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by | April 1, 2013 · 3:00 pm

Earth First!, Bank of America partner to offer EarthMother credit card

April 1, 2013. Source: Earth First! Newswire

Introducing EarthMother SmartPoints, the first card that  automatically spreads your purchases into direct action, non-violent civil disobedience or good old fashioned eco-sabotage. Now you can shop for designer brands and pummel the earth brutalizing capitalism machine.

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  • 0% Intro APR on Balance Transfers and Purchases for 18 months. After that, the variable APR will be 12.99% – 21.99% based on your creditworthiness and willingness to put your body on the line in defense of corporate funded wilderness mitigation areas.
  • Click “APPLY HERE” to apply online or call 561-320-3840
  • There is a balance transfer fee of either $5 or 3% of the amount of each transfer, whichever is greater.
  • No late fees, no penalty rate and no annual fee – ever, or until industrial civilization collapses
  • Save time when you call with fast, personal help, 24 hours a day.
  • .02% of all fees and interest collected will proceed the Earth Liberation Front
  • April 1, 2013 is the only date this card will be offered you fool.

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by | July 6, 2012 · 4:00 pm

From culprits to saviors: The triumph of green capital at the Rio+20

by Herbert Docena, University of California, Berkeley, cross-posted from Global Dialogue

NOTE: Among the wrap-ups from Rio+20, this article is among the most clear-sighted and cogent we have yet received. - The GJEP team

Much of the post-conference analysis has centered on what words or phrases were included omitted in the final document, thus missing what can only be read between the lines.

The mood inside the Windsor Barra Hotel seemed more buoyant than in many of the over 3,000 other side-meetings taking place parallel to the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD).

Here, at a suburb far from the favelas shadowing Copacabana or Ipanema, CEOs and other top officials from some of the world’s largest corporations patted each other’s back and exhorted each other to be even more ambitious. Continue reading →

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by | June 15, 2012 · 6:41 am

Peasants of the world mobilize against green capitalism in Rio

News, pctures and videos on www.viacampesina.org

(Rio de Janeiro, 14 June, 2012) About 3000 people from around the world will mobilize to say NO to the commodification of life and nature at the Peoples Summit for Social and Environmental Justice and in Defense of the Commons.

The peoples Summit is a space for discussion, debate and construction of alternative proposals by the global civil society, social movements and peoples collective organizations. La Via Campesina has been actively participating in the construction of this activity in order to denounce the false solutions of the same failed economic model that is now being dressed in green under the name “green economy”. La Via Campesina is instead promoting peasants sustainable agriculture as a true solution to the global climatic and environmental crises.

The delegation of La Via Campesina will participate in various plenaries as well as the global mobilization that will take place on the 20th of June concentrating at the junction of the roads Av. Rio Branco and Av Presidente Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. La Via Campesina has been actively participating in the planning of the Peoples Summit that will take place as a parellel activity to the UN conference on Sustainable Development or Rio + 20. This meeting marks the twentieth aniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio 92 or Eco 92).

The most important political space in the Peoples Summit will be the Peoples Permanant Assembly that will organize around three main themes: The denouncement of the structural causes of global poverty and environmental crisis as well as the new forms of the reproduction of capital; Peoples real solutions and new paradigms; and the agendas, campaigns and mobilizations of anticapitalist struggles after Rio +20.

La Via Campesina is an international movement that brings together about 200 million peasants, small and medium-sized producers, landless, rural workers and indigenous people from around the world. LVC advocates sustainable small scale peasant’s agriculture as a means of promoting social justice and dignity. The organization brings together more than 150 organizations in about 70 countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and America.

Link to document – La Via Campesina’s position on Rio+20

To facilitate interviews with peasants from different continents we have available a list of spokespersons of La Via Campesina as well as the overall agenda of the Summit.

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by | March 16, 2012 · 12:55 pm

Fallacies of green growth in coping with climate change

Note: In the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, where the global elites plan to unveil their new model for green capitalism (green as in gangrene–rotten and deadly),  a new report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development debunks the idea of “Green Growth” to combat climate change.  It almost sounds like they’re calling for system change not climate change!
–The GJEP Team
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According to Third World Network:
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The report, published in December 2011 that reviews the fallacies of green growth in coping with climate change and the implications for development space. It draws on ample empirical data and examples, and analyses the environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency and social-political acceptability of the main elements in the green growth toolbox.
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The UNCTAD paper by Ulrich Hoffmann analyses “Green Growth Myths” by examining (a) Arithmetic of growth and efficiency limits; (b) Governance and market constraints; as well we (c) Systemic limits.  It then considers “Development Challenges and Implications”.
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The abstract of the paper is as follows:
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Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency and drastic changes in the energy mix. “Green growth” may work well in creating new growth impulses with reduced environmental load and facilitating related technological and structural change. But can it also mitigate climate change at the required scale (i.e. significant, absolute and permanent decline of GHG emissions at global level) and pace? The UNCTAD Discussion Paper argues that growth, technological, population-expansion and governance constraints as well as some key systemic issues cast a very long shadow on the “green growth” hopes. One should not deceive oneself into believing that such evolutionary (and often reductionist) approach will be sufficient to cope with the complexities of climate change. It may rather give much false hope and excuses to do nothing really fundamental that can bring about a U-turn of global GHG emissions. The proponents of a resource efficiency revolution and a drastic change in the energy mix need to scrutinize the historical evidence, in particular the arithmetic of economic and population growth. Furthermore, they need to realize that the required transformation goes beyond innovation and structural changes to include democratization of the economy and cultural change. Climate change calls into question the global equality of opportunity for prosperity (i.e. ecological justice and development space) and is thus a huge developmental challenge for the South and a question of life and death for some developing countries (who increasingly resist the framing of climate protection versus equity).
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