Art Hobson. “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty.”
The Shalom Center. “Maui Wildfires: Elite Origins, Grassroots Response.”Jim Hightower. “People and the Planet Win Big Victory Over Big Oil!”
GLOBAL WARMING AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Art Hobson. “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty. NWADG 22 August 2023.”
. . . The bad news is that, along with global warming, The Bomb is an existential threat to civilization. The good news is that the chances of real action on both issues are now at an all-time high.
For global warming, this is because the evidence is now obvious daily, making it absurd for the fossil fuel industry to continue its decades-long propaganda campaign supporting oil production.
For nuclear weapons, this is because of the United Nations’ “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” It prohibits the nations that have signed the Treaty from testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using, deploying, or threatening to use nuclear weapons. It also prohibits providing nuclear weapons assistance to other nations. MORE PressReader.com – Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions
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The Shalom Center. “Maui Wildfires: Elite Origins, Grassroots Response.”
Andrea Brower is an activist and scholar from Kaua‘i. She is an assistant professor at Gonzaga University’s Department of Sociology. Her research, writing, and teaching are embedded in social movements for justice, equality, liberation, and ecological regeneration.
In a recent article, Prof. Brower traces the roots of the disaster in Maui to “empire, capitalism, elite power, and their ravaging of the planet and people” and, equally importantly, highlights the transformational cooperative alternative future embodied in the grassroots mutual-aid response — also rooted in long historical tradition — that has abounded in the Maui wildfire’s aftermath.
The full article can be found at: https://portside.org/2023-08-21/empire-and-capital-set-maui-ablaze
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| Jim Hightower. “People and the Planet Win Big Victory Over Big Oil!” Hightower’s Lowdown. August 25, 2023.We had a classic example of a widely-ignored, momentous, political/cultural story this week. It involved a nation whose voters stood up to Big Oil and said: “No.”No to the petro monopolists’ billions, their raw political power, their unsurpassed greed, and their authoritarian arrogance. And if these people dared to go further, saying “no” to drilling in an oil-rich region of their land—telling the profiteers to go away and just leave the oil in the ground so it won’t add to climate destruction.That’s exactly what 58 percent of voters in Ecuador said last Sunday in a truly historic, binding referendum. In a next week’s Lowdown Substack, I’ll send a full report to you on this amazing victory for the people and the planet. But it’s so newsworthy and encouraging that I wanted to tip you off to it now.Leave a commentShareJim Hightower’s Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. |