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“The Return of Nature,” an analysis which captures Marx’s social milieu (Counterfire)

“The Return of Nature,” an analysis which captures Marx’s social milieu (Counterfire)

February 20, 2024

“This is a complex array of themes to pursue, particularly given that the scientific and social dimensions of sexual politics in the lives of many of these figures is highly relevant as well. Bellamy Foster rightly emphasises the importance of such issues within the overall picture, as a genuinely dialectical understanding of society and nature could hardly avoid confronting the alienated character of gender relations in class societies….”

Gerald Horne: Against Left-Wing White Nationalism (Organizing Upgrade)

Gerald Horne: Against Left-Wing White Nationalism (Organizing Upgrade)

February 20, 2024

How and why the U.S. left has tailed the ruling class on such a bedrock matter as conceptualizing white supremacy soars far beyond the confines of this brief response…..What does this mean for today?  It means rejecting the new Cold War against Russians and Chinese and, instead, forging alliances with both. It means linking demands for reparations nationally with likeminded struggles in the Caribbean and Africa.  It means realizing that the uncanny ability of some on the U.S. left to hand rhetorical weapons to the right to bash the oppressed – from “political correctness” to “cancel culture” – is hardly a coincidence or accident but simply another expression of a “cross-class alliance” that has propped up settler colonialism from its inception…..

Digging up a review of Ian Angus’ “Facing the Anthropocene,” from the Journal of Anthropological Research

Digging up a review of Ian Angus’ “Facing the Anthropocene,” from the Journal of Anthropological Research

February 20, 2024

Angus recounts the history of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). First developed in the late 1920s, by 1970 more than 750,000 tons of CFCs had been pumped into the earth’s atmosphere. In the mid-1970s, scientists began to discover the link between CFCs and ozone depletion, and the chemical industry went into full denial mode, arguing that scientists’ arguments were ‘just theories’….As it turns out, the British Antarctic Survey had been measuring ozone levels since 1957….

“The Return of Nature” is a Resource for Scientific Radicals (Science for the People)

“The Return of Nature” is a Resource for Scientific Radicals (Science for the People)

February 20, 2024

The Return of Nature is a genealogy of ecological thinking. The word ‘ecology’ was not in common usage until the twentieth century, leading many to consider ecological thinking a fairly recent development. However, in this impressive volume, John Bellamy Foster convincingly identifies a materialist ecological sensibility within works dating back a century prior to ecology’s popularization…”

Author Jayati Ghosh on Vaccine Apartheid (Watch: Democracy Now!)

Author Jayati Ghosh on Vaccine Apartheid (Watch: Democracy Now!)

February 20, 2024

“…this is the problem that has actually plagued the entire attitude to vaccine development and production in this pandemic. A few companies have got the rights, and they are holding onto those rights, and they are only producing themselves. They must share this knowledge, and they must allow other producers, because that’s the only way we’re going to confront the crisis…”

“Facing the Anthropocene,” in one’s hometown

“Facing the Anthropocene,” in one’s hometown

February 20, 2024

“He is currently working on another book focusing on the underlying drivers that cause human society to conflict with nature and create rifts in the metabolic cycles of the planet.”

Jennifer Laurin, on the guidance offered in “Sensing Injustice”

Jennifer Laurin, on the guidance offered in “Sensing Injustice”

February 20, 2024

“Here are a few pieces of advice I got from Michael, that I would have liked to have had earlier in my career: Make sure your case tells a story – a story of your client and a story of the law…Be wary of judicial and prosecutorial ego – but know that there are people with both power and conscience…Trust the capacity of jurors to learn and dispense justice…Decide what you want and ask for it…Don’t mistake lawyering for movement work – but don’t forget about the movement either…Believe that one case at a time can, over time, make a difference…Bring others along on your journey – and remember their contributions to it with graciousness and gratitude…..”

A conversation between Michael Tigar, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & more (Watch: Rapoport Center)

A conversation between Michael Tigar, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & more (Watch: Rapoport Center)

February 20, 2024

“The federal courts should be a sanctuary in the jungle,” said Clarence Darrow, the famous lawyer in the “Scopes” Monkey Trial. Legendary lawyer Michael Tigar took those words to heart. He hunted the jungle’s predators — the likes of Pinochet. He defended its prey — the likes of Lynne Stewart and Julian Assange. He gave counsel to Panthers like Angela Davis, and, as you just learned, briefly shared a cell with the likes of Bobby Seale.

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