Category Archives: budget fight & ecological crisis
U.S. Lifestyle Is Not Up for Negotiation
By Thalif Deen, cross-posted from Other News UNITED NATIONS, May 1, 2012 (IPS) – Just before the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, some of the industrial nations, and specifically the United States, were lambasted for their obscenely high … Continue reading
Filed under budget fight & ecological crisis, Rio+20
ILO Urges Worker-Friendly Recovery Policies
By Jim Lobe* cross-posted from Other News WASHINGTON, Apr 29, 2012 (IPS) – Although economic growth has resumed in much of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, the global unemployment situation remains alarming and could worsen, according to the … Continue reading
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In New U.S. “Bioeconomy”, Industry Trumps Environment
NOTE: Yesterday, the White House announced its new National Bioeconomy Blueprint, and the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) released its report, Bioeconomy Vs. Biodiversity, which stongly counters the Obama adminsitration’s findings. Global Justice Ecology Project is the North American focal point … Continue reading
Scientists call for rethink on consumption, population
Cross-posted from Reuters 26th April 2012 – Scientists have called for a radical rethink of our relationship with the planet to head off what they warn could be economic and environmental catastrophe. In a report published on Thursday by the London-based Royal … Continue reading
CASHING IN ON CLIMATE CHANGE?
New report lifts the lid on how rich nations use financial intermediaries to dodge climate change commitments to world’s poor BRUSSELS , 19 April, 2012: A new Eurodad report reveals how rich nations are using a complex web of private funds … Continue reading
UC picks Richmond for lab biosciences campus
In this post last week, GJEP voiced concerns over the new synthetic biology lab to be built in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, the site for the lab has been announced. As the project moves ahead, a lot of … Continue reading
Alameda County Police Beat Students at Occupy Cal, Berkeley
When UC Berkeley students set up tents to establish an Occupy encampment yesterday afternoon, the University police and Alameda County Sheriff’s Department did not hesitate to tear it down. But their actions met immediate protest, to which they responded with … Continue reading
Filed under budget fight & ecological crisis, Occupy Wall Street
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie Cross-posted from New Scientist AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a … Continue reading
Occupy Oakland Violently Evicted…for Now (article and photos)
– Report and photos by Jeff Conant GJEP’s Oakland office is directly across the street from the site of Occupy Oakland — a large public park in front of Oakland City Hall, officially called Frank Ogawa Plaza, but renamed Oscar … Continue reading
Foreclose on Wall Street West, Live on Video!
This morning in San Francisco at Occupy Wall Street, aka Foreclose on Wall Street West, three short videos to bring you LIVE to the scene… — Jeff Conant, live on the streets, for GJEP Clowning around with an angry banker: … Continue reading
