Climate and Environmental Crisis

‘Unnatural Disasters’: The struggle against climate crisis

The pamphlet “Unnatural Disasters: A chronicle of the struggle over climate change, from Kyoto to Hurricane Sandy” is a compilation…

September 4, 2019

Amazon deforestation, the result of colonialism, U.S. imperialism

Because of the huge impact of losing a significant carbon sink in the midst of the climate crisis, fires blazing…

August 29, 2019

Georgia communities organize against toxic gas

Two community meetings on Aug. 19 and 20 were packed with angry and anxious residents of the metro Atlanta towns…

August 29, 2019

Amidst global protests, Amazon rainforest threatened by capitalist neglect

Worldwide protests have denounced the unprecedented number of fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, enabled by the policies of Brazil’s…

August 27, 2019

Climate change, oil profits and the new youth movement

Despite the know-nothing stance of the gang in the White House, climate change is a subject that hundreds of millions…

July 30, 2019

A crooked river and a crooked economic system

To many the phrase “burning river” might seem like an oxymoron. Rivers are water, and water is used to extinguish…

July 9, 2019

Reparations demanded by workers, community activists for Philadelphia refinery fire and closure

Less than a week after devastating explosions caused a major fire on June 21, injuring five workers at the Philadelphia…

July 2, 2019

Philadelphia refinery explosion threatens surrounding communities

A massive explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery in the predawn hours of June 21 lit up the…

June 30, 2019

New Jersey High School youth protest fracked-gas power plant

May 18 -- Hundreds of New Jersey high school students from Bergen and Hudson counties rallied and marched today in…

May 23, 2019

To save life on Earth, abolish capitalism ASAP

Scientists have issued yet another dire warning on the climate crisis. In what the New York Times described May 6…

May 14, 2019