Amazing Social Movement Struggles In 2017 That Give Us Reason To Hope
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Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more. The region is now definitively trending toward an ice-free state, the scientists said, with wide-ranging ramifications for ecosystems, national security, and the stability of the global climate system.
Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome.
The bad news streaming through our media in 2017 has been relentless. However it doesn’t tell the full story. Beyond the headlines, there have countless amazing social movement struggles in different regions of the world that deserve to be celebrated. Here are ten stories showing that people power works:
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Let it Go: The Arctic will Never be Frozen Again
by Eric Holthaus
Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more. The region is now definitively trending toward an ice-free state, the scientists said, with wide-ranging ramifications for ecosystems, national security, and the stability of the global climate system.
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?
by Jeremy Lent
Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome.
The Great Unraveling: Using Science And Philosophy To Decode Modernity
by William Hawes
The longer we wait, the worse things are going to get, especially in terms of future effects from global warming. Westerners must overcome our apathy, renounce our privileged position in transnational capitalism, get out in the streets, use our power in numbers, and form a social movement centered on internationalism, radical democracy, gender and racial equality, and social and environmental justice.
10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles In 2017 That Give Us Reason To Hope
by Nick Buxton
The bad news streaming through our media in 2017 has been relentless. However it doesn’t tell the full story. Beyond the headlines, there have countless amazing social movement struggles in different regions of the world that deserve to be celebrated. Here are ten stories showing that people power works:
Let’s Unite And Demonstrate The True Meaning Of Christmas
by Adam Parsons
The holiday period provides us with a unique opportunity to express the new awareness that must inform a less commercialised and sharing-oriented world. Rather than spending all our time partaking in conspicuous consumption, why don’t we commemorate Christmas by organising massive gatherings for helping the poor and healing the environment?
Santa, I Need Food And Blanket
by Farooque Chowdhury
“Ruth Espiricueta, a first-grade teacher at Monte Cristo Elementary School in Edinburg, Texas, asked her students this week to write a letter to Santa Claus about something they want and something they need, after a lesson about the difference between the two. The 7-year-old girl wrote to Santa, ‘I have [been] good this day. This Christmas I would like a ball and a food. I need a [blanket].
Finding Deeper Truths From Refugees In Films
Co-Written by Valleria Ruselli and C. Russell
The thing is, one must ask of all these films — as Barbara Nimri Aziz asks respecting Human Flow — can artistic effort change perceptions? Yes must be the short, quick reply, but more will surely suffer and die in greater and greater numbers as each day goes by… unless documentation is supported by a new kind of direct action. For the art and the action of the past have not worked well enough. The Answer must move us all to as-yet-untapped creative depths.
Journeying To The DMZ
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
In South Korea, the money earner is the Demilitarised Zone, shortened to the seemingly innocuous DMZ. Euphemised in such a manner, and one can forget the tens of thousands of helmeted men who gaze at each other at border points, or the thousands of artillery pieces in concealed spaces waiting to be deployed in a moment of annihilating fury.
A Total Horror Show”: The New Plan For Yemen
by Dan Glazebrook
Presenting themselves as shocked bystanders to the growing famine in Yemen, the US and UK are in fact prime movers in a new strategy that will massively escalate it.
Freedom Is Still The Name For A Thing Which Is Not Freedom
Co-Written by Rachel Oxman and C.Russell
Greg Grandin’s book is one of the most interesting ever written about slavery and the Atlantic World. I highly recommend it, but please don’t let your immersion in it keep you from interacting with others to discuss what the viable options are for our dealing with the fact that freedom is still the name for a thing which is not freedom.
“Accidents Are Not Accident”- In The Rush For Profits Workers Lives Are Sacrificed
by Dr Nayvin Gordon
Only when workers have total control of their working conditions will we have the possibility of making the safety of working people one of the highest priorities of our society.
In Search Of An Icon
by Subhash Gatade
Shambhu Lal Raigar is a new hero of our times. It may be quite numbing for any decent human being to know that hundreds of people belonging to rightwing organisations came out on streets hailing the gory act committed by him or how people from different parts of India sent online donation worth around Rs 2.5 lakh ‘supposedly to help his family’.
When They Amended Companies Act Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley And the BJP Committed The Crime Of Bribery
by Anandi Sharan
When they amended paragraph 3 section 182 the Companies Act 2013 in part XII of the Finance Act 2017-2018 in Parliament on March 22 2017, Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley and the BJP committed the crime of bribery.
Uttarakhand High Court Rejects Government’s Affidavit On Land Ceiling Laws
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Uttarakhand High Court has rejected an affidavit filed by the state government in relation to a writ petition filed by me on behalf of Social Development Foundation, Delhi in 2013, related to issue of the Land Ceiling Laws in the state. In the last hearing the Chief Justice of the High Court Justice K M Joseph and Justice V K Bisht had specifically asked the government to respond to their questions in great details that included issue of land allotment under section 25 as well as that under section 27 related to the settlement of the land declared ceiling surplus.
India’s Sick Health Care
by Moin Qazi
India’s economy is soaring but its healthcare system remains an Achilles’ heel. For millions of people, the high cost of treating illness continues to undermine economic progress. This is largely on account of the abysmal and chaotic healthcare system owing to the declining budgetary healthcare support by the government. India now ranks close to the bottom of the pile in international rankings on most health indices.
Reviving Kashmir’s Ziraat
by Mohammad Ashraf
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