Cancer Alley Communities battle Exxon in Louisiana

Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana

The gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas is witnessing a gigantic insane petrochemical expansion with dozens of new huge polluting plants, LNG ports, pipelines of frack oil, frack fossil gas and LPG supplying refineries and plastics installations. But at the same time community resistance (opens in a new is finally taking off, focusing on the plague of cancer and other diseases, along with opposition to climate chaos, methane leaks, risk of stranded assets, a glut of gas from the Permian field, as well as recession and coronavirus fears.

By Julie Dermansky .. see videos here.. • Feb 24, 2020

Entrance to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge refinery on February 19, 2020, a week after a fire at the facility.

A large fire at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit up the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed that air monitoring inside the plant and in surrounding neighborhoods did not detect the release of harmful concentrations of chemicals, a claim echoed by first responders and state regulators.

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Solidarity Network / IWW Celebration: bosses paid £7,000 outstanding wages —

shared with tganks from .. — Wessex Solidarity

Originally posted on Angry Workers of the World

Comrades! Yesterday we celebrated a solidarity network / West-London IWW victory with a few mixed grills, saag aloos and Cobras.

It took a while and a few mild threats, but in the end Jasbir’s boss paid £7,000 in outstanding wages. Jasbir was employed as a yard worker…

Solidarity Network / IWW Celebration: bosses paid £7,000 outstanding wages — Wessex Solidarity

The ACG’s Rebel Education Worker issue 1 is out! ACG

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As UCU takes part in 14 days of strike action, stepping up from eight days towards the end of 2019, ACG members of UCU have published the first issue of their bulletin, to be distributed on a picket line near you!

It’s A5 double sided, so just download a copy from this page, print however many you want back to back, then chop it into two flyers.

To contact ACG Rebel Education Worker, email education@anarchistcommunism.org

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March 3, 2020
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Climate Chaos Is Class War And No-one Should Be Telling Us How To Fight It

Feb 25, 2020 the void

The planet is fucked, and it will be the poor who pay the price. It is happening now in some parts of the world where climate change has already begun to cause devastation.

And without radical change, this is only going to get worse, much worse.

That doesn’t mean we are heading for social collapse in a decade as some of those in the growing environmental movement predict. More likely we will see a drawn out struggle for survival, as more and more parts of the planet become uninhabitable and competition for increasingly scarce resources escalates.

As such we are likely to see the intensification of states and armies and borders, not their demise. And that is why any struggle against climate change must be a class struggle, that seeks not to abandon those fleeing sites of climate disaster, but instead builds a movement based on solidarity and mutual aid…

Callout for a Subversive, Dissident Anarcho Feminist March.. English/Spanish

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From ‘Somewhere’: Call for a Subversive, Dissident and Anarcho-Feminist March

This society is structured from diverse chains of oppression that intersect, we understand that only radical confrontation is capable of ending each one of them. These heavy chains have the patriarchy as one of their main bases. That’s why we are calling for a subversive, anarcho-feminist and dissident March.

Police attacks and tear gas by dictator Erdogan’s thugs against feminist demonstrations in Ankara

We see the confrontation against patriarchy not as a partial struggle, the destruction of authority in its multiple dimensions cannot be separated from the constant questioning of and confrontation with macho forms and behaviors. March has historically been a combative month and we intend to keep it that way..

We are critical of the hegemonic positions of social democratic feminism, which marginalizes and excludes non-regulated sexualities and bodies. Genders are imposed social constructions of which we are not interested in being a part of, we appeal to a complete deconstruction of our ways of seeing ourselves and relating to each other…without rules of what we want to be.

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