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The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Politicians Won't
The world’s most existential crisis has all but fallen off Washington’s agenda. But campaigners are finding success in more immediate targets. Donna Katzin and William Minter June 14, 2022 This article first appeared on Foreign Policy In Focus. Media, politicians and policymakers tend to focus on the most visible issues.
‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t Original
— from Foreign Policy In Focus By Donna Katzin and William Minter Media, politicians, and policymakers tend to focus on the most visible issues. The attention the war in Ukraine has received in the first half of 2022, for example, is unrivaled in the United States at least since the shock of 9/11 in 2001.
'Open Your Hearts': The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won't
Media, politicians, and policymakers tend to focus on the most visible issues. The attention the war in Ukraine has received in the first half of 2022, for example, is unrivaled in the United States at least since the shock of 9/11 in 2001.
Africa/Global - From Climate Denial to Deceit and Delay
Editor's Note Asad Rehman of War on Want spoke to the presidency of COP26 with words that resonated far from Glasgow: "The rich have refused to do their fair share, more empty words on climate finance. You have turned your backs on the poorest who face a crisis of Covid, economic and climate apartheid because of the actions of the richest.
Community Investing: Tools for These Times
Above: Donna Katzin, founder of Shared Interest with Ruben Mbuyisa of Mutha Farms – beneficiary of a Shared Interest guarantee. Photo courtesy of Shared Interest Today, in our current political and social environment, the demand to invest in undercapitalized Black and Brown communities resonates with particular urgency – and for good reasons.
Community Investing: Tools for These Times
by Donna Katzin, founder of Shared Interest Today, in our current political and social environment, the demand to invest in undercapitalized Black and Brown communities resonates with particular urgency – and for good reasons. In the U.S. alone, white families have accumulated seven times more wealth than Black families and five times more than Latinx families, and during the pandemic twice as many Black-owned as white-owned businesses have been forced to close.
Community Investing: Tools for These Times
by Donna Katzin, founder of Shared Interest Today, in our current political and social environment, the demand to invest in undercapitalized Black and Brown communities resonates with particular urgency – and for good reasons. In the U.S. alone, white families have accumulated seven times more wealth than Black families and five times more than Latinx families, and during the pandemic twice as many Black-owned as white-owned businesses have been forced to close.
Turning away from fossil fuels: Lessons from the anti-apartheid movement
On September 9, Harvard University President Larry Bacow heralded the university’s commitment to shift its $41.9 billion endowment — the largest in the world — to “a portfolio of investments that support the transition to the green economy.” Two weeks later, September 23, Boston University announced a similar commitment. The rhetorical battle over turning away from investments in companies contributing to climate change, it seems, has been won.
Turning Away from Fossil Fuels: Lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Movement
— from Foreign Policy In Focus On September 9, Harvard University President Larry Bacow heralded the university’s commitment to shift its $41.9 billion endowment — the largest in the world — to “a portfolio of investments that support the transition to the green economy.” Two weeks later, September 23, Boston University announced a similar commitment. The rhetorical battle over turning away from investments in companies contributing to climate change, it seems, has been won.
Have we reached a turning point on fossil fuel production?
May 26, 2021 was a trifecta for climate activists working for disinvestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in renewable energy. Dissident Exxon Mobil shareholders won a stunning victory at the annual meeting, opposing four of management’s proposed candidates and winning three seats on the company’s board for candidates supporting transition to renewable energy.
Have we reached a turning point on fossil fuel production?
May 26, 2021 was a trifecta for climate activists working for disinvestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in renewable energy. Dissident Exxon Mobil shareholders won a stunning victory at the annual meeting, opposing four of management’s proposed candidates and winning three seats on the company’s board for candidates supporting transition to renewable energy.
Have we reached a turning point on fossil fuel production?
May 26, 2021 was a trifecta for climate activists working for disinvestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in renewable energy. Dissident Exxon Mobil shareholders won a stunning victory at the annual meeting, opposing four of management’s proposed candidates and winning three seats on the company’s board for candidates supporting transition to renewable energy.
Have we reached a turning point on fossil fuel production?
May 26, 2021 was a trifecta for climate activists working for disinvestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in renewable energy. Dissident Exxon Mobil shareholders won a stunning victory at the annual meeting, opposing four of management’s proposed candidates and winning three seats on the company’s board for candidates supporting transition to renewable energy.
Your turn: A turning point on fossil fuel production
May 26, 2021 was a trifecta for climate activists working for disinvestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in renewable energy. Dissident Exxon Mobil shareholders won a stunning victory at the annual meeting, opposing four of management’s proposed candidates and winning three seats on the company’s Board for candidates supporting transition to renewable energy.
A turning point on fossil fuel production?
Published Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, 12:00 am Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Advertising inquiries: freepress@ntelos.net By Donna Katzin (© Nicola – stock.adobe.com) May 26, 2021 was a trifecta for climate activists working for disinvestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in renewable energy.
Essays – US-Africa Bridge Building Project
Through her activism and scholarship over more than five decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in the quest for social justice both in the United States and globally. Page includes excerpts from the 2016 lecture and a 23-minute embedded video.
Alliance for Power: U.S. Aid to Bolivia Under Banzer
In June 1972 John Connally, President Nixon's personal emissary to Latin America, relayed the administration's "warmest wishes" to Bolivian President Hugo Banzer Suarez, praising the dictator's "great courage" and promising him full cooperation and aid in the future. Connally's trip to La Paz confirmed a basic U.S. policy orientation toward Bolivia which was adopted after the right-wing military seized power in August 1971.
In Mandela's Footsteps: The Long Walk Continues
(First published Feb 2014) On July 18, 2013 Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, children with crayons in Kazakhstan draw his face on the sidewalk. At the United Nations, fifteen year-old Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan, who has been shot in the head by the Taliban, says Mandela has influenced her and she forgives her shooters. On December 5, 2013 the world mourns and harvests lessons from this monumental man who has taught us so much, and left so much more to do.
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