The article below is reprinted from a December 1 post at OccupyOakland.org. For more information on the December 12 shutdown, visit .
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As of November 27, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Oakland in calling for and organising a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade and Shutdown on December 12.
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鈥淭here is money.鈥 That was the major election campaign slogan of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in October 2009.
The Occupy movement in the United States continues to gain strength, despite wide-scale repression. The article below is abridged from a US editorial.
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The raids, arrests and police violence against the Occupy movement that has been occurring across the United States are about trying to silence a movement giving voice to the accumulated discontent of the working-class majority.
They're also about showing who's the boss 鈥 the political and business establishment.
A year has gone by since the results of the climate change negotiations in Cancun were imposed, with the objection of only Bolivia. It鈥檚 time to take stock and see where we are now.
In Cancun, the developed countries listed their greenhouse gas emission reduction pledges for the 2012-2020 period. The US and Canada said they would reduce emissions by 3% based on 1990 levels, the European Union between 20% and 30%, Japan 25%, and Russia from 15% to 25%.
Cuadrilla Resources, which is exploring for natural shale gas in north-west England, has admitted its use of the notorious process of 鈥渇racking鈥 was responsible for earthquakes in the region this year, BusinessInsider.com said on November 7.
Fracking is a dangerous process involving fracturing rock with pressurised liquid. Some of the health and environmental dangers of the process were revealed by the film Gasland, about the impact of the practice in the United States.
The World Bank Out of Climate Finance coalition issued the statement below on December 1 from Durban, South Africa.
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Today, 163 civil society organisations from 39 countries released a letter exposing an attempt led by the US, Britain and Japan to turn the Green Climate Fund into a 鈥淕reedy Corporate Fund鈥 at UN climate talks in South Africa.
The Green Climate Fund was created to support people in developing countries 鈥 people who are the most affected by the climate crisis but are the least responsible for it.
Despite the crushing victory of incumbent Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the October 23 Argentine presidential elections, the campaign and results also demonstrated that an important social and political left alternative continues to exist.
The unpredictable consequences of the global economic crisis and the reaction by Cristina鈥檚 mixed social base to future policy decisions may prove important challenges to her new government.
Israeli officials suspect that France-based megabank BNP Parisbas has pulled out of Israel due to pressure from Palestine solidarity groups, even though the bank itself has denied this.
Israeli paper Haaretz reported on 24 November: 鈥淭he powers that be are furious at BNP Paribas for shuttering its operations in Israel, and suspect it is acting due to Arab and anti-Israeli pressure in France, the bank鈥檚 home base.
鈥淧reliminary results from Congo鈥檚 presidential election show incumbent Joseph Kabila leading,鈥 Associated Press reported on December 3. For several reasons, this is not surprising news from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
As you read these words, disaster may be about to strike in the galloping crisis of the European financial system and the euro. Or it may not 鈥 yet.
On November 30, the imminent threat of a banking system implosion stirred the European Central Bank (ECB), the US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and central banks of Japan, Canada and Switzerland, into taking the minimum action needed to prevent a 鈥淟ehman Brothers event鈥 collapsing the European financial system.
The federal government鈥檚 decision to release small numbers of refugees from detention to live in the community while their claims are assessed will be welcome news to many refugees that have suffered under its mandatory detention policy.
In the lead up to the ALP national conference over December 3-4, Labor鈥檚 refugee policy has been in the spotlight.
In the face of a broad and growing campaign, rhetoric from the NSW government is beginning to match some of the risks when it comes to coal seam gas (CSG) mining. This begs the question: what is being done when it comes to CSG?
In an about CSG mining on December 1, NSW Premier Barry O鈥橣arrell told 2GB鈥檚 Alan Jones: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 intend to allow 鈥 particularly after the drought we went through over a decade 鈥 mining or any other activity to threaten water resources.
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