7.05 climate

The Burmese Cyclone, Nonviolent Action, and the Responsibility to Empower

Pushing the relief truck out of the mud, photo: Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Patrick Meier

Summary:

It is not acceptable to let regimes like Burma's dictate the rules of humanitarian intervention.

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Assisting Burmese Cyclone Survivors: Defying the Government to Save Lives

A generous monk who shared relief supplies with his entire region stands in front of the village's damaged monastery photo: © Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008

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When we made it to villages farther down the road, we found that a monk had shared the rice for his village with all the surrounding villages, which had received no aid and were starving.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

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Authors: Majora Carter

Summary:

The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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The Dream Reborn: Bringing King's Vision Forward into a Green Economy

Authors: Van Jones

Summary:

It has always been assumed that attendance at environmental conferences would always be 90 percent white and overwhelmingly affluent. Not this time.

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Carbon-free and Nuclear-free A Detailed Energy Plan for the US (review)

Authors: Peter Montague

Summary:A detailed plan for powering the nation's economy with zero carbon dioxide emissions and no new nuclear power plants. Have your Representatives read it?

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PIECES

Authors: Editor

Summary:Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources, Campaigns

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What is Biodemocracy?

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Authors: Ronnie Cummins

Summary:

Biodemocracy means democratic control by the global grassroots over the policies and institutions that impact our health and environment.

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Creating Permacultural Change

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Authors: Starhawk

Summary:

I practice permaculture, the art of designing beneficial relationships to produce systems modeled on natural systems.

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Activist Forum: Films for Organizers

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Authors: %anonymous

Summary:

Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.

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