And If So, Is That Terrible News? A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the climate movement.

Tunisia, cradle of the revolts in the Arab world, hosts from today [26 March] and until Saturday the World Social Forum (WSF), the most important international meeting of social movements and organizations. And this is not by chance. The promoters of the WSF chose this country in reference to the ”Arab Spring. The latter has [...]

An update on the battle to stop the Keystone XL pipeline After a very chaotic week on Capitol Hill, I wanted to write you with an update on what happened in the Senate on Friday.

Túnez, la cuna de las revueltas en el mundo árabe, acoge desde hoy y hasta el sábado la celebración del Foro Social Mundial (FSM), el encuentro internacional más importante de movimientos y organizaciones sociales. Y no es casualidad. Los promotores del FSM escogieron dicho país como referente de la Primavera árabe, que dio lugar a [...]

Hay capitalismo y luego el verdadero capitalismo existente. El término capitalismo se usa comúnmente para referirse al sistema económico de Estados Unidos con intervención sustancial del Estado, que va de subsidios para innovación creativa a la póliza de seguro gubernamental para bancos demasiado-grande-para-fracasar.

A Conversation with Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson  Naomi Klein speaks with writer, spoken-word artist, and indigenous academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about “extractivism,” why it’s important to talk about memories of the land, and what’s next for Idle No More. In December 2012, the Indigenous protests known as Idle No More exploded onto the Canadian political scene, [...]

Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively — the movement to stop climate change has come together. This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people gathered by the Washington Monument and then marched past the White House, demanding that President Obama block the Keystone XL pipeline and move forward [...]

Patrick Bond: A massive protest could push Obama to stop the Tar Sands pipe line and shift climate debate away from market solutions

The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil [...]

Nuestras protestas deben anular los intereses de los combustibles fósiles que bloquean a Barack Obama Por lo general, el cambio se produce con mucha lentitud, aun cuando la gente más seria haya decidido ya que existe un problema. Así sucede, en un país tan grande como los Estados Unidos, debido a que la opinión pública se [...]