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WRM Bulletin 152 – Special issue: International Women’s Day

THE FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: WOMEN ON THE MARCH Doing honour once again to Woman’s Day, thousands of peasant, working and unemployed women are on the march in Brazil. They are marching to express their rejection of the criminalization of social movements, against violence falling on women, against agribusiness and monoculture eucalyptus and sugarcane plantations. They [ READ MORE ]

Memorandum to the government of India on the UNFCCC’s 15th Conference of the Parties at Copenhagen

Dear Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, We, the undersigned people’s organisations, social movements, trade unions and concerned citizens, submit this memorandum to the Government to draw your attention to the several urgent and so far unaddressed concerns about the climate crisis and the Indian Government’s response to them, especially in light of the upcoming 15th Conference [ READ MORE ]

Special WRM Bulletin on Climate Change – Issue nº 148, November 2009

  • November 20th, 2009
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Congo: ENI’S New Energy Projects Threaten Congo Rainforest

Press Release – 9th November, 2009 Plans by oil company Eni to develop tar sands and oil palm in the Congo Basin risk irreversible damage to biodiversity, local communities and our climate, and break the company’s own guidelines, according to Congolese human rights organisations and their international partners. In a report published today, Energy Futures? Eni’s Investments [ READ MORE ]

Mausam (issues 2-5) Talking Climate in Public Space

Written by NESPON, NFFPFW and Nagarik Mancha Mausam magazine is designed to “challenge the ‘intellectual fiefdom’ established by governments, profiteers, and ‘experts’ of various shades and hues on issues of global warming and its solutions by providing space to alternative view points and voices, which are often wiser and more sensible.” This special issue, edited [ READ MORE ]

When the climate change center cannot hold

By Patrick Bond ZNet commentary, 24 October 2009 On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s activism, global climate governance is grid-locked [ READ MORE ]

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