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CNI/EZLN: May the Earth Tremble at Its Core

in Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis/Mass Dispossession/What Is To Be Done

This communique was originally published by Enlace Zapatista. To the people of the world: To the free media: To the National and International Sixth: Convened for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the National Indigenous Congress and the living resistance of the originary peoples, nations, and tribes of this country called Mexico, of the languages…

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CNI/EZLN: The Time Has Come

in Collapse of Knowledge/Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions/Desertification of Subjective Life/Economic Crisis/Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis/Global Eliminationist War/Mass Dispossession/What Is To Be Done

This communique was originally published by Enlace Zapatista. To To the People of Mexico, To the Peoples of the World, To the Media, To the National and International Sixth, We send our urgent word to the world from the Constitutive Assembly for the Indigenous Governing Council, where we met as peoples, communities, nations, and tribes of…

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Damian Carrington: Arctic Stronghold of World’s Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts

in Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis

This article was originally published on May 19, 2017 in The Guardian. It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global…

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Glen Coulthard: For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die

in Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis/What Is To Be Done

This article was originally published on Unsettling America. There is a significant and to my mind problematic limitation that is increasingly being placed on Indigenous efforts to defend our rights and our lands. This constraint involves the type of tactics that are being represented as morally legitimate in our efforts to defend our land and…

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Sergio Ferrari: El 1% de los propietarios en América Latina posee más de la mitad de las tierras agrícolas

in Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis

Originalmente publicado en Aldhea. El 1% de los propietarios de América Latina concentra más de la mitad de las tierras agrícolas. La Organización de la ONU para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), retomó estos datos de un informe de la ONG OXFAM para describir la enorme desigualdad que atraviesa al continente . El tema de…

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Damian Carrington: Record-breaking Climate Change Pushes World into ‘Uncharted Territory’

in Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis

This article was originally published on March 20, 2017 in The Guardian. The record-breaking heat that made 2016 the hottest year ever recorded has continued into 2017, pushing the world into “truly uncharted territory”, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. The WMO’s assessment of the climate in 2016, published on Tuesday, reports unprecedented heat across…

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Richard Smith: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans

in Environmental Destruction/Expressions of Crisis/What Is To Be Done

This article was originally published Nov 10, 2013 in Truthout. As global capitalist economic growth accelerates planetary ecological collapse, this article, originally published on November 10, 2013, argues that – impossible as it may seem at present – only the most radical solution – the overthrow of global capitalism, the construction of a mostly publicly-owned and…

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