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Fellow Ecosocialists,

This morning Jonny Kocher sent out a plea for participation in and support of Sunrise Movement’s actions to get Pelosi and the other House Dems to adopt Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s proposal to appoint a Select House Committee for a Green New Deal.  Links to the details, in case you missed them are as follows:

Saturday Dec 8 @ 10 am - 2 pm - Action Prep Party and Art Build

Nov. 26, 2018

Richard Smith argues for an emergency plan to meet the climate emergency and "do what the science demands before it's too late."  This is an abridged version of a paper that will appear in the March 1, 2019 special issue of Real-World Economics Review.[1]

Nov. 16, 2018

California is on the burning edge of climate breakdown. Record-breaking drought and heat have turned the Golden State into a tinderbox. The megafires have followed. In the last two years a string of off-the-chart wildfires have exploded with stunning speed and ferocity across forests, grasslands, rural areas and city neighborhoods. California Governor Jerry Brown has called it "the new abnormal."

 November 13 2018

Stun guns and pepper spray deployed against demonstrators who blocked trains north of Standing Rock camp

 

California Hasn’t Seen Fires Like This: Pictures of a State in Flames

A federal judge blocked the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline Thursday, saying the Trump administration’s justification for approving it last year was incomplete.

In a major victory for environmentalists and indigenous rights groups, Judge Brian Morris of the District Court for the District of Montana overturned President Trump’s permit for the Canada-to-Texas pipeline, which the president signed shortly after taking office last year.