Will the nuclear decommissioning happen faster than sea level change and storm surges? How easy and efficient is it to decomission a nuclear power plant?
Updated Jun 5, 2020, 8:34 AM
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Massive oil spill affecting the Arctic
Updated Jun 4, 2020, 9:17 PM
Jun 4, 2020, 9:17 PM
We can't breathe? Yeah
Updated Jun 4, 2020, 8:49 PM
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
Jun 4, 2020, 8:23 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
Jun 4, 2020, 8:23 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
Jun 4, 2020, 8:23 PM
Powerful message delivered by a medical Doctor with really excellent creativity. Don't ever - Lose yourself shared by Doctors for #ExtinctionRebellion really worth the time.

https://youtu.be/lnmfuKZdQkI
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Updated Jun 3, 2020, 5:19 AM
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What does it mean to move out of comfort zones? If we can't even critically challenge our own positions with regards to in group out group relations are we actually following the XR principles? This is a journey of self discovery and the path to becoming more enlightened might take one through some difficult areas. The challenge of a global rebellion which we need is real- what type of movement is XR and can it overcome the challenges within? #RebelForLife #FutureGenerations Reflection on the guiding principles is very important. We must not let life go quietly - we are diverse and we need to be strong in our diversity - not let it destroy any hope of change.
Updated Jun 2, 2020, 2:04 PM
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NEW XR VIDEO!!!
The Extinction Rebellion Talk: Climate Crisis + Social Science for change 🐝
YT: https://xrb.link/cM5EC2 🎥
A talk on the climate & ecological emergency, and the social science to turn this around.
Hope you all enjoy and share this amazing work!
Updated May 30, 2020, 3:00 PM
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi
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We experience swarms of locusts, the floods, sea-level rise, the droughts, the forest fires, who knows the next events we are going to face, we have seen extreme weather pattern more frequently these days. Which affect agriculture and food security, water quality and scarcity on the continent, among other things. However, it goes beyond food security and our economies, climate change is causing civil unrest; the shrinking Lake Chad, a resultant effect of the changing climate. This has contributed to hostility among communities living around Lake Chad.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/a-climate-action-wake-up-call-for-all-african-leaders/
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion ZA.
May 27, 2020, 11:33 AM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion ZA.
Scientists for Extinction Rebellion Pagefacebook.com
May 27, 2020, 10:48 AM
"With South Africa under a 3 week coronavirus lockdown, the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has gazetted sulphur dioxide (S02) air pollution standards (called minimum emission standards, or MES) that are twice as weak as the previous standards.

Instead of Eskom, Sasol, and other facilities with coal boilers, having to meet the original SO2 standard of 500 mg/Nm3, they will now only be required to comply with MES doubly as weak (1000 mg/Nm3). The new limit will apply either by tomorrow – 1 April 2020, or by the delayed dates that these companies have already been given by the National Air Quality Officer.

Research presented by the Life After Coal Campaign to the Minister and the Department has shown that 3,300 premature deaths would be caused by doubling the SO2 standard just for Eskom’s coal-fired power stations, as a result of increased risk of lower respiratory infections, increased risk of stroke, and increased risk of death from diabetes.

The weakening of the standard makes South Africa’s 2020 SO2 standard – which exists to protect people’s health and human rights – about 28 times more lax than in China, and 10 times weaker than India’s.

The sequence of events
For more than six years, the Life After Coal Campaign has been opposing efforts by industry – in particular the two biggest polluters, Eskom and Sasol – to delay and evade meeting more stringent air pollution standards. When the MES were first promulgated in 2010, despite their active participation in the multi-year process to set them, both Eskom and Sasol sought to be completely exempt from the MES. Subsequent to that failed attempt, and instead of making the investments required to meet the standards, both companies have brought multiple applications to the National Air Quality Officer in the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries – the majority of which have succeeded – to delay compliance with the MES. In 2014, Sasol brought a court application seeking to set aside the majority of the MES in their entirety – which it withdrew when it was allowed by the National Air Quality Officer to postpone MES compliance......."
Updated May 26, 2020, 12:21 PM
May 26, 2020, 12:21 PM
'Alberta’s energy minister says it’s a good time to build a pipeline because public-health restrictions limit protests against them.

Sonya Savage made the comment Friday on a podcast hosted by the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors. She was asked about progress of the Trans Mountain Expansion project, which is under construction on its route between Edmonton and Vancouver.

“Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can’t have protests of more than 15 people,” Ms. Savage said. “Let’s get it built.”

While the interviewer laughed, Ms. Savage did not.

Unprompted, Ms. Savage went on to suggest that the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic favours pipeline construction.

“People are not going to have tolerance and patience for protests that get in the way of people working,” she said on the podcast, which was posted on the association’s website. “People need jobs and those types of ideological protests that get in the way are not going to be tolerated by ordinary Canadians.”
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
May 25, 2020, 2:14 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
May 25, 2020, 2:14 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR Rebel Reports & discussions.
May 25, 2020, 2:14 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
May 25, 2020, 2:13 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
May 25, 2020, 2:13 PM
#ExtinctionRebellion #AfricaDay #StopDeforestation #SaveCongoRainForest #StopTheMaangamizi #AfricaUnite
Updated May 25, 2020, 1:57 PM
May 25, 2020, 1:57 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Lusuku lwe-Afrika i-25 kaMeyi kwaye i-XRMzantsi ime ngokuqinileyo nabanye abakwiXR.

Intlonipho enkulu kunye nenkxaso kubo bonke abo bamele uBomi kulamaxesha obunzima.

Elinqanaba lokuqala lentsholongwane liqala ukubonisa ngokwenyani okubalulekileyo.

Ukuhlonipha kakhulu abanyangi, abathuthi, abo bondla abanye, abantu abazama ukugcina izinto
zikhuselekile kwaye zicocekile kunye nabo bagcina izibonelelo nezakhiwo zoluntu.

Simele ubomi kwaye sizicel ‘umngeni kwinkqubo nenkqubo enetyhefu.

Abantu balambile kwaye baphethwe yindlala, iphi imali ye-COVID19 yesiqabu? Ingxowa mali yesiqabu
se-COVID19 ebekelwe ukunceda abasweleyo nabangakwaziyo ukuzimela. Kutheni lento sixhomekeka
kwizenzo zabantu abangamagorha kuluntu ukondla abalambileyo?

Vula iPalament phambi kokuba uvule izikolo. Sifuna impendulo kwaye kuphendulwe ngeminyaka
yenkohliso norhwaphilizo.

Kufuneka SIBUMBANE kwaye siqokelelane sihlale ndawonye njengeAfrika kunye nenxalenye yoBomi
eMhlabeni.

“Uqoqosho lokwenyani luqoqosho lokukhathalela iplanet yethu nokukhathalelana umntu ngamnye
nomnye” – uVandana Shiva.

Ndingathanda ukucebisa ngonxibelelwano olucacileyo nolunoxolo lokuququzelela imigangatho emincinci
ukuya ekwakheni ubomi bokuqinisekisa kunye neenkqubo zokuhlaziya.
#Yibanenceba #Ukuphelisai-Maangamizi #ThathaUxanduvaLokuphendula #UtshintshoLwezenkqubo
#UbulungisabeMoyezulu #IngenisoEsisisekoSendaloIphela #HloniphaUbomi #UkupheliswaImvukelo
#AfrikaManyanani #MakwenziweUmthethowe-ecocode

Emzantsi Afrika sithanda ukukhumbuza abo basemagunyeni ukuba salwa kanzima ngomgaqo-siseko
wethu omtsha kwaye ungowona mthetho ophakamileyo kwesi sizwe.
Asizange silwele urhulumente wamapolisa akhonza iimfuno zabacinezeli behlabathi abanamandla.

Icandelo lama-24 lomthetho wamalungelo:

Wonke ubani unelungelo -
(a) lokungqongwa yindalo engenabungozi kwimpilo yakhe okanye kwintlalontle yakhe;
(b) lokuba indalo emngqongileyo ikhuselwe ukuze kuncedeke izizukulwana zangoku nezizayo,
ikhuselwe ngamanyathelo ezomthetho afanelekileyo, kwakunye namanye amanyathelo -
(i) anqanda ukugcoliswa nokudodobaliswa kwendalo;
(ii) akhuthaza ulondolozo lwendalo; kanjalo
(iii) aqinisekisa uphuhliso oluhlala luqhuba lwezendalo kunye nokusetyenziswa kwamajelo ezendalo
lo gama kukhuthazwa uphuhliso olulungileyo lwezoqoqosho nezen
May 25, 2020, 12:40 PM
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Why Green Anarchy?
Updated May 22, 2020, 5:50 PM
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It's Africa Day 25th May and XRMzansi stand in solidarity with others in XR

Huge respect and support to all those standing up for Life in these difficult times.

This first wave of the virus is starting to really show us what is valuable.

Much respect to the healers, the transporters, those feeding others, the people trying to keep things safe and clean and those maintaining public infrastructure.

We stand for life and openly challenge ourselves and the toxic system.

People are hungry and starving where is the money for COVID19 relief why are we relying on the deeds of heroic people in society to feed the hungry?

Open Parliament before the schools we want accountability for the years of corruption.

Unite and organise together as Africa and as part of Life on Earth

“The real economy is an economy of care, for the planet and for each other" - Vandana Shiva

We would like to advocate for clear and peaceful communication for organizing at the smallest levels to move towards building life affirming and regenerative systems.
#BeKind #StopTheMaangamizi #Accountability #SystemChange #ClimateJustice #UniversalBasicIncome #RespectLife #ExtinctionRebellion #AfricaUnite #MakeEcocideLaw

In South Africa we would like to remind those in power that we fought hard for our new constitution and it is the highest law in this nation.

We did not struggle for a police state which serve the interests of the global neoliberal oppressors.

Section 24 of the Bill of Rights:

Environment 24. Everyone has the right—

(a) to an environment that is not harmful to their health or wellbeing; and

(b) to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that-

(i) prevent pollution and ecological degradation;

(ii) promote conservation; and

(iii) secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development

https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/SAConstitution-web-eng.pdf
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
May 21, 2020, 11:04 AM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR Rebel Reports & discussions.
May 21, 2020, 11:03 AM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
May 21, 2020, 11:03 AM
There are different ways of being that have been established by co-evolution and we can learn from them. #SystemChange #RebelForLife
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Renee Scheltema is.....
'Happy to announce a free ONLINE THEATRICAL SCREENING OF THE NEW VERSION OF “NORMAL IS OVER THE MOVIE 1.1, with Extinction Rebellion Mzansi. All audience members will be watching at the same time. The film Normal Is Over The Movie will be followed by a live Q & A with Filmmaker, Renee Scheltema, & Professor @Nicholas King, Environmental futurist. Thanks both and Facilitator @Stephen.Murcott'

#NormalisOver #RebelforLife #ExtinctionRebellion #Westillalive #ExtinctionRebellionMzansi
Updated May 19, 2020, 7:06 PM
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Brilliant Article
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How do you feel about the way the Disaster Management Act being implemented? Families are literally separated because they were working in different provinces. Police brutality and oppression of the most vulnerable have been out of control. This lock down shines a light on abuse and violence by the state security forces. There seems to be an accountability crisis. "FOR NOW, we are a constitutional democracy." #GetAweh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2T48grq9w
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'Austria’s new ruling coalition may prove to be a short-lived marriage of convenience for all involved. But it also illustrates that if and when right-wing nationalists accept the apocalyptic climate claims of progressive environmentalists, the results are unlikely to be particularly progressive. For a generation, it has been an article of faith among many progressives that climate denial is a tactic adopted by the Right because to accept the reality of climate science would force them to embrace policies they otherwise loathe. Conservatives deny climate science, Naomi Oreskes has claimed, “because they fear it will be used as an excuse to expand the reach of government.”[1]Climate deniers, Naomi Klein famously argued in The Nation magazine, “did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot.” Rather, she argued, “They have concluded that this can be done only by radically reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their ‘free market’ belief system.”[2]'
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Wonder how much they expose the impact of light pollution on insects or pesticide use in agribusiness? "In Racing Extinction, a team of artists and activists exposes the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet. Two worlds drive extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. The international wildlife trade creates bogus markets at the expense of creatures that have survived on this planet for millions of years. And the other surrounds us, hiding in plain sight — a world that the oil and gas companies don’t want the rest of us to see. Using covert tactics and state-of-the-art technology, the Racing Extinction team exposes these two worlds in an inspiring affirmation to preserve life as we know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwxyrLUdcss"
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The crisis of the commons, it's time to make ecocide law and hold the polluters accountable.
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More power DMG! the existence of this album is testament to a changing narrative. For a future fit for generations to come check it out. #NormalisOver #COVID19 #RebelForLife #ExtinctionRebellion
Updated Apr 22, 2020, 11:58 AM
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The promise of water is really something we need @[194109891221:274:South African Government] to keep. Now you have R500 billion we want to see that all vulnerable communities are looked after.

"South Africa has serious water inequalities. The drought made this worse and the ANC government did not respond effectively. In the midst of Covid 19, Minister Sisulu has committed to rolling out 41 000 water tanks and to prioritising the needs of water stressed communities during the lock down. With input from you we are developing a map and directory of where water stress exists in the context of the lock down. If you are experiencing water issues in your community, tell us about your experience and share your pictures with us. We will place your data on the map and update it frequently. We will escalate this information to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, the President and Disaster Management Council to demand immediate action as the lockdown unfolds. South Africa will get hotter and drier with climate change. Now is the time to win our constitutional rights to water, which have been denied for too long. #WaterForAll"

https://www.safsc.org.za/water-stressed-communities-map/
Updated Apr 22, 2020, 11:49 AM
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The pace of change is accelerating and COVID19 is not the only thing with an exponential growth potential - so is heat. While we are locked in our homes the extraction of oil, gas and coal continues and the destruction of the forests goes on. The war machine is not stopping either. Be kind in this time. #DeepAdaptation #ExtinctionRebellion "Research into what’s happening in East Antarctica is still in its early stages. It’s hard to decipher what exactly is taking place on a gigantic continent of ice with just a few decades of satellite data and limited actual measurements of things like snowfall and ocean temperatures. But according to one controversial paper released earlier this year, East Antarctica is now, in fact, shrinking, and is already responsible for 20 percent of the continent’s ice loss.

For decades, researchers considered this portion of the continent to be stable. While warming sea and air temperatures have caused ice shelves and glaciers in the lower-altitude, warmer western regions of the Antarctic to melt and collapse, the larger, colder East had seemed an untouchable behemoth. If anything, climate change was expected to bring more snow to its interior, making its ice sheets grow in size." https://e360.yale.edu/features/polar-warning-even-antarctica-coldest-region-is-starting-to-melt
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We must have courage in these times of change. "Greenhouse emissions include more than just carbon dioxide; methane gas in the atmosphere also contributes to global warming. And while there may be far less methane in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, methane is much better at holding in heat. For this reason, scientists have been attempting to find out how much of an impact rising temperatures may have on the world's wetlands."

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-global-methane-emissions-wetlands-percent.html
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#NormalIsOver #RebelForLife #DeepAdaptation
Updated Apr 6, 2020, 11:46 AM
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The South should stop pandering to the IMF and World Bank. The blatant underdevelopment and exploitation must be called out and those responsible held to account. The crimes against humanity and the planet perpetrated by these institutions are evident in the brutality of the neoliberal hegemony. The system which has elevated arms companies above nation states and put over 80% of the capital in the hands of less than 1% of the people. We need to go to the IMF and take them to the ICC for crimes of knowingly participating in economic sabotage - all their minions should be exposed and their off shore accounts emptied making reparations to those who have been wronged. #RebelForLife for a future fit for generations to come. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-31-stop-dancing-to-moodys-tune
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In a time of major changes to the Earth we should try to do our best to be compassionate and caring to those around us.

The terrible virus stealing the oxygen from people's lungs reminds me of the impact of industrial civilization on the life support systems which create ozone. The exponential heating is like a fever. I am thinking of all my friends and family and all the people I will never know at this time and feeling connection and love.

We are all part of this amazing existence on this beautiful but angry planet This time is very precious and the clarion call to warn others about what is happening is still ringing.

We can't get out and do direct action for change but perhaps this is a good time to reflect on what adaptation to minimize harm might look like and create our own new visions of a future fit for generations to come. #DeepAdaptation #HealingOfNations #ExtinctionRebellion #RebelForLife #OneLove #BeKind
Updated Mar 27, 2020, 7:43 PM
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South Africa’s lockdown has not been preceded by mass testing despite the two-month lead time the South African government had since the outbreak in China. Even as the country goes into lockdown, the costs of tests are prohibitive, there has been no clear communication about international partnerships to get testing going on a mass scale, there is no clear messaging on testing details and grassroots civil society has not been mobilised, despite its enthusiasm to rise to the challenge.

Instead, the lockdown has shifted the focus to managing economic chaos, mitigation measures and privatised charity through a “solidarity fund”. Deep anxiety, fear and insecurity is running through society. South Africa is going into the lockdown as one of the most unequal countries in the world.

The crisis of socio-ecological reproduction is deep as expressed through high levels of structural unemployment, intra-African income inequality, hunger and water inequalities (54% of South African households do not have access to clean water through a tap in their homes). Thanks to @[100016491257390:2048:Vishwas Satgar] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-25-covid-19-the-climate-crisis-and-lockdown-an-opportunity-to-end-the-war-with-nature/
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#SaveCongoRainforest #StopGBV #ClimateRape This is the time for action. #ClimateJustice for Africa - reparations for the oppression and underdevelopment - accountability for ecocide and fueling conflict #ExtinctionRebellion
Updated Mar 9, 2020, 7:55 AM
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Geoengineering is not as creepy as many try to make it seem, but it definitely is a non-solution established by oligarchs and politicians to justify their continued pollution of the planet, with geoengineering to clean up behind them.
https://blog.ecosia.org/tech-geoengineering-carbon-capture/
Updated Feb 27, 2020, 12:42 PM
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Please send your objections even if you do not live in the area. You can adapt from the template below. ⏳🙏
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THE DEAD SOUTH...
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The only thing that could stop the Aus fires...more extreme weather in the form of a flood.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51420500
Updated Feb 14, 2020, 4:18 PM
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Pretty Lit. How on earth do we bring the message clear enough, big enough and loud enough. Imagine it was in real life, a whale protest. 😢They are near extinction and with out them in the ocean we will die. They take more carbon out the atmosphere than most everything. The entire ocean relies on whales. We rely on the ocean for oxygen and for climate moderation.
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Ready
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
Feb 10, 2020, 3:25 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
Feb 10, 2020, 3:25 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
Feb 10, 2020, 3:25 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Vegans gonna love this 😉😊❤️
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi
Solidarity with the water protectors.
Updated Feb 10, 2020, 10:51 AM
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Coming full circle now..... Planetary climate breakdown, at the edge of Extinction there has to be love and compassion. We stand together broken hearted on a planet we know nothing about anymore...we might as well be sending our children to outer space....
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Corporations stop at nothing, they will use national police to enforce their occupations of pipelines etc.
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Children won't protect what they not taught to love....
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The Agents of Extinction in action again.
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Horror in the wake of Coronavirus worldwide.....say no more
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"There is this assumption that psychedelics will turn one into a liberal kind of person with liberal kinds of views... I don’t think psychedelics are going to fundamentally change society in this way, they aren’t going to change the world. The forces of capitalism and consumerism are far, far greater than those of psychedelics. The juggernaut trundles on regardless and turns everything to its own purposes; this is what I see happening with the current medicalisation and commodification of psychedelics."
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"Scientists agree that Earth is at the outset of a mass extinction event—only the 6th in half-a-billion years—which could drive a million species, or one-in-eight, into oblivion over the coming decades or centuries."

#eyesopen #rebelforlife #rewildearth
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Things are heating up real fast in the Deep Deep South
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Welcome To The Yangtze: A Source Of Life, And Now Death, For 400 Million Chinese Residents
By Erin Kelly
Published January 30, 2020
China's Yangtze River, the third-longest in the world, is now so polluted that nearly half the people who depend on it are without safe drinking water.

The Yangtze River has become one of the most polluted rivers — if not the most polluted river — in the world. Half of China's 20,000 chemical factories are distributed along the Yangtze.

A dead pig lies in a dirty tributary of the Yangtze. As of 2010, agricultural pollution, for instance from animal waste, surpassed industrial waste as China's main pollutant.

Water has been a source of both life and death for a generation in Shenqiu country, a region fed by a tributary of the Yangtze.

Controlling pollution in China is an enormous undertaking, but the government is working to nonetheless.

The critically-endangered Yangtze finless porpoise is one of the world's few freshwater porpoise sub-species...and the only aquatic mammal left in the Yangtze.

Algae floats in the Hanjiang river, a tributary of the Yangtze, after rain-triggered floods in central China's Hubei province. Algal blooms are often caused by a surplus of nitrogen in a body of water which itself is usually a product of livestock runoff. Nitrogen increases the production of algae which can then use up too much oxygen in a given body of water, choking fish or exposing them to toxins as well.

Residents along China's Yangtze River are faced with a deadly choice.

Villagers can either drink its heavily-polluted waters or shoulder the expense of buying bottled water. With that cost often too great and with nearby factories only adding to the pollution, these towns have consequently been branded as "cancer villages," as instances of stomach, throat, and liver-related cancers have affected residents at a rate two to three times China's national average.

The Yangtze is China's largest and the world's third-longest river. It supports over 400 million people and is, unfortunately, perhaps the world's most polluted river accounting for 55 percent of the material that ends up in the adjacent seas and ocean.

This amount of plastic has disastrous consequences for wildlife as well. Animals in the areas surrounding the river have been found with microplastics in their stomachs, slowly killing them.

The Chinese paddlefish, for instance, are creatures that have alive since the time of the dinosaurs, having survived more than 200 million years of Earth's seismic shifts. But in the last few decades, these living fossils have gone extinct as a result of the pollution in its native habitat.

Indeed, the situation in the Yangtze is so dire that the prehistoric fish which outlived the dinosaurs has been obliterated by man.

China's Struggle With Pollution
On March 4, 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared that China would wage war against the smog. By 2017, he asserted, the government planned to convert homes in major cities from coal-burning heat to natural gas in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.

But roughly four decades of booming economic growth has turned China into the world's biggest carbon offender. The government has been trying to eliminate this pollution without damaging its economy.

This is obviously no simple task. In 2015, a research study by Berkeley Earth found that China's air pollution was responsible for 1.6 million deaths per year. That accounts for 17 percent of all the deaths in the country.

An Al Jazeera report explores how the pollution in the Yangtze is killing people in East China.
There's still a long road ahead for China because while the air is improving, it's still not healthy.

Besides, then there's the whole issue of water pollution.

The Yangtze River Pollution
Factory Along The Yangtze
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A factory along the Yangtze River puts residents at further risk of pollution.

Just ten rivers worldwide account for providing 90 percent of the plastic that winds up in the oceans. The Yangtze was reported at one point to be the worst of them, transporting up to 1.5 million metric tons of plastic into the Pacific. In contrast, the Thames carries about 18 tons of plastic.

The Yangtze's rate of pollution is perhaps matched by Indonesia's Citarum River, whose dense pollutants are contained to a smaller area and whose fish population has dropped off nearly 60 percent since 2008.

The Yangtze is vast; fed by roughly 700 tributaries. All of these contribute to the overall level of pollution that eventually bleeds into the Pacific Ocean. This particular travel pattern of pollutants forms what's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, (GPGP) or the Pacific trash vortex.

Annually, the Yangtze transports 2.5 billion metric tons of goods, making it also the busiest inland river in the world. China's highly-consumerist lifestyle means its waste management system can't keep up with all the single-use plastics it produces and so these products wind up in the waterways. It's pretty much the same story the world over but if things continue at the current pace, then by 2050, the number of plastics in the ocean will outweigh the amount of fish.

This is the same year that a report finds climate change will reach doomsday proportions.
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Wonder if it will work to wake up people in general....
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Simon Be shared this article and Wrote:

RIP James "Iggy" Fox

'Died unexpectedly during anti poacher training in S. Africa.'

As the grief takes residence in my guts and the wash of loss deepens I'm remembering what an amazingly dedicated human Iggy was when it came to what he loved most.
Our natural world.
He fought hard in many ways, either as a conservation scientist in Costa Rica, as a film maker or as an activist.
He was always at the front lines, leading by example, locking on, causing peaceful mischief and doing his best to live up to the convictions he held so dearly.
Gone to meet the ancestors way too soon.
In a beautuful example of serendipity last night a fox Snuck past cops in Parliament and pawed its way to the 4th floor, taking dumps along the way.
Iggy would have loved that.
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PART ONE: VERY IMPORTANT
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Very important extinction rebellion video. A must watch, don't miss this one
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
By Malaika Mahlatsi...

When we stood up as students and rendered this country ungovernable a few years ago demanding that #FeesMustFall we believed that opening doors of learning required only that tuition fees are scrapped. I am sitting here now with hundreds of unread emails and the knowledge that I'm only going to be able to help less than 10% of these students, and I'm realising that we fought a noble cause, but we only scratched the surface. I am telling you now, we have a crisis in this country. Our crisis is not just fee free education, our crisis is INSTITUTIONALISED, GENERATIONAL and STRUCTURAL poverty.

We have students who have NSFAS, who got "free" education and accommodation, but who are faced with unimaginable suffering still. NSFAS will only give them money later in the month. They are starving. They cannot wait for later. Young women don't have toiletries. Students don't have money to get to school. Students are begging for R200 grocery vouchers, they can't even call their families back home because they left empty cupboards and unemployed parents there. Even with funding, how are students supposed to perform under such severe conditions of dehumanising and de-civilising poverty?

We fought a noble cause. I am proud of my own contributions to the #FeesMustFall struggle. But we fought a fraction of the problem. The problem was not just expensive education, the problem was and is capitalism. Expensive education was a symptom. This system is unsustainable and undesirable. It is inhuman and demeaning. The levels of inequality that see someone beg for R200 for food and another spend R2 million on a car, or someone beg for R70 for taxi fare to get to university while another buys a handbag for R70 000 are debilitating. For humanity to live capitalism must die. It is not workable.

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All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'. But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!

https://theecologist.org/2014/nov/22/want-double-world-food-production-return-land-small-farmers?fbclid=IwAR17pph8yADg39jWIYcLIeN9M13a5mD_bzU6UDpnsS81EOcBIn3YHFrHfqQ
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"If we do not choose sides this is the future. We must join the poor and rise up against the psychopathic wealthy class and demand common ground for all humanity and a cessation of the production of useless stuff … if we do not get it together to heal the world collectively this is undoubtedly where we are heading and it will not be stopped."

Read the whole piece here:

The future is not for softies. The best skills you can teach your young kids now are endurance and survival skills. Teach them how to live without water for days, how to protect themselves physically, how to forage in rubbish dumps and parks, how to live on little food, how to hide in shadows, how to trade and bargain, how to take from the rich what is rightfully theirs. Teach them extreme fighting skills to protect themselves.

Our future is apocalyptic because we are middle class. The poor already live an apocalyptic reality. The middle classes imagine that they are untouchable but they are expendable. It is the already impoverished ones who will survive what is coming because they live this reality right under our bourgeois noses.

The soft, the old, the indulgent, the unfit, the stupid, will be eaten. There will be no buffer zones between the super wealthy and the poor. It will be them and us. The future is all about class – it is raceless. The future for the masses is survival of the fittest under the most extreme conditions.

The middle classes will be the cause of this apocalyptic future because they squander people’s power and forego will to change the world. Instead they choose a life of empty consumerism and ego based accolades and comfort and material delusion. They buy their homes and their cars and their clothes and go on holiday and all the while the world is disintegrating around them but they do not care enough to change it. They ignore the great unwashed and the fact that they are already living this future.

We all know this. It is the dis-ease that fuels our consumption. We know this and yet we do not get it together to stop them.

The middle class thrives on obtuseness. It is what we are trained to do. We are the slaves of the upper classes. We think our degrees and promotions and looks and manicured lawns and new cars and cultivated cleverness makes us special – but in truth we are the most empty and manipulated lot – seduced by product into forgetting what it means to be authentically and fully human.

We all have the Marie Antoinette complex. Faux revolutions are engaged in to acquire more access to this endless avarice. Impotent outrage is a common pastime because it is more about ego and want of approval than the urgency of saving what is our human birthright

In truth we are controlled by the rich, by media, by outmoded educational systems, by race and gender binary classifications, sugar, refined foods, low self-esteem and delusional representations of ourselves.

We are not even human anymore. We are consuming robots controlled by the 10%. This my friends is our greatest weakness, our greatest sin, our lack of humanity.

If we do not choose sides this is the future. We must join the poor and rise up against the psychopathic wealthy class and demand common ground for all humanity and a cessation of the production of useless stuff … if we do not get it together to heal the world collectively this is undoubtedly where we are heading and it will not be stopped.

When the forests are gone – when the dolphins and polar bears and frogs are dead – when the last few indigenous animist communities around the world are no more – we will all be psychopaths. They are what is left of our compass to humanity.

Humans must live with the earth, for the earth and know the earth as an extension of our humanity. But we live against it.

From https://www.mediaforjustice.net/the-future-is-not-for-softies/ June 10, 2017 by Gillian Schutte
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Lily Shaw representing XR Youth, Speaking at the Alternative Mining Indaba held in Cape Town South Africa.
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Alternative Mining Indaba 'Environmentally and economically sustainable mineral economies in and era of climate change catastrophe'
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We do this because we love you... Not to promulgate fear but because at the edge of extinction only love remains. https://youtu.be/CAumigP81x4
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Our #SouthAfrican XR groups really need to focus on 5G #Now, #WeAreRunningOutOfTime... #SilenceIsNotAnOption #4PM #TODAY IS THE #DEADLINE TO VOICE YOUR OBJECTION - Please object and share with all your contacts - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1055182804676747/permalink/1274115309450161/
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We were extremely blessed and honored to receive help and support from the SDCEA (South Durban Community Environmental Alliance) as well as the presence and the powerful voice of The SDCEA Founder, Des D'sa, who was tuning everyone to #StandTogether to Stop 5G South Africa #Respect!!! ✊💓🔥⏳

Des is one of the most serious and hardworking activists we have on our planet and has been since he was 15 years old. When he heard about our dilemma with last minute paperwork issues (which included getting the finances together to pay for Public Liablity Insurance with not less than a R1 000 000 cover), he immediately called us to let us know that the SDCEA would take care of the the matter. His actions, along with the actions of other amazing stalwarts of the Durban Community, enabled us to be able to go ahead with the event so smoothly. Huge gratitude, love and respect #SDCEA #AlutaContinua!
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"Desmond D’Sa, co-ordinator of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and internationally recognised environmental justice campaigner, has been honoured by the Durban University of Technology (DUT) with a doctorate in Human Science for his unending dedication to the battle against environmental rights abuses in South Africa.

SDCEA is a long-time partner and client of the Centre for Environmental Rights. Des is a 2014 recipient of the U.S. based Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activism in Africa.

Des has worked for many years to reduce pollution and quality of life in the heavily industrialised South Durban basin in KwaZulu-Natal. Des says, “When I started off with issues of community consciousness, I was constantly told by industry bosses and others that they don’t need people like me in this world, but I pursued my convictions, often going against advice even from family and friends.”

CER Executive Director Melissa Fourie says: “Des has been a stalwart in the South African struggle for environmental justice. His recognition in South Africa and abroad demonstrates that individuals are not powerless against the state or against industry, and acknowledge the significant contributions activists make to uphold and defend the Constitutional right to an environment that is not harmful to health or well-being.”

Accepting his doctorate, Des urged students to fight for their rights and the welfare of their communities. “People said I would be taking on giants, I was not going to win and I would be marginalised. This did not stop me from fighting for justice, truth and people.” (https://cer.org.za/…/newsflash-honorary-doctorate-for-envir…)

"D’Sa acheivements include rallying south Durban’s diverse and disenfranchised communities and successfully shut down a toxic waste dump that was exposing nearby residents to dangerous chemicals and robbing them of their constitutionally protected right to a safe and clean environment." (https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/desmond-dsa)
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Reposting this from co founder Stu Basden
"And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life."
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A translation of the October Declaration of Rebellion into isiXhosa:
Kwaye ke indlu yethu isemlilweni....Ubuntu buzifumana bukwingxakeka engathethekiyo nengxamisekileyo kwiplanethi.
Inye,ngaphandle kokuyilungisa ngokukhawuleziyo, ukuya phambili siqhubela ekutshatyalalisweni kwentoyonke esiyithandayo: Oku le Iplanethi, abantu bayo kunye nendalo, Ikamva labo kunyenakwizizukulwana ezizayo.Inzululwazi icacile: siwusungile umnyhadala wesithathu wokuphela komhlaba.

Ukuba asenzi njalosenze kwaye uhlengahlengiso ngokukhawuleza nangokuqina, sijongane nokuqhekeka kwempucukoyethu. Ngaphandle koxinzelelo lotshintsho lwenguquko, siya kusilela ukunciphisa intlekele eseleabanye bezifumene bekuyo, kwaye baphephe ukuwa kwezentlalo koluntu.Izigidi zabantu ziyafa. Izilwanyana zasendle ziyaqothulwa kwihlabathi liphela.

Amalwandle ethuanetyhefu, eyenziwe yi-acidic kunye nokonyuka. Izikhukula kunye nembalela ziya ngokuqatselakakhulu kulwandiso lomhlaba olungafikeleliyo kunye nokunyanzelwa kokufuduswa kwabantuabaninzi.

Ezo zisele zicinezelwe kwihlabathi liphela zichaphazeleka ngendlela yokunganikezeli iziphumozemozulu kunye nengxaki yendalo.Abahluphekileyo bahlupheka ngakumbi kwaye bayasetyenziswa zizandla zabo banamandla, nabobaqokelela ngakumbi ubutyebi nokulawula ubunini, ukwenza imali kunye nokutshabalaliswakwendalo. IInkokheli zethu ziyasilela ekukhuseleni abantu, bagcina abona bantu abasesichengenikwisangqa esingapheliyo sokuxhaphazwa.

Umoya wethu unetyhefu kangangokuba oorhulumente behlabathi basaphula imithetho yabo:batyisa ukukhula kwamaphaphu abangekazalwa kunye nengqondo, okudala imiba yezempiloyengqondo kulutsha lwethu, nokufa kwezigidi zabantu abamsulwa minyaka le.

Ukwahlukana kwemozulu yethu, ukuwohloka kwenkqubo yethu yendalo, nokwahlukana kweentlalozoluntu sele iqalile. Nyaka ngamnye odlulayo kubakho iminyhadala engaphezulu yesimo sezulu-imililo yasendle, izaqhwithi ezikhulukazi ezingalindelekanga, imbalela engathethelekiyo kunyeNokwanda kwendlala, njengokuba abathengisi kokutya nezixhobo ziyaphazamiseka kwayenemithombo yamanzi acocekileyo ayoma. Ngokounyuka kwamanani okufa kuya ngokuba sisiqhelonjengeemfazwe kunye noqhankqalazo ngaphezulu kwezixobo kuqhubeka kusanda.

Ezingxaki zidibene nobomi bonke kangangeenkulungwane azisenako ungahoywa, ukukhatywakwazo, nokungaphendulwa nangubani na osezingqondweni ezifanelekileyo, nonesazela esilungileyo,nonenkxalabo yoziphatha, okanye ukholo lokomoya.

Ngokuhambelana nezinqobo ezisemgangathweni, amandla enyaniso, kunye nobunzima bobungqinabobuchwephesha, siyawubhengeza ukuba luxanduva lwethu ukwenza oku egameni lokhuselekokunye nentlalo-ntle yosapho lwethu lwehlabathi, abantwana, uluntu lwethu kunye nazo zonke izintoeziphilayo.

Thina, ngokulungelelanisa izazela zethu kunye nokuqiqa kwethu, sivakalisa ukuba sinemvukelongokuchasene nooRhulumete kwihlabathi liphela, ngokuchasene neenkqubo zengcinezelo ezilawulaabantu kwane nzuzo yeplanethi ngelixa ubambe ubunini beempahla, kunye namaziko olwaphulomthetho enza ukuba kukhuselwe imeko enetyhefu.

Ukungenzi msebenzi kunye nokuba nzima ngabom okuboniswe ngooRhulumente bethukuyitshabalalisile intsingiselo yedemokhrasi kwaye ilahle umdla oqhelekileyo wokuthanda inzuzoyexesha elincinci, inzuzo yabucala kunye nokuchithwa kwendalo.

Xa oorhulumente kunye nomthetho besilela ukunikezela nasiphi na isiqinisekiso sokhuselekoolufanelekileyo, ngokunjalo njengokhuseleko kwimpilo yabantu kunye nekamva leplanethi, ibalilungelo labemi bomhlaba mabafune ukulungisa ngokutsha ukubuyisela idemokhrasi esebenzayokunye nokukhuseleka, isisombululo esifunekayo ukunciphisa ingxaki, thintela intlekele yomhlabajikelele nokukhusela Ikamva yobomi. Iya kuba lilungelo lethu kuphela, iba luxanduva lwethuolungcwele ukuvukela.

Ngokwenjenje siyabhengeza ukuba imvumelwano yentlalontle ingabaluleki kwaye ingasebenzi,njengoRhulumente obanike into engasebenziyo ngokusilela kwabo ukwenza ngokufanelekileyo.Kwintshukumo yeentshukumo sime ngokuqinileyo ecaleni kwabo banembali ngaphambili abavukelaubulungisa behlabathi kwaye nokuqhubekeka nokwenza njalo, kwaye babize bonke abanenqakukunye noxolo Umntu uza kujoyina imvukelo ebanzi yePlanethi yabantu abanganabudlovbongelakunye nezenzo ezingathobeli inkululeko.

Sifuna:1) Oorhulumente kufuneka bathethe inyani ngokwazisa ngemozulu yomhlaba nangendalo iimekozongxamiseko, ukusebenza namanye amaziko, kubandakanya kodwa kungaphelelanga kwimithomboyeendaba kunye amacandelo emfundo, ukunxibelelana ngokungxamisekileyo ngotshintsho, kunyenokufundisa uluntu ngotshintsho olufunekayo, lusebenze ngokufanelekileyo ngokuhambelananenyaniso.

2) Oorhulumente kufuneka benze umthetho-nkqubo wokubopha ngokusemthethweni kunyenemigaqo yokunqanda ukulahleka kwezinto eziphilayo, ukunciphisa kokhutshwa kwegesigreenhouse kwi-zero zero, yenza i-ecocide ibe lulwaphulo-mthetho ngokuchasene noluntu, kwayeukuqalisa iinkqubo ezingxamisekileyo zokulungiswa kweplanethi.

3) Oorhulumente kufuneka benze kwaye bakhokelwe zizigqibo ezibophelelayo ezisemthethwenizeCitizens zabemi kwimozulu, kubume bendalo kunye nobulungisa behlabathi, kwezi mfunozingasentla, kubandakanya amaxesha esisombululo kunye nezicwangciso zekhonkrithi zentshukumo,kodwa kungaphelelanga kwezi zicelo zingaphezulu .

.Le ngxaki yeplanethi idlula kwimida yesizwe, kwaye iimpendulo kuyo kufuneka sithathe inxaxhebayokungalingani kwe akhawunti ngefuthe lezoqoqosho, okusingqongileyo kunye nendalo kunyenokuphazamiseka kwi IGlobal North kunye neGlobal South.

Siyala ukuqhawula iplanethi esweleyo ngokubonakalisa kunye nezizukulwana ezizayo ngokusilelanangokwenza ngoku.Sisebenza ngoxolo, nothando olunobuzaza entliziyweni yethu eluntwini, zonke izinto eziphilayo,kunye nale umhlaba ezintliziyweni zethu.

Sisebenza egameni lobomi.Kwaye ke umlilo uvutha. Utshisela ubulungisa kunye nenjongo. Ukukhanya kwenyani kunyenomsindo, uyakhanya kwabo babuleweyo nabalahlekileyo; nakwizidalwa eziphilayo nako konkeokuphilayo okungasokuze kwenzeke kwakhona yiba; nakwabo basawakhusela umhlaba wookhokhobethu.

Itotshi yokuxhathisa idlulile isuka kwesinye isizukulwana ukuya kwesinye kwaye iphinda ibuyelwengaphakathi yonke ikona yomhlaba wethu othandekayo ngabancinci, kuba iintliziyo zabo zichithwengumnqweno kwibali elitsha."

Alikho elinye ilizwe elinokwenzeka kuphela, kodwa usendleleni. Ngemini ethe cwaka,siyamvaukuphefumla. ”Qho xa sibeka ukungaboni ngasonye kwethu kwaye sivukele ubomi kunye,uyavuya kwaye isondela kancinci.Ngumzuzu wenyaniso. Ixesha lotshintsho ngoku. Ibali elidala liyaphela. Kwaye elintsha sele iqalile.Kuxhomekeke kuthi sonke ukuba siyixelele.Kwaye ke umlilo uvutha.
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#URGENT!!! Please add your voice and make your objection, deadline is this FRIDAY 31ST JANUARY!! Share with #ALL your contacts #Stop5GSouthAfrica!!!

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'We declare our support for Extinction Rebellion': an open letter from Australia's academics
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Mass extinction is only an event in terms of Geological time, to us its our whole world. But an extinction like this massive hasn't happened for about that long a time. We call it an extinction event as if we are going to survive it. But probably nothing larger than a chicken will pull through.
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VANESSA NAKATE The Real Uganda Fridays for Future BRAVE AND FEARLESS EARTH WARRIOR!
VANESSA NAKATE
The Real Uganda Fridays for Future
BRAVE AND FEARLESS EARTH WARRIOR!
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'The Green New Deal, the climate-change-fighting policy framework proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) nearly a year ago, laid down bold goals for transforming agriculture: It called for a “10-year national mobilization” to “eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector” while “supporting family farming.”

The plan was as light on details as it was ambitious in scope. The strategy was to throw down a gauntlet and inspire researchers to come up with policy ideas that grassroots groups could rally behind, which Ocasio-Cortez, Markey, and their allies would then transform into bills and push through Congress.'
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USA OLIGARCHY WE HATE YOU
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR Rebel Reports & discussions.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
A quote from the Regenerative Culture pdf from XR to help those struggling with the decolonization concepts - it affects us all."The Decolonisation of the Self Here we name some forms of oppression and domination that have been coded into societies and institutions around the world. These are some of the features of the toxic system we have decided to rebel against, guided by the Extinction Rebellion values and principles and through the lens of a Regenerative Culture. • Anthropocentrism • Racism • Sexism • Eurocentrism • Heteronormativity • Classism Useful resources include non-violent communication, compassion, decolonisation training and resources for dealing with grief. Extinction Rebellion is inspired and informed by the work of: • Joanna Macy - The Work That Reconnects • Active Hope Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication, and, • Jon Young - 8 Shields and Restorative Justice."
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
A quote from the Regenerative Culture pdf from XR to help those struggling with the decolonization concepts - it affects us all."The Decolonisation of the Self Here we name some forms of oppression and domination that have been coded into societies and institutions around the world. These are some of the features of the toxic system we have decided to rebel against, guided by the Extinction Rebellion values and principles and through the lens of a Regenerative Culture. • Anthropocentrism • Racism • Sexism • Eurocentrism • Heteronormativity • Classism Useful resources include non-violent communication, compassion, decolonisation training and resources for dealing with grief. Extinction Rebellion is inspired and informed by the work of: • Joanna Macy - The Work That Reconnects • Active Hope Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication, and, • Jon Young - 8 Shields and Restorative Justice."
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A quote from the Regenerative Culture pdf from XR to help those struggling with the decolonization concepts - it affects us all."The Decolonisation of the Self Here we name some forms of oppression and domination that have been coded into societies and institutions around the world. These are some of the features of the toxic system we have decided to rebel against, guided by the Extinction Rebellion values and principles and through the lens of a Regenerative Culture. • Anthropocentrism • Racism • Sexism • Eurocentrism • Heteronormativity • Classism Useful resources include non-violent communication, compassion, decolonisation training and resources for dealing with grief. Extinction Rebellion is inspired and informed by the work of: • Joanna Macy - The Work That Reconnects • Active Hope Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication, and, • Jon Young - 8 Shields and Restorative Justice."
A quote from the Regenerative Culture pdf from XR to help those struggling with the decolonization concepts - it affects us all."The Decolonisation of the Self
Here we name some forms of oppression and domination that have been coded into societies and institutions
around the world. These are some of the features of the toxic system we have decided to rebel against, guided by
the Extinction Rebellion values and principles and through the lens of a Regenerative Culture.

• Anthropocentrism
• Racism
• Sexism
• Eurocentrism
• Heteronormativity
• Classism

Useful resources include non-violent communication, compassion, decolonisation training and resources for
dealing with grief. Extinction Rebellion is inspired and informed by the work of:

• Joanna Macy - The Work That Reconnects
• Active Hope Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication, and,
• Jon Young - 8 Shields and Restorative Justice."
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in 5G Global Protest Day 25th January 2020 Durban South Africa.
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“But what if ignorance is strategically manufactured? What if the tools of knowledge production are perverted to enable ignorance? In 1995, Robert Proctor and Iain Boal coined the term “agnotology” to describe the strategic and purposeful production of ignorance. In an edited volume called Agnotology, Proctor and Londa Schiebinger collect essays detailing how agnotology is achieved. Whether we’re talking about the erasure of history or the undoing of scientific knowledge, agnotology is a tool of oppression by the powerful”
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The icon of British nature David Attenborough...

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Decolonize XR
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Shall we be able to Rise Over and Above these Politics and change our trajectory of Certain Extinction? The time has come.
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'The Makarora area of Mt Aspiring National Park was aerially 1080-poisoned on 15 October, 2019 – the Wilkin, Fish, Blue, Cameron, Makarora and Young Valleys.

Yesterday I was told that the old six-bunk forestry hut at Top Forks, Wilkin River Valley, is being restored, and the workers restoring it are living there while it is restored. They say there is absolutely nothing left alive up there. It is as silent as the grave…. no birds, no insects, NOTHING !

Extraordinarily, even though the area was poisoned only two weeks ago there are NO warning signs on any of the DoC online track information on the Young Valley Track, Cameron Valley Track, Blue-Young Valley Track, etc! There will be dead carcasses and baits in the streams and rivers. Innocent tourist trampers from overseas will drink from the streams.'
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THE BEGINNING OF THE CLAMP DOWN? More on the despicable UK police counter-terror document that attempts to paint legitimate protest groups and actions (especially environmental and anti-war) as dangerous and extremist. In the wake of the Global Witness Annual Report released 30 July 2019 and titled: ‘Enemies of the State? How governments and businesses silence land and environmental defenders’ this isn't exactly surprising however. 2019 was a year when ordinary citizens across the planet rose up to say: Enough! As a result, the neoliberal elites are getting worried and their perverse instinct is – not to tackle the burning issues facing us and seek just and genuine solutions – but to clamp down in order to try and protect their own narrow self-interest.
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“This is nothing short of pointing a finger at anyone that thinks differently to ‘business as usual’ – which is taking humanity to its grave – and lumping them all together. The chilling effect is to leave people feeling under scrutiny, watched and pressurised, feeling othered, ashamed or afraid to be open about the things they care about such as the environment and the world around us.” – Extinction Rebellion.
“The message that this appalling list sends is that if you care about social justice or oppose war, arms sales, discrimination or conflict then you can be included alongside white nationalists and neo-Nazi hate groups." – Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade _____________________________________________
"A number of peaceful protest organisations including Greenpeace, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and Extinction Rebellion have hit out at the inclusion of their logos alongside swastikas and SS symbols in a glossary of icons put together by counter-terror police.
Officers were accused of participating in a “massive state overreach” by campaign groups after it was revealed a document designed to help de-radicalisation efforts included the logos of environmental, animal rights and pacifist groups had been listed alongside iconography associated with Nazis and proscribed terror group National Action."
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'What if funding was no longer an issue and billions would be liberated to support the local and bioregional capacity building for ecosystems restoration and the regeneration of communities, cities, and globally cooperative bioregional economies?

What if we were suddenly enabled to convene conversations, planning and implementation locally and bioregionally to engage in the scale-linking redesign of the human presence and impact on Earth?

What if we were challenged to scale-out a glocal (global-local) capacity building and education programme that enables people to learn the needed skills and knowledge while already being an active part of the regeneration rising?'

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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Elders ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Knysna.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
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“TAKE BACK THE EARTH”: The Empowering Speech of Native American Rights Defender
John Trudell who was a highly respected Native American activist and poet. A member of the American Indian Movement during the late Sixties and Seventies, Trudell became one of the most recognized and influential advocates of Native American rights. His charisma and outspokenness incited the FBI to amass a 17,000-page dossier on him with a memo saying: “He’s extremely eloquent therefore extremely dangerous.” Here we’re pleased to present the following excerpts from Trudell’s empowering 1980 Thanksgiving Day address, in which he called on everyone to “Take Back The Earth”.

Nearly forty years later, and in the face of global climate change, it is more timely than ever to reflect upon the words of this great Earth Defender.

“We’re faced with a very serious situation in this generation. There are insane people who wish to rule the world. They wish to continue to rule the world on violence and repression, and we are all the victims of that violence and repression. We as the indigenous people of the Western hemisphere have been resisting this oppression for 500 years. We know that the black people have been resisting it for at least that long. And we know that the white people have had to endure it thousands of years.

We have to re-establish our identity. We have to understand who we are and where we fit in the natural order of the world, because our oppressor deals in illusions. They tell us that it is power, but it is not power. They may have all the guns, the racist laws and judges, and they may control all the money, but that is not power.

These are only imitations of power, and they are only power because in our minds we allow it to be power.

Racism and violence, racism and guns, economics – the brutality of the American Corporate State way of life is nothing more than violence and oppression and it doesn’t have anything to do with power. It is brutality. It’s a lack of a sane balance. The people who have created this system, and who perpetuate this system, they are out of balance. They have made us out of balance. They have come into our minds and they have come into our hearts and they’ve programmed us. Because we live in this society, it has put us out of balance. And because we are out of balance we no longer have the power to deal with them. They have conquered us as a natural power.

We are Power. We are a part of the Natural World.

All of the things in the natural world are a natural part of the creation and feed off the energy of our sacred mother, Earth. We are power. But they have separated us from our spiritual connection to the Earth, so people feel powerless.

We are power, we are a natural part of the creation, we were put here on the sacred mother Earth to serve a purpose. And somewhere in the history of people, we’re forgetting what the purpose is. The purpose is to honour the Earth, the purpose is to protect the Earth, the purpose is to live in balance with the Earth, the Earth is our mother.

We will never free ourselves until we address the issue of
how we live in balance with the Earth.

Any child who turns on their mother is living in a terrible, terrible confusion: the Earth is our mother, we must take care of the Earth.

Oil spill in Santander, Colombian Amazon, March 2018. Footage via MongabayLatam
They pollute – this oppressor, this machine that has gone mad and run amok, it is beserk. They keep telling us, “progress.” They keep telling us “face reality.” Well, let’s deal with reality. Reality is the Earth can no longer take this attack. We can no longer allow this thing to continue when it’s polluting the air, it’s polluting the water, polluting our food. They pollute the air, they pollute the water, they pollute our food, they pollute our minds. They put us out of balance.

We are a natural part of the Earth. As a natural part of the Earth, we have the energy and the power that IS the Earth. The Earth will take care of us if we will remember the Earth – in more than just our words; if we remember the Earth in our way of life. We are all here to play a role – and all of the animals, and all of the life on the Earth is playing its proper role except for the human people. Somehow, we are betraying our purpose here and that is why we live in the confusion that we live in.

We are a natural part of the Earth. We are an extension of that natural energy. The natural energy which is Spirit, and which is power.

Power. A blizzard is power. An earthquake is power. A tornado is power. These are all things of power that no oppressor, no machine age, can put these things of power in a prison. No machine age can make these things of power submit to the machine age. That is natural power.

And just as it takes millions and billions of elements to make a blizzard to happen, or to make the earthquake, to make the Earth to move, then it’s going to take millions and billions of us. We are power. We have that power. We have the potential for that power.

Our power will come back to us, our sense of balance will come back to us, when we go back to the natural way of protecting and honouring the Earth. If we have forgotten how to do it, or we think that it looks overwhelming, or think that we can never accomplish it, all we have to do, each one of us, an individual, is to go and find one spot on the Earth that we can relate to. Feel that energy, feel that power. That’s where our safety will come.

The Earth will take care of us. We have to understand that the American Corporate State will not take care of us. They do not care about us. Maximise their profit, that is where their whole life’s balance is placed upon. They will turn us against each other to maximise the profit, because they have done it in the past.

We will not destroy the world. We are arrogant and we are stupid and we are foolish if we believe that we will destroy the world. Man has the ability to destroy all of the people’s ability to live on the Earth, but we do not have the power to destroy the earth. The earth will heal itself. The earth will purify itself of us.

If it takes a billion years to get rid of the radiation the Earth will do it, because the Earth has that kind of time. We do not.

Our obligations and our loyalty have to be to the Earth. They have to be to our sense of community and to our people and our relations. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs, to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars. That has been the consistent history of Western civilization and the American Corporate State Government – that’s reality.

What is racism? Racism is an act of war. What is sexism? Sexism is an act of war. It’s a war against our human dignity and our rights to self respect. This is the war that they wage there. War! They are war-like. And we have to understand that the American Corporate State got to where it’s at through the act of war.

For 500 years my people have resisted.
For 500 years we will resist again if it becomes necessary.

We want to be able to relate and communicate with all of the people who are living on this land, but we want to be able to relate and communicate from a position of truth. You all gotta face the truth. We have had to face it through 500 years of genocide, we have had to face the truth, we have had to live the truth. We have had to die the truth. Before we’re gonna ever see our evolutionary liberation, the people that call themselves Americans are gonna have to face the truth also.

They tell us to “be realistic,” that “progress” means that all these things have to happen. They tell us that we can’t go back to the old way. They tell us “be realistic.” But there is no old way, no new way, there is a way of life. We must live in balance with the Earth. We MUST do it. We have no choice. If we allow ourselves to be apathetic, or we allow ourselves to be lied to, or tolerate their lies about what they’re doing to the earth, then we are betraying our intention. We are betraying our purpose here. We cannot protect that 7th generation if we do not protect the Earth.

We cannot protect ourselves if we do not protect the Earth. The Earth gives us life, not the American government. The Earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life, we need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do.

They want to break our spirit. They will do everything and anything to break our spirit, our will to live. We must learn to resist, we must learn to see, we must learn to look.

If we start to think we will learn to see, to see what reality really is, and we will outnumber them through the thinking process. We will take our minds away from them. Because through their manipulation of our minds, they control our spirit, and they know this is true.”



– John Trudell (1946-2015). To listen to the full speech:
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'We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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"Ultimas Palabras"

A new American revolution has begun,
Not against the forces of a colonial kingdom
But a rebellion against an oppressor that has risen among us,
It is not a foreign invasion we have to fear,
Rather the threat of a force within our nation
That has usurped what was once a dream of having the greatest democracy ever known to man,
We now live in a world where the population has grown exponentially,
And the planet is running out of resources to sustain us all,
We in the inner-city and those struggling in the suburban ghettos may not realize it yet,
But make no mistake,
The people who control the technology and run every enterprise that makes up our world,
Have seen this coming for a long time,
The ideas of renewable energy,
Global warming,
The idea of collectively working,
Were purposefully bought out, derailed, demonized, or corrupted,
In favor of an economic structure designed by a monetary caste system,
In a desperate attempt to convince us that we need to maintain that extravagant existence,
They've pretended we might share in their dream,
That we can justify any inhumanity in its name,
Out of this blind ignorance was born the curse of slavery,
Many of the founders of this nation were themselves Masons,
That is not a Left wing or Right wing conspiracy theory,
It is a widely known and accepted fact,
So then explain to me how a nation founded by men,
Who not only understood the long and complicated history of Europe,
But also that of Africa,
Could permeate such a lie in convincing the American public,
That one race of men was superior and one inferior,
When in fact we know that all the early men,
The men who created civilization and every aspect of what we see today,
The foundation of all human life,
Were from Africa,
The greatest cowardice of course came not with slavery itself,
Unfortunately,
But with the excuses for slavery,
For if America had been as brave as the Roman Empire and all other empires that have come after her,
And claimed "No, we were just stronger and that's why we took you",
Then when slavery was over racism would've probably followed in suit,
But instead it was the social lie,
The religious lie that was told,
That stayed in the mind of people,
That seperated one human being from another,
In order to distract us from the issues of class and freedom,
They created issues around religion and race to dominate the world for centuries to come,
Some claim that they respect that they respect the culture of life in this country,
They cry out for indignity of children that are slaughtered before they are born,
But God has not penetrated their souls,
For they have no empathy,
Nothing in their cold hearts for the 100s of 1,000s of lives we have taken in our wars overseas,
For that which they call "collateral damage",
Which the are the burnt and damaged children of the world,
They have no prayers for them,
Only snide commentary on the internet and laughter in their hearts,
And yet you claim to be one with God,
Huh,
We talk about immigration in this country,
Might doesn't make right ladies and gentleman,
It just makes right now,
What we are saying to the rest of the world,
Is one day when America grows weak,
One day when her legions falter,
On the day when her economy crumbles,
China, Russia, Europe, whatever power has arisen,
All you have to do is come here and conquer us in a few military excursions,
And then you too can set up shop here,
And in 100 years you can tell every red-blooded American,
"No, you are an illegal human being,
I am the true citizen,
I have all the rights,
You have no rights",
Maybe you forgot how you got this country,
Maybe you take for granted the blood, the sweat, the tears,
That the people who live in practical serfdom shed everyday,
For we may not run America, but we make America run,
We talk about the Law,
Yet,
How many indignities have been legal in the past?
How many treaties with Native Americans have we broken?
How many international laws have we violated?
And,
Speaking of laws,
How can a corporation be regulated by a government that is funded and controlled by corporations?
How can there be accountability,
For people who see a profit margin above the lives of Americans?
Above the lives of human beings in other countries?
We have taken the soul out ourselves and placed them inside machines,
My words of course,
Will be marginalized, demonized,
In typical fashion,
Anytime you dare to question the power structure they say you hate America,
No, I love this country,
I see its beauty everyday in its people,
And I love it a lot more than those who have abandoned the American worker,
That have chose to exploit and try to take away benefit she has,
Those that attempt to make excuses for every atrocity committed,
In the name of supposed freedom,
Those who demand accountability from everyone,
But offer none themselves,
Who favor contracts over lives,
Who favor invasion and control over organic democracy overseas,
The greatest flaw that any intelligent person has is to think they're smarter than everyone else,
And so the government has planted its spies amongst us,
We have planted our spies among them,
They have infiltrated every branch of the American government,
They have retrieved names, data, hard numbers,
The paper trail that will expose those that truly control this country,
Those that control the political parties,
Those that control the oil industry,
The energy,
Those that stand behind the companies faceless,
Whose names have never been revealed,
Until tod.. [GUNSHOT]

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"Internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security reveal that non-violent demonstrators targeting the oil industry were classified as "extremists," with some organization members listed alongside known white supremacists, as The Guardian reported.

Five members of Climate Direct Action — Michael Foster, Ken Ward, Emily Johnston, Annette Klapstein, and Leonard Higgins — have been dubbed the Valve Turners after a coordinated effort on Oct. 11, 2016 to cut through fencing and turn off valves on a pipeline in four states. The pipeline carried crude oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries."
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Just when climate change hits we have an almost total breakdown of Trains. What's the plan?
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We can begin to respect natural life again, we can Consider the rights of Animals, Plants, Fungi, soil biota, just as much as any Human Life. We are all connected, we are all relations. Domination and Violence must be ended on our planet for us to all have a chance at a future.
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"Concerned about inequality and the class war? Look at the way the wealthy have already started building walls to protect themselves while the lower classes drown or burn. Concerned about housing as a human right? Millions of houses are in areas that will soon be underwater or in flames will bring the affordable housing crisis to levels we have never seen before. Concerned about migrant justice, racial justice and the violent impacts of the nation-state more broadly? Look no further than Fortress Europe and the US-Mexico border to see that white, wealthy nations are already justifying locking out the Global South to face the effects of the climate apocalypse the North caused. No movement or strategy can afford to ignore the struggle for climate justice"
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UCT Inclusivity report
“Representative of 25% of respondents
I feel bullied and discriminated against at UCT and this really gets in the way of my contribution and how I feel at work. Departmental and faculty leaders constrain my academic work and don’t take people of my demographic group seriously (Academics). I don’t think my direct manager takes people of my demographic group seriously (PASS). There is a lot of conscious and unconscious bias going around and many people are completely blind to it. I am frustrated and when I raise issues of real importance I am seen as angry and disruptive, which leads to people working against me. Things at UCT will need to change before I will be able to feel that this is a home for me.”
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'There is nothing some landowners would like more than to set the police on those who dare to venture into their vast estates. And there is nothing that tells us more clearly that freedom for one is captivity for another.

Even while it remains a civil matter, the offence of trespass informs us that we are strangers in our own nation, unwelcome on the great majority of its acres. This is why Scotland introduced its comprehensive right to roam, enabling people to venture on to almost all uncultivated land except gardens, sports grounds and the land immediately surrounding houses, schools and other buildings. Despite dire predictions, it works well, with scarcely any conflict. The Scottish government, and the campaigners who pressed for this reform, see access as an essential component of citizenship. When you are treated as a trespasser across most of your nation, the message you receive is that you don’t belong.'
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The crews, called Indigenous Mitigation Crews, are charged with protecting sacred sites, caring for kin on reserves, and fighting remote fires.
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Hardly any levies or tariffs, labor is dirt cheap, resources are being given away to multinationals and off course it's a Great place to 'invest' in.
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The Red Brigade represents the blood that ties us all together.
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The quiet Australia 👏
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CELL TOWER TECHNICIAN SOUNDS THE ALARM ON THE DANGERS OF 5G
Cell Tower Technician Sounds the Alarm on the Dangers of 5G
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Almost nothing demonstrates the hubris of government and corporations more clearly than the 5G rollout, or what President Trump calls “a race we must win.”
The dangers of 5G are vast and overwhelming as our privacy, health, and liberties are all at risk as a result of 5th generation technology. As our government touts its economic benefits, doctors, scientists, and even meteorologists around the world are sounding the alarm about the implications of the technology.

But recently, a cell tower installer, or “tower climber” as he calls himself, began speaking out about the danger that 5G poses to our health.
His video has gone relatively viral since it was posted in mid-June and he has since followed up with a few others talking about 5G. In his own words, he explains how dangerous installing 4G technology has been.

“If you take radiofrequency close, it superheats the water molecules in your brain, eyes, and testicles … You could render yourself sterile or have a splitting headache for days, or, I’ve cooked the top of my skull and left me useless for the rest of the day.”

That’s only with 4G. However, because of 4G’s long wavelength the only real harm that can be done occurs at very short-range, just a few feet from the cell tower’s dispersion point.

Remember that 4G technology works within a range of about 1.5 – 2.8 megahertz. 5G on the other hand, broadcasts in gigahertz frequencies – which is about 1500 times more intense than what 4G relies on.

READ: PROMINENT BIOCHEMISTRY PROFESSOR WARNS – 5G IS THE ‘STUPIDEST IDEA IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
Also, 5G transmitters will not be constructed high upon a mountain out of harm’s way like 4G towers are. They are going to be placed in offices, on street corners, inside your car, and in your home. The long-term effects of 4G are not yet known, but 5G is going to bring us to a whole new level of imminent danger to our health.
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As the South African region faces famine in many areas we must look for ways to undo the damage that has led us to this point. Really worth reading this link. Many thanks to @[411728495853545:69:Food Tank - South Africa] and Alison Moultrie

"But for the new capitalist order to succeed, this reverence for the earth had to be replaced by obedience to the Church and State, and by the middle ages, women’s magic was designated as witchcraft and punishable by burning. Federici argues this persecution of women’s ‘old ways’ as witchcraft was necessary to the desacralization of nature, paving the way for its transformation into a lifeless “resource” for economic exploitation."

#RebelForLife #FoodSecurity #Nature #Ecofeminism

https://gathervictoria.com/2017/11/14/rewilding-eco-feminism-the-reclaimation-of-magic/
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Is it just Australia? No its ALL the planet's Forests.... All of them. These fires are associated with the 2 degree temperature increase.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Knysna.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.”

Professor Jason Re
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
Sydney Australia Last week's Student Protests.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Elders ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Knysna.
Sydney Australia Last week's Student Protests.
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The most ancient domesticated plant in the world.
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This time is very precious. Oceans are where many believe life on this beautiful planet originated.

"A new review of the research, published yesterday in Science, concludes that “multiple lines of evidence from four independent groups thus now suggest a stronger observed [ocean heat content] warming.”

Taken together, the research suggests that the oceans are heating up about 40 percent faster than previously estimated by the IPCC. "

#Peace
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
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"Climate change, the bastard child of capitalism."
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Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is best known for using direct action to protect whales from Japanese whaling vessels, but he’s also a world-renowned advocate for the oceans and all of its other inhabitants. During an interview with TheirTurn in New York City, Watson explained why protecting the oceans is not only vital to sea animals but also to the very survival of the human species. “If the oceans die, we die.”

Watson explains that oceans, which he describes as the “blue lungs” of the Earth, produce 70% of the oxygen that we breathe and that the source of the oxygen are phytoplankton. Since 1950, the amount of phytoplankton in the oceans has dropped by 40% due to whaling, commercial fishing, animal agriculture and other forms of pollution.'
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'During these first days of the third decade of the twenty-first century, as we watch humans, animals, trees, insects, fungi, ecosystems, forests, rivers (and on and on) being killed, we find ourselves without a word to name what is happening. True, in recent years, environmentalists have coined the term ecocide, the killing of ecosystems — but this is something more. This is the killing of everything. Omnicide.

Some will object, no doubt, that this does not count as a “cide” — a murder or killing — but is rather a natural phenomenon, albeit an unspeakably regrettable one. Where is the murderous intent? Difficult to locate, admittedly, but a new crime also requires a new understanding of culpability. Indeed, one of the most serious problems with the laws against genocide is that they were written in a way that requires that the specific intent to destroy a people can be shown to have existed. Even where it did exist, such intent most often remains hidden in people’s dark hearts.

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This time, though, we need to go much further. We need to understand that the responsibility for omnicide is various and layered. The role that those responsible play this time is almost always less direct, but its effect no less devastating. We are unlikely to identify anyone actively scheming the death of the five-hundred million wild animals whom we believe to have died in the first month of this summer’s Australian bushfires.

We can, however, identify the political representatives who refused to meet with fire chiefs who had been seeking to warn of, and act to mitigate, the impending disaster. The same political representatives who approved and continue to approve new coalmines in the face of scientific consensus on the effect that continuing to burn fossil fuels will have on climate in general, and drought and temperatures in particular. The same political representatives who approve water being diverted to support resource extraction, when living beings are dying for want of water and drying to the point of conflagration.

We can identify the media owners who sponsor mass denial of the scientific evidence of the effects of a fossil fuel addicted economy on the climate. The same media owners who deploy the tools of mass manipulation to stoke fear, seed confusion, breed ignorance and create and then fuel hostile divisions within communities.

We can identify the financial institutions that continue to invest in, and thereby prop up toxic industries, and who support the abovementioned media owners so as to protect themselves from accumulating stranded assets. We can identify the investors who use their financial and social capital to support politicians who will protect their financial interests. We can identify a corporate culture and a legal system, populated by lawyers, management consultants and financial analysts, that incentivise or even require companies to maximise short term shareholder profit and externalise costs to the future and the planet.

And then we can identify parties closer to home. Business owners and investors whose profits depend on systems of extraction and resource exploitation. Consumers addicted to lifestyles based on resource extraction and the exploitation of the natural world. Citizens who prioritise narrow short-term interests over the sustainability of the planet. Citizens who lack the courage or fortitude to take ourselves through the social and economic transformations required to give our children and the more-than-human-world a future. Citizens who do not bother to take the time or make the effort to develop well-informed opinions, but would rather run to the comfort of the truisms of their tribe.

We can also identify the humans and human cultures that have told ourselves that we are superior to, and thus have the right to dominate and exploit, other animals and the natural world. That we are the ones who get to flourish, and that everything else that is here, is here for our use. That other beings are not life but resource.

None on this long list developed a specific intent to kill everything. But all of us have created and are creating the conditions in which omnicide is inevitable.

When I was growing up, my parents used to play a Bob Dylan song called “Who Killed Davey Moore?” about a boxer who died in the ring when he was just 30 years old. Each verse begins with some party — the coach, the crowd, the manager, the gambling man, the boxing writer, the other fighter — answering the title’s question, “Who killed Davey Moore?” They each respond, “Not I …” and then explain that they were just doing what it is that they do: going to the fight, writing about the fight, throwing the punches and so on. And of course, they each told the truth.

We too are just doing what it is that we do: ensuring that the largest political donors support our political campaigns; maximising profits; ensuring a high share price; living a comfortable life style; avoiding change; lazily buying back in to the conceit that we humans are special. But sometimes, just doing what it is that we do is sufficient to kill, not just Davey Moore, but everything.

Omnicide, the gravest of all crimes. And as with all crimes, those responsible must be held accountable.'

Danielle Celermajer is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is the author of The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies and The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach.
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We know that COP 25 was a mockery of the science and we watch to see how world leaders will respond at Davos... The authorities in the UK have branded XR an extremist movement. Meanwhile as hostilities increase impossibly in the Middle East... The climate breakdown continues.
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In order for us to achieve an ecological revolution we must take mass action. Mass action to be allowed to implement the changes in the world we need to survive. Corporations and governments will never give us the solutions in time. They need to be forced through great creativity and thinking in a different way.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
"The Krishna Consciousness mission is not sectarian. We want to do what the United Nations has failed to do. The human form of body is an opportunity for solving all the problems of life. Through evolution we come to the human life for solving this problem. The real problem is the repetition of birth, death, disease, and old age.

But there is another status of life where there is no birth, death, disease, and old age. The Krishna Consciousness movement is the means for promoting the human being to that status. This is a great science, and it is elaborately explained in the Bhagavad-gita.
So our mission is to give this benediction to all humanity. Let us cooperate together on this basis so that it will be a more effective United Nations, We shall be united on the basis of the prime need of human society, spiritual life."

Letter to People of Bangkok: December 14, 1974
Jan 12, 2020, 10:36 AM
David Attenborough the epitomy of Conservatism has stated we can't be radical enough about the ecological collapse. As someone who documented ecosystems for decades and was a huge part of popularizing nature in the modern western world he is passionate and knowledgeable about the issue. He is warning us in no uncertain terms how bad this all is. People should come together to talk about our future on earth and the ecosystems. When we make the call to action please join us and make your voice heard.
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Eff shared this video, interesting video. Not endorsing Eff. Just passing on an interesting video important for South Africa.
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Climate Catastrophe and Mass Extinction of fresh water aquatic systems are the second wave of colonial genocides.
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Parts of the USA's Louisiana bayou are being lost to rising sea levels and the same is happening to Nova Scotia in Canada.
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Where there are monoculture food types and plantations, fsrming practices msy be intense industrialised farming practices Many of the hives transported in Australia are for pollating almonds - as referred to here - have been lost in wild fires burning now over 2 months. Entire bee populations, colonies with some farmers losing up to 6000 hives, even many indigenous bee types are vulnerable following the fires in 300 major sites across Australia. The eucalypts & gum flowers are key pollen food sources for bees.
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'Before Britain started sending convicts to the continent in the 1700's, Aboriginal Australians used fire to manage brushlands and forests across the continent.

Butler and his wife once used this place to hold camps and workshops on Aboriginal culture. They had a program for troubled indigenous youth. School groups would come to learn about native art, history and food. Fire was a key issue they'd teach about.

"Fire in this place is our friend," he says. "Fire has been used to maintain, to look after this whole continent forever."

Native peoples called them "cool burns," low-intensity fires intended to balance the various plants and trees growing in an area.

"How we maintain that balance is through fire, by not letting any one thing dominate something else," says Butler.

Aboriginal people have generations of knowledge about managing the landscape on this continent, but Butler says they're ignored by public officials who rely on the massive controlled burns firefighters have been using known as backburns. Butler says cool burns target specific areas and even specific plants, while the current methods destroy everything in their paths.

"I think this is a wakeup call not only for Australia but for the rest of the world. You cannot just destroy the land. You cannot destroy what keeps you alive."

Despite losing everything on his property, Butler and his wife plan to rebuild their Aboriginal culture center. He says the trainings they do on traditional practices are more important now than ever.'

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795224932/with-their-land-in-flames-aboriginals-warn-fires-show-deep-problems-in-australia
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“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”

“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer”

“Matter is not lacking in magic, matter is magic.”

“People are so alienated from their own soul that when they meet their soul they think it comes from another star system.”

“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”

“Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity”

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down – sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing. But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
– Terence McKenna

“You don’t want to become so open-minded that the wind can whistle between your ears.”

“If you’re not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it? You need to do some heavy editing.”

“Culture is the effort to hold back the mystery, and replace it with a mythology.”

“Unexamined cultural values & limitations of language have made us unwitting prisoners of our own assumptions.”

“This is a society, a world, a planet dying because there is not enough consciousness, because there is not enough awareness, enough coordination of intent-to-problem. And yet, we spend vast amounts of money stigmatizing people and substances that are part of this effort to expand consciousness, see things in different ways, unleash creativity. Isn’t it perfectly clear that business as usual is a bullet through the head?”

“Our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And so to whatever degree any one of us, can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the building of the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that after all is what it’s really all about.”

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.”

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.”

“Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

“Personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.”

“Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existance is defined in terms of control.”

“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”

“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.”

“We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.”

“The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.”

“The future of communication is the future of the evolution of the human soul.”

“Our need to feel part of the world seems to demand that we express ourselves through creative activity.”

“Culture is not your friend, it’s an impediment to understanding what’s going on. That’s why the words cult and culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic, unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.”

“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
– Terence McKenna

“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.”

“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.”

“The internet is light at the end of the tunnel…it is creating a global society”

“If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”
-Terence McKenna
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ScoMo getting his well-deserved and hard earned disrespect from protesters, after trying to ban any talk about climate change, despite the horror that people just suffered in Aus.
https://7news.com.au/news/climate-change/thousands-of-climate-change-protesters-march-through-sydney-c-641947
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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"Enemies Of People Are Those Who Keep Them Ignorant"

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Eish! You job is not secure if you care about the future of children.
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One of the worst photos you will see today comes from Australia: the bodies of hundreds of animals have been lined down the road into Batlow, one of the towns that was worst hit by the bushfires that caught that part of Australia this weekend.
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What does that mean for the human beings living in proximity to crops that are poisoned?
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'Good bye Blue Sky, Good bye'
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Who said we need all this electricity anyways?
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Go XR Scotland, the most Rebellious of Rebels ❤️😂
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Do Psychedelics give people the ability to see molecular forms? Could sharing the molecular conscious ability aid humanity in coming to balance with the natural world?
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Most definately.... With the help of corporations.... Let's stop them, we a global movement and we must truly end the destruction now. Try save what ever is left of the biosphere.
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What's happening in your neighborhood? How many more obsolete shopping centre's and petrol stations are they planning to build? How many elite high security complexes are being built on sensitive ecosystem edges? How exactly does everyday extinction take place?
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As is they need the money? So disappointing but not surprising that these companies are supporting the extinction of Life on Earth rather than using their power for survival.

"Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been very vocal about their efforts to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. But as the Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo have reported, these same companies are currently teaming up with the fossil fuel industry to help them squeeze as much oil and gas out of the ground as possible"
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After hundreds of years will the settlers finally listen to indigenous people about the care and management of the Harsh Landscape of Australia?
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
Jan 5, 2020, 9:43 AM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
How much do you care about the ecology of Planet Earth? Are you willing to be arrested for the cause? If not are you willing to donate otherwise? What do you do and what can you offer the Rebellion? Joining our underground team is another option but that's not public knowledge.
Jan 5, 2020, 9:35 AM
‘Go on, p*ss off’: Disgruntled bushfire victims hound Australian PM out of town (VIDEOS)

Australian PM’s attempt to console victims of the massive bushfires has spectacularly flopped, as the high-ranking official failed to answer their questions, getting heckled and chased away by the angry mob.
PM Scott Morrison visited the town of Cobargo on Thursday, apparently looking for a PR opportunity – that actually turned into a disaster for him. The fires devastated the township on Tuesday – at least three people were killed, while scores lost their homes and businesses.
READ MORE: Australian air force, navy preparing for ‘largest ever evacuation' of people from fire-ravaged Victoria (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
The official started his visit to Cobargo walking up to a local woman, casually asking “How are you?” and then forcing her into a handshake – and that was when all the PR stunt flopped.
“I’m only shaking your hand if you give more funding to our RFS [Rural Fire Service],” the visibly reluctant woman told the PM.

Scott Morrison forcing this woman to shake his hand, then ignoring her and walking away when she tells him she doesn’t want a handshake unless he gives more funding to the RFS, is fucking disgusting - even by his low standards. #bushfiresAustralia#auspolpic.twitter.com/LX6agg3S7G
— Brendan Bradford (@1bbradfo) 2 января 2020 г.
Morrison was promptly swarmed by locals afterwards, who asked him a bunch of quite reasonable questions about very low number of fire engines that responded to the fires, lack of relief and so on – that he did not answer, however.

Scott Morrison has hastily left a meeting with bushfire victims after angry residents began yelling furiously. #9Newspic.twitter.com/q0iqmBp7to
— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) 2 января 2020 г.
The PM aimlessly roamed the street with a bunch of other officials, including the natural disasters minister David Littleproud – and their silence only angered the locals further. One man urged the official to get out of town, telling him that his electoral prospects now look quite bleak in a profanity-laden rant.
“You’re an idiot, mate. You really are. You won’t be getting any votes down here buddy… No liberal votes. You’re out son. You are out. Goodnight Vienna. Bye. Go on, p**s off.”
Pelted with further questions about those who died in the fires and the many who've lost their homes, the officials ultimately retreated to their car – without so much as a goodbye.
https://www.rt.com/news/477325-australia-pm-bushfire-victims/
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Get Started – Act Now!
Following are suggested actions and resources to raise awareness about the harms of 5G and other sources of EMFs; to voice objections; and to reclaim our future – one that respects and protects the well-being of all life and is informed by the resources of the Natural World. No action is too small, but we must also think big as time is of the essence. Be creative, have fun, and choose an action that resonates with your personal skill set and available time.

RAISE AWARENESS, SPEAK YOUR MIND, ENVISION AND ENSURE A BETTER TOMORROW!

Raise Awareness
RAISE AWARENESS

Raising public awareness requires nothing more than to state the bare facts. No hyperbole or spin needed – the facts speak for themselves.
Many people still have no idea what 5G, smart cities or the ‘Internet of Things’ are, but more and more people sense something has gone awry in our world where people are glued to their devices 24/7, and a frenetic “race” is on to connect every facet of our lives to the internet.

Further, when people learn that this hyper-connected world will be enabled by a combination of radiating cell towers deployed outside our homes and by tens of thousands of new satellites in space, many people are alarmed. And when they realize that our personal data is being harvested and used to fuel this initiative, alarm may turn to indignation; and many people are moved to speak out to stop this assault on us, wildlife, and the planet.

Please consider including in your materials and branding the message that we want SafeG, safe and proven wired technology, NOT 5G. For more about SafeG™, please view and share this slide show.

For a superb and practical guide on how to engage your community, city council, medical doctors, and Telcos, please read We Are the Solution, a Community Kit created jointly by a group of organizations in Australia.

SIGN THE APPEAL
DELIVER THE APPEAL
INFORM MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
PASS OUT FLYERS
HANG SIGNS

Speak Your Mind
WRITE LETTERS

Write letters to city officials, both regional and national. Here is a link to a generic letter (in English) that can be translated and will work in any country.
PDF: Letter to Legislators

WORD Version: Letter to Legislators

GOVERNMENT ON NOTICE
NEWSPAPER EDITOR LETTER
SIGN AND SHARE PETITIONS

Envision and Help Ensure A Better Tomorrow
HOST AN EVENT IN YOUR HOME

Host an afternoon or evening in your home. Invite people to “leave their cell” and join you to explore whether 5G and an all-things-wirelessly-connected world is the kind of future we want. And if not, what kind of world do we want to create and leave for our children. Consider also showing the inspiring documentary, Generation Zapped or the 2-part PBS series, Burt Wolf’s Travels And Traditions Investigates Cell Phone And Wireless Radiation.
POWER OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION
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There may be some hope for South Africa to drive the corporate monopolies out, who praised us recently for opportunities created by our new laws. Things escalated from being able to grow your own weed to paying an expensive license fee to grow for consumers. If we don't buy their stuff, license fees should drop (hopefully to zero), and consumers can buy from peaceful Rastafarians instead of violent gangsters.
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I guess we will just wait until the same thing happens to us in South Africa. There is so little coming together to plan ahead and manage the landscapes properly, mitigating the oncoming heating that the methane releases from the melted ice cap and other areas guarantee. This has gone far further than merely protesting. It's more about how graciously we can all die together. Will inequality continue whilst such extreme conditions worsen for the climate. When the shit hits the fan will money save people, doesn't look like it?

We have to be ready for much more stress, and develop coping mechanisms for increasing occurance and intensity of situations. Be ready, have drills. Know what the priorities are in your neighborhoods and communities, in the factories and workplaces. Be ready for increasing disasters. Don't think the government services will cope, it's already not coping.

Take very seriously, water catchment. Design water catchment reservoirs under the ground that are fed by roads, roofs run off. Plant fire breaks with succulent plants. Clear areas as fire breaks sensibly. Prepare for floods droughts and bushfires. Protect Indigenous trees and indigenous tree thickets where ever they are. Remove alien vegetation (wattles, eucalyptus, port Jackson, Lantana, fresh water weeds) from rivers streams and dams, focusing on the edges of healthier indigenous pockets to stop the penetration into the sensitive forest valleys.

Plan for waterborne disease outbreaks, first aid, burns, keep wildlife and domestic animal first aid things. Put water out for small creatures during heat waves. Create terraces and swales to slow and capture flood water. Compost, don't burn to clear areas for cropping. Stop using agrichemicals and work with polycultures, move away from excessive irrigation for survival. Stop burning plastics and put plastic inside plastic bottles to build them into infrastructure. Help us end plastic.

Moderate your microclimate. Each and every action must be towards moderating our human effect. Giving back. Fixing, making right whats going wrong.

Gov, pull your socks up and ban plastic outright with only incredibly strict loopholes for medical and few other cases. Ban Fossil Fuels use after 2025. Ban Agrichemicals outright. Build a public transport system that will see us past fossil fuels and assist us to build sustainable Habitats for humans and other life forms. Plan for a fruitarian, plant based food future, plan for food forests and perrenial agriculture, plan future forests, plan away from coal oil and gas.

Fear has no place in what we have to do to survive. Only together do we survive, and together we can do better.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Spread love. #AfricaUnite @[348010408570990:274:Genii Blakk] for #ExtinctionRebellion #RebelForLife may we be stronger and more united going into 2020. #Peace https://youtu.be/QM3y-No87Ng
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Wild things don't surpress it, they fight to the end. Only humans kill the own selves and all other species without even fighting it at all. That's why we won't get the Darwin award and will go extinct. We can't recognize danger when we see it or create it.
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Why don't we call it genocide?
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"record in recent decades for the highest level of ice to melt in Antarctica in one day was reached on Christmas Eve, data suggests.

Around 15 percent of the continent's surface melted on Monday, according to the Global Forecast System (GFS) by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The data comes from the Modèle Atmosphérique Régional (MAR), a model used for meteorological and climatic research.

Xavier Fettweis, a climatologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, who tweeted the data on Friday, said this is the highest melt extent in Antarctica in the modern era, since 1979. He added the production of melt water is a record 230 percent higher than average since November this year. That's despite the melting season not yet being over."
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This could work
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR Rebel Reports & discussions.
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Fire Alerts in Cameroon
There were 11,962 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was unusually high compared to the same week in previous years.

Tree cover loss in Cameroon
From 2001 to 2018, Cameroon lost 1.20Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 3.8% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 473Mt of CO₂ emissions.

Fire Alerts in Burkina Faso
There were 4,474 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was high compared to the same week in previous years.

Tree cover loss in Burkina Faso
From 2001 to 2018, Burkina Faso lost 131ha of tree cover, equivalent to a 99% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 25.0kt of CO₂ emissions.

Fire Alerts in Togo
There were 3,349 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was high compared to the same week in previous years.

Fire Alerts in Benin
There were 3,584 VIIRS fire alerts reported in the week of the 20th of December 2019. This was average compared to the same week in previous years.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Syria has a huge export Industry.
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On the subject of choosing between irrigation and survival we including mining irrigation. Thats not even something we can justify using water for anymore. The fact that Lesotho People pay private rates for water and that mines are subsidized in SA for water is making this crises more extreme. Rather than stopping deforestation and re habilitating forests in the catchment of Lesotho to ensure the water supply and security for our whole region we just suck it out and waste it..... Water grows on trees...

"Devastating drought in the southern African nation of Lesotho has left more than half a million people facing severe food shortages and tens of thousands “one step away from famine”, UN humanitarians said on Friday, in an appeal for funds."
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'There will come a time and it will happen sooner in the drylands, that humans will have to choose between irrigation and survival' Bill Mollison.
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Are Billionaires even neccessary at this moment in time? Do we value Billionaires more than our Ecosystems, our Air, Water, Food, Health, Children's and future generations rights?
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The fires just getting worse.... This was days ago.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in United Front.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
John Pearce posted in Gaia
'2020 Vision'
As we move towards the end of 2019, we look ahead to what 2020 will bring for the green movement. Extinction Rebellion (XR) is already gearing up for a return to the streets on 13th April 2020 (Easter Monday). It remains to be seen whether this Easter Rising will be as positive as that in April 2019, which seemed to catch both the movement and the police by surprise. The successful establishment of the rebellion’s infrastructure, combined with glorious weather saw the stars aligned for XR. The police will not be surprised again. The pro-active policing seen in October will be repeated, though perhaps without the blanket ban on protests after the London-wide “s.14” notice was deemed to be an over-reach of power.
The political scientist Erica Chenoweth, co-author with Maria Stephan of “Why Civil Resistance Works”, proposes that for a rebellion to have the best chance of success it needs to get at least the much-quoted 3.5% of the population on the streets. XR is a very long way from this figure. Estimates of numbers on the streets during the April and October 2019 rebellions are that there were perhaps 30,000 to 40,000 involved. That number would need to increase nearly 100-fold to get near the critical mass Chenoweth and XR’s master strategist Roger Hallam consider necessary. At the moment there seems little prospect of XR getting anywhere near those numbers unless there is a step change. Many remember the huge marches for a second Brexit referendum, or the even larger march against the Blair/Bush reckless war in Iraq, easily brushed aside.
Hallam’s approach is to occupy space in the centre of a capital city for as long as it takes. However that requires huge numbers as people come and go due to other commitments, and massive energy, strength and tenacity to remain on streets in harsh conditions. One of XR’s greatest challenges now is to work out how to engage and involve far more people, to appeal to a wider demographic beyond Boris’s “crusties” and the concerned middle classes, and how to break out of the usual suspects. That will involve reaching out into other communities and interest groups, and also involving the union movement, a huge challenge and very little time to achieve it.
XR also faces an array of challenges. It needs to avoid activists becoming disillusioned and frustrated with organisational and communication problems. It must somehow unify anarchists opposed to leaders and suspicious of “founder’s syndrome”, and those wanting clearer direction, rather than milling around in sometimes shambolic peoples’ assemblies. There remain issues to resolve over how giving autonomy can avoid ill-judged actions being carried out against the wishes of the majority, and leading to PR disasters that lose support. The limited ethnic and class diversity will continue to give rise to criticism. There will be tensions between those who want more militant actions, and those favouring the fun like the “discobedience” “Staying Alive” dancing. XR will also now be infiltrated by police and those out to cause mischief, sow dissent and seeking to ridicule. There may be agents provocateurs wanting to discredit us. So many challenges, so little time.
Without the numbers there is a risk that repeating the rebellion becomes more of a twice-annual well-intentioned reunion for activists, going through the motions and never getting anywhere near the tipping point, causing a nuisance to Londoners without delivering any benefits. We may be causing disruption for a reason, but we won’t be thanked for it. Voluntary austerity is a hard sell. Similarly the novelty, surprise and eye-catching elements like the pink boat and the red rebels risk becoming like a band running through its greatest hits. However XR has shown that it does have the capacity to surprise and innovate, and sometimes an organisational ability beyond expectations
The other leading light in XR, Gail Bradbrook, has spoken of Hallam as providing the “codes for social change”, of which she had visions. XR has probably far exceeded their expectations in the way it has captured imaginations around the world, with the wide adoption of its logo and modus operandi. However even with that success, XR has yet to achieve the policy and system changes it is demanding.
2020 will see the Citizens Assemblies start their work as the 30,000 contacted are whittled down by sortition to 110. They will convene in Birmingham to decide on how we reduce carbon emissions. What if they decide they actually quite like a consumer life style and the Aladdin’s cave that capitalism has opened up to those fortunate enough to have money to enjoy it, that they quite like driving, and flying on foreign holidays? Citizens Assemblies may not be quite the silver bullet that XR hopes.
2020 will also see the continuing and growing signs of climate and ecological catastrophe as tipping points kick in, from the Amazon, Arctic, Greenland, the Great Barrier Reef, to the Antarctica and elsewhere. It is all happening much faster than many of us, and the scientists predicted. There are likely to be dramatic and unexpected feedback loops and events, as the established ocean currents and weather systems that have been relatively benign change unexpectedly. Climate science is fiendishly complicated, with so many interacting variables, that even the most complex computer models cannot be relied on. If we have learnt anything, it is to expect the unexpected. We may think we are in the driving seat only to realise that things have now runaway with us and we are too late. We will see growing numbers of climate refugees.
We will see growing Siren calls for geo-engineering to be tried out at scale, in many cases backed by those with vested interest in supporting the fossil-fuelled status quo. These trials will be dangerous and controversial, risking unforeseen and unwanted side-effects. Whether it is adding lead to petrol, CFCs to aerosols in fridges, or wrapping everything in plastic, we don’t have an unblemished record when it comes to scientific fixes.
November 2020 will see the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) talks hosted in Glasgow. There is a breath-taking audacity in the Conservative government bidding to host this event given the dismal, derisory and dilatory nature of its whole approach to environmental issues. Former Prime-Minister David Cameron was quick to get rid of “the green crap” when the financial crisis struck. Conservative policies are a litany of what Jonathon Porritt would label procrastination, prevarication and obfuscation.
The fuel duty escalator that was meant to wean drivers away from the motor car and towards cycling, walking, and public transport was long ago abandoned, quickly sacrificed for electoral advantage and short-term thinking. Onshore wind, a quick and easy win for renewable energy is now effectively impossible due to changes to the planning regime. There is a bottomless pit of money for new and widened roads, a pittance for buses and trains, where fares soar. Solar panel subsidies via the feed-in tariff have been scrapped. Heathrow is to be expanded, HS2 rail-roaded through ancient woodlands. There have been endless consultations but minimal progress in reducing the tsunami of plastic. The Conservatives claim to be leading the world in reducing emissions but the reality is that this is only by not counting off-shored manufacturing emissions, and there is no reckoning for the historical emissions of our early industrial revolution. You name it, when it comes to the environment the Conservatives have comprehensively flunked it.
No doubt there will be some green rabbits to be pulled out of the hat to burnish their creaking credentials nearer the time, but it will be all smoke and mirrors. The Glasgow conference will offer a focal point for protestors keen to highlight the government’s failings and push for progress, but Scotland in November will not be a time of year for occupying streets. Policing will be heavy, so protests will need to be innovative. However Glasgow offers a good opportunity to highlight and lever the need for urgent and real change.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi shared an episode of Prince Ea.
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"Do you think it's funny that our oceans are dying?"
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Child lost her house in fires... Police tell her off
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Start cleaning up our mess...
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This time is very precious, events are unfolding faster than anticipated. If you followed COP 25 and the UK elections it's clear those in power have decided to sacrifice life on Earth for short term profit and that the right wing are controlling the narrative.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/20/2019-has-been-a-year-of-climate-disaster-yet-still-our-leaders-procrastinate?CMP=soc_567
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Modern day slavery and we are all supporters of it.
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Oh, frack that! There's no environmental damage that the climate change conspiracy theorists claim. Keep shopping and cleaning up our mess. Save our global growth economy from environmental concerns.
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Many of the warnings from the scientists probably never escaped the social media echo-chambers. The science does not have the market forces on it's side... The big polluters have demonstrated that they have the money to keep suppressing the truth. State security is observed to be getting more authoritarian as the crisis starts to unfold. Tough times are here already.

"What’s holding back rapid and radical action? Chiefly profit-seeking, future-be-damned fossil fuel corporations, financial systems that invest and trade in them for short term gain, corporate media that entertains and avoids hard truth, and governments bought off by fossil fuel industries and that deny the climate crisis, our own being the worst case, as the world “hurtles” toward untold human suffering."

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-science-is-screaming-2/
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Really impressive interactive Climate Dashboard by MIT - (beta) https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7.6
Really impressive interactive Climate Dashboard by MIT - (beta) https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7.6
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Now you, South Africa, before you can't figure out what to do with the mess.
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Sugar coating the climate crisis is unhelpful. Telling people there is something we can really do to stop it is unfair. We are facing ABRUPT IRREVERSABLE Climate Change.
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She called it necro-politics and the necro-economy
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Watch all of a sudden there will be. A regime change...
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REALLY GOOD ARTICLE PLEASE SHARE 'There are a number of ways that we can ensure new forests are resilient to these impacts. First, having a diversity of species with a wide variety of traits in the forest landscape reduces the risk that a single event will wipe out large parts of the ecosystem. This is because tree species have different resistances and vulnerabilities.'
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'Carbon-fuelled capitalism, enriched by the wealth stolen through colonialism, enabled the countries of Europe and North America to enhance the wellbeing of their populations. The extreme inequalities between the standard of living for the average European (742 million people) and the average Indian (1.4 billion people) is as stark as it was a century ago. The reliance by China, India and other developing countries on carbon – particularly coal – is high; but even this use of carbon has not raised the per capita emissions of China and India above that of the US, whose per capita emissions are almost twice as much as China’s per capita emissions.'
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Exemptions.....
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'When seen from this perspective, everything becomes clearer. In the face of the climate crisis, the main priority of the global ruling class and its political servants is to batten down the hatches. Publicly, they’re telling school kids not to worry about the future. Behind the scenes, however – in the cabinet offices, boardrooms, mansions and military high commands – they’re hard at work, planning for a future in which they can maintain their power and privilege amid the chaos and destruction of the burning world around them.

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We’re not, as some in the environment movement argue, “all in this together”. There are many ways in which the wealthy minority at the top of society are already protected from the worst climate change impacts. Big corporations can afford to spend millions on mitigating climate change risks – ensuring their assets are protected so they can keep their business running even during a major disaster. Businesses and wealthy individuals can also protect themselves by taking out insurance policies that will pay out if their property is damaged in a flood, fire or other climate-related disaster.

The rich are also protected from climate change on a more day to day level. They tend to live in the leafiest suburbs, in large, climate-controlled houses. They have shorter commutes to work, where, again, they’re most often to be found in the most comfortable, air-conditioned buildings. They’re not the ones working on farms or construction sites, in factories or warehouses – struggling with the increasing frequency of summer heatwaves. They’re not the ones living in houses with no air conditioning, sweating their way through stifling summer nights. They have pools and manicured lawns and can afford their own large water tanks to keep their gardens green in the hot, dry summer months.

What about in the most extreme scenarios, where what we might call the “natural defences” enjoyed by the wealthy are bound to fail? What happens when the firestorms bear down on their country retreats or rising seas threaten their beach houses? Money, it turns out, goes a long way. In November 2018, for instance, when large areas of California were engulfed in flames, and more than 100 people burned to death, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian hired their own private firefighting crew to save their US$50 million Calabasas mansion.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the city’s wealthiest residents evacuated well in advance and hired a private army of security guards from companies such as Blackwater to protect their homes and possessions from the mass of poor, mainly Black residents who were left behind. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill went to the city in the aftermath of the hurricane and witnessed first-hand the highly militarised and racialised nature of the response. One security contractor, hired by a local businessman, told Scahill his team had been fired on by “Black gangbangers”, in response to which the contractors “unleashed a barrage of bullets in the general direction of the alleged shooters ... ‘After that, all I heard was moaning and screaming, and the shooting stopped. That was it. Enough said’”.

In the event of disaster, the response of the rich hasn’t been to work with others to ensure the collective security of all those affected. It has been to use all resources at their disposal to protect themselves and their property. And increasingly, as in New Orleans, this protection has come in the form of armed violence directed at those less well off – people whose desperation, they fear, could turn them into a threat.

The most forward thinking of the super-rich are aware that we’re heading toward a future of ecological and social break-down. And they’re keen to keep ahead of the curve by investing today in the things they’ll need to survive. Writing in the Guardian in 2018, media theorist and futurist Douglas Rushkoff related his experience of being paid half his annual salary to speak at “a super-deluxe private resort ... on the subject of ‘the future of technology’”. He was expecting a room full of investment bankers. When he arrived, however, he was introduced to “five super-wealthy guys ... from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world”. Rushkoff wrote:

“After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own ... Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? ... Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: ‘How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?’

“The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down ... They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for survival.”

There’s a reason these conversations go on only behind closed doors. If your plan is to allow the world to spiral towards mass death and destruction while you retreat to a bunker in the south island of New Zealand or some other isolated area to live out your days in comfort, protected by armed guards whose loyalty you maintain by threat of death, you’re unlikely to win much in the way of public support. Better to keep the militarised bunker thing on the low-down and keep people thinking that “we’re all in this together” and if we just install solar panels, recycle more, ride to work and so on we’ll somehow turn it all around and march arm in arm towards a happy and sustainable future.

The rich don’t have to depend only on themselves. Their most powerful, and well-armed, protector is the capitalist state, which they can rely on to advance their interests even when those may conflict with the imperative to preserve some semblance of civilisation. This is where people like Morrison come in. They’re the ones who have been delegated the task, as Karl Marx put it in the Communist Manifesto, of “managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”. In the context of climate change, this means taking the steps necessary to ensure the continued ability of the capitalist class to profit even if the world may be unravelling into ecological breakdown and social chaos.

There are three main ways in which Australia and other world powers are working toward this. First, they’re building their military might – spending billions of dollars on ensuring they have the best means of destruction at their disposal to help project their power in an increasingly unstable world. Second, they’re building walls and brutal detention regimes to make sure borders can be crossed only by those deemed necessary to the requirements of profit making. Third, they’re enhancing their repressive apparatus by passing anti-protest laws and expanding and granting new powers to the police and security agencies to help crush dissent at home.

Military strategists have been awake to the implications of climate change for a long time. As early as 2003, in a report commissioned by the Pentagon, US researchers Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall argued that “violence and disruption stemming from the stresses created by abrupt changes in the climate pose a different type of threat to national security than we are accustomed to today. Military confrontation may be triggered by a desperate need for natural resources such as energy, food, and water rather than conflicts over ideology, religion, or national honor. The shifting motivation for confrontation would alter which countries are most vulnerable and the existing warning signs of security threats”.

More recently, a 2015 US Department of Defense memorandum to Congress argued: “Climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water. These impacts are already occurring, and the scope, scale and intensity of these impacts are projected to increase over time”.

The Australian military has also been preparing for an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment driven in part by the impact of climate change. The 2009 Defence White Paper included a section, “New Security Concerns: Climate Change and Resource Scarcity”, which pointed to the vulnerabilities of many countries in our region. The paper was explicit in linking these to a possible increase in “threats inimical to our interests” and suggested that military capabilities would need to be strengthened accordingly. A 2018 Senate inquiry into the implications of climate change for “national security” drew similar conclusions.

Although discussions about military preparedness are often pitched in terms of the need for increased development assistance, disaster relief and so on, the practice of the US, Australian and other military powers over the past few decades leaves little room for doubt as to what their role will be. When they’re not invading countries on the other side of the world – killing hundreds of thousands, reducing cities to rubble and imprisoning and torturing anyone who opposes them – to secure access to fossil fuels, they’re acting as the enforcers of capitalist interests closer to home.

The response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is again a good example. When troops from the US National Guard joined the army of private contractors sent to establish “security” amid the death and destruction of the hurricane’s aftermath, the Army Times described their role as quashing “the insurgency in the city”. The paper quoted brigadier general Gary Jones as saying, “This place is going to look like Little Somalia. We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control”. A similar dynamic was at work in Australia when, in 2007, the Howard government sent troops to establish “order” in remote Indigenous communities as part of the racist Northern Territory Intervention.

The idea that the military could be a force for good in the context of environmental catastrophe and social breakdown is laughable. Whatever the rhetoric, the role of the military is to secure the interests of a nation’s capitalist class amid the competitive global scramble for resources and markets. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had it right when he argued in 1999: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist – McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps”. The military are gangsters for capitalism. And in the future, they’re likely to double down on savagery.

The next way in which the world’s most powerful capitalist states are preparing for climate catastrophe is by massively increasing what’s euphemistically called “border security”. In 2019, Germany celebrated 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event supposedly ushering in a new age of freedom and democracy. In the decades since, however, European countries have built around 1,000 kilometres of new border walls and fences – six times the length of that hated symbol of totalitarianism in Berlin. Most have been constructed since 2015, when millions of Syrians were forced to flee and seek sanctuary in Europe amid a brutal civil war that was triggered in part, at least, by climate change.'
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
Let's start the new day with a joke.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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You see all the system we living under is Insane...
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What does a #JustTransition mean and how can #ExtinctionRebellion help with bring #Accountability for the damage done to the planet by the powers that be? Will those who are suffering see any #Justice or #Reparations?
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
LET”S GET SERIOUS - THE PARTY IS OVER

'As I listened to climate scientist Peter Walker’s devastating analysis of COP 25 in which he made it utterly clear that we are accelerating headlong towards total cataclysm ; as I thought back to Roger Hallam’s fire and brimstone talks about the collapse of civilisation ; as I thought about Greta’s fury at our leaders’ complete lack of recognition of the scale of our predicament; as I then thought about the daily stories of climate catastrophes across the world ; as I thought of the Amazon on fire and Sydney in an apocalyptic haze ; as I thought about the incalculably horrendous scale of the ecocide that we humans are inflicting on our planet ,I realised that, as a Movement , even Extinction Rebellion is in a state of partial denial .
The party is over . It was fun , it was vitally important but it’s over - the days of pink boats and samba bands and yoga in Trafalgar Square and people meekly blocking roads waiting to be arrested are SO inappropriate to the level of the emergency we face , that not only are they no longer helping our cause , but they are reinforcing public opinion that everything is actually OK. We are actually complicit in helping to create a global Bystander Effect : because our behaviour is so normal , so ‘civilised’, so quaint , the public don’t have to begin to engage with the horror which we Extinction Rebellion members have to face on a daily basis - they find it all too easy to dismiss us as a bunch of well-meaning cranks and our statements as hardly worthy of consideration.
Time is running out- we say it , but mostly we don’t act as if it really is . The house is on fire and we are still playing in the bedroom . What we have to do right now is to totally transform our messaging . This really is a fucking emergency . The time for talking has ended . We have to become the prophets of doom - we don’t want the job , but we have no other choice . This is a fucking emergency. We have to make people uncomfortable , we have to make them shit their pants .We have to wake them up in the night from their nightmares and make them realise that their waking lives will soon be nightmares, and that for many across the world they already are .
I’m not saying we should abandon our values , far from it ( though I think tearing down a few statues wouldn’t go amiss )- they are the sort of values which will have to underpin the new world we have to create - BUT we’ve got to stop pussy-footing around people for fear of upsetting them, we’ve got to stop shielding people from the truth - even children have to be made aware in no uncertain terms where we adults are leading them unless we act right now.
Of course behind closed doors we need to find ways of regenerating , of avoiding becoming demoralised , even of having fun - but in public we need to find ways to act out the horror and destruction which lie ahead - and we have to carry on doing it until people finally get the message - that we’re telling the truth and that unless they wake the fuck up right now , we’re all fucked .
We are Extinction Rebellion . We have to rebel against extinction . Let’s drop the XR shorthand , lest we forget who we are . It was fear, not a search for a better social life , which made me join Extinction Rebellion - I read the IPCC 2108 report . As it happens , I’ve found that the rebellion is full of wonderful people , who have become essential to my wellbeing in the light of what we have to face together . Community is what helps me face my fear . But fear had to come first , not community .
Let’s not hold a party for the end of the world . Let’s not let it happen. Let’s get serious.'

Grant Stewart Extinction Rebellion Elder
Dec 12, 2019, 2:17 PM
Yes because all the American Oil we using to generate power.
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How can they remember the animals, the birds, the life in the sea? They never saw these things did they? They only know the sterilized landscapes previous generations bequeathed to them.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Elders ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
Busting the Myth of Race altogether.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Busting the Myth of Race altogether.
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All the scientists agree on 1.5 degrees - they say we need to reduce emissions globally urgently. We need a sense of urgency "every year matters" - this #COP25 is another mockery of science setup to fail so that things don't change. We need change - this requires us to acknowledge the danger of the GHG emissions. https://youtu.be/oa13KrOvE2s
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion ZA.
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While Australia is burning their mining companies continue to commit ecocide in Africa. "Australia is a giant in African mining, but its vast — and in some cases deadly — footprint has never been examined.

Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations." https://www.icij.org/investigations/fatal-extraction/
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What a disgrace, the Australian government havnt organized enough masks for their fire fighters. Now they have been forced to crowd fund them. It's time the conservative middle class elements realize the Elite Society doesn't care about them or the working class. Hats off to Australia's Firefighters braving the heat, smoke and flames. Hats up to the groups of volunteers in the forests that are supposed to remain wet all the time but fire has been burning even in those areas. Some are privately owned nature reserves. People can't rely on the benevolence of Elites at this time. Money will become meaningless. Stamping out fires in the tropical jungles of Australia to protect the most ancient ecosystem on the planet seems an entirely voluntary activity. Containing the most ancient genetics from a time when Antarctica and Australia were still attached to South America. As the Antarctic has been under ice for so long its the only piece of that left. The Kaola Bears are now facing functional extinction. They just couldn't get away from the fires fast enough, they couldn't hop from tree to tree fast enough, neither do they readily breed. They can't breed in captivity at all. About 2000 Kaolas burned to death, we will never know exactly, a third of their entire habitat has been destroyed. What will it take for the Australian government to get its head out of the hot sand?
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We can stop using plastic straws and eat plant based food but the war machine keeps grinding. Denel didn't make the top 100 but the modernization of weapons and increasing budgets from Europe, Russia and the USA are indicators that things are getting hotter.
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We wonder what's happening in South Africa in this regard? Not sure about the factual nature of these maps at all, But Sifting through it...'With all of this knowledge of future mapping, do the world’s financial leaders know something we don’t? Consider how many of the richest families have been grabbing up massive amounts of farmland around the world. All property is far away from coastal areas, and in locations conducive to self-survival, farming and coal mining.

It appears that dry territories in the United States such as Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming and Texas are all very popular regions for the wealthiest individuals. Billionaires such as John Malone (currently the largest landowner in America, owns 2,200,000 acres including Wyoming and Colorado), Ted Turner (2,000,000 acres in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico and North Dakota), Philip Anschultz (434,000 acres in Wyoming), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (400,000 acres in Texas) and Stan Kroenke (225,162 acres in Montana) all have amassed major land. Upon further research, many billionaires are preparing for future escape plans with “vacation homes” in remote locations. Many of them also have their private planes ready to depart at a moment’s notice.

Billionaire Bill Gates recently acquired 28,000 acres in Arizona to create his own city called Belmont. According to the company announcement; “Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs.” The company details the plans including; 3,800 acres for office, commercial and retail space, 470 acres for public schools and there are plans for 80,000 residential units. “Belmont will transform a raw, blank land into a futuristic city built around a flexible infrastructure model” added Belmont Properties.

Even a wealthy member of the Mormon church, David Hall reportedly had plans for 20,000 person self-sustained communities throughout the country, including the first in Vermont with a recent 900-acre farmland purchase. The communities would have been called NewVistas, but local opposition killed the development plans.

Internationally, moguls in Australia and New Zealand have been snapping up farmland at record paces. The interest in cattle, dairy and agricultural farms are all proving tempting for self-sustained survival. But more importantly the wealthy are preparing for safe escape havens, stockpiling real estate in dry areas and moving away from the old-school approach of storing food and water. Money and precious metals will be useless, as self sustainable territory will become the new necessary luxury. Many have installed helipads on their properties for easy access and many are buying up Silos and bunkers around the world.'
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We export Uranium, it's likely to be mined in Sub Saharan Africa, or possibly in 4 corners reservation.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The SA Political Forum.
Really great insights into #ClimateJustice and strategies to address issues we are facing.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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#ClimateJustice brilliant speech really helps deeper understanding of the issues we face and strategies going forward well worth watching.
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#ClimateJustice brilliant speech really helps deeper understanding of the issues we face and strategies going forward well worth watching.
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What was once part of a forest now looks like a warn-out carpet.
"Companies operating and exploring in Brazil are mainly after iron ore (the country is the world’s top producer of the steel-making ingredient) and gold, though the nation also holds large reserves of bauxite, manganese and potash. It is also Latin America’s No. 1 oil producer."
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
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March for the dead oceans... 😭
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During the Cold War, Communist Party countries had a worse environmental record than the neoliberal Reaganomics and Thatcherist countries and the economic colonies. The world would not have known about Chernobyl until it was too late, if the workers at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, over 1000KMs away from Chernobyl, didn't pick up the high radiation levels, track it to the USSR and report it to the world. Neoliberals made themselves open to scrutiny, but since the end of the Cold War, they simply don't care about the environment because they don't have to market themselves as a better option to Marxism-Leninism anymore, and more than often, they try to cash in on environmental concerns to destroy the environment even further.
Authoritarian communism scores zero points, neoliberal capitalism scores zero points, and now Scandinavian socialism scores zero points too. We seriously need to decentralise food and even electricity supply to local autonomous grids which integrate, if we want to make a difference. No one can breathe or eat ideologies for control and environmental destruction.
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Then the atmosphere will follow. Someone asked me at the Talk if oxygen was running out. Because I've stated that we running out of oxygen. It wasn't that we were running out of oxygen it was that the ratio of greenhouse gas compared to oxygen is getting smaller. There is less oxygen in th ta way. But it will run out because the living organisms that create the oxygen are dieing out.
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The Victoria Trickle :(
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With bridges and the Sydney Opera House hidden in smog, things are getting worse for Aus. 2 of the 4 natural elements have already been converted into property, despite having not been produced by any human or corporation. Land was the first victim and then natural water running down mountains and springs. If this continues, air (oxygen) will be the next commodity sold to those who can afford it. Only sunlight will be free then.
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The reason goats are not advised unless one wants to clear land. They have atendancy of eating every baby tree in a forest and causing permanent deforestation and dustbowls. The path to perpetual poverty in dry climates. They can climb under, through or over fences, they are very clever and will eat your crops if they escape enclosures. If you graze them on open landscapes and don't keep them running every few minutes they will destroy the land permanently. They can bring deserts and poverty. They encourage hierarchy where usually male led families and tribes are forced to compete with each other for wealth. If you can increase your goat herds and make a quick buck out of it, your neighboring headman does the same, all the vegetation eventually dissapears. We see this strategy used in the middle east for millenia and it caused all the deserts in the middle east, the supposedly fertile crescent. Colonialism removed young Men from the herding responsibility and made them go to school, the landscape suffered incredible losses as goats and cows wandered around endlessly unmanaged. There are huge vast landscapes in South Africa made into dustbowls from pastoral (subsistence farming). People turn to this lifestyle in desperation today, leaving their land and future fuel decimated. Eventually people must leave the land and live in cities on 'Agriculture'. The only form of agriculture that may be sustainable is in large river valleys that periodically flood. In Permaculture the goat plays a very specific role. Goats clear land for you. That's their function. Yes they will clear the land completely and that can be a serious problem. So manage your goats well and your land will be healthy. Over stack them and over graze them they will bring your land to ruin.
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Do you know where all your stuff is coming from?
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Fred Hampton speaking on the International Socialist Revolution.
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Must listen and watch speech from marching on.
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The Male Feminists of Uganda
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'This is not a climate emergency.
This is the result of an extractive system disconnected from the natural world and concerned only with profit and consumption.
Our convenience is killing the life support system that keeps everything alive on this wondrous planet.'
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Mm ore power to the disrupters, always getting bad press, big business making out like it will hurt us if we stop them. We know they only care about their bottom line though
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Cape Town voted world best designed city? Over and over again. The truth is its amazing for about 10 percent of the people living there, another 20 percent experience worse things than the elite and then the other 70 percent live under militarization, violence, overcrowding, lack of development, lack of land... And on a downwards scale. Millions of people do not have proper walls and insulated roofs, the design of townships and informal settlements is atrocious. The sun beats down on the walls of the shacks, there are no trees to hide under during heat. In winter fires catch hold often and burn hundreds of homes at once and flood waters are common. Leaking roofs are common. Insects and rats plague everyone in these areas. Rivers running past are filled with all manner of waste.
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"A fascinating analysis by the social science professor Kevin MacKay contends that oligarchy has been a more fundamental cause of the collapse of civilisations than social complexity or energy demand. Control by oligarchs, he argues, thwarts rational decision-making, because the short-term interests of the elite are radically different to the long-term interests of society. This explains why past civilisations have collapsed “despite possessing the cultural and technological know-how needed to resolve their crises”. Economic elites, which benefit from social dysfunction, block the necessary solutions." #ClimateEmergency
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The problem is exacerbated as hermit crabs use the odour of recently deceased crabs to track down newly available shells, leading to multiple crabs becoming trapped in the same area – in one instance, 526 crabs were found in a single plastic container.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Sadly XR International Base has only South Africa listed. We know XR is strong in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana. Anyways if there is a way to reach out to XR working groups around Africa please let us know.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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'Nature’s Geometry' Scale Linking: Nature’s processes are inherently scale linking, for they intimately depend on the flow of energy and materials across scales. The waste oxygen from blue-green algae is absorbed by a blue whale, whose own waste carbon dioxide feeds an oak tree. Global cycles link organisms together in a highly effective recycling system crossing about seventeen tenfold jumps in scale, from a ten-billionth of a meter (the scale of photosynthesis) to ten thousand kilometers (the scale of the Earth itself). We are predisposed to seeing processes at a single scale, refracted through a single discipline’s language, metaphors, and tools. In practice, this kind of perception is insufficient to capture the underlying phenomena. Suppose we were to determine the characteristic scale of acid rain. Is it the scale of a coal-fired power plant, spewing forth nitrogen and sulfur oxides? Or is it the scale of an individual house, feeding from that power plant? Is it the scale of an unhealthy lake, whose fish are dying as the water grows increasingly acidic? One might argue that the scale is regional, embracing an entire network of power plants. Canadians, angered by the disastrous impacts of American coal plants on their own lakes and forests, believe the scale of acid rain is international. Then again, perhaps we have missed the point: Isn’t the true scale of acid rain molecular, embedded in the intricate process chemistry of coal combustion? It is clear that each of these possible scales of analysis has both some validity and some institutional support. Legions of experts study, respectively, pollution-control measures for power plants, energy-efficient homes, the ecology of lakes undergoing acidification, the atmospheric dynamics of pollution, the international legal implications of acid rain, and the chemistry of coal combustion. Acid rain involves the flow of various contaminants across many levels of scale. If we focus on a single scale, we miss the other scales, and hence miss opportunities to work across them in a unified way to address the problem. The acid-rain example demonstrates that the ecological impacts of design activities cross scales and political jurisdictions. A house, a hydroelectric dam, and a wastewater system have impacts that are not neatly confined to a single scale. What we do at one scale has subtle impacts, both negative and positive, at many other scales. Scale linking reminds us of the wider environmental consequences of our designs. Unless we work with nature’s own finely tuned scale-linking systems, we endanger the stability of life on this planet. We have already increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by one-fourth since preindustrial times, with important implications for the global climate. Even in remote regions, background levels of lead have increased by up to one thousand times. Our industry and agriculture already generate annual flows of heavy metals, sulfur, and other elements that are greater than their natural counterparts. Each stage in the construction of the Koch curve adds subtler detail. The smallest existing level of scale forms a kind of skeleton for the articulation of form at the next, even smaller, level of scale. At each stage, the structure is organized by pushing the middle third of each segment out into a triangle. Since each fragment of the Koch curve is organized by the same processes that shape the whole curve, each fragment resembles the whole curve. In fact, it is easy to see that the Koch curve is made up of four exact 3:1 copies of itself. Fractal geometry is the geometry of scale linking. It connects a remarkable range of scales, from twig to tree, from rivulet to watershed. Even our own bodies are infused with fractal forms: “The lymph system, the small intestine, the lungs, muscle tissue, connective tissue, the folding patterns on the surface of the brain, the calyx filters in the kidney, and the design of the bile ducts—all show [fractal] scaling. This fractal design vastly increases the surface area available for the distribution, collection, absorption, and excretion of a host of vital fluids and dangerous toxins that regularly course through the body.” The available surface area of the lungs or brain increases when viewed at finer and finer scales, just as the length of a coastline does. Since the chemical interactions critical for healthy biological functioning proceed more efficiently when a greater surface area is available, this evolved geometry is appropriate for its task. Convoluted fractal forms are valuable precisely because—unlike spheres—they have extremely high surface-to-volume ratios. In contrast with the standard forms of Euclidean geometry, fractal forms facilitate the flow of energy and materials across multiple scales. Twenty-five years ago, landscape architect and planner Ian McHarg proposed a system of constraint maps that were intended to help planners identify ecologically sensitive areas. His plea for a more responsive method of environmental planning remains just as valid today: “Where planning does occur, its single instrument is zoning and by this device political subdivisions are allocated densities irrespective of geology, physiography, hydrology, soils, vegetation, scenery, or historic beauty. The adoption of the ecological method would at least produce . . . a structure of open space wherein nature performed work for man, or wherein development was dangerous.” Over time, perhaps we will learn to discern the integrities and continuities, the match of geometry and flow, inherent in a region’s geology, hydrology, soils, and vegetation. Our ecological crises have resulted, in part, from a failure to match human flows of energy and materials to the limits of the landscape. The geometry of the landscape is manifested in the distribution of agricultural lands, minerals, wetlands, forests, and other primary resources. We have not followed this geometry. We have overstepped local limits and relied on far-flung ecological subsidies. A good example is provided by the vast water diversion projects that maintain life in desert towns like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas in the US and our own Bloemfontein and Gauteng. While this refusal to acknowledge the limitations of place has many aspects, it is also a design issue. If we impose a Cartesian grid on a fractal landscape, settlements will be too large or small, flows will not be of a sensible scale, and we will compromise the ecological resources we depend on. In contrast, by matching the flows on a landscape to its inherent geometry, we allow ecological patterns to work for us. We can use natural drainage instead of storm drains, wetlands instead of sewage treatment plants, and indigenous materials rather than imported ones. We can work toward a steady convergence of dwelling, design, and the geometry of place. Creating a Design Dialogue Across Scales: Our present level of design integration across scales resembles the profusion of U.S. railroads in the mid-nineteenth century, each with its own gauge of tracks. The courageous cross-continental traveller would frequently transfer from one train to another since the gauges were incompatible. Architects, urban planners, industrial designers—design professionals of all stripes—are clinging to their own gauges, their own scales of interest and expertise. Of course, each field does work at a different scale, and does incorporate certain specialized knowledge, but each must work within a common background of scale-linking processes that cross disciplinary boundaries. The challenge is to create a dialogue that links the insights of designers working at different levels of scale. Without a common gauge, a shared dialogue, we will continue to face the costs associated with rigidly segregated disciplines: mutual incomprehension and designs that work at cross-purposes. In contrast, ecological design is not bound to a particular scale. It provides a way of uniting diverse design perspectives—and the different scales they represent—by testing them against strong ecological constraints. As we connect design across multiple scales, opportunities appear. For instance, we find that environmental planners can work not just for open space, but for critical wildlife corridors spanning biological reserves hundreds of kilometers apart. It is possible to design soaps that not only clean well but are biologically compatible with soils and streams. New glazing technologies, appropriate choices of building materials, and sensible solar siting can together eliminate the need for a conventional heating system. In each case, a wider design dialogue allows a deeper integration of design with nature. What if we were to start with the demand for natural systems? How much land should be allocated to nature? How much to other kinds of open spaces? What ecological, aesthetic, urban design, and recreational functions can they fulfill? This would lead to a different way of structuring urban form, using a fully linked, continuous “green infrastructure,” based on natural systems, and recognizing open space—not as an absence of buildings but as a land use in its own right. . . . A green infrastructure may include natural habitat areas; landforms such as bluffs, valleys, tablelands, beaches, and cliffs; aquifers and recharge areas; rural lands; heritage landscapes; parks, trails, and other open spaces; and archaeological sites. The notion of green infrastructure hints at a holistic approach to pollution, biodiversity, and watershed health, acknowledging that a watershed requires coordinated governance and interdisciplinary approaches. From Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan’s ‘Ecological Design’
'Nature’s Geometry' Scale Linking:
Nature’s processes are inherently scale linking, for they intimately depend on the flow of energy and materials across scales. The waste oxygen from blue-green algae is absorbed by a blue whale, whose own waste carbon dioxide feeds an oak tree. Global cycles link organisms together in a highly effective recycling system crossing about seventeen tenfold jumps in scale, from a ten-billionth of a meter (the scale of photosynthesis) to ten thousand kilometers (the scale of the Earth itself).

We are predisposed to seeing processes at a single scale, refracted through a single discipline’s language, metaphors, and tools. In practice, this kind of perception is insufficient to capture the underlying phenomena. Suppose we were to determine the characteristic scale of acid rain. Is it the scale of a coal-fired power plant, spewing forth nitrogen and sulfur oxides? Or is it the scale of an individual house, feeding from that power plant? Is it the scale of an unhealthy lake, whose fish are dying as the water grows increasingly acidic? One might argue that the scale is regional, embracing an entire network of power plants. Canadians, angered by the disastrous impacts of American coal plants on their own lakes and forests, believe the scale of acid rain is international. Then again, perhaps we have missed the point: Isn’t the true scale of acid rain molecular, embedded in the intricate process chemistry of coal combustion?

It is clear that each of these possible scales of analysis has both some validity and some institutional support. Legions of experts study, respectively, pollution-control measures for power plants, energy-efficient homes, the ecology of lakes undergoing acidification, the atmospheric dynamics of pollution, the international legal implications of acid rain, and the chemistry of coal combustion. Acid rain involves the flow of various contaminants across many levels of scale. If we focus on a single scale, we miss the other scales, and hence miss opportunities to work across them in a unified way to address the problem.

The acid-rain example demonstrates that the ecological impacts of design activities cross scales and political jurisdictions. A house, a hydroelectric dam, and a wastewater system have impacts that are not neatly confined to a single scale. What we do at one scale has subtle impacts, both negative and positive, at many other scales. Scale linking reminds us of the wider environmental consequences of our designs.

Unless we work with nature’s own finely tuned scale-linking systems, we endanger the stability of life on this planet. We have already increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by one-fourth since preindustrial times, with important implications for the global climate. Even in remote regions, background levels of lead have increased by up to one thousand times. Our industry and agriculture already generate annual flows of heavy metals, sulfur, and other elements that are greater than their natural counterparts.

Each stage in the construction of the Koch curve adds subtler detail. The smallest existing level of scale forms a kind of skeleton for the articulation of form at the next, even smaller, level of scale. At each stage, the structure is organized by pushing the middle third of each segment out into a triangle. Since each fragment of the Koch curve is organized by the same processes that shape the whole curve, each fragment resembles the whole curve. In fact, it is easy to see that the Koch curve is made up of four exact 3:1 copies of itself.
Fractal geometry is the geometry of scale linking. It connects a remarkable range of scales, from twig to tree, from rivulet to watershed.

Even our own bodies are infused with fractal forms: “The lymph system, the small intestine, the lungs, muscle tissue, connective tissue, the folding patterns on the surface of the brain, the calyx filters in the kidney, and the design of the bile ducts—all show [fractal] scaling. This fractal design vastly increases the surface area available for the distribution, collection, absorption, and excretion of a host of vital fluids and dangerous toxins that regularly course through the body.”

The available surface area of the lungs or brain increases when viewed at finer and finer scales, just as the length of a coastline does. Since the chemical interactions critical for healthy biological functioning proceed more efficiently when a greater surface area is available, this evolved geometry is appropriate for its task. Convoluted fractal forms are valuable precisely because—unlike spheres—they have extremely high
surface-to-volume ratios. In contrast with the standard forms of Euclidean geometry, fractal forms facilitate the flow of energy and materials across multiple scales.

Twenty-five years ago, landscape architect and planner Ian McHarg proposed a system of constraint maps that were intended to help planners identify ecologically sensitive areas. His plea for a more responsive method of environmental planning remains just as valid today: “Where planning does occur, its single instrument is zoning and by this device political subdivisions are allocated densities irrespective of
geology, physiography, hydrology, soils, vegetation, scenery, or historic beauty. The adoption of the ecological method would at least produce . . . a structure of open space wherein nature performed work for man, or wherein development was dangerous.”

Over time, perhaps we will learn to discern the integrities and continuities, the match of geometry and flow, inherent in a region’s geology, hydrology, soils, and
vegetation.

Our ecological crises have resulted, in part, from a failure to match human flows of energy and materials to the limits of the landscape. The geometry of the landscape is manifested in the distribution of agricultural lands, minerals, wetlands, forests, and other primary resources. We have not followed this geometry. We have overstepped local limits and relied on far-flung ecological subsidies. A good example is provided by the vast water diversion projects that maintain life in desert towns like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas in the US and our own Bloemfontein and Gauteng. While this refusal to acknowledge the limitations of place has many aspects, it is also a design issue. If we impose a Cartesian grid on a fractal landscape, settlements will be too large or small, flows will not be of a sensible scale, and we will compromise the ecological resources we depend on.

In contrast, by matching the flows on a landscape to its inherent
geometry, we allow ecological patterns to work for us. We can use natural drainage instead of storm drains, wetlands instead of sewage treatment plants, and indigenous materials rather than imported ones. We can work toward a steady convergence of dwelling, design, and the geometry of place.

Creating a Design Dialogue Across Scales:

Our present level of design integration across scales resembles the profusion of U.S. railroads in the mid-nineteenth century, each with its own gauge of tracks. The courageous cross-continental traveller would frequently transfer from one train to another since the gauges were incompatible. Architects, urban planners, industrial designers—design professionals of all stripes—are clinging to their own gauges, their own scales of interest and expertise.

Of course, each field does work at a different scale, and does incorporate certain specialized knowledge, but each must work within a common background of scale-linking processes that cross disciplinary boundaries. The challenge is to create a dialogue that links the insights of designers working at different levels of scale. Without a common gauge, a shared dialogue, we will continue to face the costs associated with rigidly segregated disciplines: mutual incomprehension and designs that work at cross-purposes.

In contrast, ecological design is not bound to a particular scale. It provides a way of uniting diverse design perspectives—and the different scales they represent—by testing them against strong ecological constraints. As we connect design across multiple scales, opportunities appear. For instance, we find that environmental planners can work not just for open space, but for critical wildlife corridors spanning biological reserves hundreds of kilometers apart. It is possible to design soaps that not only clean well but are biologically compatible with soils and streams. New glazing technologies, appropriate choices of building materials, and sensible solar siting can together eliminate the need for a conventional heating system. In each case, a wider design dialogue allows a deeper integration of design with nature.

What if we were to start with the demand for natural systems? How much land should be allocated to nature? How much to other kinds of open spaces? What ecological, aesthetic, urban design, and recreational functions can they fulfill? This would lead to a different way of structuring urban form, using a fully linked, continuous “green infrastructure,” based on natural systems, and recognizing open space—not as an absence of buildings but as a land use in its own right. . . .

A green infrastructure may include natural habitat areas; landforms such as bluffs, valleys, tablelands, beaches, and cliffs; aquifers and recharge areas; rural lands; heritage landscapes; parks, trails, and other open spaces; and archaeological sites.

The notion of green infrastructure hints at a holistic approach to pollution, biodiversity, and watershed health, acknowledging that a watershed requires coordinated governance and interdisciplinary approaches.

From Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan’s ‘Ecological Design’
Dec 5, 2019, 9:53 AM
Faced with the undeniable climate crisis and the false solutions proposed by multilateral spaces that have been co-opted by the transnational business sector and supported by governments, the meeting was organised by the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), the Observatory of Mining Conflicts of Latin America (OCMAL) together with War on Want and Mining Watch Canada.

We consider:

That national and transnational companies and governments, mainly of the industrialised North, are those truly responsible for environmental breakdown due to their extractive activities in search of capitalist accumulation and the promotion of consumerism.

That the current discourse around the climate crisis places the blame on individual responsibility, thereby distracting the attention from those most responsible.

That the peoples, communities and organisations that resist these extractive activities – in defence of life, water and territories – are stigmatised, repressed, criminalised and murdered.

That companies and extractivist governments are the ones who commit true criminal acts against all forms of life, violating Human Rights and the Rights of Nature.

That mining extractivism in all its phases causes ecocide and ethnocide in the different territories where it operates.

That hidden behind the discourse of the 'energy transition' is a program of economic growth for the Global North which threatens to exponentially increase sacrifice zones under the auspices of guaranteeing the supply of minerals for so-called 'green' technologies. This will come at the cost of the exploitation of our territories and communities, all while intensifying the ecological crisis.

That the recent panic surrounding the climate crisis in the Global North can only ever be understood in the context of the struggles present in our urban and rural communities of the Global South, who have been resisting the intersecting social and ecological crises since the inception of colonialism. This panic cannot impose false solutions or reproduce extractivism.

That the climate crisis, as part of an ecological crisis, is a condition of the capitalist world development model.

We denounce:

Any attempt by mining companies to benefit from the climate crisis using deceptive initiatives such as: “inclusive tailings”, and the ‘adoption’ of environmental liabilities, Responsible Mining, Green Mining, Sustainable Mining, Ecological Mining, Clean Mining, Climate Smart Mining, Future Smart Mining, offsetting mechanisms for social and environmental damages, Green Economy and any other concept that seeks to wash its image or perpetuate impunity.

The actions of governments and corporations that dismember, divide, privatise, auction-off and commercialise nature and our territories to turn them into resources, merchandise or environmental services.

Visions of a transition which reproduce extractivist capitalism, including those focused on the nationalisation of minerals and oil and do not guarantee structural changes.

Any appropriation of local knowledge, expertise and wisdom by mining companies and governments to encourage extractive activities.

That extractivist companies, in addition to exploiting the environment, also engage in widespread corruption, eliminating trust in public institutions and the functioning of the judicial system.

That to date, the COPs have failed to provide real solutions to address climate injustice and inequality caused by predatory extractivism. Instead they have, under the pressure of Northern countries, made decisions in the interests of the economic model which is responsible for the ecological and climate crisis.

We recognise:

That the strength to face this crisis lies with young people, women, communities and organisations, movements and territories.

That our anti-capitalist struggle is also a decolonial, anti-patriarchal and anti-racist struggle.

That the true knowledge-keepers of territories are those who have historically inhabited them.

That nature is a subject of rights and recognition of this is a global necessity.

The self-determination of peoples to resist and say "no" to the invasion of mining companies in their territories.

We will fight

So that ecological justice emerges from the territories where the processes to protect life, water, ecosystems and Mother Earth are increasingly threatened and impacted by predatory extractivist capitalism.

To strengthen and respect the autonomy of communities and their organisations to define solutions in the framework of justice and equity based on nature, the planet and humanity.

For the respect of the Indigenous peoples, peasants and other communities, who are the guardians of their territories.

To cease the auctioning of mining and oil concessions in our territories.

Alongside frontline resistance to mega-mining and processes which seek mining-bans.

To ensure that mining companies which have benefited from the looting of nature are fully liable for mine-closure processes, and that integral repair of the territory arises from collective and participatory processes led by affected communities.

So that environmental catastrophes, pollution, murders and any other violation in territories affected by mining companies are recognised for what they are: crimes. It is urgent to develop binding policies and mechanisms to confront the generalised impunity enjoyed by companies, their owners, their executives and their financial centres.

To strengthen organisations and movements that fight in defence of the territories.

To develop regional solidarity and agreements to ensure food, energy and economic sovereignty.

To defend water in all its states as a source of life.

To sow, celebrate and strengthen territories free of mining.

Signatories:

Asamblea por la Defensa del Elki (Chile/Elqui)
Acción Ecológica (Ecuador/Quito)
Asamblea por el Agua del Guasco Alto (Chile/Huasco)
Belén dice NO a la minería (Chile/Arica)
CENSAT Agua Viva (Colombia/Bogotá)
Centro de Documentación e Información Bolivia (CEDIB) (Bolivia/Cochabamba)
Centro de Investigación sobre Inversión y Comercio (CEICOM) (El Salvador/ San Salvador)
Codemaa (Chile/Atacama)
Comunidad Indígena Diaguita Patay Co (Chile/Huasco)
Coordinadora Ambiental Valles en Movimiento Limarí – Monte Patria (Chile/Limarí–Monte Patria)
Coordinadora Penco-Lirquén (Chile/Penco-Lirquén)
Coordinadora por la Defensa del Río Loa y la Madre Tierra (Chile/Calama)
London Mining Network (Reino Unido/Londres)
Movimiento por las Sierras y Aguas de Minas Gerais (Brasil/ Minas Gerais)
Mesa Comunal de Turismo Monte Patria y Limarí (Chile/Monte Patria - Limarí)
Mining Watch Canada (Canadá/Ottawa)
Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en América Latina (OCMAL) (Chile/Santiago)
Observatorio Conflictos Mineros de Zacatecas (OCMZAC) (México/Zacatecas)
Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela (OEPV) (Venezuela/Caracas)
Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales (OLCA) (Chile/Santiago)
Observatorio Plurinacional de Salares Andinos (OPSA) (Chile/Atacama)
Putaendo Resiste (Chile/Putaendo)
Red de Afectados por la Vale (Brasil/Minas Gerais, Brumadinho)
Red de Mujeres El Loa (Chile/Calama)
War on Want (Reino Unido/Londres)https://theecologist.org/2019/dec/02/cop25-social-movements-and-climate-justice?fbclid=IwAR1SudurC1HK5xQ46BQLqK7D8pdTIzlypyH7L7k12c_biMkj7XJRq0QAUdo
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Growth and development should start at your doorstep. here are some starting pointers.
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The unseen changes in our waters.I would highly recommend watching Coral Chasing, the Documentary is narrated around the Coral conditions and is up to date.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
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#ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateJustice speaking truth to power. #OneSky https://www.groundup.org.za/article/protesters-call-jse-act-climate-change/
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Who are you?
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There is so much value to our poop its worth $1.6 billion to $9.5 billion.
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These heavily subsidized farmers are protesting against progressive environmental laws. This is agribusiness artificially propped up and fully supporting fossil fuel farming methods... however farmers have to be part of the solution. What is happening to the future of food as the impact of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss begins to be felt?

"The country's environment minister, Svenja Schulze, said the government is willing to talk to farmers but insisted that they, too, need to play their part in protecting the environment.

'Farmers need to be part of the solution,' she told reporters in Berlin, citing the excessive levels of fertilizer in drinking water and the dramatic decline in insect numbers as issues that farmers should be concerned about."
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The scale of Fossil Fuel extraction is beyond imagination...
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi shared an episode of War On Our Future.
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The Industrial North have been trying to secure Lithium reserves to please their People. As time goes on the global climate strikes are appearing more and more to be a distraction from what is happening to Indigenous people around the world. It's far nicer to listen to Greta than peasants in Bolivia for example. In order to build the renewable smart grid cities for Europe they need more specific resources. Colonialism has only changed its image but not its intentions.
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"Say “battery,” and most people think of the device that powers our phones, our laptops, and — maybe if they’re being ambitious — our electric vehicles. But it’s time to think bigger: at their core, batteries are simply a way to store energy, and, with some creativity, they’re capable of powering electric vehicles, houses, and entire cities.

There’s the Tesla batteries acting as backup for a wind farm in Australia. There’s PG&E building the world’s biggest battery in California to store electricity for its grid. And there’s the $3 billion project to turn the Hoover Dam into one big battery."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/14/17674744/giant-batteries-power-energy
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Very interesting... Want to chance a guess as to what's under the ground of the countries that are burning. . .? You don't need to be an investigative journalist to connect the dots either, most of the countries on fire are actually listed in this article. . .

COPPER
Like neodymium, copper isn’t scarce, but we need a lot of it. Basically anything that has an on-off switch includes copper, thanks to its incredible ability to conduct electricity, and we haven’t found a better alternative yet.

The tricky part about copper extraction is finding areas where the metal is concentrated in large enough amounts that are close to the surface, says Mary Poulton, co-director of the Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources at the University of Arizona. It can be difficult to find large deposits in the first place, and then it can take ages to get permits and actually start production. “For the most part, we’re mining deposits that we found in the late 1800s and in many cases we’ve been mining those same deposits for the entire time,” says Poulton.

The first step to finding new deposits is to look at where copper has already been discovered. “We have this saying in exploration that if you’re hunting elephants, hunt in elephant country,” says Poulton. Then, geologists will look at existing reports done by governments and universities and work with geophysics and geochemists to predict the probability of deposits.

Once a copper deposit has been located, the next step is getting it out of the ground, and new tech is starting to gain a foothold in this old industry. Two areas in Arizona are testing a method of mining copper without digging a hole, using a method called in situ leaching. Instead of excavating the materials and then processing, miners build wells and then pump a weak acid solution into the ground, and that solution dissolves the copper out of the minerals. Next, that solution is pumped out and processed to get the copper, and the miners flush clean water through the well field to get rid of as much acid as possible. “We’re watching very closely to see how that will work” because it could be better for the environment than traditional underground mining, says Poulton. (That said, the acid solution can still disturb the land.)

Robots are also getting in on the action. Already, mines in remote areas like Western Australia and South America’s Atacama Desert use mining robots. New copper resources will likely be found at even greater depths — like 7,000 feet below the surface — which means they’ll be hotter and the rocks will be under extreme pressure. That means we’ll require more engineering to build a stronger copper-mining robot capable of dealing with the extreme conditions.

LITHIUM AND COBALT
If you build a massive renewable energy infrastructure, you’re going to want some storage capacity to go with it. After all, people don’t just want electricity when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. One ambitious solution is to use giant lithium-ion batteries, like a type being tested right now in South Australia.

Lithium is key for basically all rechargeable batteries, and there are two ways to get it right now, says Andrew Miller, a lithium analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. One method that’s popular in South America is to evaporate it out of brine under a lake. For example, the world’s largest source of lithium is Chile’s Salar de Atacama lake. Lithium can also be extracted from spodumene, a hard-rock resource mostly found in Australia.

More spodumene mines are popping up as the battery market grows. Miller predicts that though South America and Australia will remain key, mines will start opening in places like Canada, North Carolina, and Nevada in the US; the United Kingdom; and the Czech Republic. “You’ll see that pressure from consumers who don’t want to be too heavily dependent on one or two parts of the world, particularly when they’re making multi-billion investments in US or Europe or places without much lithium production,” he says.

Meanwhile, when it comes to cobalt — another key component of rechargeable batteries — “it’s going to be very hard for anywhere but the Democratic Republic of the Congo to dominate,” says Caspar Rawles, a cobalt analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Cobalt is one of the most expensive materials in a battery, and it’s also mined under conditions that often violate human rights. Last year, 70 percent of the world’s cobalt came from the DRC, a country that has been a target of widespread criticism for its labor practices, such as using children as young as six to work in cobalt mines. Scientists and startups are rushing to create a cobalt-free battery, and Elon Musk even tweeted that he wanted to get cobalt out of his batteries, but that looks unlikely for now."

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/15/18226210/energy-renewables-materials-mining-environment-neodymium-copper-lithium-cobalt
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The SA Political Forum.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” - Aldo Leopold
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Brotherhood ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in United Front.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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'Citigroup’s top economist Willem Buitler said in 2011 that the water market will soon be hotter the oil market (for example, see this and this):

“Water as an asset class will, in my view, become eventually the single most important physical-commodity based asset class, dwarfing oil, copper, agricultural commodities and precious metals.”
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Oops! "Green" capitalism's PR to cash in on environmental concerns, backfires.😆😁🤣😍
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Coming to understand groundwater...
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
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What is a blue ocean event? Will it happen? When will it happen? What will it mean if it happens, and how far off is a blue ocean event? https://youtu.be/qo3cznpfIpA
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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We missed our monthly news roundup for November partly because of a series of unfortunate events among volunteers including burnout but we did do the research so might just put out two next time. This post is about reporting in the media and the continued support of climate denial in the mainstream which is already resulting in a lack of proper action. We can observe how our politicians are trading our water for coal, gas and oil and contemplate what this means for millions of South Africans especially those in rural areas who need local water and are often displaced by mining interests.

South Africa has very low climate literacy compared to the rest of the world (about 18% literacy), this is largely a failure of our media and shows the extent of corporate control of the media.
Even in the face of immense suffering, mass migration, food insecurity, water insecurity, increasing extreme weather events and new diseases South African media still pushes
a endless growth narrative for their neoliberal owners. We should no longer tolerate the editors that allow this.

If there is any risk that temperatures may rise enough to kill vulnerable groups in our country this will have happened with the blessings and complicity of our mainstream media. Even SABC news is reporting inaccurately despite our scientists being very clear about the situation we face.

Regardless of the lack of literacy the reality of climate breakdown is unfolding as we see more and more extreme weather events and more people suffering and displaced.

Is capitalism coming to the rescue or should we consider a more compassionate system that will not polarize the haves and have nots quite as significantly?

What is the impact of the stresses of ecological collapse, emerging Eco-apartheid, social justice deficit and inequality on our national psyche?

Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15- to 29-year-olds globally, and South Africa’s rising statistics call for fast intervention. The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) reports that 17.6% of teens had considered attempting suicide and over 20% of 18-year-olds
have had one or more suicide attempts.

SADAG Operations Director, Cassey Chambers says: “The youth are not equipped with enough coping skills or support structures to handle the kind of problems that they have to deal with every day.” @[335962293097734:274:The South African Depression and Anxiety Group]

http://www.sadag.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3045%3Asa-has-sixth-highest-suicide-numbers-in-africa&catid=92&Itemid=154

https://www.capetownetc.com/news/sa-has-sixth-highest-suicide-numbers-in-africa/

When journalists in our mainstream media are misrepresenting both IPBES and UN IPCC reports is very bad journalism and showing articles which were published in 2014 referencing a report released in 2018 just shows the extent of the media manipulation and level of ignorance including the editor. Luckily not all readers are so clueless as to swallow the nonsense but many are and this is bad journalism @[764993440299324:274:SAEditorsForum - SANEF]

What the IPCC's latest report says about food security (Chapter 5) is that they believe with high certainty that changes in temperature and rainfall as well as increased extreme weather will have severe impacts on global food supplies.

Observed climate change is already affecting food security through increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and greater frequency of some extreme events
(high confidence).

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/2f.-Chapter-5_FINAL.pdf

Food security will be increasingly affected by projected future climate change (high confidence).

Things like new diseases, new fungal infections, new plagues of insects are all attributed to the small increase in tempature. The methane emissions now coming from the permafrost are pushing the atmosphere into new territory chemically and projections are not great.

On the reality of biodiversity loss and how it impacts us there are some amazing scientists working very hard to bring policy makers accurate data:

https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/sa-releases-3rd-biodiversity-report

https://ipbes.net/assessment-reports

https://ipbes.net/system/tdf/spm_deliverable_3a_pollination_20170222.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=15248

On misrepresenting climate scientists in the South African mainstream media - I think this should be shared with those scientists who have been misrepresented so they can have right of reply. For example Tasmin Edwards has produced some great media for XR here is a podcast. But her name was used and the name of her blog in a way which obscures the message she is bringing to the world through her work.

https://noplanetb.podbean.com/e/s01e06-tamsin-edwards-kings-college-london/

Tasmin has a blog which is called "All the models are wrong" which has been the case as we can see the observable data is far worse than our most frightening models. For example we never predicted that we would have lost so much of the Arctic and Ant-arctic ice by now - we 90 years ahead of models... and we also predicted that the methane time bomb would happen in many years to come.

The links between the ecosystems on Land and in the Oceans are really well explored by the latest reports. The summary for policy makers from the Cryposphere report is detailed and leaves little doubt that we face certain fundamental changes already.

"Since the mid-20th century, the shrinking cryosphere in the Arctic and high-mountain areas has led to predominantly negative impacts on food security, water resources, water quality, livelihoods, health and well-being, infrastructure, transportation, tourism and recreation, as well as culture of human societies, particularly for Indigenous peoples (high confidence). Costs and benefits have been unequally distributed across populations and regions. Adaptation efforts have benefited from the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge (high confidence). "

This post is also urging activists to please promote good research and science. We have a big responsibility if we publish media to an open and honest call for action in the face of this existential threat. #UniteBehindTheScience #FridaysForFuture #ExtinctionRebellion

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-07-04-antarctic-sea-ice-in-sudden-and-dramatic-decrease/

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-global-ocean-methane-emissions-dominated.html

https://report.ipcc.ch/srocc/pdf/SROCC_SPM_Approved.pdf
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The loss of biodiversity is noted in this report compiled by over 480 scientists in South Africa from this report released in October 2019. Please keep reading and stay informed.

"The report adds to the significant global scientific evidence that nature is declining worldwide at rates unprecedented in human history."

https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/sa-releases-3rd-biodiversity-report
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#Durban: Please join us next Friday for Durban's activation for the #GlobalClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture
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The article by phys.org called "Climate change is bringing a new world of Australian bushfires", says:
"While fire is a normal part of Australia's yearly cycle and no two years are alike, what we are seeing now is absolutely not business as usual.

And although these bushfires are not directly attributable to climate change, our rapidly warming climate, driven by human activities, is exacerbating every risk factor for more frequent and intense bushfires."
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-climate-world-ofaustralian-bushfires.html
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Just 2 weeks ago the air pollution cleared up slightly in New Delhi. The supreme is issuing fines and sentences to farmers, urbanites, construction companies, etc. who contribute to air pollution.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/delhi-pollution-schools-reopen-1616231-2019-11-06
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Be thankful for the remaining time, each breath is precious and that we must be kind to each other at this time. One love.

"We may not be able to avert disaster but we can still support each other in it. And that’s why we need to keep on keeping on. Not because we can change the outcome, but because doing this work every day is the right thing to do."

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-20-end-of-life-anxiety-and-finding-meaning-in-a-collapsing-climate/
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This is disgusting. The female officer smiling whilst trying to rip the child from her mother!! Wtf is going on South Africa?!!
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We need lots more of these Maps, for South Africa. Never forget
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Interesting Article here...
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'Carbon emissions may continue to rise, the polar ice caps may continue to melt, crop yields may continue to decline, the world’s forests may continue to burn, coastal cities may continue to sink under rising seas and droughts may continue to wipe out fertile farmlands, but the messiahs of hope assure us that all will be right in the end. Only it won’t.” — Chris Hedges

One thing the climate crisis underscores is that Homo sapiens are not primarily a rational species. When forced to make important decisions, particularly decisions affecting our economic security or socio-political status, primitive instinct and raw emotion tend to take the upper hand.

This is not a good thing if the fate of society is at stake. Take “hope” for example. For good evolutionary reasons, humans naturally tend to be hopeful in times of stress. So gently comforting is this word, that some even endow their daughters with its name. But hope can be enervating, flat out debilitating, when it merges with mere wishful thinking — when we hope, for example, that technology alone can save us from climate change.

As novelist Jonathan Franzen asks: “If your hope for the future depends on a wildly optimistic scenario, what will you do 10 years from now, when the scenario becomes unworkable even in theory?”

We needn’t bother Roger Hallam with this question. He can scarcely be held up as a “messiah of hope.” Quite the contrary. Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has been desperately warning of societal collapse for years.

But on Aug. 15, in a memorable session of the BBC’s HardTalk, Hallam irritated multiple cultural nerves by claiming, on the basis of “hard science,” that six billion people will die as a result of climate change in coming decades.

More specifically, our ruling elites’ inaction and lies on climate change will lead to climate turmoil, mass starvation and general societal collapse in this century. Normally unflappable HardTalk host, Stephen Sackur, just couldn’t wrap his mind around Hallam’s unyielding assertions.

Sackur is no solitary skeptic. UC Davis research scientist Amber Kerr dismisses Hallam outright. The idea that six billion people are doomed to die by 2100 “is simply not correct. No mainstream prediction indicates anywhere near this level of climate-change-induced human mortality, for any reason.”

Similarly, Ken Caldeira, senior scientist, Carnegie Institution, points out, “There is no analysis of likely climate damage that has been published in the quality peer-reviewed literature that would indicate that there is any substantial likelihood that climate change could cause the starvation of six billion people by the end of this century.”

One key to understanding these scientists’ rejections is their language. They assert that there is “no mainstream prediction” nor analysis in the “peer reviewed literature” that climate change will precipitate such catastrophic human mortality.

But keep in mind that scientists are reluctant, for professional reasons, to go far beyond the immediate data in formal publication. Moreover, organizations like the United Nations, including even its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are so dominated by economists’ concerns and bent by political considerations that extraneous noise obscures the scientific signal.

Prominent climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director emeritus of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, argues that, in these circumstances “a trend towards ‘erring on the side of least drama’ has emerged” and “when the issue is the survival of civilization is at stake, conventional means of analysis may become useless.”

Exploring this argument, policy analysts David Spratt and Ian Dunlop conclude, “Climate policymaking for years has been cognitively dissonant, ‘a flagrant violation of reality.’ So it is unsurprising that there is a lack of understanding amongst the public and elites of the full measure of the climate challenge.”

It seems that in mainstream scientific publications and official reports, the truth about climate change and the fate of civilization may be buried deeply between the lines.

Fortunately, there are other contexts in which experts are not quite so reticent and whose assertions echo Roger Hallam’s. As much as a decade ago a climate symposium organized to discuss the implications of a 4 C warmer world concluded, “Less than a billion people will survive.” Here Schellnhuber is quoted as saying: “At 4 C Earth’s... carrying capacity estimates are below 1 billion people.” His words were echoed by professor Kevin Anderson of the U.K.’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change: “Only about 10 per cent of the planet’s population would survive at 4 C.”

Similarly, in May of this year, Johan Rockström, current director of the Potsdam Institute opined that in a 4 C warmer world: “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that.... There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” Meanwhile, greenhouse gas concentrations are still increasing.

Keep in mind that a global temperature increase averaging 4 C means land temperatures would be 5.5 to 6 C warmer away from the coasts. Much of the tropics would be too hot for humans and many densely populated parts of the temperate zone would be desertified. A 4 C warmer world map suggests that as much as half the planet would become uninhabitable. (A ‘4 C world’ assumes business-as-usual or no new climate policies in coming decades. Note, however, that known and unknown ‘feedback’ mechanisms could make 4 C possible, even with new politically acceptable policies in place.)

In a recent review of this debate and related evidence, David Spratt asks (and answers): “So did Roger Hallam ‘go too far’? Not at all, there is serious research and eminent voices in support of his statements. The gross error in all of this are all those who cannot countenance this conversation.”

Making forbidden calculations

Which begs the question of whether “all those” would countenance any uncomfortable conversation. Population has long been a forbidden topic despite being at the root of the ecological crisis. Where might a discussion of population ecology lead and would its conclusions be any more politically acceptable?

1. We can begin by gaining some insight into the startling implications of exponential growth. When something is growing exponentially, it has a constant doubling time. For example, a population growing at two per cent a year will double every 35 years. Interestingly, the increase that occurs during any doubling period will be greater than the sum of the increases experienced in all previous doublings.

As the figure below shows, it took 200,000 years for the human population to reach its first billion in the early 1800s. In other words, population growth was essentially negligible for 99.95 of human history. But when sustained exponential growth kicked in, it took just 200 years — 1/1000th as much time — for the population to top 7.5 billion early in this century!

The recent two centuries of population growth generates this classic hockey stick curve. At most, just 10 of 10,000 generations of modern humans have experienced this unprecedented human explosion. Chart by Jonathan von Ofenheim.
2. This population explosion could not have occurred without abundant cheap energy, particularly fossil fuels. Obviously other factors are involved, but energy is essential for humans to produce the food and acquire all the other resources needed to grow both populations and the economy. While human numbers were increasing by a factor of seven, energy consumption grew by a factor of 25 and real gross world product ballooned 100-fold.

3. Because of sometimes super-exponential growth, half of all the fossil energy and many other essential resources ever used have been consumed in just the past 30-35 years. Look no further to explain why human-induced climate change has suddenly become so urgent.

4. The pace of change is unprecedented — the recent spurt of population, economic and consumption growth that people today consider to be the norm actually represents the single most anomalous period in human history.

5. Meantime, Earth hasn’t grown at all — on the contrary, natural life-support has arguably contracted. Global ecological deterioration indicates that the human enterprise has ‘overshot’ long-term carrying capacity. We are currently growing the human population and economy by liquidating once-abundant stocks of so-called ‘natural capital’ and by over-filling natural waste sinks.

Humanity is literally converting the ecosphere into human bodies, prodigious quantities of cultural artifacts, and vastly larger volumes of entropic waste. (That’s what tropical deforestation, fisheries collapses, plummeting biodiversity, ocean pollution, climate change, etc. are all about.)

Corollaries: We will not long be able to maintain even the present population at current average material standards. And, population growth toward 10 billion will accelerate the depletion of essential bioresources and the destruction of life-support functions upon which civilization depends.

6. The recent history of human population dynamics resembles the ‘boom-bust’ cycle of any other species introduced to a new habitat with abundant resources and no predators, therefore little negative feedback. (The real-life example of reindeer herds can be found here.)

The population expands rapidly (exponentially), until it depletes essential resources and pollutes its habitat. Negative feedback (overcrowding, disease, starvation, resource scarcity/competition/conflict) then reasserts itself and the population crashes to a level at or below theoretical carrying capacity (it may go locally extinct).

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The ‘boom-bust’ population cycle. Note the resemblance of the human population growth curve in Fig. 1 to the exponential ‘boom’ phase of the cycle. The world community can still choose to influence the speed and depth of the coming bust phase. Source of graph: Biology: Life on Earth, 8th ed., Fig. 26-3.
7. Some species populations, in simple habitats, cycle repeatedly through boom and bust phases. The height of the boom is called the ‘plague phase’ of such cycles.

8. Hypothesis: Homo sapiens are currently approaching the peak of the plague phase of a one-off global population cycle and will crash because of depleted resources, habitat deterioration and psycho-social feedback, including possible war over remaining ‘assets,’ sometime in this century. (“But wait,” I hear you protest. “Humans are not just any other species. We’re smarter; we can plan ahead; we just won’t let this happen!” Perhaps, but what is the evidence so far that our leaders even recognize the problem?)

9. The crash may be triggered or exacerbated by the depletion or abandonment of economic stocks of fossil fuels. As noted above, modern civilization is a product of, and dependent on, accessible abundant energy. (At present there are no viable alternatives to fossil fuels. Even if we do develop equivalent substitutes for fossil fuel they will, at best, merely delay the crash).

10. The long-term human carrying capacity of Earth — after ecosystems have recovered from the current plague — is probably one to three billion people, depending on technology and material standards of living. (Estimates vary from fewer than a billion to a truly ludicrous trillion.)

11. Getting there would mean five to nine billion fewer people on the planet. This is where we end up after a recovery following either controlled descent or chaotic crash.

Making the looming disaster an election issue

The first thing to take from this analysis is that we are once again playing in Roger Hallam’s death-toll ballpark. But a more important point is that climate change is not the only existential threat confronting modern society. Indeed, we could initiate any number of conversations that end with the self-induced implosion of civilization and the loss of 50 per cent or even 90 per cent of humanity.

And that places the global community in a particularly embarrassing predicament. Homo sapiens, that self-proclaimed most-intelligent-of-species, is facing a genuine, unprecedented, hydra-like ecological crisis, yet its political leaders, economic elites and sundry other messiahs of hope will not countenance a serious conversation about of any of its ghoulish heads.

Climate change is perhaps the most aggressively visible head, yet despite decades of high-level talks — 33 in al — and several international agreements to turn things around, atmospheric CO2 and other GHG concentrations have more than doubled to over 37 billion tonnes and, with other GHG concentrations, are still rising at record rates.

In these circumstances, the only certainty is that the longer we deny reality and delay concerted action, the steeper and deeper the crash is likely to be.

So, where does this leave us? Jonathan Franzen has a suggestion: “You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable.... Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.”

Certainly hope is sterile if unaccompanied by vigorous action that reflects looming reality.

This is an election year in Canada. Ask your candidates — sitting MPs in particular — just how much time they have spent contemplating these issues or debating them in caucus.

What is their party’s plan for the coming great unravelling? [Tyee] '
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At the Emergency Energy Summit in Cape Town earlier this year, we got to hear from the American gas peddlers that in ten years we will be importing gas from the US, to diversify our energy mix. Helen Xille opened the conferance. She was standing there with her pen and she was discussing the future energy mix, turned to me stared me deeply in the eyes and said

"we just need Jeff Rhadebe to sign this off that we can sperate cape towns grid from the rest of the country". It was like she was trying to rope me into her plan, I felt an energetic plea from her. The next guest was the guy responsible for reporting to the Paris Agreement team in March. He clearly stated that cape Town are planning for fossil free by 2050. Phasing out coal in favour of natural to reduce emissions by 2030.

Lily, my daughter asked him "but scientists are telling us we may be extinct by that time already", he and the whole room of people in the conferance let out a nervous laugh. Yes all those businessmen with energy interests had to laugh in nervousness because it's the truth.

Then we heard this women from the US tell us about the future business deal between us and the US. Basically peddling gas from the US to our government. They plan to build a gas pipeline from Saldana to Athlone to be completed in the next decade to supply this gas. A refinery is going to be built in Saldana for petroleum processing. Please if you think this is good news you been dupped. No people will not be able to sell power unless they are a massive multimillion rand company. This is not about the poor communities creating energy from sewerage, wind, or solar and selling it to industry its about them controlling the future of energy in the western cape independently from the National Programme.

The benefit of not being on the national grid will be lost because we still getting extinction technology rolled out. We still will be taxed on our own private solar panels, still can't form cooperatives to build windmills and sell it to Eskom.

This is all about the sale and hand over of our national assets to multinational corporations. What they call the unbundling of Eskom. Where corporations will split the processes of power production, transmission etc into three parts so corpoaryijns can profit three times off our energy, it will be so much more expensive. No where is a wholistic peoples owned energy coming through here. Because if we could all make our own energy we wouldn't need corporations to make it for us. This is their attempt to further control energy and make sure in future everyone pays a corporation for it. So the rich no longer have to pay taxes to support a national energy supply, they can take it all for themselves.

'In a statement on Friday (15 November), the city said it would like to diversify its energy mix for greater energy security and cleaner energy supply while combating rising electricity costs and the impact of climate change.'
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N2O is laughing gas. It's also a greenhouse gas that's 300 times more potent than CO2. Nobody thought N2O was much of a factor in climate change, but a recent study shows that N2O emitted from melting permafrost are 12 times larger than previously thought. This is significant. And what's more, N2O molecules attack the ozone layer.'
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#NoToMiningRareEarthMineralsFor5GTech #NoToMassInsectDeath #NoToCellMastsNearSchoolsAndResidentialAreas #NoToIllnessAndDisease

"If the telecommunications industry’s plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels of RF radiation that are tens to hundreds of times greater than what exists today, without any possibility of escape anywhere on the planet. These 5G plans threaten to provoke serious, irreversible effects on humans and permanent damage to all of the Earth’s ecosystems.

#Mobilize! - This #National event will be a warm up for the 5G GLOBAL PROTEST DAY 25th January 2020 - https://web.facebook.com/groups/548912049259423/
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The corporations want a state with no power. No Army, private army is bigger, no air ways, private is better, no energy private is always apparently better. What are taxes for? If the whole planet is privatized we no longer have any entity formed for people. Everything in our world is for profit. It will be the end of us. Just when we should be holding corporations more accountable and reducing their powers to stop extinction we opening the doors to privatizing everything in our lives. Everything.
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@[235431370849:69:SDCEA] & Comrades just before the march today.
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"What do Golfrid Siregar, an Indonesian environmental lawyer, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, justice activist, Berta Isabel Cáceres, an indigenous leader from Honduras, and “Bazooka" Radebe, an anti-mining activist from South Africa, have in common? They have all been murdered and those responsible still walk around boldly.

As African Ministers of the Environment prepare to meet for the 17th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), starting today, it is more pressing than ever for them to openly denounce the assassination and intimidation of environmental rights defenders on our continent. The ministers must actively seek to develop legal and practical protection mechanisms for those defending their communities."
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A guest blog from Vicki Robin's, member of the Deep Adaptation Forum.

“Everyone wants community. Unfortunately, it involves other people.” I used that line in lectures on frugal living when talking of the loneliness of consumerism and the benefits of sharing resources. We idealize the good old days of people helping people out. But can we live them, given who we have become?

Individualism is one of the many privileges of ‘the privileged’ in Western society. We have options and choices about where we live, with whom, of what genders, ages or races, whether we are child-free or have a brood, what we eat, what we believe, jobs we’ll accept, and on and on and on. As people look at civilizational breakdown in detail, though, they realize that to survive, other people might not be optional – joining a group, a farm, a small town might be necessary.

Survival is not a solo sport. If it happens, it will happen in community – intentional, multi-generational family, accidental – where we can share the work, grow food, trade, defend ourselves, socialize, learn, teach, repair. Civilization, it turns out, has a lot of services built in that will need to be maintained as long as possible or created anew… or done without.

How do we, who are so accustomed to individualism, enter into a new reality of living in concert with others? Not as a condiment but as a necessity. Not through idealistic eyes but as a sober process of surrendering attachment to the ego’s demands and entering a state of belonging to a people and a place.

I’ve lived in several communities and learned many lessons, surprising ones and hard ones. Here are some ideas for those of you contemplating moving to an existing rural community or forming your own, given your perspective of deep adaptation.

In short…People. Power. Process. Projects. And sex. These will arise in any group that bands together for mutual aid. Best to talk about this – early and often.

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Diversity of perspectives bring depth and wisdom to choices

I lived for a number of years with a team of ten people who had a series of shared goals in a larger context of service to others. I used to describe it as a cross between a monastery and the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

We developed many rituals and lots of mottos (and plenty of shadow). One motto was: “People before Projects and Projects before People’s ‘stuff’.” In other words, our relationships were primary. If our projects turned our relationships into merely team functions and we failed to remember our humanity and care, we would stop and reset. But if our projects were stalled because people indulged in public reactivity (fighting, pouting, gossiping, rejection, etc), we would ask them to work it through within or with one another.

We also developed rituals and simple tools for staying current. At least once a week we’d ‘circle up’ for heart sharing, which is very much like council or a talking stick circle. We’d share dinner daily, a time to catch up. For many groups even this much time together is noxious, but if you are in surviving-together-mode, the need for coordination increases. We also had a bulletin board and a notebook in a central place for messages. These days you’d have a Facebook group – though consider that we may be back to 20th century tools in the future.

Proximity will surely stimulate sexual energies and interests. Sticking in monogamous couples or singles dating responsibly is often the safest, but it’s good to acknowledge that people may well develop powerful feelings for their not-mates. Unacknowledged sexual attractions are wrecking balls for communities. Good communication channels and practices can at least provide ways to process these often-destructive disturbances.

Who makes decisions, and how, can be unexamined and therefore slip towards unequal, sometimes unconscious, power-over. Some conscious groups try to reverse the privilege scale by having women and people of colour speak first and white men later. In council we talk about “be lean of expression” and to not speak again until everyone has spoken once – just two of the rules that help all feel heard and all contributions get made.

In my team we explored a number of personal development paths to become more conscious of ourselves and group dynamics. When we found the Enneagram, we realized that among the ten of us we embodied all nine of the personality-types it describes. The Enneagram is just one language to describe diversity of personalities. The Meyers Briggs framework sorts people out in a similar way along dimensions of introvert/ extrovert, thinking/ feeling, intuitive/ concrete, process oriented/ completion oriented. Organisations often use this tool to help workers get along with impossible others.

We chose to regard our archetypal personalities (or perspectives) as assets to our harmonious functioning and wise decision making. Faced with a choice, we’d have each person reflect briefly on the pros and cons and from this we would most often, with little discussion, hit on a choice with a “ring of rightness”. It wasn’t consensus per se. Sometimes there would be one perspective that captured all of us as right. Sometimes we’d scrap the whole thing. Sometimes we’d see that the idea was good but not ripe. Sometimes we defaulted to the “theory of the strong opinion” – that if one person was passionate and no one objected, they could act with support.

As individuals we often see others as competitors, allies for our cause, or irrelevant to our goals.

For communities with shared goals, such a diversity of perspectives in a container of love and respect is crucial. The goal could be anything from keeping the streets clean and the gardens tended to building a water wheel to generate power, to evolving spiritually while avoiding the cultic tendencies of all groups.

A diversity of talents held in a container of common purpose

Community survival is not the same as survival skills like fire building or hunting. Communities need a range of skills. Gardening, cooking, raising animals for food, fiber and fertility, foraging, turning dandelions (and beets and apples etc) into alcohol, natural building, natural medicine, composting waste, food preservation… and on and on. However, it also needs talents like mediators, meeting facilitators, priests or shamans of all sorts (for confession, for learning from mistakes, for healing from pain, for solace, and on and on), comedians, actors, artists, group game leaders, meditation (and other transformational) teachers, wise-elder leaders, and on and on…

People accustomed to ample space, time and independence will need to have gotten a grip on themselves, their reactivity, their shadow elements, their capacity for forgiveness and apology, and their ability to take a wider view of any circumstance. They will need true sobriety, not just from addictive substances but from any immaturity.

As you gather in a group, intentionally or improvisationally, beware that your current friend network or Facebook group may lack some crucial talents. Liking one another – when you all have separate lives – is no basis for joining forces to move together in anticipation of collapse. A talent inventory can help. If major talents are missing, people need to (joyfully hopefully) step up to learning. The quality of leadership is crucial as all this gets sorted out. Everyone can be a leader in being self-aware and in service to the group. Some are comfortable with holding and distributing power for the sake of the group. But leadership isn’t the same as wielding power.

How to join a village

As people realize how dependent cities are on the surrounding rural communities for food, environmental refugees might migrate. First, one or two early adopters. Then more. And more. You can’t just show up in town expecting open arms and hot meals. Rural communities stick together and take care of their own because that’s how they survive. Trust is earned. Your city ways (how you talk, the assumptions you make, your habits, your expertise) may strike folks as arrogant. You need to do things that people who belong do: show up for the small tasks of daily life, like volunteering in schools, churches, social service agencies. You go to the pancake breakfast and the fish fry. You usher at the local theatre. Or try out for a part. Or join the community choir.

Everything about deeply adapting to an unfolding collapse of modern society will grind away at your preferences and identities. If you think you might be one of the people who moves to a small town or onto a farm with a group of people here are some ways through which you can prepare yourself:

Starting to learn and practice Non-Violent Communication, or any process that teaches you to own your feelings, observing your projections, taming your demand that others change so you might continue to be comfortable, or manipulate and lie.

Joining a board or work on a project team to observe how you function in groups, how you judge others, how you offer your ideas, whether you talk a lot and over-talk others or hang back, your fears of being seen or looking stupid or doing more than your fair share.

Starting to learn some facilitation skills, like council, or active listening (“this is what I heard you say”), or organizing open space (where groups self-organize into interest groups) or consensus.

Starting to learn some coaching skills, how to ask questions and offer practices to others as they find their way. For example, friends and I developed a circle practice called Conversation Cafes that is now used globally.

Beginning or deepening a meditation practice that allows you to witness rather than identify with your thoughts, and to let go of stress, tightness and defensiveness though simply watching your breathing and tracking your thoughts and feelings without interacting with them.

Consider getting some therapy so you experience the beneficial effect of being listened to with warm awareness by someone who sides with you, not your inner critic.

These are suggestions for while the good times are still rolling. When the pressure is on and individuals find themselves in groups for survival – in collective households, in villages, on food lines, in camps – those who are mentally healthy, self-aware and skilled at working with others will be necessary for success. Frictions will arise. The skill is to work with them as they do. These are lessons from voluntary affiliations that can help us as we work to stay alive and keep our people well. To help, Diana Leafe Christian has written a wonderful book, Creating a Life Together, full of deep wisdom and practical advice. Much wisdom from the Eco-Village experiments worldwide has been captured in this excellent book by Karen Litfin, EcoVillages: Lessons for Sustainable Communities.

A final note…

Sh*t happens. As Robert Burnes said, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley:” People fall out of love. People have kids, need to move on, are banished, sink through quarrelling. At the end of the day, maturity is the bottom line. And humility. And good will.'
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"But the greatest damage the satellites will do, which could end life on Earth when they go into service next year, comes from their location in the most vulnerable part of the Earth’s environment: the ionosphere. The ionosphere is a layer of atmosphere that begins at an altitude of about 50 miles above our heads. It is charged to an average of 300,000 volts at all times and it provides the power for the global electrical circuit. The global electrical circuit provides the energy for all living things: it is why we are alive, and it is the source of all health and healing. All doctors of oriental medicine know this, except they call that energy “qi” or “chi.” It flows between sky and Earth and it circulates through our meridians and gives us life. It is electricity. You cannot contaminate the global electrical circuit with millions of pulsed, modulated radio signals without destroying all life.

When the 66 satellites of the Iridium Corporation began providing cell phone service on Wednesday, September 23, 1998, people all over this planet reported headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, nosebleeds, heart palpitations, asthma attacks, and ringing in the ears that began that morning. One person I spoke with said it felt like a knife went through the back of her head early Wednesday morning. Another had stabbing pains in the chest. Birds were not out flying, not even sparrows. Hawks were not out hunting. Thousands of homing pigeons lost their way. The death rate in the United States rose by four to five percent, immediately, and for the next two weeks.

That is what 66 satellites did. What will 41,000, or even 1,000, much more powerful satellites do? The beams from each SpaceX satellite will be about one thousand times as powerful as the beams from each Iridium satellite. We cannot afford to find out what they will do. This needs massive protests, all over this planet. It must not happen. Please contact me if you want to help.
PLANNED GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST

A 5G Global Protest Day is being planned for Saturday, January 25, 2020. In the days leading up to the global event, beginning January 12, various activities are being planned in many nations to raise public awareness about 5G and attract media attention. For example, it has been proposed that the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space should be read at the United Nations, in public, with the media present. It has been proposed by activists in Brussels that there should be an International 5G Moratorium Conference held in Brussels. Brussels should be the host of this conference because Brussels, since March 31, 2019, has stood up for the people and for the Earth and has refused 5G.To organize such a conference, and such a global day of protest, and to mount a media campaign, will require people, and skills, and funds."
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That's why we did public holiday, upper class suburbia roadblock as Extinction Rebellion Mzansi....There are some very good points raised in this Article. We should all read this article if we wish to make this XR thing work now. The situation must be looked at in a Global framework, we must have solidarity with all the struggle of the world. For we are the world, we are the Earth.

Some critical analysis is touching on something else too, in South Africa this may seem more obvious to most. A Global Mass Movement Against the Machine is going to come from community on the ground. It can only grow to the size required by us to change the global political and diplomatic trajectory if it is from the ground up, based on community mass action.

If people are going to be beauracratic, and pandering to funders and foundations, institutions, and that all the time we will loose the dynamism and descend into a purely bourgeois controlled movement. Like the NPO sector so often displays in South Africa.

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'However, the action to shutdown public transport at rush hour exposed many weaknesses in XR’s strategy and decision-making process. This action was undertaken despite principled objections from the majority of rebels. It demonstrated that XR needs to rethink its decision-making processes and find a way to prioritise accountability within a decentralised movement.

This action also demonstrated the truth to some early criticisms of the movement and its messaging - that it chose to ignore the role of capitalism and colonialism in creating the climate crisis.

Thankfully there are groups within XR such as the international Global Justice Rebellion that are pushing XR to include a fourth demand: global climate justice. We hope that this will bring deeper strategic thinking to future actions.

We are heartened that the vast majority of rebels were opposed to this action and that XR values openly challenging itself and the toxic system, as well as reflecting, learning and welcoming everyone.

We ourselves are people of colour (Poc) residing in Europe who have been actively involved in the global climate justice movement for over a decade. Here we offer our analysis of how XR can and must do better.

The strongest weapon of non-violent movements is people power and it is not strategic - neither is it ethical - to alienate marginalised communities.

Maximising arrest

As the grandchildren of those who resisted British colonial rule in South Asia, we wholeheartedly support civil disobedience and know that all successful movements include an element of sacrifice.

But civil disobedience does not necessarily mean arrest. Many civil disobedience movements have managed to achieve change without mass arrests. XR will need to be more agile if it is to keep the authorities, the fossil fuel industry and financiers guessing about what will come next.

For example in Chile, the miners association called for non-cooperation by driving below the speed limit, not sending children to school, and banging pots and pans every evening at 8pm. Through such actions, it became clear that the opposition to Pinochet was growing without forcing people to land in harsh jails.

Fetishisation and glorification of arrests individualises collective acts and belittles how those that look different than the majority of rebels are treated by the police. Focussing on individual arrests plays into a neoliberal focus on personal pursuit and exceptional action, rather than building community. '

Embedding anti-oppression

'While XR has done a phenomenal job of building a movement with strong principles, one that many people feel they can identify with, the ways in which these principles are put into practice has been uneven.

Sending flowers and a thank you note to staff at the Brixton police station, where three young black men died in custody in recent years, is disrespectful towards those who have their rights trampled on daily by the police and the state.

Similarly, asking the courts to prosecute knife-crime rather than non-violent protesters shows a lack of understanding about how institutional racism and austerity measures have impacted communities of colour.

We strongly recommend that rebels participate in a continuous practice of anti-oppression analysis and self reflection, applying this to how they fight for climate justice.

Adapting strategy

Mass action and ‘whirlwind’ moments do not happen in isolation, without outreach or deep community organising - as the Engler brothers point out in their book This is an Uprising. This means that sometimes one has to go slowly at first in order to go fast later.

Additionally, this analysis by Nafeez Ahmed points out that XR has not taken into account the differences between protesting to avert climate crisis and overthrowing authoritarian regimes propped up by the police.

A deeper understanding of the case studies and empirical evidence should have translated into finding weak spots and sympathetic people within the ranks of those sectors primarily responsible for the climate crisis, such as the fossil fuel industry, bureaucrats, banks and insurance companies.'
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Much respect to the great Ziggy Marley, a real visionary and artist with a soul. "Every city, every country rebellion rises!" Adding to the #ExtinctionRebellion soundtrack, love the creativity #CultureDeclaresEmergency #RebelForLife
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'Widely regarded as a champion of the working class, Matapacos first showed up in 2010, just as students began organizing for free education. The young radicals knew him as a faithful comrade who endured tear gas and water cannons, and who only ever attacked or barked at pacos (Chilean slang for cops). Over the next few years, he became ubiquitous at events that brought together groups from the Central University of Chile, the University of Santiago de Chile, and the Metropolitan University of Technology. Tributes from this time include a documentary by Saint Tomás University students and a mural at the USACH School of Journalism by artists from 12 Brillos.

Artists continue to transform Matapacos into a contemporary Chilean folk hero by sharing their own designs and photos of other people’s posters, flags, and murals. A symbol of revolt in black and red — the colors of anarcho-syndicalism — Chile’s beloved protest dog represents instinctive duty, a natural tendency to stand up and fight back. The good boy passed away from old age in 2017, but his legacy endures as Chile’s population faces the same oppression.'

Dog shows us the way, the most ancient of Egyptian and many other Legends, is of how dogs have gaurded the secrets of the universe, finding hidden treasures, tunnels and lost friends. Their loyalty and endurance standing the test of time. NEGRO MATAPACOS is one such character embodies this right out of the mythos into the streets. Long Live the memory of MATAPACOS.
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We wonder if Afriforum is as benevolent an organization as it makes out. It's based on protecting the interests of farming like this, it's outright terrorism against future generations. Afriforum better start telling us how they are going to preserve our water supplies and topsoil. How we will grow tree agriculture and stop desertification. The farmers they represent are doing more damage to the soils and ecosystems than most. Even if we did away with mining we still not talking about eliminating fossil fuels in agriculture 100 percent by 2025. There can be no other way to survive than change our agricultural model and land management and settlement policies.
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We propose a coalition for water rights in the 'Global South' Including South America, India, Africa and Australia. A structure of resistance against the extractive industries drying up our water reserves. We sick and tired, we dying of thirst now. Cattle are dying, elephants are dieing, they good at finding scarce water under the ground for other animals who come after they dig for water. It's an extreme situation. Business as usual must be overturned.
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Shocking, water crises down under, same extreme drought and rising temperatures in South Africa.
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... the illegal ferrying of “hardwood” logs! In Zambia
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It's not fair, cry if you have any moisture left in your body, reading the science of the hot house earth trajectory. This is it, 3 or 4 degrees hotter now, by 2050 it may be 9 or 10 degrees hotter than that, maybe hottor too and too hot to grow crops. People will only be able to be awake at night, we will have to go live underground, nibble on mushrooms if we can still get groundwater. There is no ways any semblance of our normal lives will go on. The president still is not demanding climate justice from industrialized countries. They opening more mines and more extraction, more incineration, more coal. No tree Plantung projects etc. We don't have 5 years and especially we don't have ten years. We had twenty or thirty years to make changes and that time is up.
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GOVT SAYS NO MINING TO TAKE PLACE IN LOWER ZAMBEZI

6th November, 2019

GOVERNMENT has announced that there will be no mining that will take place in the lower Zambezi.

During a joint presser hosted by Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya, Mines Minister Richard Musukwa and Tourism Minister Ronald Chitotela the trio re-emphasized President Lungu's commitment fight to Climate Change and noted that there will be no mining allowed in the Lower Zambezi.

The two line ministers; tourism and mines further revealed that there has been no report by the Zambia Environmental Management Agency to allow the activity thus government will not allow any mining in the Lower Zambezi.

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'...Oudtshoorn farmers estimate they’ve lost billions of rands since the drought began. They say the average yearly harvest of lucerne seed has declined from 550 to 50 tons, ostrich production numbers have dropped by 60,000 birds, and the number of livestock animals available for auction has also “seriously decreased”.

Coetzee described how farmers are trying to adapt. The first thing is to reduce the wage bill. He has decreased his full time workers from 20 to eight. Other farmers are reducing work hours and not replacing retired workers.

Some farmers have emigrated, said Coetzee. Many of those who stayed are turning to tourism. “Opening up farm accommodations for tourists … It’s the only way many of us will survive,” said Coetzee.

He says many argue the solution is to diversify. “How do you diversify without water?” asks Coetzee. “Certain areas in this country will become arid areas where you can’t farm anymore because of climate change. I’m serious. My farm looks like a gravel road right now.”

In the Western Cape, the Department of Agriculture has estimated that about 33,000 jobs in the agricultural sector have been lost since the drought...'
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Paul Hawkin - The Ecology of Commerce: “To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative. . . . Just as every act in an industrial society leads to environmental degradation, regardless of intention, we must design a system where the opposite is true, where doing good is like falling off a log, where the natural, everyday acts of work and life accumulate into a better world as a matter of course, not a matter of conscious altruism.”
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"He also explains how animals and especially insects are endangered. However, 80% of them pollinate our plants and thus ensure our food supply worldwide. Experiments have shown that microwaves destroy up to 90% of insect species within a few generations. The dramatic absence of insects already last year is a frightening testimony to this."
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India has declared a state of emergency due to air pollution. People were advised to work from home and not travel to work. There was a 5 day ban on construction and also a driving ban for 2 weeks. There was a 20 car pile up due to low visibility.
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As devastating as South African runaway fires are, I am so glad its nothing like this
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Solidarity
No to privatization of Eskom? Should XR stand in solidarity with Mine workers unions? Should we stand against the separation of generation, transmission and distribution for private profits?
“If these demands are not met we will shut down electricity generation, transmission and distribution, as such plunging the country into darkness.”

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We must not take our ecosystems for granted. Rise in solidarity with other Earth Defenders and #RebelForLife
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Halloween-themed Fridays for Future protest today. We had zombies alongside Autumn Peltier and a mummy risen from some ancient tomb!

What will our future hold? Will we transform our civilization into one that honours the earth and every one of its precious inhabitants? Or will we see climate zombies and apocalyptic scenarios? It is ultimately up to us⏳

Thank you Mvuzo for taking this awesome pic!
📸: @mvuzo_mbelekane_photography

#climatechange #climatejustice #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #fridaysforfuturesouthafrica #saverojava #solidaritywithrojava #autumnpeltier #rebelforlife #extinctionrebellionsouthafrica #extinctionrebellion #portelizabeth #nelsonmandelabay #southafrica
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“The climate talks in Chile were canceled because of the very issues that are at the heart of the climate emergency: social inequality, disrespect for human rights, and an economy that prioritizes big business and polluters over the needs of everyday people," said the group's executive director May Boeve. "We cannot solve the social crisis without tackling the climate crisis, and any efforts to prevent climate catastrophe without tackling inequality and improving human rights will simply not work."
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Thanks to @[541123032:2048:David Magneto Allain]

I have all these downloaded to share if the links get broken.

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a269070.pdf - A Study of the Effects of High Power Pulsed 2450 Mhz Microwaves, ELF Modulated Microwaves, and ELF Fields on Human Lymphocytes and Selected Cell Lines

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a061947.pdf - Biological Effects of Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Radiation Vol III No. 2

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a070242.pdf - Biological Effects of Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Radiation Vol III No. 4

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/400115.pdf - Nonthermal Effects of Microwave Radiation

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a277168.pdf - High Peak Power Microwaves: A Health Hazard

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/750271.pdf - Bibliography of Reported Biological Phenomena (Effects) and Clinical Manifestations Attributed to Microwave and Radio-Frequency Radiation

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a476195.pdf - Effects of Directed Energy Weapons

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a478165.pdf - Defense Science Board Task Force on Directed Energy Weapons

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a473993.pdf - Directed-Energy Weapons: Invisible and Invincible?

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a607532.pdf - Power Systems and Energy Storage Modeling for Directed Energy Weapons

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a559007.pdf - Naval Directed-Energy Weapons: No Longer A Future Concept

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1018555.pdf - High Power Microwaves on the Future Battlefield: Implications for U.S. Defense.

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a497553.pdf - Enabling Battle Persistent Surveillance: The Form, Function and Future of SMART Dust

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a600453.pdf - Leveling the Playing Field: China's Development of Advanced Energy Weapons (first image from this document)

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304644.pdf - Trends of Microwave Weapon Development (second image from this document)
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Some #Stop5G actions around the world...
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"In local urban communities there would be a cell tower approximately every 500 feet along every street.

As bad as these small cell towers might seem from the standpoint of constant exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation in close proximity to the source, perhaps an even more alarming prospect will be the beaming of millimeter length microwaves at the earth from thousands of new communication satellites.

The FCC gave approval to SpaceX on March 29, 2018, to launch 4,425 satellites into low orbit around the Earth. [1]

The total number of satellites that is expected to be put into low and high orbit by several companies will be 20,000 satellites. [1]

5G will use Phased Array Antennas to shoot Beams of Radiation at Cell Phones

These satellites will use the same type of phased array antennas as will be used by the ground-based 5G systems.

This means that they will send tightly focused beams of intense microwave radiation at each specific 5G device that is on the Earth and each device will send a beam of radiation back to the satellite. [2]"
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We must couple with mushrooms, we are symbiotic with them, we depend on mushrooms now for survival in a number of ways. The only species who survived previous mass extinctions somehow coupled with mushrooms in order to survive. Their functions being fundamental to the web of life, especially in simplistic and less biodiverse ecosystems. Mycology is the most promising solution of all, without solutions involving fungi our outlook is tremendously bleak. They seem to be the only real glimmer of hope.
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Truth, speak truth and act on truth.
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Today is the last day to object for Queensburgh - #Please assist!! Thank you!!
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Really need to listen to this one. 🎤Amplify the oppressed People of the world's voices now.
Do we want an end to this extinction? Is there an end? What happens to the fresh water ecosystems when the river is poisoned?
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Go Chile
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Fait Accompli
'original (moral right asserted)fiction (all resemblances to everything entirely coincidental)
Some fiction for you:
'I did it.
I shot the head of Royal GazKom dead.

I shot him at 10:45 in the morning on Wednesday, June the 16th, 2038. I was 19, a normal child of my times become then and forever, a Bitcoin Assassin.

It was 55 years ago when Royal GazKom, the last dinosaur of the fossil age, the energy behemoth stitched together out of the 2020 collapse ceased to exist. We hit hundreds of their execs before they folded.

My name isn't important, I was only ever one of many. My generation came to understand that we had no further choices but to take our own direct actions. Time had already run out, vicious environmental feedback loops were killing the planet and us with it. We had already gone too far before we did anything. We almost all died. Many of us did. I know you remember this. I know we all still cry for the lost.

The real malefactors were the heads of the handful of companies, statals and parastatals responsible for most Gaiacidal activity worldwide that eventually came under constant public surveillance with real-time spottings uploaded, geotagged and available 24/7. It became impossible to control a big transport, construction or energy organisation without attracting apptivated mobs of activist children, everywhere, all the time. The resulting, legally permissable atrocities committed by security contractors whilst providing close executive escort services, helped my generation understand that what we had been doing was never going to be enough to become the changes that we could see were needed to survive as a species.

The marches, protests, and school strikes were never going to change the business as usual plans of the few who could outspend all the other voices.

The change only really began when anonymous crowdfunders started offering cash for kills. Massive bounties that cost a fraction of the quarterly turnover generated by the targeted organisational role. Massive, life changing bounties that were enough for every kid to want to grow up to be a Bitcoin Assasin. I did it. I was one of them. I am still now.

The Great Revaluation that underpins Re-engineering began with the Childrens Revolution and even though I am a great grandmother now, our struggle continues.

Thinking about doing it again, I may or may not have been able to. I was just one of so many, many.

Somebody would have done it, it just happened to be me.'

provided and wrtitten by Graeme MacPherson
Oct 28, 2019, 5:35 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Cape Town Meeting.
We will provide a zoom link closer to the time for those who cant physically make it.
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It's a criminal conspiracy against us.
'So far that something else is being called an “accounting irregularity”‚ which is what a mugging is called when it’s done by someone with an MBA.
'Not surprisingly‚ many South Africans are demanding that stronger language be used‚ pointing out that the middle class and media‚ always so quick to unload both barrels at state corruption‚ tend to go easy on dirty corporates. White crooks‚ they claim‚ make “mistakes”‚ while black ones are “corrupt thieves”.

This tendency is real‚ and comes‚ I think‚ from the belief that state corruption and private-sector fraud are materially different things with dramatically different victims.

The state‚ they argue‚ is mandated to protect the poor‚ while corporations have always been open about the fact that their primary concern is to protect the interests of the rich‚ called “shareholders”. If you choose to hand your money to the casino of the markets then that’s on you‚ but people don’t have a choice when it comes to state corruption: if you refuse to give your money to the state‚ you get a criminal record.'
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"... By applying our acquired knowledge and insights, we could deliberately choose a path to avoid danger or trouble, and to exploit opportunities. I believe foresight was a huge evolutionary advantage for our species. And that's what is so tragic today when we have all the amplified foresight of scientists and supercomputers, which have been warning us for decades that we are heading down a dangerous path, but now we allow politics and economics to override this predictive power."
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"Historically, the environmental movement has consistently fallen victim to the Spiral of Silence, in part because those movements tended to spend more time attempting to convince their opposition than reinforcing the perceived dominance of their ideas. We can all envision the lone eco warrior preaching to an ambivalent, even hostile audience of “mainstream” people, despite ridicule — this image is a catastrophe for environmentalism because it signals to potential supporters that they will be socially isolated if they voice similar opinions."
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'Our guest is Vandana Shiva, a world-famous environmental activist from India. Her latest book is entitled "One Earth, One Humanity vs. the 1%". She tell us about more her opposition to big multinationals such as Monsanto for their nefarious influence on agriculture. But Shiva also singles out billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for criticism. "When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he’s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns", she tells FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman.'
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The SA Political Forum.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Knysna.
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Very few products have a truly sustainable and just supply chain. So much exploitative, extractive and destructive behaviour to call out and shutdown. #ExtinctionRebellion #RebelForLife

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/extinction-rebellion-climate-crisis-bhp-mining-coal-colombia-a9167601.html
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Coal is cheaper for us to buy from Botswana now and the coal mines are up for expansion and it will drain all the water out the Delta and kill off anything left. It's so devasting
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'For the denialists regarding climate catastrophe, let me spell it out for you in our context. As a result of global warming South Africa is going to have less and less rain, we already get 50% less than the global average as it is. Our average temperature is going to rise faster and higher than the global average. If the rain only comes in the new year as predicted for this season, we will have missed the planting season and will have food shortages next year. If the the rain does fall in the new year our dams, which are already empty will take longer to refill, if at all. Already many rural communities and small towns do not have water at all. With rising temperatures the human body will need more, not less water, to rehidrate. We are about to experience kidney failure on a massive scale as a result of a lack of water. In Gauteng we receive water from Katse dam in Lesotho. That dam is only 18,6% full because Lesotho has had very little rain or winter snowfalls over the last five years. Katse runs dry, 5 million people in Johannesburg will have no water. Our aquifers are fed through the dolomitic regions from Southern Angola, through the Okavango Delta, the North West Province through to Gauteng and the Northern Cape. As we speak the Okavango swamps are rapidly drying up. This means our aquifers will go empty and our ground water will disappear. Climate change means changed climatic conditions and if you cannot see it you must be blind. Even if you are blind you will soon feel it.' David Van Wyk
'For the denialists regarding climate catastrophe, let me spell it out for you in our context. As a result of global warming South Africa is going to have less and less rain, we already get 50% less than the global average as it is. Our average temperature is going to rise faster and higher than the global average. If the rain only comes in the new year as predicted for this season, we will have missed the planting season and will have food shortages next year. If the the rain does fall in the new year our dams, which are already empty will take longer to refill, if at all.

Already many rural communities and small towns do not have water at all. With rising temperatures the human body will need more, not less water, to rehidrate. We are about to experience kidney failure on a massive scale as a result of a lack of water.

In Gauteng we receive water from Katse dam in Lesotho. That dam is only 18,6% full because Lesotho has had very little rain or winter snowfalls over the last five years. Katse runs dry, 5 million people in Johannesburg will have no water. Our aquifers are fed through the dolomitic regions from Southern Angola, through the Okavango Delta, the North West Province through to Gauteng and the Northern Cape. As we speak the Okavango swamps are rapidly drying up. This means our aquifers will go empty and our ground water will disappear. Climate change means changed climatic conditions and if you cannot see it you must be blind. Even if you are blind you will soon feel it.'

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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Markey Poo answers or doesn't answer tough questions...
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Would people who don't believe that the housing demands of the poor here in Cape Town are legit and that people should just protest climate change without the context of displacement from Apartheid and Colonialism really be for migrant rights? When people sit in a Manshion in Constantia and say that first they, the Shack dwellers will demand this and then that and their demands won't end ever, don't people get worried about that?

Why would people follow that? Why would they want to be led by some Classist rich whites in Upper Class suburbs? Because if they can say that about their own fellow citizens what they say about migrants running from Climate disaster? They not even willing to open a place up for their own citizens to move to higher ground out of the flood plains?

Climate struggle equals the class struggle. The climate crises effects the working class and oppressed people much more than anyone else. Anyone who claims to be fighting climate change should be fighting classism and draconian fuedal land laws that empower the super rich. The literal mitigation for Land and the abolition of private property speculations in former colonies. The plantation is still intact since slavery.

We support Massive scale eco village Land Occupations in this country. We support the right of people to grow their own food, make their own goods and make their electricity. We support land restitution for the victims of Apartheid and Colonialism UNASHAMADLY.

We declare that we will not live in a Nation that keeps people in concentration camps and we just stand back and watch, separating these issues from the climate breakdown. As if we can make a clean cut to Centralized renewable power run by corporates AND that's all XR is about... To empower private energy companies and the likes of McKinsey who destroyed Eskom and now will directly benefit from its privatization. We wil not compromise on our Stance on Social Justice and what that actually means.
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How can we make this a reality at a mass scale? Can we grow kelp, could we actually clue on quick enough? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6m5at4J3k
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'What do the youth-led movements around climate change, the rise of the Greens, and the vertical shift in politics, economics, and human learning have in common? They are all different expressions (or “faces”) of an underlying opening of awareness and shift in consciousness — the beginning of a global movement to regenerate and upgrade how our civilization operates: our economic, our political, and our learning systems.

That shift and opening process may well be the most important, yet least told, story of our time. To broaden and deepen that process requires enabling infrastructures — similar to the Green New Deal but applied towards massively upgrading our deep learning infrastructures in ways that make them accessible to all.

Can that be done? Of course. We just need the political will and our collective imagination to make it work. It has been done before...'

https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/as-systems-collapse-people-rise-seven-faces-of-an-emerging-global-movement-204df6f06e27
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Bruno Brincat Shared this article and this to say about it.:
"Next time you hear about thousands of trees being chopped down daily, beware. Read the fine print.
Understand the differences between plantations and actual forests.

Get rid of phoney pine plantations. They burn and kill environments.
In the link, not a single mention about hemp as a viable ecological solution.

Viva Africa.... Change the laws heal the world.
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People must rise up and stop these projects
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Help us to shut down the US military.... This is serious, it's our biosphere that is going to die off totally... We face extinction. War can no longer be invested in. There is no justification for using fossil fuels anymore. Fossil fuel Industrial Military complex knows no bounds, crosses borders and obliterates humanity in the name of a machine. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3440187479354820&id=100000908061352
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A few links..

ElectromagneticHealth.org http://electromagnetichealth.org/
A research, education and advocacy organization working nationally and internationally to present the risks of electromagnetic fields from wireless technologies clearly and to empower citizens, governments, health professionals and media to become constructively engaged in creating safer lifestyles, communities and natural environments.

Microwave Newshttp://microwavenews.com
For 30 years, Microwave News has been reporting on the potential health and environmental impacts of electromagnetic fields and radiation and is recognized as an objective source of information on this controversial subject.

The EMR Policy Institute http://emrpolicy.org/index.htm
Advancing sound public electromagnetic radiation (EMR) public policy.

Kawartha Safe Technology Initiative http://www.kawarthasafetechnology.org/
Kawartha Safe Technology Initiative represents informed citizens including parents, scientists, doctors, engineers, and educators. Our purpose is to raise awareness about, and advocate for, the use of safe, wired technology, rather than the use of wireless technology. This is based on mounting international evidence and warnings from governments, doctors and scientists alike, linking prolonged microwave radiation exposure to serious health effects, particularly for children. (Excerpt from Website)

Magda Havas http://www.magdahavas.com/
Based in Canada, Dr. Magda Havas is a leader in the field of electropollution and it's impact on human health. Her website provides a wealth of information on different aspects of this issue.

Center for Safer Wireless http://www.centerforsaferwireless.us/
Based in Virginia, "the Center for Safer Wireless is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that enhances public understanding of wireless technology and products."

Means for Change http://meansforchange.org/
Working to create a healthy future for children by educating and advocating for the reduction of EMFs in our environment.

MobileWise http://mobilewise.org/
A charitable organization based in the UK, "MobileWise is here to help young people use mobile phones more safely. We want every child in the UK to be educated about the potential dangers of mobile phones and how to cut the risks, just as they are about road safety. We are calling on the government and phone industry to publicise their own health warnings and to give young people the clear information they need to protect themselves." (excerpt from website)

Oscillatorium http://www.oscillatorium.com/
A gallery of images and maps, visual learning tools for the study of unnatural oscillations -- non-ionizing electromagnetic fields -- and their effects on living tissues and biodiverse systems. (excerpt from website)

Prove-It! http://www.justproveit.net/

Wireless Watch http://www.wirelesswatchblog.org/wi-fi-in-schools/
This website, created by a fellow parent, has critical Documents such as the Declarations of various Doctors and Scientists to the WiFi in Schools Court Case in Oregon.

Switch 2 Safe http://www.switch2safe.info/
The Switch2Safe project exists to inform the public about the dangers of e-pollution and to offer solutions on ways to lower it in the home, at work and in public places. We also encourage anyone affected or concerned with e-pollution to join us and Spread The Word by posting our informational flyers in eye-catching locations both on-line and in the real world! (excerpt website)

Wired Child http://wiredchild.org/
A non-profit, based in the UK, helps parents and educators to protect children from radiation exposure.

​Living Planet: Birds, Bees and the Environment http://www.livingplanet.be/emrbirds.htm
This website details the effects of microwave radiation on Birds, Bees and the Environment

Irish Electromagnetic Radiation Networkhttp://www.iervn.com/#!
This group is based in Ireland and is dedicated to raising awareness on the health effects of Wireless radiation.

Radiation Education: EMR Safety for Kids by Kids http://www.radiationeducation.com/home.html

American Association for Cell Phone Safety http://americanassociationforcellphonesafety.org/
We are a group of ordinary, everyday, citizens, from all walks of life, with no special backgrounds (although we are very special people!) dedicated to protecting people as opposed to corporate profits, from harmful radiation as emitted from cell phones, WIFI, cell towers and antennas. (excerpt from website) Please see their detailed briefing book.

Why Fry http://whyfry.org/
Based in New Mexico, "an ad hoc group of citizens concerned with the long-term health effects of microwave and radiofrequency radiation in our surroundings. The pages on this site track news articles about their struggles and peer-reviewed research published in leading scientific journals." (excerpt from website)

Understanding EMFs
https://sites.google.com/site/understandingemfs/home

Wireless research repository – an excellent resource for parents!
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'Industrial Civilization is likely to be the last great empire humanity will ever see. If it is allowed to continue in its ravenous way then there is no future for humanity, for the natural systems and processes that allow humans to exist on Earth are the very things that Industrial Civilization is destroying. In fact, no form of civilization has ever been sustainable nor ever will be. In order for humanity to continue on Earth then civilization has to stop, and people allowed to return to a way of living that is connected to the real world.

We are not able to do this. At least not until we become Underminers. The industrial system depends, for its survival, on humans being disconnected from the real world and mentally attached to the machine that we fuel with our civilized lives. The Tools of Disconnection keep us in that state, and the only way to prevent us from being responsible for our demise is to undermine those Tools of Disconnection. Once we are free from the grip of the machine and reconnected with the real world then the myth of Industrial Civilization will die, and humanity will be able to continue.

Underminers is the timely follow-up to Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis. It takes up where that book left off, with a detailed, highly practical approach to the process of undermining in all its many hues. At once entertaining, shocking and inspiring, Underminers draws on the author’s own experience dealing at first hand with the lies of the industrial machine, and that of a wide range of other people who have their own unique take on the swath of topics covered in the book.

From the reasons we are unable to act, to the nitty-gritty of keeping ourselves and others safe during the undermining process, the first half of the book is an invaluable guide to navigating the industrial system and becoming a fully-formed Underminer. The second half details, with surprising openness how the reader can utilize their abilities and new-found determination to be an effective Underminer; whether that be undermining the advertising industry or the political machine, turning symbolic protestors into real activists, building self-determined communities or simply being ourselves – connected, free human beings.

We are the Underminers, and this is our time'
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From Oct 22, 2019, 8:00 PM to Oct 22, 2019, 8:30 PM
Meditation - 8PM-8:30

Start approx. 10 min. before. Switch off your phone and create a space around yourself, lying or sitting so that you can be undisturbed for the next half hour. Set you mind on, that you shall soon enter into the energy-space from which we work together. You can use music, if you like. I recommend music with 432 HZ frequency, which promotes the manifestations of energy.
If it is difficult for you to visualize – then just think the thought. If focus goes to another place – gently take your mind back into focus.
If you feel for it – you can visualize the group connected and encircled by a ring of pink light with Mother Earth in the middle.
Imagine Mother Earth as you dream it to be. Try to feel, sense, taste the emotions - how wonderful it is, that the earth and its inhabitants are in harmony and balance and how everything is working for the common good. Use your imagination and the more you paint your inner images - or go into more detail in your thoughts - the better.
By the end of the meditation you can amplify the energy and confirm :
"the Earth is now in perfect balance and harmony in cooperation with all its residents
- and so it is".
You might be able to notice that the energy is shutting down - otherwise you just stop when you feel for it.
Below is an example of how to visualize.
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Gabriella Addington Imagine clean clear springs, brooks, rivers, seas and oceans.
You feel the water running through your fingers and taste the fresh clean water as you drink it. The scent of fresh salty seawater nearby – reaches your nostrils. Feel the rain as it falls and the pure rain on your skin. Feel the moist scent of rain, wet soil and wet grass.
Imagine the clear blue sky with puffy white clouds. Airplane flying on energy, that is eco-friendly and harmless to nature. It leaves no trails. And you really enjoy looking up in the sky – it makes you feel so good. Feel the natural fresh pure air fill your lungs and the soft wind in your hair. Through your mouth and nostrils – you can smell and taste the air and it feels so good and makes you want to breath even deeper. The air is so clear and pure, that you can look far away into the distance.
Imagine the sun. Clear, round, bright and yellow. It shines naturally and is very easy to see in the sky, as the air is so pure. Fell the warmth on your skin. It is neither to hot or too cold – it is just perfect and you know, that the sun´s ray´s is doing only good – filling you with light and vitamins.
Imagine Earth is luminous, cleansed and pure. Farming are all organic and animal husbandry are conducted with much love, compassion and gratefulness. There are only processed the amount of food needed and with great attention to the fact that it is sustainable.
Imagine the groves and fields and smell the scent of all the greens. See Big healthy lush forests that cover the mountains and valleys. Fell the healthy soil in the palm of your hands and the softness of green leaves between your fingers. Smell the scent of pure land, the scent of green of trees and flowering plants that covers earth and all the areas that used to be dessert earlier in Earth´s history.
Imagine the magnificent wildlife in great numbers, rich healthy and expanding. See the animals in water, on land in the ground and in the air.
Hear birds sing and see them fly in great numbers. See the amazing flickering of wings, when birds in the thousands rise from the lake and fly high into the air. See the eagle and the condor fly together and hear their cries as they soars up to the sky. See the birds in your area thriving and in great numbers painting the sky in many forms and colors.
Imagine plenty of fish of all species in the water. See big shoals of fish that moves through the water, some jumping high in the air and hear the splashes, when they fall back into the water again. See many thousand whales swimming in the oceans and hear the water around their bodies as they come up for air and the sound of warm exhaled air, as it is blown out.
See the diversity of insects and hear them buzz and feel a butterfly land on you hand. Look at it´s beautiful wings. It has amazing colors as it open and closes the wings. Hear the buzz of honey bees and other pollinating insects and Imagine them working collecting nectar all over the globe.
The diversity of all kinds of animals, other water animals, amphibians, reptiles and even animals never seen before. Imagine them living all over the globe. See them thrive and see how they live in perfect harmony with humanity and Mother Earth.
Imagine humanity in peace, harmony and balance. Feel how humans have opened their hearts and radiates love, compassion, respect and acceptance for each other. There are Peace on Earth. Imagine that divine power has been restored inside every human being – so that there is no need for anyone to be in control. Everyone acts from the highest best for all - and for the earth.
Imagine there is true democracy. Opinions are weighted equally high and decisions are made from the heart and with the guidance of high spiritual awareness. Imagine that there is enough of what we need. Enough food, enough places to live in, enough wealth to keep us going – and that it is all shared in love. Imagine that people are healthy, balanced and living harmoniously together and there is a shared sense of global responsibility to lift the most vulnerable.
Imagine that the economy is healthy and that it secures enough and equal wealth for everyone. And imagine that money has lost its power – as true value is weighted by the wellbeing of humanity and the earth's and all living creatures well-being.
Imagine that new inventions has made it possible to stay connected worldwide and send images, audio-signals and other data in a nonharmful way and in harmony with nature and human kind, - that hospitals can cure people with energy, light, sound and other nonharmful ways. Imagine that the energy source that “drives the earth” – is free, sustainable and in balance with the ecosystem.
Or it you can imagine an even higher perspective – where humans are so evolved – that all the technological things that was required earlier – are not needed anymore and we as humans have such a profound connection – that words are not needed. We see, feel and hear – what is just a vibration. We read a book in a split second by placing our hand on it. All data is available for us – just by tuning in.
Imagine that all people are feeling worthy, whole and sacred. That love, peace at heart and feeling of unity with everything and everyone is the norm. Everywhere on the globe - humanity choose to act from an open, honest enlightened heart – with love, awareness and higher consciousness for the delight of the planet and everyone's best.
We are One. ♥
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Gabriella Addington As we work in the quantum field - you can at any time - also during the week - tune into the group and participate in the co-creation mediation event ♥ Thank you for joining - Much Love and Light.
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Gabriella Addington PS. If you want to be sure to connect to upcoming events (weekly) You are most welcome to join the group "co-creating and manifesting The Earth - as we desire it to be ! " <
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Nature heals
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GreenCape wants to introduce LNG to the Western Cape with the benefits of:
" Industries will be able to switch from dirtier fuels (coal and heavy fuel oils) to natural gas, reducing the Western Cape’s carbon footprint."

Gas is not cleaner, it will cause extinction aswell. The DA have made ties with american natural gas suppliers, they plan to build a gas pipeline from Saldana to Athlone. It will be gas from fracking and from the ocean floor, this will result in the total extinction of cetaceans and the poisoning of desert aquifers, plus gas leaks out of the holes they make in the seabed and also all the holes they make for fracking. The gas is leaking out into the atmosphere. Methane is a quicker acting greenhouse gas that CO2 and others. It will not be cleaner nor will it be reducing emissions. It's the biggest lie there is out.
"Investment in LNG infrastructure could amount to R21.76 billion, with the potential to create 67 400 jobs (Deloitte 2015)" Of course, they don't specify that most of the jobs will go to imported people with little to no jobs going to people in the area of the activity.
Let's see how green this looks elsewhere before we get all happy in the Western Cape.
https://www.floridabulldog.org/2019/09/lng-bomb-trains-ignite-nightmare-scenario-for-south-florida/?fbclid=IwAR2dHjXxYMVvsFcOyHNSNLQPAKXoh7PqzG3yWFbwiuQgjdoNpX3Gvr-IOQY
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5G - Earth Under Attack
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So XR is a trojan horse sent by the elites but the elites put a blanket ban on their trojan horse? The conspiracy theory against XR is unraveling in the face of facts. We just need to ensure that the elites remain outside of the movement and keep them there.
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We saw this coming, approaching, arriving and trying to steer the debate
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"Rebellions don’t end – they regenerate"

It’s difficult to imagine the number of rebels currently feeling exhausted, disorientated, and proud.

Though we know it’s not over for everyone, this week saw the conclusion of high-intensity rebellion phases in Paris, Berlin, New York, London, and countless other cities and nations. A truly inspiring number of those involved are new to the experience of Rebellion – small surprise, since there’s very little like it.

The most obvious exertions are physical: long days spent roaming streets or (every bit as vital!) glued to screens, sometimes eating and sleeping irregularly. But no less taxing is the emotional journey: through euphoric highs and difficult lows, made both easier and more complicated for being shared by a whole community of other people who feel it all together, and process this journey in different ways.

And when all of this comes to a close, it can be a challenge to adjust: to return to work, family, a slower pace of life. All the more so given the nature of our cause: some might be troubled by the thought that our emergency is only speeding up as we slow down.

This makes it all the more essential that we do slow down: that we take the time to regenerate.

‘Burn-out’ is a major risk in movements such as ours, where our hearts can demand more selfless action at the cost of our own individual well-being. It’s for this reason that regeneration is our third core value; and it’s for similar reasons that our fifth value is to follow cycles of action with reflection and learning.
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"The plant would have been decommissioned in 2024, assuming it operated for 40 years." Now they are extending its life by 20 years past its expected time of death. What could wrong?
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/business/2019-04-18-koeberg-revamp-planned-for-sas-sole-nuclear-power-plant/
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@[100015155505285:2048:Elliot Laughlin] Hugs.
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Doctors striking about ecological collapse and climate breakdown. #ExtinctionRebellion
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via our friends in India. Don't Google away the future of our planet. Its time to change our search engines and related apps.
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Energy required to power the Internet of Things: this year for the first time, data centres for the Internet (including those for Google and Facebook) and the servers that power them, are set to produce more carbon emissions than aviation23. Bath and North East Somerset council has rightly stated its opposition to the expansion of Bristol Airport, yet supports the even more carbon-intensive expansion of wireless technology!

Deployment of millions of new transmitters: these range from 25 m high towers for rural coverage; to medium-sized small cells on lamp posts, on buildings and under manhole covers; to tiny micro-transmitters embedded in domestic objects. These transmitters contain metals including gold, copper, silver and lithium, all of which have to be mined (mining is the second most polluting industry in the world), often in conflict zones such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Disruption to migration and orientation of birds, insects and marine mammals (please see above under What are the risks to public health and the environment?). Alfonso Balmori, writing in Science of the Total Environment 24 concludes that “At the present time, there are reasonable grounds for believing that microwave radiation constitutes an environmental and health hazard…. Controls must be introduced and technology rendered safe to the environment, since this new ubiquitous and invisible pollutant could deplete the efforts devoted to species conservation.”

Potential harm to the world’s climate systems from microwave radiation: Last December, an article in The Lancet25 stated that: “The potential effects of these anthropogenic electromagnetic fields on natural electromagnetic fields, such as the Schumann Resonance that controls the weather and climate, have not been properly studied”.
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One wonders how much of that 1.7 Trillion is needed to power all those 5G Towers they're *planning* to roll out...
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This makes me cry...
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Ready for #Loadshedding??

"Load-shedding has a devastating effect on all mobile operators, significantly increasing operational costs associated with keeping base stations alive and protected, and negatively impacts customer experience. Operators are spending millions on emergency power supplies and security for cellular towers across the country. Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Rain all agree that load-shedding is impacting their networks and pushing up costs.

Insights from Vodacom:
What happens to a cellphone tower during load shedding?

When load shedding occurs, a cellphone tower remains fully functional for as long as the batteries last or the back-up generator keeps running. Once power is fully depleted, the tower stops working entirely and, depending on the configuration of nearby towers, may cause a coverage area to black out entirely or for customers to experience intermittent service. Generators run on diesel, which means they can continue to run while being refuelled. Batteries, on the other hand, will last anywhere from four to eight hours before they will need electricity to recharge.

What would happen in the event of a national black-out for over twelve hours?

The radios would go down and the network would shut down. Our core facilities would still be up and our generators with huge fuel tanks would kick in but the radio base stations would start going down about eight hours into a black out and you’d have basically no signal. Vodacom’s key sites, such as transmission hub sites, have fixed generators that will keep the key sites up. We also have mobile generators which can be deployed in other key locations.

What are Vodacom’s back-up plans if the national Grid falls over?

“Vodacom is doing everything it can to mitigate the effects of protracted load shedding which is having a detrimental impact on all mobile network operators. In the event of a national grid collapse, Vodacom can keep its core network up as long as it has access to diesel for its generators. We have plans in place to protect our key sites and continue to make the necessary investments to prepare for and manage the increased severity of load shedding as detailed above. Our core network remains well protected however in a time of crisis this would depend on the availability of fuel. Vodacom spends significant amounts on backup power solutions such as generators and batteries to maintain power to our sites. These costs are significant as especially in the case of generators, re-fuelling must constantly happen. It is accurate to say that costs have amounted to many millions of rands. Additional input costs and revenue losses amount to tens of millions of rands,” a Vodacom spokesperson told ITWeb.

Vodacom said their clients will not be able to access any services when backup power at their towers becomes depleted.

MTN
MTN confirmed that scores of its sites are affected by the rolling load-shedding felt across the country.
Batteries take up to 18 hours to recharge, and if electricity is repeatedly disrupted, it may result in network downtime.

Vandalism is adding to the problem – MTN spent more than R100 million in the past year dealing with acts of theft and vandalism, and had to deploy security teams to protect the equipment.

Jacqui O’Sullivan, MTN South Africa’s executive for corporate affairs: “These crimes tend to spike during load shedding when the lack of power sees substations being vandalised for copper wire which then further exacerbates the power supply problem.” O’Sullivan said the uncertainty surrounding load shedding and the duration thereof, particularly, puts additional strain on their network.

Cell C
Cell C experienced similar issues, saying load-shedding also depletes the efficacy of batteries, because they are not given adequate time to recharge, which means battery backup becomes shorter every time.

“We have all put in place as many measures as possible with respect to the national electricity grid. However, even on days when load-shedding has not been implemented, operators face an incredible challenge,” Cell C told ITWeb.

“For example, on any given day, 80% of the alarms on the Cell C network are related to power outages or power-induced failures in various areas around the country. This already has a financial impact on the company, given that it needs to ensure that as many sites as possible are furnished with battery backup.”

Rain
Rain is the only company in South Africa to have launched its 5G commercial network ( February 2019). A public launch of its 5G service is planned for September 2019.

Wireless data provider, Rain, told ITWeb that load-shedding had impacted its services and it had to shut down towers in past days which would have impacted users.

“Stage four load-shedding can cause up to 10% of our towers not to be available at times,” a Rain spokesperson told ITWeb.

“Intermittent power supply is a huge challenge for Rain and the rest of the industry. Should it continue, it will significantly impact our ability to drive the costs of data down, as our underlying costs will be higher,” Rain says.

Telkom
Telkom did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication; however, it tweeted : “As we embark on another term of load-shedding, please remember that services may be affected during this time.”

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https://www.emfsa.co.za/news/5g-requires-a-stable-electricity-supply/
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Overall, more resources means more equipment, power and space requirements. In order to meet the specifications of a 5G ready data center, environmental impact needs to be analyzed. The increase in resources and requirements to build and/or retrofit a data center for 5G readiness could have a negative impact on emissions and carbon footprint.
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#Durban:
A few pictures from last week's #PaintTheStreets #Chalkivism & activities #Artivism in #Durban #SilenceIsNotAnOption #TellTheTruth #TimeIsRunningOut #Stop5SouthAfrica #InternationalRebellion #ExtinctionRebellion
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Fact: You and I are being exposed to levels of EMFs a QUINTILLION times higher than in the 1920s. That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the amount of EMF exposure….
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Sunday 10 June 2018

Dark Technology: Geoengineering, 5G, Smart Meters, and Other Faustian Bargains

• Moderator: Tom Kiely

• Elana Freeland – Our Ionized Skies: A Threat to All Life on Earth – (YouTube: 2:05 - 27:55)

• Peter Kirby – Weather Modification: The CIA and the New Manhattan Project – (YouTube: 28:40 - 54:25)

• Patrick Roddie – Stop Spraying Us! Exposing—and Ending—the Global Chemtrails Program – (YouTube: 55:40 - 1:26:25)

• Jerry Day – Smart Meter Trojan Horses: 24/7 Surveillance, Radiation Sickness, and Other In-Home Dangers – (YouTube: 1:27:35 - 1:56:25)"
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5G - Earth Under Attack
"So this is why electromagnetic weapons are the worst weapons of mass destruction we ever had. But they’re also the most secretive precisely because they’re so powerful. They come in big versions so that you can shoot out the plane out of you know, a missile out of the sky. They come in handheld versions, they can be hidden in buildings, they can be hidden at your neighbors, they can be hidden anywhere around the street. So they are the most they are a booming industry that is now going to quintuple so it’s going to be increased by 500% over the next I think it’s next six years roughly. And it is such a booming industry because it’s it is so powerful and it can be used for so many nefarious means at zero cost. If you fire a you know an ak 47 what will do is it will leave volatiles it won’t leave, you know, forensic trails leading straight back to you. And you know, it’s pretty hard to find a silencer for those things. So people will hear whose side the shots when you fire and a directed energy weapon. It’s perfectly silence. it’s legal. It’s immediate reload. So you have a machine gun that’s even faster than the normal machine guns mechanical machine guns we have. Okay, so death is directed energy weapons. Now, the 5g system is a directed energy weapon system. So in other words, what the government’s are pulling up our weapons of mass destruction in the civilian domain. And, you know, governments always had weapons of mass destruction, they always have their pangs of bio warfare and chemical warfare, they’ve got the nukes. But typically, they’re not, you know, cats around the mall, at least not the size we know. Or maybe there’s an underground bunker behind, you know, Walmart or shopping mall. But these weapons, they will be out in the public, they will be pulsing non stop, and it will be just either a glitch, or just somebody, you know, volition that will set them from the fairly harmless and survivable shots to the deadly shots. Okay, so that’s what people have to realize this is what I’m talking about. Now. I just put it out there. Most people think, oh, gosh, she’s crazy. I mean, you know who the hell would do something like that. And I want to pick people up where they where they’re at. So first of all, I want to show what the 5g system really looks like in practice, then I want to show you know how how the industry is actually gloating with it. They know that this is a weapon. They’re gloating, that jeering at us, and they’re making fun of us. And then I will show you what this weapon is planned to be used for, and is already being used for right now. So what I’m talking about is not just Oh, it’s five years in the future. No, this this system is killing people right now. And now the only question is the time lag between us realizing accumulating a critical mass and shutting this the system down, and the resting the criminals, whoever you know, thought of putting this into the mange knowing full well, now that time delay, pretty much max out how many people are gonna die? Okay, and this crime cartel that, you know, I’m already jumping ahead, but I’m just telling you, in my viewed as a big organized global crack cartel, they know what they’re doing. And their goal is to kill as many people as they possibly can. And that is because they realize that with the population growing and the internet coming in, they cannot hold the same type of control on humanity, it is mathematically impossible to hold the same type of control and humanity that they used to have, you know, back in the 1980s, even the 1990s. And the control, they had up until the 1990s, was pretty much to control they have going back to biblical times, and Babylonian times and before, so we have to understand that we’re dealing with an organized crime cartel that is so completely out of its steps, even though it doesn’t know what it is. They think that winning, but they’re going to hit the wall very hard. And in the nonlinear process of realization, they are going to go, you know that they’re going to run a muck. So we now have this weapon system, the plan is to use the time delay between us costing on organizing ourselves reaching critical mass and shutting this down, to kill as many people as they possibly can. That’s the right now as I see it, that is the name of their game. Okay, so this is why informing yourself is so, so important. But what I say today shouldn’t just stay with this. It has to go on social media, it has to go to your relatives, it has to go to your friends, don’t be embarrassed of alerting people to this because this is an actively shooting weapon system that is being applied everywhere around the world. So what you do if you start activating your social networks, is because we are all connected through three and a half degrees of separation. Thanks to Facebook and you know, social media, what you’re doing is you are quickly and forming a very large number of people and you are shortening nonlinear at the time it takes to inform the planet. So if everybody informed people, we really use the network mathematics. So the networks we have. And these networks are the reason the Chromecast arms losing, that’s what they are afraid of. But we need to use our power, if we just use the internet to send each up with jokes, and you know, PowerPoint presentations with jokes, and we’re not going to save our lives. So we have to use the networks we have in the internet to get, you know, life saving information to each other. That’s what’s so important. And what we do by doing that, is we are literally shortening this time. But when things go viral, something that would have taken maybe 20 years before to inform the entire planet can take a short there’s a week, you know, and there are several CIA tests that actually show that I think one CIA test I believe, with all the CIA testers, for example, the Ice Bucket Challenge, okay, at first, a couple of people did this challenge of pouring a bucket of ice water over themselves. And then you blink and next thing, you know, as you know, Donald Trump does it. So you know, and all your friends because they think it’s hilarious. Now, that is something and mean going viral. Okay. And with that, I think the CIA is measuring how quickly we can really, you know, get information across and they are putting, you know, blocks in every when they are learning are trying to learn how can they contain what we know, and how can they cut us off and all this to delay the time for the delay our time so that’s a cartel can continue killing. I think this is what all the YouTube shutdowns about all the Twitter’s shutdowns and suspensions, all the Facebook suspensions, they know they can’t win. That’s a given. They are trying, they’re playing on time, and they are hoping that we will die before we win. That’s basically their last their last attempt. OK, so now, 5g comes into this becoming plan. The following way, number one, as I said, three and 4g are fundamentally different. Okay? So three and 4g, imagine you have you know, so a little, you know, antenna, and then it’s radiating out. So like the, the old drawings of a radio antenna always had an emitter, and then kind of content taken to the on the page, concentric circles, in 3d, those are spheres. So the radiation goes out separately from the antenna, and reaches everywhere, but because it goes up directly, the intensity that hits you on your mobile phone reception drops off with the squares distance. So it’s an inverse square law. And the inverse square aspect of it comes purely from the fact that the surface of the of the sphere increases by the square of the radius, if you remember your school mass of how the surface of the sphere relates this radius, it’s the square of the of the radius. So as this is the radiation goes out, it has to kind of fill a bigger, bigger, you know, surface effectively. So the intensity drops off, you know, as it spreads out of the whole, ever, you know, increasing size of the sphere. Now, that inverse square law stop supplying, as soon as you coordinate this thing, and you are firing pulses very animated and kind of, you know, people use the word Focus. Focus means, you know, focus on a point, column ative means of parallel, so it’s kind of like, you know, the beam shape stays over long distances, it’s just a little, you know, kind of like a laser beam as animated. Okay, a very, a very good laser beam stays the same with over kilometer, you know. So when you do that, you don’t spread out the energy over there anymore. And then the intensity is pretty much Well, there’s some losses with scattering the air, but there are minimal and certain frequencies. And this means the intensity stays pretty much the same as large distances. In other words, you can be shot in the face, across town or across, you know, a street with the same intensity as if you stood next to be the antenna system. Okay, it’s just the same intensity of every different. Now there, you can already tell that hang on, suddenly, distance from the source stops being protection. And we already know this sort of effect, when, for example, you know, people point a laser pointer at your eye, you can be standing across the classroom or across the street, if they if it’s a dangerous place, and they pointed in, you either damage your eye, and it doesn’t matter how distance you are. And this is what you know, some people use to start or pilots or just try how powerful the laser pointer is, by taking a green very powerful laser and pointing it on an airplane. And if you it’s not encouraging anybody to do it, because it’s deadly, but and the police will get you because they can find you, thanks for surveillance. But when you do that, if you did that, which you shouldn’t, you will notice that this theme really does hit the plane, it’s a bit bigger, quite a bit bigger than you know how it started, because the torch isn’t perfect, but it’s still coordinated, and it can still cause damage to the pilots all the way up there. Because the laser has pretty much preserved its power, its kind of spread over a larger area bit because the beam isn’t perfectly parallel or you know, column aided, it’s a bit fans out. So with a very large distance, the power spreads over a larger area, but it can still damage the eyes of the pilot. That’s why should never ever point a green laser up into the sky. Okay, it is a terrorist act to do that. But imagine now when people put up invisible microwave towers, where the power of your microwave is pointed out to you, and you can’t even run away, even if you run a mile, you would still be shot in the head with the same power. Okay, give or take, you know, some losses on the way but they’re surprisingly low. Now, that is the system that’s what you have to understand 5g is this column eight system. And it’s more than that it’s pulses, and pulses all is worse than just a continuous theme. Because in the house itself, they have such a mix of frequencies, they hit basically a lot of resonant frequencies can cause a lot of heating, a lot of damage. You know, so pulse is always deadlier than a continuous beam of one set frequency. Okay, so this is what it is. And now I’ve just said this to you. And you probably wonder, okay, how the hell does she know? And does she have any evidence? I would like to share my screen and show people. Alfred, am I too confusing about this? Because I know, I’ve got the habit of turning into physics lecture is this. can people follow you think?

Alfred:
Well, I find it very clear. And with with a very logical sequence. So I’m, I’m following you. And I think that our, our listeners, and our viewers will be following you. That’s okay."
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"The Planetary Association for Clean Energy (PACE) also submitted a statement to the UN revealing that allowable international “radiation limits will need to be increased by 30 to 40% “ in order to make 5G deployment technologically feasible and calls 5G “an experiment on humanity that constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” in violation of more than 15 international treaties and agreements. The report also highlights the fact that despite what is being portrayed in mainstream, wireless radiation has biological effects and this is not a subject for debate. This was already established more than 60 years ago when the US Department of Defense tested the impact of EMR on animals and human beings under a variety of conditions. These biological effects are seen in all life forms—plants, animals, insects and microbes. There are more than 10,000 peer- reviewed studies pertaining to the health impacts of EMR and substantial evidence for the cumulative nature and eventual irreversibility of some effects, whether neurological/neuropsychiatric, reproductive, cardiac, mutations in DNA, or hormonal effects. Some may affect the evolution of the human race. Download the report here.

Russian research has clearly demonstrated biological effects during research on rats and humans when exposed to millimeter radiowaves. This research was published in 1977 and translated and declassified by the CIA in 2012 and clearly shows health problems in the skin, liver, heart, brain, adrenal glands and blood. This is very daunting science and it is critically important. Download here."
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"South African Law lecturer and Helen Suzman Foundation researcher Arvitha Doodnath, who led a campaign destined to President Cyril Ramaphosa against gender violence at the Vaal University of Technology, was shot dead in Johannesburg at the weekend.

Doodnath, who started the campaign after last month’s killing of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, was killed on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview, near the Johannesburg Zoo, on Saturday night in a suspected hijacking. Her car, a Ford Figo, was found at the scene.

The 30-year-old was on her way home from a dancing event at the Hindu Temple in Mayfair, Johannesburg.

The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) on Monday said its workers were devastated by the murder of one of its fellows.

Law lecturer at Vaal University of Technology Arvitha Doodnath was found dead inside her car in Parktown on Saturday in what appeared to be an attempted hijacking. Doodnath was a research fellow at the HSF. Police were investigating a case of murder.

HSF director Francis Antonie said Arvitha joined the foundation as a legal researcher in 2015, and her passion for health policy reform quickly saw her take over the HSF’s health desk."

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Here’s Thomas Sankara’s accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87). Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara” – He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks. – He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987. – He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification – He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid – He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education. – He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights – He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers. – He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets. – He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. – He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.” – He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting – In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country). – He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects. – He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes. – As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. – A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard. – He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity) – When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.” – An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself Sankara seized power in a 1983 popularly supported coup at the age of 33, with the goal of eliminating corruption and the dominance of the former French colonial power. He immediately launched one of the most ambitious programmes for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this new autonomy and rebirth, he renamed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (“Land of Upright Man”). His foreign policies were centered on anti-imperialism, with his government eschewing all foreign aid, pushing for odious debt reduction, nationalizing all land and mineral wealth, and averting the power and influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritizing education with a nationwide literacy campaign, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever, and measles. Other components of his national agenda included planting over ten million trees to halt the growing desertification of the Sahel, doubling wheat production by redistributing land from feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents, and establishing an ambitious road and rail construction program to “tie the nation together”. On the localized level Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had over 350 communities construct schools with their own labour. Moreover, his commitment to women’s rights led him to outlaw female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy, while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.[5] In order to achieve this radical transformation of society, he increasingly exerted authoritarian control over the nation, eventually banning unions and a free press, which he believed could stand in the way of his plans. To counter his opposition in towns and workplaces around the country, he also tried corrupt officials, “counter-revolutionaries” and “lazy workers” in Popular Revolutionary Tribunals. Additionally, as an admirer of Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution, Sankara set up Cuban-style Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs). His revolutionary programs for African self-reliance made him an icon to many of Africa’s poor. Sankara remained popular with most of his country’s impoverished citizens. However his policies alienated and antagonised the vested interests of an array of groups, which included the small but powerful Burkinabé middle class, the tribal leaders whom he stripped of the long-held traditional right to forced labour and tribute payments, and France and its ally the Ivory Coast. As a result, he was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré on October 15, 1987. A week before his murder, he declared: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.” On October 15, 1987, Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d’état organised by his former colleague Blaise Compaoré. Deterioration in relations with neighbouring countries was one of the reasons given, with Compaoré stating that Sankara jeopardised foreign relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast. Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was engineered by Charles Taylor. After the coup and although Sankara was known to be dead, some CDRs mounted an armed resistance to the army for several days. Sankara’s body was dismembered and he was quickly buried in an unmarked grave, while his widow Mariam and two children fled the nation. Compaoré immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Sankara’s policies, rejoined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to bring in “desperately needed” funds to restore the “shattered” economy,[34] and ultimately spurned most of Sankara’s legacy. Compaoré’s dictatorship remained in power for 27 years until overthrown by popular protests in 2014. A transformational leader Sankara’s visionary leadership turned his country from a sleepy West African nation with the colonial designation of Upper Volta to a dynamo of progress under the proud name of Burkina Faso (“Land of the Honorable People”). He led one of the most ambitious programs of sweeping reforms ever seen in Africa. It sought to fundamentally reverse the structural social inequities inherited from the French colonial order. Sankara focused the state’s limited resources on the marginalized majority in the countryside. When most African countries depended on imported food and external assistance for development, Sankara championed local production and the consumption of locally-made goods. He firmly believed that it was possible for the Burkinabè, with hard work and collective social mobilization, to solve their problems: chiefly scarce food and drinking water. In Sankara’s Burkina, no one was above farm work, or graveling roads–not even the president, government ministers or army officers. Intellectual and civic education were systematically integrated with military training and soldiers were required to work in local community development projects. Sankara disdained formal pomp and banned any cult of his personality. He could be seen casually walking the streets, jogging or conspicuously slipping into the crowd at a public event. He was a rousing orator who spoke with uncommon candor and clarity and did not hesitate to publicly admit mistakes, chastise comrades or express moral objections to heads of powerful nations, even if it imperiled him. For example, he famously criticized French president François Mitterand during a state dinner for hosting the leader of Apartheid South Africa. Who was Thomas Sankara? – A captain in army of Upper Volta, a former French colony in West Africa – Instrumental in the coup that ousted Col Saye Zerbo as president in 1982 – Took power from Maj Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo in an internal power struggle and became president in August 1983 – Adopted radical left-wing policies and sought to reduce government corruption – Changed the name of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means “the land of upright men” – Killed in mysterious circumstances by a group of soldiers in October 1987 Via Via
Here’s Thomas Sankara’s accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87).

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara”

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

Sankara seized power in a 1983 popularly supported coup at the age of 33, with the goal of eliminating corruption and the dominance of the former French colonial power. He immediately launched one of the most ambitious programmes for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this new autonomy and rebirth, he renamed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (“Land of Upright Man”). His foreign policies were centered on anti-imperialism, with his government eschewing all foreign aid, pushing for odious debt reduction, nationalizing all land and mineral wealth, and averting the power and influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritizing education with a nationwide literacy campaign, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever, and measles. Other components of his national agenda included planting over ten million trees to halt the growing desertification of the Sahel, doubling wheat production by redistributing land from feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents, and establishing an ambitious road and rail construction program to “tie the nation together”. On the localized level Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had over 350 communities construct schools with their own labour. Moreover, his commitment to women’s rights led him to outlaw female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy, while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.[5]

In order to achieve this radical transformation of society, he increasingly exerted authoritarian control over the nation, eventually banning unions and a free press, which he believed could stand in the way of his plans. To counter his opposition in towns and workplaces around the country, he also tried corrupt officials, “counter-revolutionaries” and “lazy workers” in Popular Revolutionary Tribunals. Additionally, as an admirer of Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution, Sankara set up Cuban-style Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs).

His revolutionary programs for African self-reliance made him an icon to many of Africa’s poor. Sankara remained popular with most of his country’s impoverished citizens. However his policies alienated and antagonised the vested interests of an array of groups, which included the small but powerful Burkinabé middle class, the tribal leaders whom he stripped of the long-held traditional right to forced labour and tribute payments, and France and its ally the Ivory Coast. As a result, he was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré on October 15, 1987. A week before his murder, he declared: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.”

On October 15, 1987, Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d’état organised by his former colleague Blaise Compaoré. Deterioration in relations with neighbouring countries was one of the reasons given, with Compaoré stating that Sankara jeopardised foreign relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast. Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was engineered by Charles Taylor. After the coup and although Sankara was known to be dead, some CDRs mounted an armed resistance to the army for several days.

Sankara’s body was dismembered and he was quickly buried in an unmarked grave, while his widow Mariam and two children fled the nation. Compaoré immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Sankara’s policies, rejoined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to bring in “desperately needed” funds to restore the “shattered” economy,[34] and ultimately spurned most of Sankara’s legacy. Compaoré’s dictatorship remained in power for 27 years until overthrown by popular protests in 2014.

A transformational leader

Sankara’s visionary leadership turned his country from a sleepy West African nation with the colonial designation of Upper Volta to a dynamo of progress under the proud name of Burkina Faso (“Land of the Honorable People”). He led one of the most ambitious programs of sweeping reforms ever seen in Africa. It sought to fundamentally reverse the structural social inequities inherited from the French colonial order.

Sankara focused the state’s limited resources on the marginalized majority in the countryside. When most African countries depended on imported food and external assistance for development, Sankara championed local production and the consumption of locally-made goods. He firmly believed that it was possible for the Burkinabè, with hard work and collective social mobilization, to solve their problems: chiefly scarce food and drinking water.

In Sankara’s Burkina, no one was above farm work, or graveling roads–not even the president, government ministers or army officers. Intellectual and civic education were systematically integrated with military training and soldiers were required to work in local community development projects.

Sankara disdained formal pomp and banned any cult of his personality. He could be seen casually walking the streets, jogging or conspicuously slipping into the crowd at a public event. He was a rousing orator who spoke with uncommon candor and clarity and did not hesitate to publicly admit mistakes, chastise comrades or express moral objections to heads of powerful nations, even if it imperiled him. For example, he famously criticized French president François Mitterand during a state dinner for hosting the leader of Apartheid South Africa.

Who was Thomas Sankara?
– A captain in army of Upper Volta, a former French colony in West Africa
– Instrumental in the coup that ousted Col Saye Zerbo as president in 1982
– Took power from Maj Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo in an internal power struggle and became president in August 1983
– Adopted radical left-wing policies and sought to reduce government corruption
– Changed the name of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means “the land of upright men”
– Killed in mysterious circumstances by a group of soldiers in October 1987

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https://www.facebook.com/Extinction-Rebellion-Free-State-South-Africa-106833010725498/
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Extinction Rebellion Mpumalanga South africa
https://www.facebook.com/Extinction-Rebellion-Mpumalanga-South-africa-114786709913011/
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Extinction Rebellion Northwest South Africa
https://www.facebook.com/Extinction-Rebellion-Northwest-South-Africa-117595239629759/
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Extinction Rebellion Limpopo
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(Gauteng have two pages, which one is the official page is not known right now, see Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION as a link to Joberg Team
https://www.facebook.com/groups/466998360506744/)

The Original page Extinction Rebellion South Africa was hacked from us and we created a new Page and Decolonized its name to Extinction Rebellion Mzansi which is the official Page for South Africa now.

(the hackers changed the Original Page to be named 'Extinction Rebellion Cape Town -sa')
Oct 14, 2019, 9:35 PM
From Oct 19, 2019, 2:30 PM to Oct 19, 2019, 11:59 PM
#Durban:
A group of activists from Extinction Rebellion, Earthlife Africa and other organizations will be attending the 12 pm show of the play
"Lalela uLwandle - Listen to the Sea" at UKZN.

Afterwards we will host a gathering with musicians and speakers at the Royal Natal Yacht Club to discuss further actions and protests for the upcoming month. All are welcome to attend, bring your ideas and share. If we are to have any impact we need to #Mobilze together for all the causes important to us and the future of all life on this planet.

Line-Up:
Captain & Hobbes
Cns Major
Amandla! KaShaka
Emn8
Open Mic
Updated Oct 14, 2019, 11:22 AM
Oct 14, 2019, 11:22 AM
#Durban's #ClimateStrike 20 September 2019
Updated Oct 14, 2019, 10:11 AM
Oct 14, 2019, 10:11 AM
2) Make Us Feel Good for doing Trivial Things Description: 'In order to distract from the important it is necessary to emphasise the trivial. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the way environmentalism (or rather, its featherlight alter-ego) is imposed upon civilized people. I say “imposed” because in the absence of the prevalent faux-environmental message it is all too easy to see the bigger picture; and that is dangerous to the system. For example, if I approach a local authority with a desire to live in a more sustainable manner, the chances of being told to go off-grid (self sufficient in energy and other services), grow and forage my own food, and stop buying consumer goods are slim to none (and Slim just left town). On the other hand I will happily be exhorted to recycle and change my light bulbs. In the case of a motor company, I will not be told to stop driving, I will be advised to pump my tyres up or buy a more economical (new) car. A supermarket would never recommend buying local produce and scrapping processed food, but will have an ample supply of branded “bags for life” because we all know carrier bags are the greatest threat to life on Earth. A mainstream environmental group, such as the Sierra Club or Friends of the Earth, will say that real change can be achieved through political lobbying rather than undermining the political system itself. Follow the advice of the system and you will never have to worry about the big things, for the small things are what we are told really matter. Identification: The most obvious clue to this Tool’s usage is the source of information: in conversation even an oil executive will admit we are screwed if we keep using oil; but on a much less personal level every single instrument of Industrial Civilization has its own set of pro-forma “environmental” messages that are designed to ensure our behaviour remains just the same as always. No advice that emanates from the mouthpiece of a government, a corporation, mass-market media or even a mainstream environmental NGO12 is going to adversely affect the industrial system. You can also use your instincts: if it feels too easy or trivial, or “against nature” then you are probably on the right track. Consequences: Sweating the small stuff is akin to putting a Band Aid on an amputation stump. Not only is it too little, it is almost certainly too late, because it is in the interest of vested corporate interests to keep us totally ignorant until they really have no choice but to provide some relevant information which, as shown, is of no substance anyway. By exploiting our civilized aversion to conscious effort and major change, we are made impotent – and content with it. Meanwhile, Industrial Civilization continues to destroy the global ecosystem. Perpetrators: Almost everyone is party to this by virtue of passing on the advice given by authority – it feels good to; however, we can single out politicians at all levels, corporate public relations and mainstream environmental journalists and NGOs as some of the worst offenders.' Identifying the 2nd Tool of Disconnection - the Underminers
2) Make Us Feel Good for doing Trivial Things
Description:
'In order to distract from the important it is necessary to emphasise the trivial. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the way environmentalism (or rather, its featherlight alter-ego) is imposed upon civilized people. I say “imposed” because in the absence of the prevalent faux-environmental message it is all too easy to see the bigger picture; and that is dangerous to the system.

For example, if I approach a local authority with a desire to live in a more sustainable manner, the chances of being told to go off-grid (self sufficient in energy and other services), grow and forage my own food, and stop buying consumer goods are slim to none (and Slim just left town).

On the other hand I will happily be exhorted to recycle and change my light bulbs. In the case of a motor company, I will not be told to stop driving, I will be advised to pump my tyres up or buy a more economical (new) car. A supermarket would never recommend buying local produce and scrapping processed food, but will have an ample supply of branded “bags for life” because we all know carrier bags are the greatest threat to life on Earth.

A mainstream environmental group, such as the Sierra Club or Friends of the Earth, will say that real change can be achieved through political lobbying rather than undermining the political system itself. Follow the advice of the system and you will never have to worry about the big things, for the small things are what we are told really matter.

Identification:
The most obvious clue to this Tool’s usage is the source of information: in conversation even an oil executive will admit we are screwed if we keep using oil; but on a much less personal level every single instrument of Industrial Civilization has its own set of pro-forma “environmental” messages that are designed to ensure our behaviour remains just the same as always.

No advice that emanates from the mouthpiece of a government, a corporation,
mass-market media or even a mainstream environmental NGO12 is going to adversely affect the industrial system. You can also use your instincts: if it feels too easy or trivial, or “against nature” then you are probably on the right track.

Consequences:
Sweating the small stuff is akin to putting a Band Aid on an amputation stump. Not only is it too little, it is almost certainly too late, because it is in the interest of vested corporate interests to keep us totally ignorant until they really have no choice but to provide some
relevant information which, as shown, is of no substance anyway. By exploiting our civilized
aversion to conscious effort and major change, we are made impotent – and content with it.
Meanwhile, Industrial Civilization continues to destroy the global ecosystem.

Perpetrators:
Almost everyone is party to this by virtue of passing on the advice given by authority – it
feels good to; however, we can single out politicians at all levels, corporate public relations and mainstream environmental journalists and NGOs as some of the worst offenders.'

Identifying the 2nd Tool of Disconnection - the Underminers
Oct 13, 2019, 7:39 PM
1) Reward Us for Being Good Consumers Description: 'It is fairly easy to make civilized people happy, or at least give people the sense they are happy; they just have to be primed in the right way. What is key to creating this malleable state of mind is making people believe from a very early age that “happiness” is something far more superficial than having a deep and genuine state of contentment and well-being. The marketing of consumer goods and services (“experiences”) taps into the desire for happiness through colourful and positive images reflecting enjoyment of whatever is being marketed; this is compounded by continual messaging through the mass media that consumption in general is a “good thing”, and the consumption of anything new and fashionable is likely to lead to improvement in our quality of life. This powerful message is easily transferred to the next generation via parents and peers who are already primed. Identification: At a personal level, this can be recognised through being aware of anything that makes you feel better, yet is clearly a product of the consumer culture: so, for instance, if you are watching or listening to an advertisement and begin to feel happy, regardless of the source of the advertisement then that Tool is in operation. The same can be observed on other people who are showing signs of happiness where no source beyond that which has been manufactured is evident. The popularity of shopping malls, cinemas, amusement parks and package holidays are further evidence that the genuine need for happiness has been sub- sumed into industrial-scale consumption: we go shopping to “feel good” now. Consequences: The two main consequences of consumption happiness are, first, we become less inclined to seek deeper, more satisfying forms of happiness from the real world – such as the enjoyment of dipping our toes into cool water on a hot day – instead seeking out disconnected sources of “happiness” through material consumption. The second, less direct, consequence is that increased consumption through our desire to be happy, leads to environmental and social degradation, particularly where the things we consume are produced, powered from and disposed of. Perpetrators: A plethora of parties directly involved in commerce, including consumer journalists, advertising executives, marketing professionals, salespeople, travel agents and product developers are all ensuring we feel good about our consumer habits.' First tool of Disconnection - The Underminers
1) Reward Us for Being Good Consumers
Description:
'It is fairly easy to make civilized people happy, or at least give people the sense they are
happy; they just have to be primed in the right way. What is key to creating this malleable
state of mind is making people believe from a very early age that “happiness” is something
far more superficial than having a deep and genuine state of contentment and well-being.
The marketing of consumer goods and services (“experiences”) taps into the desire for happiness through colourful and positive images reflecting enjoyment of whatever is being marketed; this is compounded by continual messaging through the mass media that consumption in general is a “good thing”, and the consumption of anything new and fashionable is likely to lead to improvement in our quality of life. This powerful message is easily transferred to the next generation via parents and peers who are already primed.

Identification:
At a personal level, this can be recognised through being aware of anything that makes you feel better, yet is clearly a product of the consumer culture: so, for instance, if you are
watching or listening to an advertisement and begin to feel happy, regardless of the source
of the advertisement then that Tool is in operation. The same can be observed on other people who are showing signs of happiness where no source beyond that which has been
manufactured is evident. The popularity of shopping malls, cinemas, amusement parks and package holidays are further evidence that the genuine need for happiness has been sub-
sumed into industrial-scale consumption: we go shopping to “feel good” now.

Consequences:
The two main consequences of consumption happiness are, first, we become less inclined to seek deeper, more satisfying forms of happiness from the real world – such as the enjoyment of dipping our toes into cool water on a hot day – instead seeking out disconnected sources of “happiness” through material consumption. The second, less direct, consequence is that increased consumption through our desire to be happy, leads to environmental and social degradation, particularly where the things we consume are produced, powered from
and disposed of.

Perpetrators:
A plethora of parties directly involved in commerce, including consumer journalists, advertising executives, marketing professionals, salespeople, travel agents and product developers
are all ensuring we feel good about our consumer habits.'
First tool of Disconnection - The Underminers
Oct 13, 2019, 3:46 PM
Pollard who may be a brilliant thinker, but is still just an ordinary human being who cares deeply for his species. The Road to Hell, and How We Got There by Dave Pollard 'Keith Farnish tells us we need to get angry before we will be moved to act to undermine the Industrial Civilization that is killing our planet. Then, he says, we need to focus our attention on the "Tools of Disconnection" - the means by which the perpetrators of our disconnection from our intuition, our positive emotions, our senses, each other, and all-life-on-Earth keep us disorganized, confused, fearful and dependent. Our undermining actions, he asserts, should be aimed at accelerating the inevitable demise of industrial civilization with minimal suffer- ing, balancing the risks to ensure we don't get caught, and acting strategically to get maxi- mum impact from our actions. The sooner we precipitate civilization's fall, Keith says, the sooner its damage can be minimized, the sooner nature can begin to restore balance to our world, and the sooner the survivors of collapse can begin creating a better, sustainable way to live. So who are these "perpetrators"? They are the private and public corporations that depend on endless accelerating use of resources, production, consumption and waste, and which, as the book The Corporation explains, they pursue with pathological and amoral single-mindedness. They are the politicians, judges, lawyers, police and military forces that, working hand-in- hand with these wealthy corporations, create and enforce laws and wage wars in their own self-interest, not ours. They are the media, the shills, the advertisers and PR firms, the educa- tion system and the bought economists and junk scientists who perpetrate the propaganda that everything is fine and there is no other, better way to live than industrial civilization. And they are the religions, the therapists, and the techno-salvationists ("human ingenuity and invention will solve all our problems") who are complicit in reinforcing the propaganda by telling us that it is our fault as individuals when things are bad, and that with necessary struggle, industrial civilization will prevail and make things better for all of us despite our personal weaknesses and sins. The combined economic, political, media and psychological power and hegemony of these four groups of perpetrators constitute the self-reinforcing and completely uncritical and totalitarian system that Mussolini dreamed of - it was labelled Fascism but he called it Corpo- ratism. Its task is to completely subjugate and control the populace, to brainwash them so completely that there is no opposition, no dissent, just a perpetual machine of unthinking monolithic human production and consumption. Through its political messages, its advertising, its scare tactics, its lies, its withholding of information, its theft and violence, its indoctrination, its creation of false choices and false rewards, it keeps us in its thrall, disconnected. Each of us an obedient part of the system. But what is this "system"? Can it really control us that effectively in this world where often- conflicting information and ideas are ubiquitous and free? And why would so many people -not just psychopaths like Mussolini - willingly become perpetrators of such a system? The progressive-liberal worldview holds that we are all, at heart, innocent and good. Surely, then, the perpetrators of this terrible, unsustainable, teetering system had the best of intentions? They must have meant well, didn't they? This worldview also holds that getting angry isn't the answer; that we need to appeal to people rationally, with the facts. The truth, we believe, cannot long be suppressed, and when people learn it, they will, if this system is so bad and brutal, instinctively work to dismantle it and replace it with one in the common good, a truly democratic system. Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness, provides some clues on why this doesn't happen. Our large brains, he argues, have made us too smart for our own good. Our brains can now construct their own reality, completely disconnected from 'real' reality, and live happily in that illusory place, in effect mistaking it for 'real' reality. And, as Eckhart Tolle has explained, an unintended consequence of the evolution of our complex brains is that we now have an ego, capable of inventing and believing stories that provoke negative emotional responses which in turn produce in our heads other stories. This vicious cycle of negative intellectual and emotional activity in our brains, disconnected from what is really happening here, now, has made us all mentally ill. So two paradoxical consequences of our large brains are that (i) we can be fooled and emo- tionally manipulated by misinformation in a way no other creature can, and (ii) even if we are one of the perpetrators of this misinformation, we can fool ourselves into believing it, especially if that belief is reinforced by others who credulously accept the same beliefs. Despite all of this, despite the fact that we are all in a sense perpetrators, all so disconnected and confounded by our egos and the imaginary realities our brains have invented that we don't 'really' know what is real or what we are doing, Keith is correct about what must be done: We must act to dismantle industrial civilization. But how can we do that when we are so hobbled, so handicapped, so caught up in this vicious system of our own making? First, we have to inform ourselves about what is really happening (by reading and studying thoroughly and by thinking critically and challenging everything) and what our 'real' options are (by studying history and reading both fiction and radical non-fiction). Second, we have to get angry enough at the system that is killing us all (it doesn't much matter who the perpetrators are, or if we are ourselves perpetrators or complicit) to shake ourselves out of our passivity and unawareness and act. Third, we need to influence and educate others. Fourth, we need to become models, finding radically alternative ways to live and modelling those behaviours. And fifth, we need to reskill ourselves to facilitate both the work we must do to dismantle industrial civilization, and the capacity to live good lives during and after civilization's collapse. This is a tall order. The first step towards well-being is to appreciate the challenge we face, and the first step to doing that is to understand the Tools of Disconnection and how they keep us cowed, and dependent.'
Pollard who may be a brilliant thinker, but is still just an ordinary human being who cares
deeply for his species.
The Road to Hell, and How We Got There
by Dave Pollard
'Keith Farnish tells us we need to get angry before we will be moved to act to undermine the Industrial Civilization that is killing our planet. Then, he says, we need to focus our attention on the "Tools of Disconnection" - the means by which the perpetrators of our disconnection from our intuition, our positive emotions, our senses, each other, and all-life-on-Earth keep us disorganized, confused, fearful and dependent.

Our undermining actions, he asserts, should
be aimed at accelerating the inevitable demise of industrial civilization with minimal suffer-
ing, balancing the risks to ensure we don't get caught, and acting strategically to get maxi-
mum impact from our actions. The sooner we precipitate civilization's fall, Keith says, the
sooner its damage can be minimized, the sooner nature can begin to restore balance to our world, and the sooner the survivors of collapse can begin creating a better, sustainable way to live.

So who are these "perpetrators"? They are the private and public corporations that depend
on endless accelerating use of resources, production, consumption and waste, and which, as the book The Corporation explains, they pursue with pathological and amoral single-mindedness.

They are the politicians, judges, lawyers, police and military forces that, working hand-in-
hand with these wealthy corporations, create and enforce laws and wage wars in their own
self-interest, not ours. They are the media, the shills, the advertisers and PR firms, the educa-
tion system and the bought economists and junk scientists who perpetrate the propaganda that everything is fine and there is no other, better way to live than industrial civilization.

And they are the religions, the therapists, and the techno-salvationists ("human ingenuity
and invention will solve all our problems") who are complicit in reinforcing the propaganda
by telling us that it is our fault as individuals when things are bad, and that with necessary
struggle, industrial civilization will prevail and make things better for all of us despite our
personal weaknesses and sins.

The combined economic, political, media and psychological power and hegemony of these
four groups of perpetrators constitute the self-reinforcing and completely uncritical and
totalitarian system that Mussolini dreamed of - it was labelled Fascism but he called it Corpo-
ratism. Its task is to completely subjugate and control the populace, to brainwash them so
completely that there is no opposition, no dissent, just a perpetual machine of unthinking monolithic human production and consumption.

Through its political messages, its advertising, its scare tactics, its lies, its withholding of
information, its theft and violence, its indoctrination, its creation of false choices and false rewards, it keeps us in its thrall, disconnected. Each of us an obedient part of the system.

But what is this "system"? Can it really control us that effectively in this world where often-
conflicting information and ideas are ubiquitous and free? And why would so many people -not just psychopaths like Mussolini - willingly become perpetrators of such a system?

The progressive-liberal worldview holds that we are all, at heart, innocent and good. Surely,
then, the perpetrators of this terrible, unsustainable, teetering system had the best of intentions? They must have meant well, didn't they?

This worldview also holds that getting angry isn't the answer; that we need to appeal to
people rationally, with the facts. The truth, we believe, cannot long be suppressed, and when
people learn it, they will, if this system is so bad and brutal, instinctively work to dismantle it and replace it with one in the common good, a truly democratic system.

Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness, provides
some clues on why this doesn't happen. Our large brains, he argues, have made us too smart for our own good. Our brains can now construct their own reality, completely disconnected from 'real' reality, and live happily in that illusory place, in effect mistaking it for 'real' reality.

And, as Eckhart Tolle has explained, an unintended consequence of the evolution of our complex brains is that we now have an ego, capable of inventing and believing stories that
provoke negative emotional responses which in turn produce in our heads other stories. This vicious cycle of negative intellectual and emotional activity in our brains, disconnected from what is really happening here, now, has made us all mentally ill.

So two paradoxical consequences of our large brains are that (i) we can be fooled and emo-
tionally manipulated by misinformation in a way no other creature can, and (ii) even if we
are one of the perpetrators of this misinformation, we can fool ourselves into believing it, especially if that belief is reinforced by others who credulously accept the same beliefs.

Despite all of this, despite the fact that we are all in a sense perpetrators, all so disconnected and confounded by our egos and the imaginary realities our brains have invented that we don't 'really' know what is real or what we are doing,
Keith is correct about what must be
done: We must act to dismantle industrial civilization. But how can we do that when we are so hobbled, so handicapped, so caught up in this vicious system of our own making?

First, we have to inform ourselves about what is really happening (by reading and studying
thoroughly and by thinking critically and challenging everything) and what our 'real' options are (by studying history and reading both fiction and radical non-fiction).

Second, we have to get angry enough at the system that is killing us all (it doesn't much matter who the perpetrators are, or if we are ourselves perpetrators or complicit) to shake ourselves out of our passivity and unawareness and act.

Third, we need to influence and educate others.

Fourth, we need to become models, finding radically alternative ways to live and modelling those behaviours.

And fifth, we need to reskill ourselves to facilitate both the work we must do to
dismantle industrial civilization, and the capacity to live good lives during and after civilization's collapse.

This is a tall order. The first step towards well-being is to appreciate the challenge we face, and the first step to doing that is to understand the Tools of Disconnection and how they keep us cowed, and dependent.'
Oct 13, 2019, 3:25 PM
Learn how this is more than just global heating, what the elites are trying to do to cool the planet, All Unesco countries have been involved in the atmospheric monitoring and geoengineering experiments, where by various metals and minerals have been sprayed into different layers of the atmosphere. How incineration of forests and grasslands are being intensified. Mass extinctions and massive Earth Changes. This is not a conspiracy, the truth about global heating and runaway climate change is being hidden from us, and many governments are invested in weather altering technologies, rain gathering and trying to Control precipitation events, even as we experiencing weather weirding and the effects of the melting of the glaciers and polar ice caps. Coming and current Famines in Urban Centre's, this is the time to have courage and tell the truth. Syria and Iraq, depleted Uranium and the entire planet poisoned by mostly the US military. This is not a time of hope but a time of courage. https://youtu.be/4s4hAZAfxGg
Updated Oct 13, 2019, 3:07 PM
Oct 13, 2019, 3:07 PM
We doubt there is any hope, one of the Tools of Disconnection is "Give them hope", we at Mzansi will never try to "give yous hope". The military Industrial complex has overrun the earth now. There will be no escape, there will likely be full complete extinction of most of life and humans. That's why we are here, that's our warning to fellow beings that are alive. We interested in lieing to people about the Earth Changes and why they happening. The fossil fuel industry have spent trillions on distraction and misinformation. From talking about solar spots to pole shifts, anything but anthropogenic caused climate breakdown.
Updated Oct 13, 2019, 1:30 PM
Oct 13, 2019, 1:30 PM
Published on 25 Jul 2016
"A directed-energy weapon (DEW) emits highly focused energy, transferring that energy to a target to damage it. Potential applications of this technology include anti-personnel weapon systems, potential missile defense system, and the disabling of lightly armored vehicles such as cars, drones, watercraft, and electronic devices such as mobile phones. The energy can come in various forms: Electromagnetic radiation, including radio frequency, microwave, lasers and masers Particles with mass, in particle-beam weapons Sound, in sonic weapons The Pentagon is researching technologies like directed-energy weapon and railguns to counter maturing threats posed by missile and hypersonic glide vehicles"
Updated Oct 13, 2019, 11:54 AM
Oct 13, 2019, 11:54 AM
Updated Oct 13, 2019, 9:41 AM
Oct 13, 2019, 9:41 AM
Eish
Updated Oct 13, 2019, 1:08 AM
Oct 13, 2019, 1:08 AM
Take back our streets.
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 10:50 PM
Oct 12, 2019, 10:50 PM
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 10:25 PM
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Updated Oct 12, 2019, 10:11 PM
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Updated Oct 12, 2019, 10:08 PM
Oct 12, 2019, 10:08 PM
This is all getting rather insanely ridiculous don't you think?!

“Avoiding dangerous global heating will require governments around the world to impose stringent taxes on fossil-fuel usage that will mean a 43% jump in household energy bills over the next decade, the International Monetary Fund has said.

The Washington-based Fund said the battle against climate change could only be won if the average carbon tax levied by its member states increased from $2 (£1.63) a ton (907kg) to $75 a ton.

The IMF said governments worried about a political backlash against big increases in the cost of heating homes and motoring, and should use the extra revenue raised from the tax to compensate consumers.

“To limit global warming to 2C or less – the level deemed safe by science – large emitting countries need to take ambitious action,” IMF economists said.

“For example, they should introduce a carbon tax set to rise quickly to $75 a ton in 2030. This would mean household electric bills would go up by 43% cumulatively over the next decade on average – more in countries that still rely heavily on coal in electricity generation, less elsewhere. Gasoline would cost 14% more on average.”

Calculations by the IMF’s economists show that a $75-a-ton carbon tax would also lead – once inflation has been taken into account – to an average 214% increase in the cost of coal and a 68% increase in natural gas. For the UK, the increases would be 157% for coal, 51% for natural gas, 43% for electricity and 8% for petrol.

Details of the IMF’s call for a much higher carbon tax came in a chapter from the organisation’s biannual fiscal monitor released before its publication next week.

“Without substantial mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures are projected to rise by around 4C above preindustrial levels by 2100 (they have already increased by 1C since 1900),” the IMF said.

“Global warming causes major damage to the global economy and the natural world and engenders risk of catastrophic and irreversible outcomes such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events (already more frequent) leading to loss of life and the possibility of much higher warming scenarios.”

The IMF said it was calling for a substantially higher carbon tax because the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels accounted for almost two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions and was the most immediately practical to control.

But the authors of the fiscal monitor said that without compensation to offset the impact on business and consumers, there was likely to be strong political resistance. The French president Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to cut France’s CO2 emissions through higher fuel prices prompted nationwide protests from the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement.

A blog post by the authors to accompany the chapter from the fiscal monitor said global heating was a clear and present threat. Actions to date had fallen short of what was required, and finance ministers needed to play a pivotal role in dealing with the problem.

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“A better future is possible. Governments will need to increase the price of carbon emissions to give people and firms incentives to reduce energy use and shift to clean energy sources. Carbon taxes are the most powerful and efficient tools, but only if they are implemented in a fair and growth-friendly way.

“To make carbon taxes politically feasible and economically efficient, governments need to choose how to use the new revenue. Options include cutting other kinds of taxes, supporting vulnerable households and communities, increasing investment in green energy or simply returning the money to people as a dividend.”

The IMF economists said governments could target financial help directly at workers and communities disproportionately affected by the carbon tax instead of paying a flat-rate dividend to everybody. Restricting compensation to the poorest 40% of households would leave three-quarters of the revenue from the carbon tax for investment in green energy, innovation or to fund the UN’s anti-poverty 2030 sustainable development goals.

While about 50 countries currently have a carbon pricing scheme in some form, the IMF said the global average carbon price of $2 a ton was far below what the planet needed. It said other countries could learn from Sweden, which has a carbon tax of $127 per ton and has managed to reduce emissions 25% since 1995, while the economy has expanded by 75%.”
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 9:53 PM
Oct 12, 2019, 9:53 PM
Japan is hit by a simultaneous typhoon and EARTHQUAKE: Seven million people are told to evacuate as Hagibis reaches land with biggest storm in decades lashing the country at the same time as tremors rattle residents
Magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck in Japan ahead of the Typhoon Hagibis making landfall on Honshu island
Heavy downpours and strong winds pounded the capital as the typhoon hit the south coast today
Around 7.3 million people have been told to evacuate as two were killed and more than 30 were injured
Japan Meteorological Agency said to 'take all measures necessary to save lives' and more rain is forecast
More than 180,000 people are without power and 20 inches of rain is forecast for Tokyo area in next 24 hours
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 9:49 PM
Oct 12, 2019, 9:49 PM
Things are heating up
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 4:44 PM
Oct 12, 2019, 4:44 PM
"Let’s stop calling this the Sixth Great Extinction. Let’s start calling it what it is: the “first great extermination”. A recent essay by the environmental historian Justin McBrien argues that describing the current eradication of living systems (including human societies) as an extinction event makes this catastrophe sound like a passive accident."
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 4:38 PM
Oct 12, 2019, 4:38 PM
Planting flood barriers... Here in South Cape we just remove Dunes on a Daily basis and counter sue activists who fight it. This week our politicians sold off all the oil reserves to eight Oil companies whose executives felt threatened by two children. Minister Gwede Mantashe looked equally confused when XR Gauteng delivered the zero fossil fuel by 2025 demand. He has already given the oil companies everything so now what, they don't have plans for an oil free economy. They don't have plans to vegetate the shoreline to stop the worst flooding... They don't have food security plans they don't have a development model outside of the plantation. Everything they do is about corporate profits and solutions, nothing is about human beings or ecosystems. They just expect cities to keep growing, the Extinction will just continue.
Updated Oct 12, 2019, 11:59 AM
Oct 12, 2019, 11:59 AM
Updated Oct 11, 2019, 8:19 PM
Oct 11, 2019, 8:19 PM
Dear Earth, I sobbed as they arrested me.

I wasn't upset about my criminal record, the blank hours ahead of me in a cell, court, the fine.

I didn't feel unsafe. As the police carried me away, they checked four times if they were hurting me, if I was okay.

I wasn't ashamed, after a lifetime of being a good girl, of not inconveniencing anyone, of doing as I'm told.

I sobbed, beloved Earth, because the grief I felt for you suddenly rose up and crushed me.

I knew that 600 of us had already been through these cells, and we were hardly appearing on our national television.

I saw the whisper of my voice up against the airplane roar of those who have unimaginable power.

I recognised the system's denial about the gravity of your prognosis, as I have lived under a thick protective crust for decades.

The grief pushed its way through me, and it left me clean.

I am lucky to be here, dear Earth, as I write with the red biro a smiling officer brought me.

Later they'll bring me food, and I'll go home to my extravagent privelige.

Others are failing to coax crops from impoverished soil. Others have had their homes violently flattened. Others are watching the ice caps melt, drip by deathly drip, and they don't know what to do.

I know what to do.

I vow to witness your vast suffering, darling Earth, and pray for your coast dwellers, intricate coral reefs and nightingales.

I vow to meet the razor-sharp protection of others with peace in my heart.

I vow to do what you call me to do.

I am so inadequate, dear Earth, and I contain the same greed, hate and delusion that is strangling you.

I am asking for your forgiveness, with my sobs, and with this red pen.
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#RebelForLife great to see @[394784064648213:274:Extinction Rebellion Gauteng] taking action!
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This was the last post that was to appear on our Old Page:

"I’ve been with Extinction Rebellion (XR) from the start. I was one of the 15 people in April 2018 who came together and made the collective decision to try to create the conditions that would initiate a rebellion. I was a coordinator of one of the original five working groups, and I’ve been organising with XR day-and-night since then (frugally living off my savings so I don’t have to work, having quit an industry that paid me £1000/week). And I’ve been in RisingUp (the organisation from which XR has emerged) since the first RisingUp action in November 2016. I’m a RisingUp Holding Group member, and a member of the XR Guardianship Team.
And for the sake of transparency: that previous paragraph is all about me ‘pulling rank’ — I’m trying to convince you to listen to what I have to say…
And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life. This was exacerbated when European ‘civilisation’ was spread around the globe through cruelty and violence (especially) over the last 600 years of colonialism, although the roots of the infections go much further back.
As Europeans spread their toxicity around the world, they brought torture, genocide, carnage and suffering to the ends of the earth. Their cultural myths justified the horrors, such as the idea that indigenous people were animals (not humans), and therefore God had given us dominion over them. This was used to justify a multi-continent-wide genocide of tens of millions of people. The coming of the scientific era saw this intensify, as the world around us was increasingly seen as ‘dead’ matter — just sitting there waiting for us to exploit it and use it up. We’re now using it up faster than ever.
Euro-Americans violently imposed and taught dangerous delusions that they used to justify the exploitation and reinforced our dominance, while silencing worldviews that differed or challenged them. The UK’s hand in this was enormous, as can be seen by the size of the former British empire, and the dominance of the English language around the world. There is stark evidence that everyday racial bias continues in Britain, now, today. It’s worth naming some of these constructed delusions that have been coded into societies and institutions around the world:
The delusion of white-supremacy centres whiteness and the experience of white people, constructing and perpetuating the myth that white people and their lives are somehow inherently better and more valuable than people of colour.
The delusion of patriarchy centres the male experience, and excludes/hinders female assigned people from public life (reducing them to a possession or object for ownership or consumption). Patriarchy teaches dominating and competitive behaviours, and emphasises the idea that the world is a place of scarcity, separation and powerlessness.
The delusions of Eurocentrism include the notion that Europeans know what is best for the world.
The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
The delusions of class hierarchy uphold the theory that the rich elite are better/smarter/nobler than the rest of us, and make therefore better decisions.
There are other delusions. These delusions have become ingrained in all of us, taught to us from a very young age.
None of these delusions have ended, although some of the arguments that supported them (e.g. phrenology) have been dispelled. They continue to play out through each of us, in our ways of relating, regardless of our identity. The current pride in the history of the British empire, or the idea that the USA is on the side of ‘good’, continues to enable neo-colonialism in 2019, taking the form of palm-oil plantations, resources wars, and the parasitical financial sector, to name but a few. The task of Extinction Rebellion is to dispel these delusions. We need to cure the causes of the infection, not just alleviate the symptoms. To focus on the climate’s breakdown (the symptom) without focusing attention on these toxic delusions (the causes) is a form a denialism. Worse, it’s a racist and sexist form of denialism, that takes away from the necessary focus of the need for all of us to de-colonise our selves.
My ancestors are European, some of whom claimed to ‘own’ people as slaves. There are black people with the name Basden in the Americas, and I have begun to mobilise my (white) family to make contact in order to seek to pay reparations.
However, my own accountability cannot be fully paid through this. The insanity* of the mind of the coloniser continues today. It continues in the extraction of fossil fuels, minerals and water from the earth. It continues in deforestation and industrial agriculture. It continues in a callous culture of consumption, which intensifies each Christmas. It continues in evictions and deportations. It continues in the ways of relating to those around us that perpetuate separation and division.
The result is isolation, pain and suffering. The result can be felt at the individual level — in the endemic levels of loneliness and mental-health illness. It can be felt at the community level — in the theft of land for plunder and profit by largely-European-and-US-based banks and corporations. And it can be felt at the global level — in the polluting of our air and oceans.
So Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the climate. It’s not even about ‘climate justice’**, although that is also important. If we only talk about the climate, we’re missing the deeper problems plaguing our culture. And if we don’t excise the cause of the infection, we can never hope to heal from it.
This article is calling to all of those who are involved in XR who sometimes slip into saying it’s a climate movement. It’s a call to the American rebels who made a banner saying “CLIMATE extinction rebellion”. It’s a call to the XR Media & Messaging teams to never get sloppy with the messaging and ‘reduce’ it to climate issues. It’s a call to the XR community to never say we’re a climate movement. Because we’re not. We’re a Rebellion. And we’re rebelling to highlight and heal from the insanity that is leading to our extinction. Now tell the truth and act like it.

* I use the term ‘insanity’ carefully, with the intention of highlighting the need for healing. Indigenous First Nation people helpfully taught me to see the mindset of the coloniser as a sickness. In no way do I intend to marginalise or discredit the experience of people who have been labelled ‘insane’ by a normative system, nor who identify as being ‘insane’.
** Climate Justice refers to the injustice that those who are affected first and worst by extreme weather events (the people in the poorer countries, the majority of whom live in the Global South) are not likely to be the ones who caused the climate emissions (the people who consume the most, including the pathologically wasteful cultures of Europe and Turtle Island (aka North America), and the rich who live/travel around the world).
Climate Change
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Colonialism

Stuart Basden
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Stuart Basden
Extinction Rebellion co-founder. I facilitate the emergence of diversity, openness & complexity in our beautiful universe, and resist oppression & exploitation.
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See it looks like a photo from Durban Climate Strikes
'Global Justice Rebellion'
A coalition of international activist groups has come together in order to challenge these prevalent discourses, particularly within XR. Under the banner of Global Justice Rebellion, we are hosting one of the twelve named XR hubs in Central London throughout the ongoing October Rebellion. The space is hosting talks, workshops, arts and music events, debates and celebrations which are expressly platforming and led by groups working on the frontlines of the climate crisis in the Global South. Activists from Asia, Africa and Latin America are sharing their perspectives on issues ranging from the impact of mining on indigenous communities to the neo-colonialism of NGOs, among many other topics. We are running the space with the aim of adding a fourth demand for global climate justice to the existing three – as has been done by XR in the United States. This move can help us build an internationalist movement of solidarity in recognition of the fact that our different struggles ultimately depend on one another.

The Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide campaign is just one group present at our site in Victoria Gardens. The campaign was launched by an alliance of pan-African academics and activists to petition the British government into creating a commission for truth and reparatory justice for Britain’s role in the history of slavery, colonialism and ecocide in Africa. Kofi Mawuli Klu, one of the group’s co-vice chairs, explained: ‘Tracing the present Climate and Ecological Crises to their beginning clearly shows the huge ecological debt owed to the peoples colonised with the reactionary violence of ecocide by the ruling classes of Europe through Imperialism, now still being criminally enforced as Neocolonialism. That is why there can be no seriously effective climate and ecological redress without reparatory Justice.

XR highlights the need to look for solutions beyond politics, and there is an element of truth to that stance. But that shouldn’t have to mean absolute political neutrality. The general elections that will almost inevitably be called in the coming weeks will be an unprecedented opportunity. The pledges made by the Labour Party at their 2019 conference are by far the strongest we have seen in terms of tackling the consequences of climate change in a holistic manner – not just through the Green New Deal but also through pledges to end the ‘hostile environment’ and close detention centres. It ought to be XR’s prerogative to use their influence to make such promises a reality.

However, given how deeply the structural injustices of capitalism and colonialism are embedded in the current political system, we also need to look for solutions outside of those institutions. At such a crucial juncture in our history, it is vital to build solidarity between resistance movements working on the ground in defiance of the climate crisis.

People living in the Global North may find it difficult to envision the full extent of damage done to poorer regions of the world through practices entwined with, and fuelling, climate change, because those stories have been left out of the dominant narrative. The Global Justice Rebellion could prove to be a vital catalyst in reshaping our ideas, by bringing those stories to the forefront, and helping to foster a worldwide web of people power that can truly fight to reclaim our future together.

Aranyo Aarjan is a writer and a spokesperson for the Environmental Justice Bloc, one of the groups organising the Global Justice Rebellion. Photo: Extinction Rebellion.
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Day 4 of the Global Rebellion #RebelForLife #ExtinctionRebellion
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Some energy for the #InternationalRebellion from our friends the
@[147297325465611:274:Children of Earth] Share far & Wide!!!

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#WeepingWorld #OnGoingProject for #OnGoingBattles - Mix 5 -
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"Climate change is a hoax. Exxon-Mobil said so. I'm too lazy to think for myself, and depend on them to think for me and make me look intelligent when I ignore reality, so you are the stupid one for believing in climate change?"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-money-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204/
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Keeping a blind eye to inequality and the elite's Consultancy firms that manage neoliberalism is death to this movement...
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In solidarity with @[581715032297511:274:Extinction Rebellion Argentina] and @[239675493315233:274:Extinction Rebellion] we observed the Vigil this evening in @[2214586885431693:69:Extinction Rebellion Cape Town] https://youtu.be/TJACyo0UFIQ
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Genocides apon Genocides... This the reality of what's happening on the planet. There is no hope for us, we must have courage, not hope.
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#InternationalRebellion - Upcoming actions:
Friday 11 October:
#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelForLife #ActNow #TellTheTruth

1st Action - #SupportTheKids - #NoCellMastsNearSchools
#BringChalk #Drums #Voices #Love and #Rage this
Friday 11 October - 10am @ The Birches Pre-Primary School,
#1 Oribi Crescent, Pinetown.
#InternationalRebellion
#Stop5GSouthAfrica
#DurbanAntiCellMastAlliance
#FridaysForFuture
#ExtinctionRellionKzn
#AndYou - https://web.facebook.com/events/2517454898489513

2nd Action from 2pm -
#PaintTheStreets
#Artivism #Chalkivism @ The Skate Park,
Bay of Plenty

3rd Action - from 4.30 pm -
#Chalkivism outside Zacks Windermere at peak traffic hour, a few hours before Steve Fataar's gig starts.
Then we wind-down, enjoy some great music and maybe get on the mic and say / sing a few things...
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If they silence us on this Page we can turn it into a truth about mckinsey in South Africa Page...
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Killing the last residents who protect the national park and trying to chase away any visitors so that mining can continue. These people know that if there are no gorillas left, their home and forest will die. The gorilla's are now in a state of functional extinction. Many Gorilla Carers who look after them have stayed with the babies and recovering Gorillas, they have been cut off from food and outside assistance. Years of Killings and assassinations have taken place there. Yet we cannot find out their names, as with all the defenders of the earth in Africa they die in oblivion, nameless and seldom recorded.

Deaths are reported as conflicts and skirmishes as Private militaries oprate all over the continent feeding of peoples desperation and fear, joining local militia groups is sometimes the only way to survive. The Whole continent is being looted by multinationals, and the Mountain Gorillas are at extinction stage, this is happening in Media silence. Hardely anyone from Europe or anywhere else knows very much about the Congo.

We saw the Fires on the Satellites but there was so little information. The Blackout of News coverage over vast areas in Africa means things happen in oblivion. I(creator of the post) cannot find the names of Miners who have died in accidents in SA this year, nor can I find out much information or any names of any fallen earth defenders. we seem to be relying on word of mouth reporting in such matters.

But only by searching directly the latest news of ICCN national parks was this story brought to my attention. This is all because of mining companies these conflicts.

'Eight killed in Rwandan village attack'

Deutsche Presse Agentur
2:17PM October 6, 2019

Armed attackers have killed eight people and injured 18 others near a national park in Rwanda, police say.

The attack took place late on Friday in a village in Kinigi, part of the Musanze district, which is popular with tourists hoping to see mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park.

"The assailants used guns and traditional weapons to kill the residents," police spokesman John Bosco Kabera said.

He did not give further details on the attackers or the identities of the victims.

Rwanda is a largely peaceful country in East Africa, although the Volcanoes National Park is not far from its border with Congo, where numerous militias are engaged in a long-running conflict mainly over access to the region's rich natural resources.

The Rwanda Development Board, which is in charge of tourism, insisted that the situation was under control and that visitors to the park were safe.

The board stressed that hundreds of thousands of people have visited the area over the past 20 years without incident.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/eight-killed-in-rwandan-village-attack/news-story/ead0b68b2e7cd9f47eaf250d92259499
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Fresh international newsletter, covering actions all over the world from Day 2 of the rebellion https://rebellion.earth/2019/10/09/rebel-daily-2/ #ExtinctionRebellion #ActNow #GlobalRebellion for a future fit for generations to come.
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From the end of Last Year
'BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Hundreds of Gambians were grateful for the jobs created by a Chinese-run fish processing plant that arrived in 2014. Then they were shocked when dead fish began washing up on a nearby shore.

Residents of the coastal town of Gunjur reported chemical residue on their skin after swimming that made them itch. Environmental activists blamed the Chinese-owned company, Golden Lead Import & Export.
Gambia Environmental Activism
Amadou Scattred Janneh, second left, with other environmentalist activists celebrate his release on bail but facing criminal trespass charges, in Banjul, Gambia. (AP Photo/Abdoulie John)

After activists said the company had failed to remove a pipe accused of spewing toxic waste into the sea, local youth issued an ultimatum: Dig the pipe up, or we will. In March they did, storming the beach.

“We’ll be willing to face any charges in defense of our community,” their leader, Amadou Scattred Janneh, told The Associated Press. He is now out on bail facing criminal trespass charges.

For more than two decades, few in this tiny West African nation dared to speak out under then-President Yahya Jammeh. Opposing voices were silenced by arrests and killings during his Jammeh’s rule.

A new era began when Jammeh was swept out of power and went into exile early last year. And as new President Adama Barrow’s government has promised wider freedoms, Gambians are now speaking up as part of a nascent environmental movement.

After the protest over the fish processing plant, Gambia’s government ultimately allowed the company to reinstate the pipe but required waste water to be treated before being discharged.

The company’s general manager, Bakary Darboe, denies causing marine pollution and has accused the activists of damaging property.

Janneh’s arrest hasn’t stopped other environmental activists in Gambia from holding regular demonstrations over the depletion of natural reserves along the country’s coastline.

Such activism is long overdue, filmmaker and activist Prince Bubacarr Sankanu told The Associated Press.

“The pressure on our meager natural resources is getting higher and higher, thus making proactive environmental activism an inevitable tool for good governance,” he said.

Another high-profile demonstration earlier this year ended in the deaths of three protesters who had demanded the end of sand mining activities by the Julakay Entreprise company in the village of Faraba Banta.

The sand is used in construction but the practice has been accused of damaging Gambia’s coastline and local farming, which is often residents’ only source of income.

Inspired in part by such confrontations, Gambia’s president in September set up a land commission to look into the challenges of administering one of the country’s most important resources. Nearly 80 percent of the population relies on agriculture for a living.

“As a country, we have been hurt because the foundation of our democracy had been shaken and corrupted,” Barrow said during the commission’s swearing-in ceremony. “The former government abused the rights of the citizens, and many communities lost their land for political or dubious reasons.”

https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/12/04/gambian-environmental-activists-take-swift-action-against-chinese-plant-accused-of-polluting-their-water/
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'The undersigned organisations condemn the recent vicious attacks on environmental justice activists in South Africa.

In one case, we are outraged at the reported murder on 11 July 2018 of Mr. D. Panza, an activist who had opposed a relocation of the community in KwaDube in KwaZulu Natal (KZN). KZN violence monitor Mary de Haas has reported that people living on this land have been informed by various authorities that they must be relocated to accommodate onshore mining operations between Mthunzini and Richards Bay. According to de Haas, Mr. Shange was shot dead, execution-style, on 11 July when travelling home from Esikhawini. Of the companions he was travelling with he alone was targeted.

In another case, we note an escalating campaign of social media attacks by those associated with an Mpumalanga mining project, on a number of South African environmental rights organisations. [1] The campaign is led by the senior vice president of Indian-owned mining company Atha-Africa Ventures Pty Ltd, which is facing multiple legal challenges from these organisations to its applications to mine coal in a strategic water source area and protected environment in Mpumalanga. [2]

This campaign is made up of various accusations and threats on social media which are designed to intimidate, silence and discourage activists who are lawfully opposing a coal mine in a strategic water source area and protected environment. He has publicly accused these organisations of “treason” and an “anti-national agenda”. These unfounded attacks are intolerable in our Constitutional democracy.

The South African Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right to access to justice, and the right to just administrative action. South Africa also has a long tradition of activism and civil society mobilisation to uphold our Constitution and defend Constitutional values.

More than two years have passed since cde Bazooka Rhadebe, an anti-mining activist in Xolobeni, was assassinated on the Wild Coast in 2016. To date nobody has been brought to book for his murder. Across the world, corporations have employed intimidation and violence when their commercial interests are challenged by activists, especially activists defending natural resources and environmental rights. The murder and assault of environmental activists are already common occurrences in many parts of the world.

We strongly condemn such attacks on civil society organisations and activists.

In the case of Mr. Shange, we call for the speedy arrest and successful prosecution of his killers, and immediate protection for other residents who oppose the relocation in KwaDube. Furthermore we call for the authorities to give full information and participation to the community on this proposed relocation, and respect the voices of those who oppose it.

In the case of Atha-Africa, we call on the Minerals Council of South Africa (formerly the Chamber of Mines) to state publicly that it will revoke the membership of any company whose employees engage in this type of conduct. The mining authorities cannot remain silent when companies operating in South Africa unlawfully intimidate and threaten activists exercising their Constitutional rights.'

[1] These organisations include Centre for Environmental Rights, the Mining and Environmental Justice Community Network of South Africa, groundWork, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg, BirdLife South Africa, the Endangered Wildlife Trust, the Federation for a Sustainable Environment, the Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD), the Bench Marks Foundation and WWF South Africa.
[2] https://cer.org.za/news/new-proceedings-launched-to-protect-mpumalanga-s...

https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/joint-statement-attacks-environmental-activists-south-africa
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'Despite the global environmental crisis confronting our planet, environmental activism has become a dangerous activity. In many countries, environmental defenders are harassed, attacked or even killed for speaking out and mobilizing against projects that threaten the health and livelihood of communities.

The latest tactic is nuisance lawsuits, as a new report about South African mining communities shows. The companies that bring these baseless lawsuits—known as "Strategic lawsuits against public participation," or SLAPPs—are not particularly concerned with winning. Rather, it's a tactic to suppress environmental defenders' effectiveness by intimidating them and burdening them with onerous costs of mounting a legal defense.

The South Africa report documents the targeting of community rights defenders in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Northwest, and Eastern Cape provinces between 2013-2018 for expressing opposition to mining projects. Activists reported intimidation, violence, damage to property, use of excessive force during peaceful protests, and arbitrary arrest, but also frivolous lawsuits and social media campaigns to curb their opposition to the mining projects. The companies have often sought court orders to halt or ban protests. The report was a collaborative effort between Human Rights Watch, Centre for Environmental Rights, groundWork, and Earthjustice.

In 2017, for example, the mining company Mineral Sand Resources brought a defamation suit against two attorneys from the Centre for Environmental Rights and a local activist for statements they made during a lecture at the University of Cape Town's Summer School concerning the company's Tormin mineral sands mine, on the west coast of South Africa. The ongoing lawsuit seeks R1,250,000 ($89,936) in damages.'
https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-activists-nuisance-lawsuits-1418023
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Extinction Rebellion in the South Coming out strong
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Another great wahine toa, the brilliant Molly Melhuish, energy efficiency expert and defender of vulnerable energy customers for decades, got arrested during our Monday 7 #internationalrebellion. This is what she wrote to us after:

"Firstly, thanks a bunch for yesterday, and the planning that preceded it. Extinction Rebellion has precisely the right focus - the corporates that have an iron grip on energy decisions. New Zealand is probably worse off than any other country because our neoliberal approach to electricity was further entrenched in 2010 legislation, whereas virtually all other countries have encouraged wind and solar, and maintain significant energy efficiency policies.

The highlight was of course the arm-linked circle of solidarity in peaceful protest - supported and entertained, especially by Marcus and the two wildly dancing girls - it kept me warm just watching them and chanting in time! Brought me back to my childhood at Woody Guthrie concerts! (yes I was brought up a pacifist and a Quaker, no training necessary). I attach a photo one of my sailing club took, showing my pure pleasure.

So yes, I would be honoured to become a kuia of Extinction Rebellion, and would commit to any policy or education workshops you might run. The corporates obstruct energy efficiency in many ways; their vision of doubling our generating capacity (it won’t actually happen) would be funded by household price rises, and requires 6-8 new gas peaking stations, keeping the fossil fuel corporates alive. We have to act now and fight those forces."
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi shared a memory.
2 Years Ago
Thinking Art added 14 new photos.
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This one has some strong language, but is a really powerful message. #ExtinctionRebellion
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
SINGABALAPHA Back yarders Western Cape 414 Observatory Main Road Cape Town. Protesting evictions and Landlessness.
SINGABALAPHA Back yarders Western Cape 414 Observatory Main Road Cape Town. Protesting evictions and Landlessness.
Oct 8, 2019, 6:14 PM
Next #Durban Action:#SupportTheKids
#BringChalk #Drums #Voices #Love and #Rage this Friday 11 October
10am @ The Birches Pre-Primary School, #1 Oribi Crescent, Pinetown.
#InternationalRebellion
#Stop5GSouthAfrica
#DurbanAntiCellMastAlliance
#ExtinctionRellionKzn
#AndYou
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#ExtinctionRebllion #RebelForLife

"This International Rebellion which began on Monday is so vast it’s almost impossible to take it all in. Thousands of people flood 60 cities across the globe, with over 700 brave rebels arrested as they stand up for their right to life, and that’s just the start.

It’s not just a question of quantity. With every season that passes, we grow more organised, more unified, more creative, more courageous."

https://rebellion.earth/2019/10/08/rebel-daily-1-the-sun-rises-on-a-new-wave-of-rebellion/
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Nice extract from Terence McKenna about the environmental crises and human condition. Love and Rage, long live the Rebellion https://youtu.be/cgDOvJg3-dQ
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Extinction Rebellion in the CBD Today also occupied Areas around Spin street and did a die in, whilst we occupied the space infront of Media 24. Long live the Rebellion
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From Jul 4, 2019, 7:00 PM to Jan 30, 2020, 10:00 PM
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Updated Oct 7, 2019, 8:02 PM
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“We too are actors in the international arena, and we have the right to choose a political and economic system true to our aspirations. We have the duty to fight for a more just and more peaceful world, regardless of the fact that we have neither large industrial cartels nor nuclear weapons” Thomas Sankara
“We too are actors in the international arena, and we have the right to choose a political and economic system true to our aspirations. We have the duty to fight for a more just and more peaceful world, regardless of the fact that we have neither large industrial cartels nor nuclear weapons”
Thomas Sankara
Oct 7, 2019, 7:59 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
Media 24 Old Naspers Building Cape Town
Media 24 Old Naspers Building Cape Town
Oct 7, 2019, 1:16 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in International Rebellion Weeks.
Hello rebels Please assist us with the action, very impacting if they have us arrive there and they also receiving online messages and over the phone today from noon. Phone Media 24 and demand they tell the truth: Tel: 021 406 2121 Email media 24: Email: info24@media24.com TELL THE TRUTH Media and Government must tell the truth about what climate breakdown is and the risks we face if we do not act. Government must reverse all policies not in alignment with healing the Earth’s Living Systems, the Media must work alongside them to communicate the changes. Humanity must wake up, we must disrupt everyday business as usual as the only way to wake People up to the severity of the situation, of how little time we have left. At this moment there are clear indicators that tipping points that scientists have been warning about have been breached. We are seeing increasing extreme weather events. In the past 30 years such massive damage has been done to ecosystems all over the planet it there are indicators we are far into a mass extinction event. As if this was not bad enough the scientists at the IPCC are saying that there is a real risk of runaway climate change and published a document explaining the positive reinforcing feedback loops and the urgency of the situation. Why do hardly any of the public seem aware that the scientists that inform us about our weather systems are so worried? More than 20000 scientists and 200 institutions specializing in monitoring weather are telling us we must change really urgently and that time is up for us to do this. Why do so few people really know or are doing something about what is going on? Everyday we hear about the cost of brent crude oil, market analysis and sport. Perhaps it's time to ask those individuals behind media to get real about the situation and help mitigate for less suffering. JOIN US TO CALL ON THE MEDIA TO REPORT ON THE ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE AND CHANGES TO THE EARTH, WITH THE URGENCY OF THE THREAT TO LIFE ON EARTH. 'High-quality media coverage of climate change can inform vulnerable communities of potential impacts and how they can adapt to them, and can promote mitigation activities that limit the amount of warming the Earth experiences. Policymakers can and should do more to engage citizens through the media, to communicate with journalists and to support a better class of climate change journalism that is relevant to local audiences, builds public awareness of the issues and contributes to improved policymaking. In particular, policymakers in the global South can: build media capacity * Support training workshops and fellowships for journalists, and environment courses in journalism schools. * Enable journalists to report from rural areas and marginalised communities. Work with and support national networks of environment journalists to build the media’s capacity over the long term. * Engage with senior editors to demonstrate that climate change is relevant to their audiences — and how they can include a climate change dimension in stories about politics, business and other issues. * Improve communication * Develop strategies to engage with the media that include regular briefings on key policy processes. * Employ trained press officers and spokespeople who are familiar with how the media works and what journalists need. * Support learning groups that bring together policymakers, scientists, journalists, civil society organisations, business people and community representatives.engage marginalised communities * Translate existing training materials — such as the Earth Journalism Toolkit — into local languages. Support systems that enable policymakers to hear and react to rural or otherwise marginalised communities — such as through community radio. The all-encompassing nature of climate change means that these actions will bring additional benefits as nations strive to achieve sustainable development.' https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G03119.pdf https://tellthetruth.media/ SA Media Team
Hello rebels

Please assist us with the action, very impacting if they have us arrive
there and they also receiving online messages and over the phone today
from noon.

Phone Media 24 and demand they tell the truth:
Tel: 021 406 2121

Email media 24:
Email: info24@media24.com

TELL THE TRUTH

Media and Government must tell the truth about what climate breakdown is
and the risks we face if we do not act.

Government must reverse all policies not in alignment with healing the
Earth’s Living Systems, the Media must work alongside them to
communicate the changes.

Humanity must wake up, we must disrupt everyday business as usual as the
only way to wake People up to the severity of the situation, of how
little time we have left.

At this moment there are clear indicators that tipping points that
scientists have been warning about have been breached. We are seeing
increasing extreme weather events.

In the past 30 years such massive damage has been done to ecosystems all
over the planet it there are indicators we are far into a mass
extinction event.

As if this was not bad enough the scientists at the IPCC are saying that
there is a real risk of runaway climate change and published a document
explaining the positive reinforcing feedback loops and the urgency of
the situation.

Why do hardly any of the public seem aware that the scientists that
inform us about our weather systems are so worried?

More than 20000 scientists and 200 institutions specializing in
monitoring weather are telling us we must change really urgently and
that time is up for us to do this.

Why do so few people really know or are doing something about what is
going on?

Everyday we hear about the cost of brent crude oil, market analysis and
sport. Perhaps it's time to ask those individuals behind media to get
real about the situation and help mitigate for less suffering.

JOIN US TO CALL ON THE MEDIA TO REPORT ON THE ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE AND
CHANGES TO THE EARTH, WITH THE URGENCY OF THE THREAT TO LIFE ON EARTH.

'High-quality media coverage of climate change can inform vulnerable
communities of potential impacts and how they can adapt to them, and can
promote mitigation activities that limit the amount of warming the Earth
experiences. Policymakers can and should do more to engage citizens
through the media, to communicate with journalists and to support a
better class of climate change journalism that is relevant to local
audiences, builds public awareness of the issues and contributes to
improved policymaking. In particular, policymakers in the global South
can: build media capacity

* Support training workshops and fellowships for journalists, and
environment courses in journalism schools.
* Enable journalists to report from rural areas and marginalised
communities. Work with and support national networks of environment
journalists to build the media’s capacity over the long term.
* Engage with senior editors to demonstrate that climate change is
relevant to their audiences — and how they can include a climate change
dimension in stories about politics, business and other issues.
* Improve communication
* Develop strategies to engage with the media that include regular
briefings on key policy processes.
* Employ trained press officers and spokespeople who are familiar with
how the media works and what journalists need.
* Support learning groups that bring together policymakers, scientists,
journalists, civil society organisations, business people and community
representatives.engage marginalised communities
* Translate existing training materials — such as the Earth Journalism
Toolkit — into local languages. Support systems that enable policymakers
to hear and react to rural or otherwise marginalised communities — such
as through community radio.

The all-encompassing nature of climate change means that these actions
will bring additional benefits as nations strive to achieve sustainable
development.'

https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G03119.pdf

https://tellthetruth.media/

SA Media Team
Oct 7, 2019, 12:39 PM
Updated Oct 7, 2019, 11:45 AM
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Updated Oct 7, 2019, 11:10 AM
Oct 7, 2019, 11:10 AM
Follow the feeds from the Protests in the East Today...
Rebel for Life
Updated Oct 7, 2019, 10:33 AM
Oct 7, 2019, 10:33 AM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi
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Updated Oct 7, 2019, 8:38 AM
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi
Live Streaming Global Rebellion
Opening Ceremony in London
Updated Oct 6, 2019, 9:12 PM
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Updated Oct 6, 2019, 6:54 PM
Oct 6, 2019, 6:54 PM
People gonna Rise like Water, they gonna shut this system down....
Earth my Body
Water my Blood
Air my Breath and
Fire my Spirit
We are Family
This is Unity
We are Remembering Who We Are... 🎶🎵🎤🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶
Updated Oct 6, 2019, 12:10 PM
Oct 6, 2019, 12:10 PM
Rise up and Save the Last Forests of Planet Earth, our last Ecosystems and Habitats, #CultureDeclaresEmergency, people gonna rise like Water they gonna shut this system down, in the words of my great granddaughter she said Climate Justice Now!
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This might be an old insert but definitely an ongoing issue which we need to address.
Updated Oct 6, 2019, 9:59 AM
Oct 6, 2019, 9:59 AM
These are the stories we have to keep acting on.
It's happening on our home ground and we must keep on voicing our concerns. Because even though the news flash/ article / documentary has ended, the events still continue.

https://www.congo-safari.com/virunga-documentary/
Updated Oct 5, 2019, 10:52 PM
Oct 5, 2019, 10:52 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Open Workshop and Meeting.
Some takeaways from today's XR meeting in Philippi.

* Much of what we should be involved in is spreading love and peace.
* When we take actions we can encourage people to be involved by demonstrating our joy and unity.
* We must creating safe spaces for debates which challenge ourselves so we can continue to grow.
* We are all continuously working to decolonize our minds and rise out of the system that is breaking the web of life.
* We need more events for learning and teaching about the nature of the extinction.
* We are in solidarity with the struggles against the darkness of greed for the oppressed and marginalized.
* A thankfulness and respect for all life in our mindfulness with actions especially for healing.
* Recognition of the importance of family and spirituality.
* More understanding about diversity of humanity.

Was really brilliant to have so many amazing people brought together. Much respect for the time given, one love.
Oct 5, 2019, 9:01 PM
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Updated Oct 5, 2019, 5:00 PM
Oct 5, 2019, 5:00 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
Oct 5, 2019, 3:43 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
XR Mzansi October Rebellion Meeting
XR Mzansi October Rebellion Meeting
Oct 5, 2019, 3:25 PM
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extinction
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1.
the state or process of being or becoming extinct.
"the extinction of the great auk"
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dying out
disappearance
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extermination
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elimination
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PHYSICS
reduction to zero in the intensity of light or other radiation as it passes through a medium, due to absorption, reflection, or scattering.
"ultraviolet extinction"

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We can learn from these actions to.Be bold and brave.
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Updated Oct 4, 2019, 9:15 PM
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The Underminers Cape Town
Extinction Rebellion Winelands Event:

'We will be having a "Cube of Truth" setup over lunch time on the Rooiplein at Stellenbosch University. Videos of examples of other organizations using this setup will be posted on the discussion in case anyone is confused about the event description.

Setup:
A few members of the movement will stand with their backs to each other, facing outwards, holding laptops showing movies of current environmental issues, including ocean plastic, fires in the amazon and other forests, oil drilling, open cast mining, and the effects of all these on humans and climate. While this happens, there will be another group moving around and engaging with anyone who views the movies and seems interested in what is happening. '
Updated Oct 4, 2019, 8:43 PM
Oct 4, 2019, 8:43 PM
From Oct 10, 2019, 1:00 PM to Oct 10, 2019, 2:00 PM
Extinction Rebellion Winelands Event:

'We will be having a "Cube of Truth" setup over lunch time on the Rooiplein at Stellenbosch University. Videos of examples of other organizations using this setup will be posted on the discussion in case anyone is confused about the event description.

Setup:
A few members of the movement will stand with their backs to each other, facing outwards, holding laptops showing movies of current environmental issues, including ocean plastic, fires in the amazon and other forests, oil drilling, open cast mining, and the effects of all these on humans and climate. While this happens, there will be another group moving around and engaging with anyone who views the movies and seems interested in what is happening. '
Updated Oct 4, 2019, 8:30 PM
Oct 4, 2019, 8:30 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
Oct 4, 2019, 2:01 PM
Updated Oct 4, 2019, 11:23 AM
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Coordinators National Meeting - Radical Transparency.
I'm a novice, how do I join Zoom...??
Oct 3, 2019, 7:42 PM
We're almost there folks...
Updated Oct 3, 2019, 5:08 PM
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Parliament of RSA passed a bill which prohibits live streams and insists that if you publish any media they don't like on the internet you could be put in prison for 5 years. It's all on whether the president signs off on this... How do you feel about this way that the government could legally silence all activists?

https://youtu.be/U2okYI712-Q
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Updated Oct 2, 2019, 8:01 PM
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The problem with net zero targets:

Even if emissions were brought to net-zero by 2050, the world would likely still need to achieve “net-negative” emissions for a period, to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations back to safer levels.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the-problem-with-net-zero-emissions-targets
Updated Oct 2, 2019, 3:43 PM
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Regarding the climate breakdown The National Research Foundation have some interesting reports attached to this page. "The National Research Foundation (NRF) was established in 1998 as a Schedule 3A Public Entity through the National Research Foundation Act (Act 23 of 1998). The organisation is mandated to fund research, support the development of high-end human capacity, and provide funding to establish and maintain research infrastructure platforms towards the production of knowledge in priority areas. The NRF has a dedicated mission to promote an informed discourse between science and society through its focus on science engagement. Leveraging on its reputation for excellence and performance, the NRF is able to establish partnerships with both local and international universities, research institutes and industry. These collaborations enable increased knowledge production and exchange, global access to research infrastructure, and the cohesive implementation of national imperatives to improve the quality of life of the people of the Republic of South Africa, with a particular emphasis on responding to the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality." https://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/interconnected-efforts-are-key-south-africa%E2%80%99s-response-climate-change
Regarding the climate breakdown The National Research Foundation have some interesting reports attached to this page.

"The National Research Foundation (NRF) was established in 1998 as a Schedule 3A Public Entity through the National Research Foundation Act (Act 23 of 1998). The organisation is mandated to fund research, support the development of high-end human capacity, and provide funding to establish and maintain research infrastructure platforms towards the production of knowledge in priority areas. The NRF has a dedicated mission to promote an informed discourse between science and society through its focus on science engagement. Leveraging on its reputation for excellence and performance, the NRF is able to establish partnerships with both local and international universities, research institutes and industry. These collaborations enable increased knowledge production and exchange, global access to research infrastructure, and the cohesive implementation of national imperatives to improve the quality of life of the people of the Republic of South Africa, with a particular emphasis on responding to the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality."

https://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/interconnected-efforts-are-key-south-africa’s-response-climate-change
Oct 2, 2019, 10:47 AM
Taking small steps of action, cleaning up mother earth, one micro bead at a time.
We don't need to wait anymore for permission or someone to initiate clean ups. Just do it, mother earth will feel your care and reward you kindly.
Updated Oct 2, 2019, 8:47 AM
Oct 2, 2019, 8:47 AM
Water rises and flows. Our beautiful Earth has so much water channels waiting to be filled.
Remember the Vlei will swell so to the streams and rivers to.
Be prepared and remember Mother Earth is a great big ship we are sailing on.
http://flood.firetree.net/
Updated Oct 2, 2019, 12:31 AM
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Closer to home
Updated Oct 1, 2019, 11:27 PM
Oct 1, 2019, 11:27 PM
A reminder of how much work we have to do to impact change from Patrick Bond

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/fighting-fossil-fuels-in-south-africa-campaigners-invoke-specters-of-climate-chaos/

Lots of promises in Ramaphosa's speech to the U.N climate summit provided in absentia last Monday, since SA was lumped with Saudi Arabia, Brazil and the U.S. and therefore prohibited from making an appearance on stage. Nevertheless,

"South Africa considers itself a good global citizen and our National Climate Change Response Policy requires us to make a fair contribution to the global effort in the context of our national development priorities."

But the reality is far different:

* Yesterday, Durban activists filed appeals with a useless Department of Environment against offshore drilling for oil and gas by ENI and Sasol, having also done so against ExxonMobil and Statoil - with no reply from Pretoria - and against the CSIR for its national gas pipeline scheme;

* Other activists are engaged in ongoing battles against Rhino's fracking plans in the Drakensburg.

* There are myriad micro-sites of struggle against coal mines such as Somkhele-Fuleni next to iMfolozi game park..

* Meanwhile Eskom keeps building the world's largest coal-fired power plants at Medupi and Kusile, and Ramaphosa promises another of at least 3300 MW at Musina-Makhado.

* Export of tens of billions of tons of coal is envisaged on corrupted Transnet locomotives, which now require a massive new tunnel at Overvaal and Richards Bay Port Expansion for a total package of more than R800 bn - the Presidential Infrastructure Investment Commission's priority project #1.

* More massive subsidies - more than R30 bn/year - go to luxury car production while public transport falls apart.

* The biggest electricity user - BHP Billiton's South32 - still gets power for its smelters at 1/10th the price ordinary people pay.

* The only substantive increase in renewable electricity is privatised suppliers which earn a massive profit - for Western Multinational Corporations - instead of state agencies and municipalities which are way overdue in putting in simple renewable energy for their loadshed-threatened, over-paying citizenries.

* Other major sources of SA's greenhouse gases - over consumption by the wealthy, meat-centric agriculture, suburban sprawl, methane emissions in rubbish disposal, etc - barely get a mention, much less a healthy debate about the radical changes in public policy needed to halt climate catastrophe.

* Adaptation is a farce, as witnessed by the deaths of 71 people in Durban, which regularly wins awards for tokenistic 'resilience' projects but can't build decent housing, stormwater drainage or river flood management.

* South Africa has no intention of paying a long-overdue 'climate debt' to its own impoverished people or to neighbours like Cyclones Idai/Kenneth's victims - because for the last decade Pretoria has agreed with others in the 'league of super-polluters' that such debt should be prohibited from international law, as specified in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Let's not be fooled by the green washing and misinformation. Thanks for the update from the front lines of our environmental crisis. Time is running out and the list above does not inspire confidence that the current decisions are being made with the interests of a future fit for generations to come. #ActNow the science is clear that we have very little time and everything to lose.
Updated Oct 1, 2019, 10:10 PM
Oct 1, 2019, 4:53 PM
What chance do we have of achieving real change or a future fit for generations to come if we can't even address the inequality in South Africa? We must end this eco-aparthied now with justice not further authoritarian oppression... as we are seeing. #DeepAdaptation #ExtinctionRebellion #SystemChange
Updated Oct 1, 2019, 4:10 PM
Oct 1, 2019, 4:10 PM
Silence makes us complicit - ecocide is genocide. #RebelForLife
Updated Oct 1, 2019, 4:09 PM
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Updated Oct 1, 2019, 2:28 PM
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Place: Extinction Rebellion Mzansi (-33.137551192346, 23.90625)
From Aug 8, 2019, 7:30 PM to Oct 17, 2019, 10:30 PM
XR NATIONAL COORDINATORS ZOOM 17th October 2019 07:30 PM Join Zoom Meetings: 1st link https://zoom.us/j/851063586 2nd link when meeting times out https://zoom.us/j/774900246 3rd Link when meeting times out. https://zoom.us/j/724168509 One tap mobile +27875507717,,774900246# South Africa +27875517702,,774900246# South Africa Dial by your location +27 87 550 7717 South Africa +27 87 551 7702 South Africa
Please join us online where ever you are, we are mass mobilising people for non-violent civil disobedience and need all the help we can get, if there is no working group in your area, why not start one?
Join the October International Rebellion being declared officially in over 60 countries ( see https://rebellion.global/ ). Prepare with us for November National Climate Shutdown. Resilience seeking, radical transparency, Love and Rage. We are running out of Time.

Please try to be punctual as the Zoom links expire after 40 minutes on free mode. there are three links when one expires we join the next one.

https://www.facebook.com/events/336343600605802/
Updated Oct 1, 2019, 8:45 AM
Oct 1, 2019, 8:45 AM
From Oct 1, 2019, 1:00 AM to Oct 8, 2019, 12:30 AM
We are XR Families UK and we are calling all rebels from around the world to send us letters of support and solidarity. Write a positive message, hold it and take a picture of yourself or your family or your group! Or you can just send us a note and a photo from an action.

We want to display those messages on a massive map during our October Rebellion in London. Our kids will respond with drawings and messages!

Please send your messages on xrhackneyfamilies@gmail.com before the 7th Oct.
Updated Sep 30, 2019, 11:28 PM
Sep 30, 2019, 11:28 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Our page is being totally suppressed, the posts are getting one person reached, 2 people reached, like that.
Sep 30, 2019, 7:04 PM
Find out more about working groups and how we doing this global rebellion thing...
OUR SITE FOR VOLUNTEERING AT THE REBELLION HAS GONE LIVE!

www.rebellionroles.earth

Rebels new and older can see what roles are going and are able to directly connect with the coordinators for the roles they want to be in. Volunteering has no minimum: even 1-2 hours makes a difference! This site (and the telegram bot that goes with it) will get as many of us on the streets as possible and hopefully make sure no working group is without enough rebels! There is also a page dedicated to remote roles for those who cannot be at the rebellion in person ❤

Have a look, share and get involved! See you at the Rebellion!
Updated Sep 30, 2019, 5:16 PM
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Updated Sep 30, 2019, 4:22 PM
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
The XR Self Organising System (SOS) enables us to harness group wisdom
while remaining agile and able to respond quickly to emerging situations. This is
how it works.
DISTRIBUTED AUTHORITY
➔ People fill roles with defined mandates (= purpose + domain + accountabilities).
➔ They have full authority to make decisions and take action within that mandate.
➔ When making a decision from their role, people are responsible for seeking input
from those with experience in the area or those affected by it
SELF-ORGANISING CIRCLES
➔ Each circle (or team) has its own mandate and can define and refine its roles.
➔ For large roles, the circle may create a sub-circle that will in turn self-organise.
➔ This circle structure widens out to the Anchor Circle which contains all circles.
➔ Consent and linking ensure that no individual has power over another, and
mitigate the negative features of a hierarchical structure.
➔ Each level of the structure is slightly further removed from the nitty-gritty and
take a broader view regarding resource use, purpose and priorities.
HOW POWER IS DECENTRALISED
➔ Authority is distributed into roles and circles using a collective decision-making
process. Mandates empower roles to make operational decisions.
➔ To add/change a role/circle, a member presents a proposal to resolve an issue,
referred to as a tension, and each circle member has the opportunity to object.
➔ Objections are encouraged, as they represent important information that can be
integrated to improve the proposal, before it is either accepted or withdrawn.
➔ The aim is to get something workable that allows movement forward.
➔ The decision can be revisited later on, so it doesn’t have to be perfect first time.
LINKING STRUCTURE
➔ External coordinators attend meetings of wider circles, as equal members.
➔ This gives every sub-circle equal power to raise objections during
decision-making in the wider circle, if they create or change roles.
RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
➔ The roles and circles should be kept up-to-date and visible for all.
➔ This allows every member to discover the structure and contact whoever they
need to when making decisions day-to-day.
➔ Minutes, projects, and other relevant documents should also be transparent, so the
whole organism has insight into the history of each part.
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'For much of my life, I thought our species would soon go extinct. I assumed we might last another hundred years if we were lucky. Now I suspect we are facing extinction in the near future. Can I speculate as to exactly when that might happen? Of course not. My sense of this is based only on probability. It might be similar to hearing about a diagnosis of late stage pancreatic cancer. Is it definite that the person is going to die soon? No, not definite. Is it highly probable? Yes, one would be wise to face the likelihood and put one’s affairs in order.

First, let’s look at climate data. Over the past decade I have been studying climate chaos by reading scientific papers and listening to climate lectures accessible to a layperson. There is no good news to be found there. We have burned so much carbon into the atmosphere that the CO2levels are higher than they have been for the past three million years. In the last decade our carbon emission levels are the highest in history, and we have not yet experienced their full impact. If we were to stop emitting carbon dioxide tomorrow, we are still on track for much higher heat for at least ten years. And we are certainly not stopping our emissions by tomorrow.

This blanket of carbon in the atmosphere has triggered, and will trigger, further runaway warming systems that are not under our control, the most deadly of which is the release of methane gases that have been trapped for eons under arctic ice and what is now euphemistically known as permafrost (much of it is no longer permanent frost).

Methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon, and much faster acting. In the first twenty years after its release into the atmosphere, it is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Whereas the full effect of heat from a carbon dioxide molecule takes ten years, peak warming from a methane molecule occurs in a matter of months.

As if these emissions were not daunting enough, a heretofore little-known gas, sulphur hexafluoride or SF6, used in many green and renewable technologies, is 23,500 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon. It leaks from electrical production sites and stays in the atmosphere for a thousand years.

The Arctic and Antarctic icecaps are melting at rates far faster than even the most alarming predictions, and methane is pouring out of these regions, bubbling out of Arctic lakes, and hissing out of seas and soils worldwide. Some scientists fear a methane “burp” of billions of tons when a full melt of the summer arctic ice occurs, something that has not happened for the past four million years. Should such a sudden large release of methane occur, the earth’s warming would rapidly accelerate within months. This alone could be the extinction event.

The Arctic summer ice is currently two thirds less than it was as recently as the 1970s, and the arctic is warming so fast that a full summer melt is likely within the next five years. The continent of Antarctica is also rapidly melting at an acceleration of 280% in the last forty years. The massive ice melts that are happening there, such as the breaking off the Larsen B ice shelf defied scientific predictions; the ice shelf known as Larsen C, which broke off in July of 2017, was 2,200 square miles in size.

The Arctic ice has been the coolant for the northern part of the planet and it impacts worldwide climate as well. Its white surface also reflects back into space much of the heat from the sun, as does the Antarctic ice. As the ice melts, the dark ocean absorbs the heat and the warming ocean more quickly melts the remaining ice. Over the past three decades, the oldest and thickest of the Arctic sea ice has declined by a whopping 95%, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2018 annual Arctic report.

The U.S., Russia, and China are now vying for hegemony of the Arctic region in order to get at the massive reserves of oil that exist there and will be accessible as the ice melts. Aside from the real possibility of military conflagrations over control of the region, moving tankers through and drilling in this sensitive eco-system would cause the dual destructions of rapidly deteriorating whatever ice is left, thereby speeding up the release of methane; and then burning all that stored carbon of newly found oil reserves into the atmosphere. For instance, Russia has recently launched a floating barge on which two nuclear reactors will be wired into its infrastructure to power gas and oil platforms in remote regions of the Arctic.

These and all the other warming feedback loops are now on an exponential trajectory and becoming self-amplifying, potentially leading to a “hothouse earth” independent of the carbon emissions that have triggered them. Each day, the extra heat that is trapped near our planet is equivalent to four hundred thousand Hiroshima bombs. There are no known technologies that can be deployed at world scale to reverse the warming, and many climate scientists feel that the window for doing so is already closed, that we have passed the tipping point and the heat is on “runaway” no matter what we do.

We are now in the midst of the sixth mass extinction with about 150 plant and animal species going extinct per day. Despite the phrase “the sixth extinction” making its way into mainstream awareness via the publication of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer-prize-winning book of that title, most people still don’t realize that we humans are also on the list.

Some of the consequences we face are mass die-offs due to widespread drought, flooding, fires, forest mortality, runaway diseases, and dying ocean life—all of which we now see in preview. A few of these consequences could even result in the annihilation of all complex life on earth in a quick hurry: the use of nuclear weapons, for instance, as societies and governments become more desperate for resources; or the meltdown of the 450 nuclear reactors, which will likely become impossible to maintain as industrial civilization breaks down. Since 2011, when a tsunami struck the northeast coast of Japan and caused a near meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, it has taken more than 42,000 gallons of fresh water per day to keep the reactors cooled. Keeping the radioactive elements contained requires dangerous jobs for the workers and building a new steel water tank every four days to store the spent radioactive water.

If we were to make it through this gauntlet of threats, we would still be facing starvation. Grains, the basis of the world’s food supply, are reduced on average by 6% for every one degree Celsius rise above pre-industrial norms. We are now about one degree Celsius above and climbing fast; the oceans are warming twice as fast and have absorbed a staggering 93% of the warming for us so far. If that were not the case, the average land temperatures would be a toasty 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) above what they are now. Of course, there is a huge cost for ocean warming in the form of dying coral reefs, plankton loss, ocean acidification, unprecedented storms, and increased water vapor, which is yet another greenhouse blanket holding heat in the atmosphere.

As I became aware of these facts and many hundreds like them, I also marveled at how oblivious most people are to the coming catastrophes. There has never been a greater news story than that of humans facing full extinction, and yet extinction is rarely mentioned on the evening news, cable channels, or on the front pages of blogs and newspapers. It is as though the world’s astronomers were telling us that an asteroid is heading our way and will make a direct hit destined to wipe out all of life to which the public responds by remaining fascinated with sporting events, social media, the latest political scandals, and celebrity gossip.

However, beginning about six years ago, a few books and other sources of information began to address the chances of full extinction of all complex life, and these became my refuge, even though the information was the most horrific I had ever imagined.

For decades, I had sensed that things were dramatically worsening, the rate of destruction increasing. As a journalist from 1982 to 1994, I specialized in social and environmental issues. I had written about global warming, the phrase we used in those days, numerous times in the 1980s, but because it seemed a far-off threat, we could intellectually discuss it without fear of it affecting our own lives in terribly significant ways. As time marched on, I began to awaken to how fast the climate was changing and how negative its impacts. It became a strange relief to read and listen to the truth of the situation from people who were studying the hard data as it affirmed my instincts and threw a light on what had been shadowy forebodings, dancing like ghosts in my awareness. It is an ongoing study that has taken me through a powerful internal process–emotional and cathartic–one that I felt might be helpful to share with those who have woken to this dark knowledge or are in the process of waking to it, just as I, over time, found comfort in the reflections of the small yet increasing number of comrades with whom I share this journey.

Because the subject is so tragic and because it can scare or anger people, this is not an essay I ever wanted to write; it is one I would have wanted to read along the way. But the words on these pages are meant only for those who are ready for them. I offer no hope or solutions for our continuation, only companionship and empathy to you, the reader, who either knows or suspects that there is no hope or solution to be found. What we now need to find is courage.'
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'The world’s tropical forests are so degraded they have become a source rather than a sink of carbon emissions, according to a new study that highlights the urgent need to protect and restore the Amazon and similar regions.

Researchers found that forest areas in South America, Africa and Asia – which have until recently played a key role in absorbing greenhouse gases – are now releasing 425 teragrams of carbon annually, which is more than all the traffic in the United States.'
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Big thanx to the founders of Extinction Rebellion. They been working on the BBC for over a year, protesting and disrupting...

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The context which has led to the current crisis is very important. Good to see how the movement is responding to criticism. "The group is launching a new programme called Extinction Rebellion Together, Moyo says, which focuses on anti-racism, decolonization and anti-oppression." https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2019/05/232257/extinction-rebellion-middle-class?
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This helps explain why we need to make a stand in South Africa for the future https://youtu.be/51rGrcmJWwg #ClimateLiteracy #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateCrisis #GetAweh
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The words of Mitchell Black on behalf of sharp# at Sasol headquarters. Friday 20 September 2019

How have we ended up here?

It’s a long story, but it involves a system going back a few hundred years. It has stuck with us, toiling in the background from the day the first colonizers set foot on Azanian soil through to the so-called end of Apartheid, and here we stand fighting it again, for the youth it is our first political conflict, and likely to be the one which will define the rest of our lives.

This system has not only driven us to the point of ecological collapse, but on a more personal note, it has kept mothers and fathers from their children, kept our communities separate and insular, and taken our fundamental needs and placed them in the hands of profiteers. Our skills are monopolized, our needs are commodified, and all we are taught to do is consume and obey. From schooling to entertainment, an ideology of individualism and isolation has destroyed us.

The truth is that we should not have to pay for food and water; neither should we have to face a future without both, because greedy people continue to build their empires on the bones of future generations.

We should not have only the choice between wage slavery and starvation as young people facing adulthood. Life has to be about more than work.

Thankfully, this can all be changed, but we must find our political home, and make our will heard as the youth! And soon.

Mzansi is where change can be led for the world: a chance for the global south to take the wheel. We have one of the largest youth populations on earth who are lost, disenfranchised, and politically uninvolved. We have no political home, no one who comforts our fears or shows us a way out of jobs designed to kill the spirit, and lives forced into a society designed to separate and divide us.

Our politicians are uninterested in governing society. This is clear from recent inaction on gender based violence and xenophobia and persistent and criminal inaction on Climate Change. The time for something new is now. Let us reject western aspirations and emerge anew into a changing world.

Let us announce a new ecosocialism, where we ask ourselves again - what is the role of government? Is it to fill the pockets of businessmen or career politicians, and poison our air for the sake of profits? Do we really need a bullet train and a fourth industrial revolution? Should we be prioritizing the courting of neo-colonial powers on a road that will only increase inequality? Or do we need to make sure that our people have food and water, the basic ingredients of survival, our most basic needs, in abundance and in perpetuity?

Let us realign our priorities with the needs of our people and not the wants of a financial elite.

South Africans. We have the potential to lead the way. Let us decentralize, let us decarbonise, and let us socialise for planet and for people.

Look out for sharp#, a movement for ecosocialism in South Africa!

Amandla!
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"We want to build a new Africa, and only we can build it. The opponents of African Nationalism, therefore, are hampering the progress and development not only of Africa, but of the whole world. Talks of co-operation are not new to us. Every time our people have shown signs of uniting against oppression, their “friends” have come along and broken that unity.

In the very earliest days it was the Missionary (we owe the bitter feelings between Fingoes and Xhosas to the Christian ideals of the Reverend Shaw). Between 1900 and 1946 it has been the professional Liberal. Today it is again the Missionary who fulfils this role. After maintaining an unbroken and monastic silence for years while Smuts was starving the people out of the Reserves, the Missionaries suddenly discover, when the Africans unite, that the Africans have not had a fair deal. In the same stride, so to speak, they form a “Union wide Association of Heads of Native Institutions” for the purpose of regimenting the thoughts of the students. A Missionary Hospital closes even though the people are dying in its neighbourhood, and there is a dearth of Nurses throughout the country.

I am afraid these gentlemen are dealing with a new generation which cannot be bamboozled. “What you are thunders so loudly that what you say cannot be heard.” Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa, an Africa re- born, an Africa rejuvenated, an Africa re-created, young AFRICA. We are the first glimmers of a new dawn. And if we are persecuted for our views, we should remember, as the African saying goes, that it is darkest before dawn, and that the dying beast kicks most violently when it is giving up the ghost, so-to-speak.

The fellows who clamped Nehru into jail are today his servants. And we have it from the Bible that those who crucified Christ will apear before him on the judge- ment day. We are what we are because the God of Africa made us so. We dare not compromise, nor dare we use moderate language in the course of freedom. As Zik puts it: “Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell a man moderately to rescue his wife from the arms of a ravisher; tell a mother to extricate gradually her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but do not ask me to use moderation in a cause like the present.” These things shall be, says the Psalmist: Africa will be free. The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly. And all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise I Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And She will be heard! REMEMBER AFRICA
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The Underminers Cape Town
'The Environmental Non-Profit Industrial Complex'

There is an indisputable failure to respond to the needs of those in the midst of climate destruction. We saw this during Hurricane Katrina and more recently in Puerto Rico and in the Bahamas. People fleeing the devastation in the Bahamas are being turned away from asylum in the U.S. Migrants from south of the border fleeing in part from environmental chaos are being detained and separated from their children.

Thousands of people have been displaced without real care and are left to be exploited by non governmental agencies that promise funds yet withhold many of the donations that people are giving. The Red Cross, for example, withheld hundreds of millions of dollars of aid that was meant to go to Haiti after its earthquake in 2010.The Red Cross was also getting huge donations during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Occupy Sandy, a multiracial grassroots formation, lacked the funds of big NGOs, yet was able to do imperative disaster relief work such as providing food, removing mold in houses, and delivering medications to cancer and HIV patients. The same can be said of anarchist disaster relief collective Common Ground and the aid they gave following Hurricane Katrina.

Groups like Occupy Sandy and Common Ground have a much more limited supplies compared to big environmental and disaster relief NGOs. If funds were instead given to grassroots formations the work would be greatly improved.

Big Green NGO’S hurt the movement by co-opting the struggles of frontline communities. The documentary End Civ gives and account of an incident that took place in Canada. The very grassroots direct action that sparks struggles is too often co-opted by large non profits.

In the 1990s the Nuxalk Nation fought in a direct action campaign to stop logging on their traditional land known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Indigenous people started the fight and big green organizations like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace co-opted the struggle. Without the consent of the indigenous people, they cut a deal with the logging company for only 20% conservation of the forest .

In the end, we in the environmental justice movement have demonstrated time and time again that we are better able to protect our communities ourselves, even without proper funding or support from individuals and institutions that have the most resources.

Colonialism and Imperialism

In and outside of the imperial centers, the working people in oppressed communities contribute the least to pollution yet face the brunt of the consequences. Without a firm commitment to climate justice our people are going to be left to die by the imperial powers and a white dominated environmental movement more concerned with not alienating white society than addressing the suffering of marginalized communities.

Through the IMF and World Bank, third world countries are forced to destroy their environment to pay off costly “development” loans. Imperialism drives the destruction and the failure of the U.S mainstream (white) environmental movement to address it is nothing short of a complete failure to address the root causes that puts the human race at risk of extinction.

The exploitation of colonized people’s land globally has resulted in irreparable damage. Desertification from the destruction of the forests that act as carbon sinks is the result of neocolonialism. We are seeing it right now with the destruction of the Amazon. The fascist Bolsonaro government in tandem with Western corporations are profiting off of the destruction of the Amazon. The Amazon is considered the lungs of the planet with 20% of our oxygen being released from it. If the Amazon disappears there is no going back. On the home front, due to high profile environmental justice struggles such as Standing Rock and the Flint water crisis, the reality of the impact of pollution for colonized people in the U.S. is being acknowledged more. Still, our communities have not been given the attention and resources they deserve. Acknowledgment is not the same as transformative action and material support rooted in decolonization and reparations. Also, even if the disproportionate impact on us is acknowledged, the lack of an anticolonial framework holds back our work in the U.S and across the globe to address the climate crisis.

I made the decision we all have to make at some point: embrace hopelessness and quit or stand up and fight. I have found that the best place for me to fight back is with Extinction Rebellion U.S. (XR US). Extinction Rebellion is a global movement with thousands of people with the strategy to employ coordinated city and government shutdowns to win our demands:
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Where they allow climate strikers but not poor street vendors....
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George Monbiot...: The assumption on which governments and economists operate is that everyone strives to maximise their wealth. If we succeed in this task, we inevitably demolish our life support systems.

A meaningful strike in defence of the living world is, in part, a strike against the desire to raise our incomes and accumulate wealth: a desire shaped, more than we are probably aware, by dominant social and economic narratives. I see myself as striking in support of a radical and disturbing concept: enough. Individually and collectively, it is time to decide what “enough” looks like, and how to know when we’ve achieved it.

Wondering how many of us believe in "enough"...
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
"This has been the most demoralizing thing I've ever been involved with. The actual real hopelessness of the ecological situation coupled with the geopolitical realities leave me wondering. When we began this movement here I had more hope I guess. It was about not going quietly into the night.... It was this nagging feeling that we might have some kind of mutation within us biological, that kept us going. Have humans come this far down the evolutionary road only to destroy themselves? Was this the pinnacle of our conscious experience?

Then more hope as people everywhere around the earth began to respond as if they were also seeing this new reality where we turn everything on its head and rethink our everyday lives. Were we really approaching the tipping point permaculturalists spoke of...? I'm still not sure if we can keep this real, but we trying. I'm really sickened by the NPO sector and how they have behaved during this year, probably nothing new.

One thing is for sure, that if we don't organize as a global movement we won't achieve the outcome we need to survive. How much scope will the Industry give us before they start to close in? Are we past the point of no return? Will we let the economic system continue as it invests in more arms?"

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Sep 23, 2019, 8:50 AM
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Nice Climate Strikes but we have very little time left....
Nice Climate Strikes but we have very little time left....
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Protest at Sasol
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I'm not trying to say that those polluters are okay because there is a solution, but we may now have a solution to a better future after we get rid of those polluters and clean up their mess.
https://realfarmacy.com/cannabis-nuclear-radiation/
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No more nice talk. We are not in an election campaign. This is about our existence.
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I totally agree with this. Evidence does not prove that violence is needed to create meaningful change. I never saw such evidence and neither was it provided by those making such claims. Even violent revolutions leads to corrupt oligarchs or monarchs being replaced by absolute despots or worse...since the French Revolution. March Against Monsanto was non-violent, and even the people who used direct action committed to non-violence against other humans (including those they disagree with). The end result is that Monsanto (a mega multinational corporation with protection from various governments) was destroyed within 5 years, and Bayer which bought them is being dragged down as a consequence of buying them. If violence is so effective, why do its advocates not arm up with AK47s and do their own dirty work, instead of trying to convince others that violence is the answer? We are on the right path that violent-fetishism (which changes nothing), cannot take us, other than increasing the suffering of those already suffering.
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Truth to power.
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Polluters must pay #SASOL 20th Sept 2019 Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party - SRWP justice and healing for the people and the land
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Like the oceans we rise
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System Change Not Climate Change - for a planet fit for future generations #GlobalCliamteStrike @[484225342142217:844:Global Climate Action- SASOL offices]
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
Eskom Climate Strike Action
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See you tomorrow to turn this all around
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Some places getting the idea that this is a civil Disobedience Campaign... Not an event...
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Lock down at one of Europe's Biggest Oil refinery beginning of actions, camping out to disrupt the refinery during the Global Climate strike.
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If we are too meek, too quiet, too uncommitted to civil Disobedience on mass for extended periods of time we will likely just fizzle out into Extinction. There is nothing we can individually do to stop the trajectory. Join us October starting 7th for two weeks of intense nonstop protest, Civil Disobedience, Talks, workshops, SOS Training and anticirporate protesting, interviews with CEOs of corporations whether they like it or not.
If we are too meek, too quiet, too uncommitted to civil Disobedience on mass for extended periods of time we will likely just fizzle out into Extinction. There is nothing we can individually do to stop the trajectory. Join us October starting 7th for two weeks of intense nonstop protest, Civil Disobedience, Talks, workshops, SOS Training and anticirporate protesting, interviews with CEOs of corporations whether they like it or not.
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From Oct 7, 2019, 10:00 PM to Oct 20, 2019, 11:00 AM
You are called on.

Something is happening. You know it is, you can feel it. You are called on to be part of it.

Because time is running out.
We’re on the brink of extinction
The governments are doing nothing.
Businesses are doing nothing.

It’s up to you now.

This isn’t a distant apocalypse. Scientists are telling us that we’re 18 months from a tipping point from which there will be no coming back.

It’s not going to happen to somebody else. It’s going to happen to you.

We must rebel.

You can’t look to us or Greta for this. You have to look inside yourself and rebel.

Starting on October 7th, for 2 weeks, Extinction Rebellion is calling an International Rebellion. Together, we will peacefully occupy the centres of power and shut them down until Governments act on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

Leave your desk. Invite your boss. Walk out of school. Switch off the TV. Put down your phone. Get on the streets. And bring everybody.

You are called on. If you do one thing with your life, do this. Not later, now.

Respect existence or expect resistance.

👉 1. SHARE THIS EVENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Even if you don’t post frequently, it’s one of the most effective ways to raise the alarm.

👉🏿 2. LINK WITH YOUR LOCAL GROUP. These small units are vital to organising during the Rebellion.

👉🏾 3. FIND YOUR ROLE. The rebellion is for everybody, not just those willing to risk arrest. We need cooks, admin legends, action designers, sanitation pros, financial whizzes, social media gurus, prominent spokespeople, legal observers, builders and fixers, musicians, logistics experts, and loads more to help keep rebels safe, organised and fed on the street. Explore roles here.

👉🏼 4. DONATE. If you’re short on time but can offer money, donate to the Rebellion.

👉 5. STAY UP-TO-DATE.

👉🏾 6. BRING YOURSELF. This Rebellion needs everybody. If you think you have nothing to contribute, think again. Bring yourself. That will be enough.

See you on the streets.

#RebelForLife
#ExtinctionRebellion
#BringEverybody
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From Sep 20, 2019, 12:00 AM to Sep 27, 2019, 11:00 PM
Starting on Friday 20th September we will kick start a week of climate action with a worldwide strike for the climate.

This week of action will end by Earth Strike a global general strike on september 27th
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From Sep 20, 2019, 11:00 AM to Sep 20, 2019, 2:30 PM
NATIONAL POWER UTILITY - INTERNATIONAL STRIKE ACTION

We demand a just transition to people owned energy
We demand justice for poor air quality
We demand that Private Consultancy contracts with Eskom to be cancelled, no to outsourcing
We demand phase out of All Fossil fuels by 2025 with immediate implementation
All contracts with multinationals for reduced energy costs must be cancelled, foreign owned companies must pay huge levies, no more mining off our taxes

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Place: Extinction Rebellion Mzansi (-33.137551192346, 23.90625)
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Please join us to discuss October Rebellion, last minute media Team plans for 20th and going forward with Extinction Rebellion in South Africa.
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From Extinction Rebellion in Mumbai with best wishes for the Global Climate strike on the 20th #RebelForLife
From Extinction Rebellion in Mumbai with best wishes for the Global Climate strike on the 20th #RebelForLife
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Let make the connection sooner than later.one step at a time.
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"One criticism you hear about the environment movement is that it is dominated by white people. How do you address that?

NK: When you have a movement that is overwhelmingly representative of the most privileged sector of society then the approach is going to be much more fearful of change, because people who have a lot to lose tend to be more fearful of change, whereas people who have a lot to gain will tend to fight harder for it. That’s the big benefit of having an approach to climate change that links it to those so called bread and butter issues: how are we going to get better paid jobs, affordable housing, a way for people to take care of their families? I have had many conversations with environmentalists over the years where they seem really to believe that by linking fighting climate change with fighting poverty, or fighting for racial justice, it’s going to make the fight harder. We have to get out of this “my crisis is bigger than your crisis: first we save the planet and then we fight poverty and racism, and violence against women”. That doesn’t work. That alienates the people who would fight hardest for change. This debate has shifted a huge amount in the US because of the leadership of the climate justice movement and because it is congresswomen of colour who are championing the Green New Deal. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaibcome from communities that have gotten such a raw deal under the years of neoliberalism and longer, and are determined to represent, truly represent, the interests of those communities. They’re not afraid of deep change because their communities desperately need it."
Updated Sep 17, 2019, 12:40 PM
Sep 17, 2019, 12:40 PM
From Sep 20, 2019, 11:00 AM to Sep 20, 2019, 2:30 PM
Belville Cape Town Climate Strike 20th Sept - Eskom accountability for criminal world bank loans.
Updated Sep 17, 2019, 11:47 AM
Sep 17, 2019, 11:47 AM
Updated Sep 17, 2019, 11:44 AM
Sep 17, 2019, 11:44 AM
Sep 17, 2019, 11:16 AM
We shall weep when we are alone on the earth with other species, for cannibalism causes holes in the brain. We will weep for would have wiped out every creature genetic line, we will even wish for insects but there will be only pests which kill us and then die out with us. This our future if we do not turn 180 degrees and stop the genocide of all life on earth bigger than a pin head size.
Updated Sep 17, 2019, 10:13 AM
Sep 17, 2019, 10:13 AM
From Sep 20, 2019, 11:00 AM to Sep 20, 2019, 2:00 PM
Sep 17, 2019, 1:10 AM
That is a different way of looking at the same thing
Updated Sep 16, 2019, 10:55 PM
Sep 16, 2019, 10:55 PM
and these fracking oil companies want to drill off our coastline under the pretense of being the "environmentally friendly" alternative.
Updated Sep 16, 2019, 6:22 PM
Sep 16, 2019, 6:22 PM
As the Malaysian government sent 500 000 face masks to people in Sarawak, after the palm oil and pulp plantations set their world on fire, lets revisit the Amazon.
"Important imperialist companies are behind the deforestation as well: Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas (France), financial groups like Blackrock and Capital Group (United States), and pharmaceutical companies like Johnson & Johnson also have business in the area. Other multinational companies responsible for doing business with this devastation are grain producers; Cargill, Bunge and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) control 60% of the soybean industry in Brazil and directly benefit from the forest fires, as do agrochemical companies such as Monsanto and Bayer.
Corporations linked to the pharmaceutical and cosmetic businesses are demanding a “controlled” Amazon, which will allow them to patent their products and regularly use the resources provided by the forestlands. Roche, Bayer, L’Oreal, Unilever, are only a few of these types of companies."
https://truthout.org/articles/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-fires-in-the-amazon/
Updated Sep 16, 2019, 5:34 PM
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Updated Sep 16, 2019, 10:05 AM
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Updated Sep 16, 2019, 8:31 AM
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Updated Sep 14, 2019, 11:29 AM
Sep 14, 2019, 11:29 AM
It is without a doubt the micro which forms the macro....the small things we do all adds up and has an effect. It's a good read.
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/scale-in-the-story-of-interbeing/
Updated Sep 14, 2019, 5:49 AM
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Updated Sep 13, 2019, 1:59 PM
Sep 13, 2019, 1:59 PM
Statement from Extinction Rebellion UK on the preemptive arrest of members of Heathrow Pause. September 12, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion Email: press@risingup.org.uk

As we approach the Global Climate Strike on 20 September, the inaction of our governments on the climate and ecological emergency becomes ever clearer. The growing global climate movement demonstrates the increasing fears that our current system is not fit to protect people and the natural world. Around the world people are realising the truth of the existential threat we face and are coming together to demand immediate action.

We are aware that members of the Heathrow Pause group have been preemptively arrested this afternoon. While Extinction Rebellion UK recognises the need for actions that are highly disruptive and controversial in order to highlight the severity of the climate and ecological emergency, we stand by our position to neither condone nor condemn the Heathrow Pause action.

Members of Heathrow Pause, which includes Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam, are acting from a deep sense of duty and care for their loved ones and for those already suffering the deadly effects of climate breakdown. We ask that people reflect on what has happened today.

This isn’t a distant apocalypse. Scientists are telling us that we’re 17 months from a tipping point from which there will be no coming back. The time to act is now.

About Extinction Rebellion:

Time has almost entirely run out to address the ecological crisis which is upon us, including the 6th mass species extinction, global pollution, and abrupt, runaway climate change. Societal collapse and mass death are seen as inevitable by scientists and other credible voices, with human extinction also a possibility, if rapid action is not taken.

Extinction Rebellion believes it is a citizen’s duty to rebel, using peaceful civil disobedience, when faced with criminal inactivity by their Government.

Extinction Rebellion’s key demands are:

Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.
Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.
Government must create and be led by the decisions of a Citizens’ Assembly on climate and ecological justice.

Get involved:

In the UK, come to one of our events, join the Rebellion Network and let us know how you can help out.
Start a group where you are: in the UK or around the world.
Find your local group.
Check out the International XR website, with links to the French, German, Italian and UK websites.
And while your time and energy are of most importance, if you are financially able to donate money, see our crowdfunder.

About Rising Up!

Extinction Rebellion is an initiative of the Rising Up! network, which promotes a fundamental change of our political and economic system to one which maximises well-being and minimises harm. Change needs to be nurtured in a culture of reverence, gratitude and inclusion while the tools of civil disobedience and direct action are used to express our collective power.
https://rebellion.earth/2019/09/12/statement-from-extinction-rebellion-uk-on-the-preemptive-arrest-of-members-of-heathrow-pause/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=statement-from-extinction-rebellion-uk-on-the-preemptive-arrest-of-members-of-heathrow-pause
Updated Sep 13, 2019, 11:06 AM
Sep 13, 2019, 11:06 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Heathrow Pause Pilots and media co-ordinator pre-emptively arrested in London afternoon in targeted police raids before drone protest.
(Scroll through the post we have listed some of the Videos that Roger Hallum and the Team has made and also some articles about Heathrow expansion)
At least 7 have been arrested, and the houses of others cordoned off by police, before a drone has even taken flight.

Valerie, a pilot, and Howard, a media co-ordinator who had no intention of flying a drone, have also been arrested in London.

XR India solidarity statement
https://twitter.com/xrebellionind/status/1172393571233628166?s=12

'Andrew Pendleton of Friends of the Earth said: “We have to say, that if you look at this coldly, it makes Heathrow one of the most progressive airports in the world. But there is a jumbo-jet sized elephant in the room – a new runway that would see 260,000 extra flights a year, and that comes at a significant environmental price.”

“It is deeply irresponsible of the government to sign off on this expansion on the assumption that something will come along” to solve the challenges, he said. A cross-party committee of MPs recently accused the government of “magical thinking” over the future solutions to Heathrow’s environmental challenges.'

READ MORE - THE ISSUE OF THE THIRD RUNWAY AT HEATHROW:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/heathrow-aims-make-third-runway-carbon-neutral

'Dr Declan Finney is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds’ Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS); and Dr Giulio Mattioli is a research associate at the Department of Transport Planning at TU-Dortmund in Germany and guest research fellow at the University of Leeds’ Sustainability Research Institute.

For years, plans to expand London’s Heathrow airport have been hotly debated by many sides. One argument against expansion relates to its apparent incompatibility with the UK’s targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which have recently been strengthened to net-zero emissions by 2050.

As well as Heathrow, other airports also have expansion plans. We have investigated the plans from the largest UK airports and found them to be on course for much higher growth than is compatible with the pathway for carbon reductions set out by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
Aviation growth and climate change

Evidence to date indicates that unrestricted growth in the aviation sector is unlikely to be offset by technological improvements to efficiency. Up to now, the rapid increase in air-travel demand has always outstripped efficiency and technological improvements in the aviation sector. This is the main reason why the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation have more than doubled since 1990 – much faster than for other transport segments.

The recent net-zero report by the CCC sets out comprehensive plans for the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. The report comments that:

“…given a population that is anticipated to grow and rising incomes, some growth in [aviation] demand is expected. However, this cannot be unfettered. We have maintained our previous assumption that demand grows by 60% relative to 2005 levels (25% relative to today) by 2050”

As implied, this limitation on growth is not a new target: it was already included in the plans to achieve the previous 80% emission reduction target. The CCC will be writing to the government later in 2019 regarding its approach to aviation. The need to revisit government policy on aviation in light of the CCC report has recently been acknowledged by a senior civil servant in the Department of Transport.
Plans for unrestricted growth in UK airports

The private companies that run the UK’s airports each form their own plans for airport growth. We have used various media reports and airport strategy documents to identify the targets for passenger numbers over the coming decades for the largest UK airports (which accounted for 98% of passengers in 2017).'

READ MORE HERE:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-planned-growth-of-uk-airports-not-consistent-with-net-zero-climate-goal

'The continuation of plans for a third runway at Heathrow – and the original plan itself – is utter madness. It will be regarded as the worst decision ever made by the Department for Transport (DfT), and cannot justifiably go ahead if politicians are serious about the 2050 zero carbon emissions target, announced last week. In the meantime, while we wait for what seems like its inevitable cancellation, billions of pounds of taxpayer’s money is being wasted.

Permitting Heathrow expansion is a clear signal that modern politics favours current generations over future ones – in spite of the Youth Strikes 4 Climate, in spite of Greta Thunberg’s recent visit. '
https://www.responsibletravel.com/copy/heathrow-expansion

'Heathrow expansion is bad for the environment, bad for the economy, and a social injustice'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/heathrow-expansion-needs-to-be-stopped/

Climate Change - Why we are heading for extinction and what to do about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgFc4Zhvjtg

XR Talks | Roger Hallam |
Facilitation | Extinction Rebellion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D2cqB_EiHc

The time is now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2sQ3XDxq2I

Why International Rebellion? - Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c2f_JmzoWU

"Something Drastic Has To Happen" Roger Hallam | BBC HardTalk | Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HyaxctatdA

Roger Hallam - Why Public Disruption is Necessary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pckkpXBfqXM

Owen Jones meets Extinction Rebellion | We're the planet's fire alarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ign9ERpNM4

On Contact: Civil Disobedience to Stop Ecocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220tv9Jktmg

The 10 Working Principles of Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6se6c5qvuV4

Tips on - Swarming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ZPAmbPkXA

EXTINCTION REBELLION is Working Well So Far - Roger Hallam - May 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66vI0xSE-4U

Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion about Climate Emergency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xra47byu4

Interview with Roger Hallam, Extinction Rebellion co-founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4z2eCQV2M

"If we don't work together, we are going to die together" - Roger Hallam | Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKTA1cSu1E

Life inside Extinction Rebellion: 'We can't get arrested quick enough'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAH3IQwHKag

Roger Hallam 'Climate Catastrophe: why we are heading towards extinction and what to do about it.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5C4aAovWKE

How to build a mass movement- Roger Hallam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX7iDv0jfkY

https://www.facebook.com/heathrowpause/videos/511019819718809/?v=511019819718809
Updated Sep 13, 2019, 11:03 AM
Sep 13, 2019, 11:03 AM
#Water Is Life
Updated Sep 13, 2019, 12:05 AM
Sep 13, 2019, 12:05 AM
One of the Songs
We Are Together
Thina simunye
Singa bomdeni

We are together
We are family
Listen here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j98jo3xffloji4y/We%20Are%20Together.mp3?dl=0
Updated Sep 12, 2019, 10:08 PM
Sep 12, 2019, 10:08 PM
Well worth watching, saying it like it is. https://youtu.be/_qKq9itUVQ8
Updated Sep 12, 2019, 7:23 PM
Sep 12, 2019, 7:23 PM
"So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior." "The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves." "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression—the blackness of their skin—and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude." "We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds." "Black man, you are on your own." "The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity." On Political Activism "You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway." "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." "Being black is not a matter of pigmentation—being black is a reflection of a mental attitude." "It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth."
"So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior."

"The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves."

"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression—the blackness of their skin—and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude."

"We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds."

"Black man, you are on your own."

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."

On Political Activism

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation—being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."

"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth."
Sep 12, 2019, 5:46 PM
We should keep media focus on this as much as possible. The Heathrow Pause gives us cause to think about how only 3% of the humans on Earth actually have access to air travel and yet the rest of the life on Earth is being sacrificed for the convenience of the few.

The brave act of a few Extinction Rebellion members to highlight the urgency of the climate breakdown by sacrificing their own freedom is sad and inspiring at the same time. @[100003329775307:2048:Roger Hallam] thanks for all the inspiration. We are with you. #ActNow #RebelForLife

https://twitter.com/realmediagb/status/1172160114796765184?s=21
Updated Sep 12, 2019, 5:23 PM
Sep 12, 2019, 5:23 PM
Updated Sep 12, 2019, 4:35 PM
Sep 12, 2019, 4:35 PM
The guilty punishing the guilty, but the less arrogant guilty has stopped funding the most arrogant guilty. Bolsonaro needs to become the poorest president on the planet until his own people punish him for their plight, and the torching of one of the earth's lungs by his bancada ruralista gang of oligarchs.
Updated Sep 12, 2019, 12:34 PM
Sep 12, 2019, 12:34 PM
Good grief, but at least Morales is a million times better than Bolsonaro.
Updated Sep 12, 2019, 2:21 AM
Sep 12, 2019, 2:21 AM
Grrrr. This planet has had many climate changes as part of natural cycles, but this is totally the fault of the greedy corporate pigs that grease the palms of politicians?
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 7:24 PM
Sep 11, 2019, 7:24 PM
Yes, because even I am still detached from nature in a big way.
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 7:10 PM
Sep 11, 2019, 7:10 PM
It may be time for another protest at Brazilian embassies and consulates soon, not only over the fires, but for sanctions against the Bolsonaro mafia.
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 6:47 PM
Sep 11, 2019, 6:47 PM
Is this the fault of Hurricane Dorian? No. It is the fault of the oil industry. The hurricane did not place mess in its path. The oil industry put it there. The power of Hurricane Dorian may also have been the consequence of the environmental impact on our climate, from the oil industry for over a century. End fossil fuel dependence.
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 1:54 PM
Sep 11, 2019, 1:54 PM
People with a conscience, in considering their own, the children and community's health and existence. Why party to death in wealth when you can sacrifice for health to live?
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 1:30 PM
Sep 11, 2019, 1:30 PM
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 11:21 AM
Sep 11, 2019, 11:21 AM
Time is running out we must #ActNow we are #ExtinctionRebellion we stand in solidarity with Earth Defenders and will not let life be quietly destroyed for coporate profits. #WaterNotOil

"The Environmental Authorisation which allows mining companies to drill for oil and gas off the KZN coastline was granted to Sasol and ENI. Apart from the procedural flaws identified by many Interested and Affected Parties during this process, the blatant vulgarities of how this Authorisation came to fruition is nothing short of unjust."
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 9:50 AM
Sep 11, 2019, 9:50 AM
Via Extinction Rebellion Youth Durban:
Join the Sit In @ Durban City Hall from 1pm on Saturday the 21st September to support XR Youth as the letter drafted and sent to the UN is handed over to the Mayor. This will be followed by poetry, speeches and music. All are invited to participate and use the platform, have your say...

"The fate of our planet is in our hands, so we ACT NOW. Join groups around the world on September 21st at 1 PM to demand the UN Act now, not by 2050. Wearing blue the colour of the UN.

On this day New York is hosting the Youth UN Climate Action Summit. Two days later the UN Climate Action Summit is taking place whereby UN representatives will be discussing ways in which countries around the world will attempt to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. This is not an ambitious or urgent enough target! In light of this, dozens of XR Youth groups around the world have written a letter to their respective UN representative, with a collaborative letter being addressed to the UN Secretary General.
On the day a globally coordinated XR Youth action will take place!"
Updated Sep 11, 2019, 9:49 AM
Sep 11, 2019, 9:49 AM
Updated Sep 10, 2019, 3:58 PM
Sep 10, 2019, 3:58 PM
The more we let carbon capital of the hook the more it will heat. Join us in a human chain outside Sasol on September 20th to say: Eco-cide stops now. No to profit making and the prolonged use of fossil fuels at the expense of human & non human life. See you on the streets !
Updated Sep 10, 2019, 11:33 AM
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Updated Sep 10, 2019, 10:38 AM
Sep 10, 2019, 10:38 AM
On the issue of fundraising for Extinction Rebellion South Africa. https://youtu.be/UbHHv06QVBs
Updated Sep 9, 2019, 9:04 PM
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Updated Sep 9, 2019, 8:57 PM
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Updated Sep 9, 2019, 6:35 PM
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Updated Sep 9, 2019, 2:54 PM
Sep 9, 2019, 2:54 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Sep 9, 2019, 1:48 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
Sep 9, 2019, 1:48 PM
Nuclear Military Testing accidents...?
Updated Sep 9, 2019, 1:29 PM
Sep 9, 2019, 1:29 PM
The Danger of a single story.
Updated Sep 9, 2019, 9:34 AM
Sep 9, 2019, 9:34 AM
This is really happening
Updated Sep 9, 2019, 9:29 AM
Sep 9, 2019, 9:29 AM
“In very simple terms, the message is to say: invest in land restoration as a way of improving livelihoods, in reducing vulnerabilities contributing to climate change, and reducing risks for the economy,” http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/09/desertification-costs-world-economy-15-trillion-dollars-u-n/
Updated Sep 8, 2019, 8:13 PM
Sep 8, 2019, 8:13 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Rebellion Party - Celebrate Life.
After events over the past week in South Africa we regret that our capacity for celebration has diminished. Some of our friends have been impacted by the violence recently and we are going to have to cancel the upcoming event.
Sep 8, 2019, 3:22 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in XR SA Support Network.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:38 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Knysna.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:38 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:36 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:36 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi THE REAL CONVERSATION.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:36 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion United Africa.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:36 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:36 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:36 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
Sep 8, 2019, 2:35 PM
We have a 5% chance of staying under 2 degrees if we act now... Why it’s time to think about human extinction #ActNow #ExtinctionRebellion #SystemChange #DeepAdaptation https://youtu.be/fGtvMYSFQQc
Updated Sep 8, 2019, 2:27 PM
Sep 8, 2019, 2:27 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion ZA.
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The Underminers Cape Town
Extinction Rebellion UK are planning to disrupt business as usual to challenge the system responsible for ecocide. There are very brave men and woman involved who are putting their own freedom at risk in this time for the sake of future generations. Please let other people know these activists need as much social media support as possible. https://www.instagram.com/airportpause/
Updated Sep 8, 2019, 2:18 PM
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Updated Sep 8, 2019, 11:36 AM
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi
Updated Sep 8, 2019, 12:10 AM
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Updated Sep 7, 2019, 8:05 PM
Sep 7, 2019, 8:05 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
Gauteng art workshop
Gauteng art workshop
Sep 7, 2019, 1:18 PM
Updated Sep 6, 2019, 10:56 PM
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Updated Sep 6, 2019, 7:25 PM
Sep 6, 2019, 7:25 PM
❤️
Updated Sep 6, 2019, 7:22 PM
Sep 6, 2019, 7:22 PM
The Mayor and Premier Endorse the violence
Updated Sep 6, 2019, 7:16 PM
Sep 6, 2019, 7:16 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi
Updated Sep 6, 2019, 7:12 PM
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Updated Sep 6, 2019, 6:36 PM
Sep 6, 2019, 6:36 PM
Patriarchy in the scientific community is rife.
Updated Sep 6, 2019, 6:35 PM
Sep 6, 2019, 6:35 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Mzansi Students.
Passed on from National Organizer for PAC in South Africa, Chris Sankara. "WE ARE INFOMED THAT WE HAVE LOST ONE OUR PAC APLA CADRE KNOWN AS GEORGE SUNGUSUNGU IN EAST RAND, KATLEHING WHO WAS DEFENDING OUR AFRIKAN PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST AFROPHOBIA HE WAS SHOT AT POINT BLANK THROUGH HIT RUN BY PEOPLE CARING GUNS。HE WAS DEFENDING OLD LADIES WHOM.WERE CALLED FOREIGNERS WHO WERE SELLING CLOTHES AND ATTACKED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE SPEAKING SOUTH AFRICAN LUNGUAGE.." Cars arriving on a place, boots full of guns and just where is this coming from? Who is arming these insurgents? Usually we stay within the scope of ecological matters, unfortunately if we are reduced to war a situation by outside forces of Multinational companies, this will be the worst outcome for our ecology.
Sep 6, 2019, 6:34 PM
Passed on from National Organizer for PAC in South Africa, Chris Sankara. "WE ARE INFOMED THAT WE HAVE LOST ONE OUR PAC APLA CADRE KNOWN AS GEORGE SUNGUSUNGU IN EAST RAND, KATLEHING WHO WAS DEFENDING OUR AFRIKAN PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST AFROPHOBIA HE WAS SHOT AT POINT BLANK THROUGH HIT RUN BY PEOPLE CARING GUNS。HE WAS DEFENDING OLD LADIES WHOM.WERE CALLED FOREIGNERS WHO WERE SELLING CLOTHES AND ATTACKED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE SPEAKING SOUTH AFRICAN LUNGUAGE.." Cars arriving on a place, boots full of guns and just where is this coming from? Who is arming these insurgents? Usually we stay within the scope of ecological matters, unfortunately if we are reduced to war a situation by outside forces of Multinational companies, this will be the worst outcome for our ecology.
Passed on from National Organizer for PAC in South Africa, Chris Sankara.

"WE ARE INFOMED THAT WE HAVE LOST ONE OUR PAC APLA CADRE KNOWN AS GEORGE SUNGUSUNGU IN EAST RAND, KATLEHING WHO WAS DEFENDING OUR AFRIKAN PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST AFROPHOBIA HE WAS SHOT AT POINT BLANK THROUGH HIT RUN BY PEOPLE CARING GUNS。HE WAS DEFENDING OLD LADIES WHOM.WERE CALLED FOREIGNERS WHO WERE SELLING CLOTHES AND ATTACKED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE SPEAKING SOUTH AFRICAN LUNGUAGE.."

Cars arriving on a place, boots full of guns and just where is this coming from? Who is arming these insurgents? Usually we stay within the scope of ecological matters, unfortunately if we are reduced to war a situation by outside forces of Multinational companies, this will be the worst outcome for our ecology.
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We at the JSE right now!
We at the JSE right now!
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion KwaZulu Natal.
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A Call to Action for young and old.If you do not speak out our children Will grow up in a world of Corporate Ecocide.
A Call to Action for young and old.If you do not speak out our children Will grow up in a world of Corporate Ecocide.
Sep 4, 2019, 2:51 PM
'Industrial Civilization is likely to be the last great empire humanity will ever see. If it is allowed to continue in its ravenous way then there is no future for humanity, for the natural systems and processes that allow humans to exist on Earth are the very things that Industrial Civilization is destroying. In fact, no form of civilization has ever been sustainable nor ever will be. In order for humanity to continue on Earth then civilization has to stop, and people allowed to return to a way of living that is connected to the real world.

We are not able to do this. At least not until we become Underminers. The industrial system depends, for its survival, on humans being disconnected from the real world and mentally attached to the machine that we fuel with our civilized lives. The Tools of Disconnection keep us in that state, and the only way to prevent us from being responsible for our demise is to undermine those Tools of Disconnection. Once we are free from the grip of the machine and reconnected with the real world then the myth of Industrial Civilization will die, and humanity will be able to continue.

Underminers is the timely follow-up to Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis. It takes up where that book left off, with a detailed, highly practical approach to the process of undermining in all its many hues. At once entertaining, shocking and inspiring, Underminers draws on the author’s own experience dealing at first hand with the lies of the industrial machine, and that of a wide range of other people who have their own unique take on the swath of topics covered in the book.

From the reasons we are unable to act, to the nitty-gritty of keeping ourselves and others safe during the undermining process, the first half of the book is an invaluable guide to navigating the industrial system and becoming a fully-formed Underminer. The second half details, with surprising openness how the reader can utilize their abilities and new-found determination to be an effective Underminer; whether that be undermining the advertising industry or the political machine, turning symbolic protestors into real activists, building self-determined communities or simply being ourselves – connected, free human beings.

We are the Underminers, and this is our time.'
https://underminers.org/
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: RELATION TO STATES IN AFRIKA

Our relation to the States in Afrika may be stated precisely and briefly by quoting from George Padmore's book, 'Pan Africanism or Communism'. Discussing the future of Afrika, Padmore observes that "there is a growing feeling among politically conscious Africans throughout the continent that their destiny is one, that what happens in one part of Afrika to Africans must affect Africans living in other parts". We honour Ghana as the first independent state in modern Afrika which, under the courageous nationalist leadership of Dr. Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, has actively interested itself in the liberation of the whole continent from White domination, and has held out the vision of a democratic United States of Afrika. We regard it as the sacred duty of every African state to strive ceaselessly and energetically for the creation of a United States of Afrika, stretching from Cape to Cairo, Morocco to Madagascar. The days of small, independent countries are gone. Today we have, on the one hand, great powerful countries of the world; America and Russia cover huge tracts of land territorially and number hundreds of millions in population. On the other hand the small weak independent countries of Europe are beginning to realise that for their own survival they have to form military and economic federations, hence NATO and the European market. Beside the sense of a common historical fate that we share with the other countries of Afrika, it is imperative, for purely practical reasons that the whole of Afrika be united into a single unit, centrally controlled. Only in that way can we solve the immense problems that face the continent.people.'
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All the while there is a quiet corporate version of our Rebellion going on. They have almost entirely slowed this down to nothing.
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We will also be mobilizing on the 20 and 21st of September (Kzn)
All details to follow soon. #SeeYouOnTheStreets
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The development trap...
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1992 was almost 30 years ago, Fidal Castro warns us of extinction. Warns us to change or it will be late.
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Urgently we must stand in Solidarity for our forests on our continent AFRICA.
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“They’ve taken Guerilla art and turned it into a real corporation,” he said. “They’re worse than Walmart at this point.”

As the video continues, something strange happens: Rather than join in solidarity, people emerge from within the Burning Man headquarters to form a counterprotest. One man with his shirt off tries to hug Schaber, who quickly backs away and says, “Do not hug me.”

“Are you afraid of a hug?” the other man asks. “Why are you here?”

Another person exits from Burning Man’s headquarters with a sign that reads, “My protest is better than yours.”
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This time is precious, we must take a stand and make it count. We have no planet B and there is nobody coming to save us. We must unite now and write a new story for survival not extinction #FutureGenerations #ExtinctionRebellion #FoodForests #IndigenousHealing #SystemChange #HopeDiesActionBegins

https://youtu.be/IGpeLIDWMHw
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In the South we must be aware that Antarctica is changing and we have coastal cities. Is your city ready for storm surges and rising oceans? You don't need our permission to find out more from the planners in your city. #ActNow forward towards unified adaptation to the climate crisis. This is not business as usual. Protect our legacy.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20190829a/full/
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All the while they off to Trance parties and buying their little farms to run away to, the country moves closer and closer to building more coal power stations.... Then they will tell us we being negative 🙄It's just for us these little babies whose lungs collapse in the coal smog and die are pierced into our Conscience and we just find it hard to overlook and go dance and be merry, besides most of s can hardly eat. We thinking about what is coming but what has already happened... We just can't find any joy in a society that keeps people in Concentration camps.
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What can we learn from History about what we may face?
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It should be compulsory globally.
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“There was a mix of venture-backed companies, social-benefit companies, and nonprofits all in the space, all fighting for it. And all of the companies were small, and all the founders hung out — it was a community,” Werbach says of those heady early times. “I had hoped this would be the taming of capitalism.”

“I had a very grassroots community-based vision of it,” she says. “And then all of a sudden, here comes the big tech companies. It was totally hijacked.”
https://onezero.medium.com/the-sharing-economy-was-always-a-scam-68a9b36f3e4b
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We've added more essential reading under the xrebellion cloud download link. There's a new folder called Forests for those who are hungry for knowledge https://xrebellion.org.za/xrza-resources/ #Truth #ActNow
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There are companies in supply chains committing ecocide and highlighting what they are involved in and how it relates to global markets could help with strategic focus. Africa is burning now and as I type the forests in Asia are also being destroyed http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/tropical%20deforestation%20carbon%20price.pdf

" * Earthsight documented approximately 500 square kilometers (193 square miles) of deforestation to clear the way for new rubber and oil palm plantations in Central Africa’s rainforest countries in the past five years.
* The team also found that companies in five Central African countries hold licenses for industrial agriculture on another 8,400 square kilometers (3,243 square miles) of land.
* The investigators warn that thousands of hectares of forest could fall to industrial agriculture in the COngo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, if governance of the forest doesn’t improve. "

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/oil-palm-rubber-could-trigger-storm-of-deforestation-in-the-congo-basin/
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'Those who are talking about it have ratcheted up their rhetoric. In May, the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg ditched “climate change” for “climate breakdown” or “climate emergency.” The Guardian now uses “climate catastrophe” in its articles. A resistance movement born in Europe last year named itself Extinction Rebellion, partly to normalize the notion of aggressive action in a life-or-death situation.

Luntz wants defter language. “The strongest advocates for a particular issue are often the worst communicators,” he says later by phone, because “they forget that the people they need to convince are not themselves or their friends.”

The climate problem is not just scientific. It’s linguistic. If we can agree how to talk and write about an issue that affects us all, maybe we understand and fix it together.

But words can be clumsy tools. They can be too dull to puncture ignorance, or so sharp that people flinch and turn away. Is “change” appropriately neutral, or unjustly neutered? Is an “emergency” still an “emergency” after months or years? Does “catastrophe” motivate people, or make them hide under the bed? How long before words such as “breakdown” and “extinction” lose their bite?

And if we keep returning to the dictionary for new words to replace them, will there eventually be any left?"
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The revolution will not be televised
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Warning Strong Language
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From the hambi forest.

Some important contextualising, XR may be the biggest game in town but we have much to learn and the pictures a complex one.

As the forests in the Amazon burn, tribes are taking up arms and vowing to defend what they love until the last drop of their blood is spent.

For many tribes non violence has simply not worked, that they now turn to force whilst their homes burn cannot be condemned.
On the whole the Resistance in the Hambach Forest has been forceful but it hasn't descended into malicious violence.
If not for that force the forest would be gone.

XR's current path is predicated on non violence, that's fine.
It's not the only path available and we should not cling to dogmatic non violence through privilege or fear.
There may likely come a time when that non violence becomes obsolete and then we, faced with the balancing of greater evils have tough decisions to make.

Do not condemn those who use force in defence of all they hold dear

"Social scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan are the authors of a study that is among the only statistical analyses of the effectiveness of nonviolence. Like many social scientists before them, they use statistics to obscure more complex truths. They claim to have compiled a list of 323 major nonviolent campaigns or violent conflicts from 1900 to 2006, and then superficially rate these as “successful”, “partially successful”, or “failed”. They do not use revolutionary criteria for success, and in their mind the “Color Revolutions” and many other reformist, dead-end, or self-betraying movements were successful. Although they rate campaigns as objectively violent or nonviolent, they do not define violence, and they also uncritically use loaded terms like “the international community”. They credit nonviolence with victory in cases where international peacekeeping forces, i.e. armies, had to be called in to protect peaceful protesters, as in East Timor, and they define victory simply as the achievement of a movement’s goals, as though movements ever had a consensus on their goals.

They do not publish the list of campaigns and conflicts with their original study, and after extensive searching I was unable to find it. They explain that the list of major nonviolent campaigns was provided to them by “experts in nonviolent conflict”, in other words, people who are almost exclusively proponents of nonviolence. Given widespread manipulation by such “experts,” who frequently describe heterogeneous struggles as “nonviolent,” such as the independence movements in South Africa and India, the Civil Rights movement, or the uprisings of the Arab Spring, we can only assume that many of successful nonviolent campaigns on the list included armed and combative elements. The violent conflicts that they include in their study come from a completely different source: lists of armed conflicts with over 1,000 combatant deaths. In other words, wars. They are comparing apples and oranges, lining social movements up against wars, as though these different kinds of conflicts arose in the same circumstances and were merely a product of the choices of their participants.

One methodological weakness they do admit to, in a footnote, is that by focusing on “major” nonviolent campaigns, they weed out the many ineffective nonviolent campaigns that never assumed large proportions. But none of the measures they took, ostensibly to correct that bias, could possibly have any effect. Circulating “the data among leading authorities on nonviolent movements to make sure we accounted for failed movements” is useless since there is no objective distinction between major and minor campaigns, and the biggest failures never become major campaigns. Running “multiple tests both across nonviolent and violent cases and within nonviolent cases alone to ensure robustness on all results” is worthless if the study sample is stacked from the start.[21]

Their entire method is superficial to the point of being useless. They are using statistics to obscure complex realities. But even in this flawed endeavor, they have to manipulate the statistics in order to affirm their preconceived conclusions. Most of their paper centers on a detailed explanation of their hypotheses, and pseudo-logical arguments for why their hypotheses must be correct. For example, they cite psychological studies on individual decision-making, with the unspoken assumption that complex social conflicts between institutions and heterogeneous populations will follow the same patterns.[22] They provide no evidence for key arguments like “the public is more likely to support a nonviolent campaign” (p. 13) nor do they interrogate the figure of “the public”. They also make convenient use of non sequiturs, as in the following paragraph:

Second, when violent insurgents threaten the lives of regime members and security forces, they greatly reduce the possibility of loyalty shifts. Abrahms finds that terrorist groups targeting civilians lose public support compared with groups that limit their targets to the military or police.[footnote removed] Surrendering or defecting to a violent movement […] [p. 13]"
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
We not a break away group, doing our own thing. We not an NPO, not an event, not an astroturfing greenwash Campaign.
Aug 29, 2019, 2:31 PM
Here is proof of Sarah Farell after doing nothing yet, didnt come to our meetings or anything but was asking the international team for money. I gave her admin of the page with me in good faith, this was the first red flag for me, decided to overlook it and give her the benefit of the doubt.
Here is proof of Sarah Farell after doing nothing yet, didnt come to our meetings or anything but was asking the international team for money. I gave her admin of the page with me in good faith, this was the first red flag for me, decided to overlook it and give her the benefit of the doubt.
Aug 29, 2019, 2:23 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
We began in November last year when we heard the news that there was two more days to send objections to seismic testing off the coast of South Africa. My daughter Lily decided to start Occupying Parliament on Fridays inspired by Greta Thunberg, school strike. I decided to Join Extinction Rebellion International at the same time. Lily has had an ongoing presence at Parliament the entire year, only when our health has affected our going there have we not been part of the Friday strikes.

We want to thank all those who joined us in this strike action and showed support and solidarity with those who cant stand up for themselves. We thank those who have helped spread the Climate awareness and are bringing the discussion to the national table. We thank those who have began the process of mobilising those STILL attending school. The Climate Alarm bells are ringing in your classrooms, this is a not a drill. We repeat this is not a drill. We stress the URGENCY around the Ecological Collapse, we are more than out of time.
Chloe Menteath
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Aug 29, 2019, 2:18 PM
Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in The Underminers Cape Town.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in FOOD SYSTEM REVOLUTION SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
Are People interested in a Rebellion, or an event, or just a paycheck?
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in PLANETARY REVOLUTION BASE CAMP.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi posted in Extinction Rebellion Sisterhood ZA.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi updated their status.
The Truth about South Africa School strikes:
So we have a climate strike for kids, we the adults that are supporting those kids who are striking. Yes we the adult support group. Funny how the NPO sector undermine us and use our kids we supporting for their photo ops, then create a whole organisation that tells kids not to strike, to arrange "school strikes". Uses paid NPO staff to be 'the adult support group", undermines the Parentsforfuture.
Aug 29, 2019, 1:48 PM
No more predators, that's the fisheries collapsed now...
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This story is nearly a month old, but climate change affects the natural food supply of all mammals.
https://www.livescience.com/66047-200-dead-reindeer-norway.html
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The changes are rapid
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Something to be aware of, to all indigenous to Earth!
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TWO BRAZILIAN FIRMS owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention.
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/27/amazon-rainforest-fire-blackstone/
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-trade-war-china-brazil-amazon-rainforest-fires_n_5d649783e4b008b1fd1fcf09
The fires are linked to the trade war, and was not ignited by America or China in the trade war. The commodity in question is soy, found in most processed foods (especially the vegan variety) and cattle feed, more than beef directly.
China, the state capitalism country, is the global empire in waiting, since loads of capital flowed from New York to Beijing since the 2008 bubble burst, because it was the most Basel III compliant country in the world. Empires are good for business but bad for humans and nature. A battle between an empire that refuses to hand over the baton (the way Britain did before them and Holland did before Britain), and the empire waiting to take over everything the has-been hasn't lost yet, is even more destructive. May the capital gods disintegrate so that the world can be free from imperialism, colonialism, wars, the slaughter of indigenous people, and environmental destruction for profit. We don't need the American allies or BRICS. We need our dignity, planet and peace.
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I just watched a fellow warrior in America get attacked and insulted (as if calling her a "sheeple" wasn't bad enough) on her profile for posting info about the Amazon fires.
He used NASA information Headlined "Fires in Brazil" dated "As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years."

The same NASA site headlined "Uptick in Amazon Fire Activity in 2019" states that "These plots show cumulative active fire detections from MODIS and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP through August 22, 2019. The data confirm that 2019 is the highest fire year since 2012 (the start of the VIIRS record) across the seven states that comprise the Brazilian Amazon. In addition, fires in 2019 are more intense than previous years, as measured in terms of cumulative fire radiative power."
https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145498/uptick-in-amazon-fire-activity-in-2019

This info from another NASA site is dated to 12 hours ago, which links to the "Uptick in Amazon Fire Activity in 2019" headline
https://www.space.com/amazon-rainforest-fires-2019-nasa-satellite-views.html

The older with August 16, 2019 info which refers to the fires in Brazil as average, that some aggressive people are using to shut up people in the USA who just want to sympathise with what is happening in the Amazon is this one
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil

Does this mean that NASA contradicts itself? No, the information available up to 16 August is what they drew their conclusion from that the fires are average. When new data was added by 22 August, a new updated picture emerged related to the severity of the fires. In a few weeks time, the fires may be average again.
The next update will not imply that they were bullied into changing the story. It means that Bolsonaro caved to international pressure and sent in the army to help fight the fires. If you keep track of the dates, context and actions therein, no one can attack you without outdated info or prejudiced assumptions about the info. Information is ammunition and shield.
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi was live.
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Serious message from Kevin? What you all think?
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Extinction Rebellion Mzansi shared a quote.
A fair and balanced view from Global Research, and part of our motivation for tomorrow's action at the Brazilian Consulate
"They all new who Bolsonaro was and is – they knew that the man had no scruples and would destroy – literally – the world’s lungs. They did nothing."
"Today, on the occasion of another similar world event, the meeting of the G7 in Biarritz, France, French President Macron accused Bolsonaro of lying when he talked and pledged environmental consciousness after taking office, about protecting the Amazon area."
"Mind you, the G7 is another self-appointed totally illegal group of industrialized, rich countries (similar to the G20); illegal, because they have been approved by nobody, not by the UN or any international body. "
"So, would Bolsonaro take them seriously, knowing that he is one of them and they are fully sharing his ideology of profit first, shoving environmental and social values down the muddy waters of the Amazon River? Hardly. He knows they are hypocrites. He knows that they make a bit of noise, because they have to. It makes for good public relation and propaganda – so people don’t go on the barricades."

If the French right-wing fights the Brazilian right-wing, its an entertaining wrestling match. Wrestling is classified as sports-entertainment, so we know that the matches are fixed. There are no good guys, only bad guys fighting for money and titles, and if one bad guy is overtly scum, the other pretends to be nice.

All the victims of these fixed matches between bad guys should please meet at the Brazilian Consulate tomorrow. We can take them down one-by-one.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/5721602/climate-change-deadline-18-months/
This is not designed to shock, but to highlight the urgency. It doesn't mean that we will be dead in 18 months, but that it will be difficult to recover after that 18 months.
To push the deadline back to 2030, ask your supervisor, manager, CEO, staff, etc. if you can speak about this issue. See if you can get any commitment from them to make the needed changes, and if the entire company can take part in the global strike for climate from 20-27 September (whether a shut-down or go-slow). If your company is green or mostly green, we need you to help push surrounding companies to do the same. If taking part in the action may inconvenience customers, see if it will be possible to educate consumers on their role in creating change, whether through a recording when they call in, or through conversation.
Speak to your teacher, principle, students, staff, etc.
Do the same at universities.

If we manage to push the deadline back to 2030, see if you can raise discussion around human behaviour in and around your school, university, company, etc.. If some humans are things and others are gods, it affects the way we treat the environment. Its difficult for many to focus on the environment when they feel like things and constantly have to boost their self-esteem through consumerism, alcohol, drugs, and bullying others to create some form of internal equilibrium, which was destroyed through the unequal kyriarchy. If no one cares about them, they care about no one else, let alone the environment. Since we are a part of nature, our mental and emotional nature has to be balanced, and that can only be so if our personal, family, community, school, work, etc. relationships are balanced. Those can only be balanced if our relationship with ecology is balanced. If not, it affects the amount of quality food we can grow, and if some are hungry, they don't care about how much your cellphone costs. They need to sell it so that they can eat.

We can find balance again, with each other and with the environment which sustains us, but it starts with taking action. No action means that your salary will be worthless in 18 months, and going to work to earn what cannot sustain you becomes worthless, and the thing you are trying to save will collapse any way. The time for action is NOW!
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Updated Aug 26, 2019, 4:39 PM
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A prehistoric palm living on the Isle of Wight has produced male and female cones for the first time in 60 million years, botanists say.

The exotic palm – which dominated the planet 280 million years ago – is believed to be thriving on the cliffs of Ventnor Botanic Gardens because of climate change.

The garden is on average five degrees warmer than the rest of the mainland, making it the second warmest part of the UK after the Isles of Scilly.
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 1:34 PM
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People are wanting to cut this forest down so there is nothing to protect anymore...
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 1:10 PM
Aug 26, 2019, 1:10 PM
We are #ExtinctionRebellion we stand in solidarity with Indigenous people of the planet. Don't let history disappear!
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 10:47 AM
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Updated Aug 26, 2019, 10:34 AM
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and now, its time for some good news, in the beginning of the new world as the old world of the oligarchs starts to die.
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 1:49 AM
Aug 26, 2019, 1:49 AM
The Alaskan coastline and the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia without ice. I don't mean, "Just imagine". I mean that it really is.
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 1:22 AM
Aug 26, 2019, 1:22 AM
From Rebels in Malawi ❤️
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 12:16 AM
Aug 26, 2019, 12:16 AM
'Weather Source has recorded 6,902 fires in Angola over the past 48 hours, compared to 3,395 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,127 in Brazil.'

Where is the Global Outrage? Who is to blame? What the hell is going on? It's not normal for such fires to be burning all the old growth forests of the world we have left. It's not normal... It's a disaster?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/more-fires-now-burning-in-angola-congo-than-amazon-maps
Updated Aug 26, 2019, 12:06 AM
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