Time for a Real Green New Deal w/Green presidential hopeful Howie Hawkins, Sunday Sept 22 (tags)
Living Together Differently! (tags)
Modern politics must fight against excessiveness and inequality. All progress narratives have worn out. The cake will not become larger. The perspective of conviviality aims at abundance, not at tightening belts..
Brave Green World. The Green Economy Myths, 60 pp (tags)
Thirteen Green Economy myths are discussed. In light of the false promises associated with the Green Economy, a socio-ecological transition is necessary (and possible)!
Growth Criticism and Social-Ecological Transformation (tags)
Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people. Words can be like spears breaking frozen souls. (Kafka) Education is the great transformer (John Kenneth Galbraith). Economics as taught today is like brainwashing. (Ulrich Thielemann) Incentives to investing in the real economy are vital after the phase of credit- and bubble prosperity.
United We Stand Festival Ignites a Wave of Action for Indy Journalists and Active Citizens (tags)
The "United We Stand” festival kicked off on May 10th in downtown Los Angeles at the Belasco Theater with musical guests Immortal Technique, Wu-tang Clan, Rooftop Revolutionaries, A-Alikes, Sounds of Solidarity, Kellee Maize, and Chuck D of Public Enemy. Social activists on a #waveofaction at the festival included comedian Lee Camp, Green party political candidates Rosa Clemente and Jill Stein, March Against Monsanto founder Tami Canal, Emma Cape of Free Chelsea Manning, Diane Goldstein of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, authors Rosa Koire, Ellen Brown, and David Swanson, and dozens more.
Against Growth Mania and Fair Redistribution (tags)
How can we rebuild our society so we manage with less growth and not collapse when growth does not occur? Consumption beyond a certain level is pathological, a compensation or substitute for missed life (cf. Erich Fromm).
For a European Anti-Crisis Front (tags)
Lowering the public debt burden is not an end-in-itself. Debts could serve to stimulate the economy and improve the living conditions of the victims of the crisis. Debt reduction must occur mainly by increasing the tax revenues (higher tax rates and combating tax evasion), not only by cuts.
Groups urge world leaders to reject “Green Economy” in Rio+20 summit (tags)
MANILA, Philippines - Various cause-oriented groups warned the Philippine delegation and world leaders attending the three-day United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil not to fall into the trap of believing that the proposed "Green Economy" is "a tool and mechanism for sustainable development."
Rio+20: Asian Movements’ Statement on the Green Economy (tags)
We are movements and organizations from Asia, waging struggles on various fronts and arenas to defend our rights, resist policies and projects that cause harm and destruction, and to fight for immediate priorities and demands, as well as profound transformation of our societies. Fight for Our Future! No Price on Nature!
Dollar takes a pounding (tags)
Dollar takes a pounding
CNN: Moussaoui defiant at sentencing (tags)
News Junkie Scott's Blog (5/09/06)
Use it or lose it: Auto capacity 50% (tags)
News Junkie Scott's Blog (5/07/06)
Washington offers no relief from soaring gas prices (tags)
News Junkie Scott's Blog (5/01/06)
Proof emerges of an enormous betrayal (tags)
Proof emerges of an enormous betrayal
Armed siege of steel mill reveals escalating class war (tags)
Armed siege of steel mill reveals escalating class war
US threats against Iran--the specter of nuclear barbarism (tags)
US threats against Iran--the specter of nuclear barbarism
Delphi crisis reveals the destruction of the US middle class (tags)
News Junkie Scott's Blog (4/11/06)
Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice (tags)
Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice
The Threat of Compulsory Insurance (tags)
threat of compulsory insurance
"Slightly beneath Saturn's ring plane" (tags)
Sorry LA IMC: goofed up at the controls: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/152889.php "Slightly beneath Saturn's ring plane"
Supreme Court won't stand up for basic Constitutional rights (tags)
Supreme Court won't stand up for basic Constitutional rights
Bush signs bird flu quarantine executive order (tags)
Bush quietly signs bird flu quarantine executive order
Richmond, VA using hunger as a weapon against the poor (tags)
Richmond, VA using hunger as a weapon against the poor
Bell South campaigning to end New Orleans's free Wi-Fi (tags)
Bell South campaigning to end New Orleans's free Wi-Fi
US mosque massacre deepens occupation's crisis (tags)
US mosque massacre deepens occupation's crisis
Astro Pic with a funny Picture from the 1969 "Moon Landing" (tags)
Astro Pic with a funny Picture from the 1969 "Moon Landing"
What happened in the village of Isahaqi? (tags)
What happened in the village of Isahaqi?
Holmgren dissects the 911 Hoax (tags)
Holmgren dissects the 911 Hoax
US-led forces round up whole Iraq village in "security sweep".
Building democracy, one dead baby at a time (tags)
Building democracy, one dead baby at a time
CUT the CRAP --THIS is a MISSILE (tags)
CUT the CRAP --THIS is a MISSILE
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/20/06) (tags)
Seattle Indymedia now ruthlessly censoring this news blog
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/19/06) (tags)
Bush regime arming Great Lakes coast guard vessels
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/17/06) (tags)
Florida Medicaid cuts target food for disabled children
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/16/06) (tags)
Iran's Oil Bourse Delayed.
Scott's News Blog (3/15/06) (tags)
DynCorp may replace cops in St. Bernard parish
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/14/06) (tags)
Bird flu now tracked by satellites
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/13/06) (tags)
Pentagon says no halt to forced feedings at Guantanamo.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/12/06) (tags)
Terror Rehearsals in US, Russia
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/10/06) (tags)
More space art from the "Cassini Imaging Team"
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/09/06) (tags)
US lung cancer rates soar from Depleted Uranium
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/08/06) (tags)
GM to end pensions for 40,000 workers.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/07/06) (tags)
Morgan Reynolds - gaping holes in the plane stories!
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/06/06) (tags)
Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/05/06) (tags)
America's glorious empire of debt.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/03/06) (tags)
Kurt Nimmo on the PATRIOT Act renewal.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (3/02/06) (tags)
Death of an Iraqi professor
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/28/06) (tags)
A great email about 911 truth tactics.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/27/06) (tags)
Neo-Nazis march in Black Florida neighborhood
Bush regime seizing prescriptions ordered by US citizens (tags)
Bush regime seizing prescriptions ordered by US citizens
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/22/06) (tags)
Drug prices rise under Medicare plan
Major bird flu summit coming in six days (tags)
Major bird flu summit coming in six days
Fakey, flakey 911 footage (tags)
Fakey, flakey 911 footage
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/16/06) (tags)
US/Israel puppet government of Iraq declares "bird flu alert".
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/15/06) (tags)
Israel to encircle Palestinian state.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/14/06) (tags)
Bush regime just might kill Amtrak.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/13/06) (tags)
More Science Fiction from the "Cassini Imaging Team".