Economics – Dec 14
– Krugman: Depression and Democracy
– Anarchist Anthropology – OWS house theorist on debt and the gift economy
– What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber
– Global rebellion: The coming chaos?
Politics
Occupy – Dec 14
– TIME Person of the Year 2011: ‘The protester’
– Why I Protest: Dr. Arthur Chen of Oakland, California (TIME profile)
– Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back
– With Port Actions, Occupy Oakland Tests Labor Leaders
– Walter Moseley: 10 Things You Can Do to Sustain the Occupy Movement
Occupying Post-Collapse America: What if the industrial death-urge lived on?
The Occupy movement is a start. But the stakes are rising. The earth is dying. The biocidal industrial economy, while coming apart at the seams, still rages on. …And what if the industrial disease DOESN’T die with collapse? What then? And what does that imply for resistance movements?
Party of swindlers and thieves
Just how far gone is Putin’s government? The evidence so far is that they are still feeling invincible, and are willing to resort to repression in order to make the election results stick. But the Russian people want to express themselves; they want to be heard; they want those who hear them to make the required changes in response.
Small town Sebastopol contributes to Occupy movement
Occupy events in big cities like New York, Oakland, and Los Angeles receive considerable coverage in the corporate media, especially when police react. Yet in small towns and mid-size cities throughout America, peaceful occupations occur that engage people in conversations and education in public spaces and beyond.
End of economic growth – Dec 12
-The End of Growth in the United States
-Do Less with Less, and Love It
-Could Obama Be the First Steady-State President?
Shale gas – Dec 12
-E.P.A. Links Tainted Water in Wyoming to Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas
-Shale gas drilling’s dirty secret is out
-Encana throws cold water on EPA report
-Ex-oil worker blasts shale gas industry
-No U.S.-style shale gas boom in EU: E&Y
-Petrochina says new shale gas find tough to develop
Closing the ambition gap
“The good news is we avoided a train wreck,” said Alden Meyer for Union of Concerned Scientists, who only a day earlier had been forecasting a likely failure. “The bad news is that we did very little here to affect the emissions curve.”
Climate – Dec 12
– Global climate change treaty in sight after Durban breakthrough (video and text)
– What happened in Durban?
– Durban: good science always wins (Ugo Bardi)
– Obama Winning Climate Debate as China Opens to Legal Accord
– The young and the restless: Kids sue government over climate change
Occupy – Russia – Dec 12
– Putin and Medvedev try to calm Russian election outcry (50,000 protestors in Moscow; 50+ cities affected)
– Quiet after the storm – official silence after Russia protests (video)
– Russia’s Great December Evolution
– Putin’s Big Mistake?
Occupy – Dec 12
– Occupy protesters blocking gates at West Coast ports, halt operations at some
– Launching a New Online Library that Can’t Be Destroyed
– (Re)learning the Value of Place and Occupying a Sustainable Future
– The Fracturing of Occupy Wall Street
Courage and cowardice at Durban
Our collective efforts forced the US to back down from locking in the “worst idea ever”: delaying agreement on a new climate treaty until 2020. The roadmap agreed to in Durban calls for a climate agreement to be reached by 2015, with full implementation five years later. It’s better than “the worst” possible outcome, but it’s still a cowardly, unacceptable delay on global climate action — and a recipe for climate disasters.
