GDP has come up with a much less green fudge which has been floated semi officially in the Chinese media, ahead of the many such proposals for the Rio Summit next year.

The idea of ‘Green GDP’ is a good one for educating people on the real limitations of the Biosphere we inhabit.

anarchism is permaculture

However this in itself changes nothing, the ruling capitalists and Corporations will only have to add a little greenwash.  

If you factor in the exponential costs of climate change and the real costs of environmental destruction every country  on Earth already has a plummeting GDP.

The ‘GDP Quality Index’ now being floated in China is one of many proposals worldwide to use economic theory to reverse environmental degradation and encourage sustainable values. No governments have adopted such measurements but they are likely to be given a push as next year’s Rio+20 United Nations summit. Last year, India said it would become the first country in the world to commit to publish accounts of its “natural wealth”.

Wind to blow away Nukes in Japan?

note. posts on NH3 the CO2-Free fuel now have their own blog HERE.. http://co2freefuelexistsnow.wordpress.com/

Maybe the horrific Fukushima disaster will finally make the Japanese  embrace renewable energy?. Has a major technological breakthrough in Japan created a new generation of wind turbines that finally destroy the claims by the nuclear lobby that renewables can’t match their dangerous and dirty radioactive power?

IF the designers are right, the implications are immense. If we were to be conservative and say that all it does is double the output this really could be the end of any of those arguments about the cost of nuclear actually being cheaper than renewables (Ask the workers and local people at Fukushima how they define cost) … Continue reading “Wind to blow away Nukes in Japan?”

Urgent: Help Defend Tipnis Park and Peoples from Highway

  Urgent: Help Defend Tipnis Park and Peoples from Highway

De: Marta López <martaravilla@gmail.com>
Fecha: 15 de septiembre de 2011 19:52
Asunto: Carta por el TIPNIS-Internacional-Inglés/castellano
Para: Campaña en Defensa del TIPNIS <isiborosecure@hotmail.com>Friends and Colleagues,

Since August 15, over 1,500 indigenous peoples in Bolivia -including men, women and children- have been marching in defense of their lives and their indigenous territory. The Bolivian government is determined to build a highway through the heart of the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) an indigenous territory without consulting local indigenous communities. Determined to defend their territory and stop the highway, indigenous peoples are marching to La Paz with the hopes of immediate dialogue with the government to find an alternative solution to the highway going through the TIPNIS.  For more background information see letters below, read article by Friends of Tipnis or go to CIDOB’s website for up daily updates.
As the march gets closer to La Paz, indigenous marches face threats and opposition. They have requested international support to keep their march and their demands alive

Thank you for your solidarity!
For the TIPNIS and Indigenous Rights,
Leila Salazar-Lopez
Amazon Watch

More ways to show your support and take action: Sign this petition :

Join “Tipnis en Resistencia” Facebook Group: 

Join “Defendamos el Tipnis – No a la Carretera Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos” Facebook Group: 
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Oct 27: David Rovics.. Benefit for Marie Mason

Oct 27: David Rovics Benefit Concert for Marie Mason

Marie got 22 years for trying to Save the Planet

Published September 2, 2011 Benefit talks & shows , Events Closed On October 27th, activist and singer/songwriter David Rovics will be performing in Detroit to raise much needed support funds for political prisoner Marie Mason.  If you are in the Detroit area, check out this great event and bring as many of your friends with you!

If you are not near Detroit, you can look into organizing a benefit show with David through his website at http://davidrovics.com/organizeShow.php.  David is a long time friend and supporter of Marie, talking about her case regularly on tour as well as writing the song, Marie for her.   Learn more about David Rovics and his upcoming “No Fracking Way” Tour at www.davidrovics.com.

About Marie

Marie Mason of Cincinnati, Ohio is a long time environmental and social justice activist and loving mother of two. On March 10th, 2008 she was arrested by FBI, Homeland Security and local police on charges related to two Earth Liberation Front actions that occurred in Michigan, in 1999, and 2000.

Marie’s case is one of the latest developments in what many have dubbed the “Green Scare,” a recent wave of government repression aimed at disrupting and discrediting grassroots environmental activism and criminalizing dissent.

Please send cards and well wishes to the address below.  Detailed mail guidelines can be found here.

Marie Mason #04672-061
FMC Carswell
Federal Medical Center
P.O. Box 27137

French Nuclear accident. Is there a leak?

Radiation leak risk after deadly French nuclear plant blast

There is a risk of a radioactive leak after an explosion killed at least one person and injured four others at the Marcoule nuclear site in the south of France, the state regulator said.

The French State's Nuclear Arms could destroy the Planet

National electricity provider EDF confirmed the initial death toll following the explosion in an oven at the site in the Rhone Valley near the southern city of Nimes.

One of the injured is in a serious condition, France’s Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said.

The blast hit the Centraco nuclear waste treatment centre belonging to EDF subsidiary Socodei, said a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commissariat (CEA).

The site is around 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the historic city of Avignon which is thronged with tourists at this time of the year.

“For the time being nothing has made it outside,” a CEA spokesman said, asking not to be named.

A security perimeter has been set up around the installation, firefighters said, without being able to provide further details. Expatica.com

 Media speculations

The media is speculating if there is any truth in claims of radiation leakage risk but like we learned from Fukushima disaster we might never know what actually happened and what is the actual risk.

France is, I think, the most nuclearized state in the world.  The French State has staked it’s industrial future on the lie that ‘Fukushima couldn’t happen here’.. Therefore it will do everything possible to cover up any health consequences. Therefore we should not believe any official explanations.

Al Gore leads charge against Deniers..again.

corporate media control imposes climate denial syndrome

note. posts on NH3 the CO2-Free fuel now have their own blog HERE.. http://co2freefuelexistsnow.wordpress.com/

 

Al Gore is stepping up the charge with a new initiative: The Climate Reality Project. It kicks off with 24 hours of presentations, staggered across 24 time zones, on September 14, 2011.

The point, Gore explains in the introductory video above, is to show that the “new normal”—characterized by increasing instances of severe storms, drought, and an overall higher global temperature—is anything but ordinary.

“Yet around the world,” he says, “we are still subjected to polluter-financed misinformation and propaganda designed to mislead people about the dangers we face from the unfolding climate crisis. Those who want to protect their own short-term financial interest are employing the same strategy first used by tobacco companies years ago to mislead the public about the science linking cigarettes to disease and death.”

Continue reading “Al Gore leads charge against Deniers..again.”