ARMISTICE DAY, NOVEMER 11, 2020

 

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ARMISTICE DAY/ WORLD UNITY DAY NEWSLETTER (Reclaiming “Veterans Day”)

 NOVEMBER  11, 2020, 102nd Anniversary

WE, THE PEOPLE BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE PLANET.

Compiled by Dick Bennett

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What’s at Stake:  An addition to US militarization: the replacement of a day of peace—Armistice Day—with a celebration of warriors.

 

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Table of Contents OMNI Armistice Day Newsletter #14, November 11, 2020, 102nd ANNIVERSARY

Vonnegut on Armistice Day

Veterans for Peace

   Reclaim Armistice Day

    2018-19

World Beyond War: Remembrance Day to Mourn the Dead

     and Abolish War

 Media

   Abel Tomlinson

   Janine Jackson

Newsletter #13 Contents

 

TEXTS ARMISTICE DAY NEWSLETTER

 

 

Taking Action Nov. 11 to #ReclaimArmisticeDay in the Time of COVID 2020 Veterans For Peace via salsalabs.org  1:07 PM (1 hour ago) to me Armistice Day is right around the corner, and once again, Veterans For Peace is taking the lead to #ReclaimArmisticeDay. Veterans For Peace has been celebrating Armistice Day almost since the organization's inception, with a few chapters doing yearly events. Since 2008, with the passing of an official Veterans For Peace resolution, it has become a VFP national effort. Each year, chapters across the country "Reclaim Armistice Day" by pushing the celebration of peace into the national conversation on Veterans Day. This year, Armistice Day celebrations will look a little different than in past years. Many of our chapters are hosting virtual actions instead of gathering in person. If you’re not sure how to arrange something like that, please email our membership coordinator membership@veteransforpeace.org.  Veterans For Peace is calling on everyone to stand up for peace this Armistice Day. More than ever, the world faces a critical moment. Tensions are heightened around the world and the U.S. is engaged militarily in multiple countries, without an end in sight. Here at home we have seen the increasing militarization of our police forces and brutal crackdowns on dissent and people’s uprisings against state power. We must press our government to end reckless military interventions that endanger the entire world. We must build a culture of peace. We have compiled a list of COVID-safe actions for you to take this year. We are asking VFP members to do what they can to keep the conversation going around peace and Armistice Day. Please let us know what you have planned by filling out this form.  Let's #ReclaimArmisticeDay as a day for peace.   11 Ways Take Action this Armistice Day: 1.    Fly the VFP flag from your yard: The VFP flag comes in two sizes and has grommets, which can be easily attached to any standard pole. Order your VFP flag from the VFP store by October 25th to ensure delivery in time for November 11th. 2.    Download & hang the Armistice Day Sign from your window (see image below): Hang the sign from your front window, or anywhere else you feel it would be most visible to others. Click the image below this list to download and print! 3.    Host a virtual peace vigil with your local peace groups: Call together your members and supporters by hosting a virtual action on Zoom. If you choose to meet in person this year, please wear masks and practice social distancing at your action. You can read the proclamation at your vigil and ring 11 bells for peace, as we do most years. Be sure to send us any photos of your action! 4.    Ring 11 bells for peace: Make it a community effort! Reach out to local churches, community centers, and schools to ring their bells at 11am. Here is a sample outreach letter from Chapter 27. 5.    Host a car caravan for peace: Pick a route and drive by your capital building or mayor's office: Call your members and supporters out together, decorate your cars and bring your VFP flags to organize a drive-by action celebrating Armistice Day as a day of peace. 6.    Attend the Stand Down Live - special Armistice Day edition! *More info coming soon. 7.    Send letters to the editor: Write from the heart and tell them why you’re a veteran for peace and why you celebrate Armistice Day. 8.    Order a bundle of Armistice Day materials: Send an email to membership@veteransforpeace.org to get a bundle sent out to you. Order by Oct 25th to ensure delivery in time. 9.    Share the 2020 Armistice Day video (stay tuned!): We will have a special VFP video ready for distribution as Armistice Day approaches.  10. Submit a proclamation to your city council: Reach out to your mayor, city council member, or county supervisor to create city and county proclamations in support of Armistice Day. 11. Share the Liturgy of the Bells!: The Liturgy of the Bells is a great opportunity to reach out to local houses of worship to commemorate Armistice Day.      11 Ways Take Action this Armistice Day: 1.    Fly the VFP flag from your yard: The VFP flag comes in two sizes and has grommets, which can be easily attached to any standard pole. Order your VFP flag from the VFP store by October 25th to ensure delivery in time for November 11th. 2.    Download & hang the Armistice Day Sign from your window (see image below): Hang the sign from your front window, or anywhere else you feel it would be most visible to others. Click the image below this list to download and print! 3.    Host a virtual peace vigil with your local peace groups: Call together your members and supporters by hosting a virtual action on Zoom. If you choose to meet in person this year, please wear masks and practice social distancing at your action. You can read the proclamation at your vigil and ring 11 bells for peace, as we do most years. Be sure to send us any photos of your action! 4.    Ring 11 bells for peace: Make it a community effort! Reach out to local churches, community centers, and schools to ring their bells at 11am. Here is a sample outreach letter from Chapter 27. 5.    Host a car caravan for peace: Pick a route and drive by your capital building or mayor's office: Call your members and supporters out together, decorate your cars and bring your VFP flags to organize a drive-by action celebrating Armistice Day as a day of peace.     1.    Fly the VFP flag from your yard: The VFP flag comes in two sizes and has grommets, which can be easily attached to any standard pole. Order your VFP flag from the VFP store by October 25th to ensure delivery in time for November 11th. 2.    Download & hang the Armistice Day Sign from your window (see image below): Hang the sign from your front window, or anywhere else you feel it would be most visible to others. Click the image below this list to download and print! 3.    Host a virtual peace vigil with your local peace groups: Call together your members and supporters by hosting a virtual action on Zoom. If you choose to meet in person this year, please wear masks and practice social distancing at your action. You can read the proclamation at your vigil and ring 11 bells for peace, as we do most years. Be sure to send us any photos of your action! 4.    Ring 11 bells for peace: Make it a community effort! Reach out to local churches, community centers, and schools to ring their bells at 11am. Here is a sample outreach letter from Chapter 27. 5.    Host a car caravan for peace: Pick a route and drive by your capital building or mayor's office: Call your members and supporters out together, decorate your cars and bring your VFP flags to organize a drive-by action celebrating Armistice Day as a day of peace. 6.    Attend the Stand Down Live - special Armistice Day edition! *More info coming soon. 7.    Send letters to the editor: Write from the heart and tell them why you’re a veteran for peace and why you celebrate Armistice Day. 8.    Order a bundle of Armistice Day materials: Send an email to membership@veteransforpeace.org to get a bundle sent out to you. Order by Oct 25th to ensure delivery in time. 9.    Share the 2020 Armistice Day video (stay tuned!): We will have a special VFP video ready for distribution as Armistice Day approaches.  10.  Submit a proclamation to your city council: Reach out to your mayor, city council member, or county supervisor to create city and county proclamations in support of Armistice Day. 11.  Share the Liturgy of the Bells!: The Liturgy of the Bells is a great opportunity to reach out to local houses of worship to commemorate Armistice Day.  Click the image below to download & print our Armistice Day poster! 6.        7.    Attend the Stand Down Live - special Armistice Day edition! *More info coming soon. 8.    Send letters to the editor: Write from the heart and tell them why you’re a veteran for peace and why you celebrate Armistice Day. 9.    Order a bundle of Armistice Day materials: Send an email to membership@veteransforpeace.org to get a bundle sent out to you. Order by Oct 25th to ensure delivery in time. 10.  Share the 2020 Armistice Day video (stay tuned!): We will have a special VFP video ready for distribution as Armistice Day approaches.  11.  Submit a proclamation to your city council: Reach out to your mayor, city council member, or county supervisor to create city and county proclamations in support of Armistice Day. 12.  Share the Liturgy of the Bells!: The Liturgy of the Bells is a great opportunity to reach out to local houses of worship to commemorate Armistice Day.  Click the image below to download & print our Armistice Day poster! View the Full VFP Armistice Day Webpage!  Contact Us Veterans For Peace 3407 S. Jefferson Ave, #219 St. Louis, Missouri 63118 (314) 725-6005 vfp@veteransforpeace.org

 

 

Armistice Day 2018-2019 in Washington, D.C. with VETERANS FOR PEACE

The weekend before Armistice Day, Veterans For Peace was lucky enough to be invited to join Jane Fonda at Fire Drill Fridays in Washington, D.C - actions to bring urgent attention to important intersectional analysis around Climate Change. Friday, November 8th focused on the intersection between War, Military and the Climate Crisis. About a dozen VFP members from Minnesota, North Carolina, Philadelphia, and as far away as California were joined local VFP members to march alongside Jane Fonda, CodePink and more. Speakers at the event included VFP Advisory Board Member Phyllis Bennis, Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and Krystal Two Bulls of About Face. Check out the Livestream. 

On Armistice Day Ron Carvers’ Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit (which was featured at the VFP Convention in Spokane) opened its run in D.C. at George Washington University. The opening was followed by a week-long series of events that included commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Mobilization Demonstration against the Vietnam War, the largest antiwar protest in American history, a book launch, a peace poetry open mic, three movies, the reenactment of Cortright v Resor and a full day symposium with the morning focused on convincing historians to include the GI Movement when teaching and writing about the war.

Listen to the audio documentary: Soldiers for Peace - featuring VFP members Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, VFP poet laureate Jan Barry, and more

On the 101st Anniversary of Armistice Day, VFP Chapters and Members across the U.S. and abroad once again took the lead to Reclaim Armistice Day as a "day dedicated to the cause of world peace," as it was celebrated at the end of World War I when the world came together to recognize the need for lasting peace.  On our website you will find our featured stories, reports from local chapter actions, and links to articles, podcasts, radio shows, videos and more from Veterans For Peace members and chapters reclaiming Armistice Day across the globe!

You can view the full Armistice Day 2019 photo album here for additional pictures from actions across the world!

World BEYOND War  Big Plans: Remembrance / Armistice Day 10-23-2020 Inbox   9:15 AM (2 hours ago)     November 11, 2020, is Armistice Day 103 — which is 102 years since World War I was ended at a scheduled moment (11 o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 — killing an extra 11,000 people after the decision to end the war had been reached early in the morning). In many parts of the world this day is called Remembrance Day and should be a day of mourning the dead and working to abolish war so as not to create any more war dead. But the day is being militarized, and a strange alchemy cooked up by the weapons companies is using the day to tell people that unless they support killing more men, women, and children in war they will dishonor those already killed. For decades in the United States, as elsewhere, this day was called Armistice Day, and was identified as a holiday of peace, including by the U.S. government. It was a day of sad remembrance and joyful ending of war, and of a commitment to preventing war in the future. The holiday’s name was changed in the United States after the U.S. war on Korea to “Veterans Day,” a largely pro-war holiday on which some U.S. cities forbid Veterans For Peace groups from marching in their parades, because the day has become understood as a day to praise war — in contrast to how it began. The story from the first Armistice Day of the last soldier killed in the last major war in which most of the people killed were soldiers highlights the stupidity of war. Henry Nicholas John Gunther had been born in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents who had immigrated from Germany. In September 1917 he had been drafted to help kill Germans. When he had written home from Europe to describe how horrible the war was and to encourage others to avoid being drafted, he had been demoted (and his letter censored). After that, he had told his buddies that he would prove himself. As the deadline of 11:00 a.m. approached on that final day in November, Henry got up, against orders, and bravely charged with his bayonet toward two German machine guns. The Germans were aware of the Armistice and tried to wave him off. He kept approaching and shooting. When he got close, a short burst of machine gun fire ended his life at 10:59 a.m. Henry was given his rank back, but not his life. Let’s create events around the world: Find and add events for Armistice Day 2020 to list here. Use these resources for events from World BEYOND War. Use these resources for Armistice Day events from Veterans For Peace. Events Planned: David Swanson speaking by Zoom 11/10 to Veterans For Peace Southeast U.S. regional meeting. David Swanson speaking by Zoom 11/10 to State University of New York, U.S. David Swanson speaking by Zoom 11/11 to Armistice Day Event in Milwaukee, Wisc., U.S. Webinar 11/11 on The remarkable story of a young Catholic husband & father from Denver who was placed in military prison for refusing to be drafted into WWI A Few Ideas: Plan an online event with World BEYOND War Speakers. Plan a bell ringing. (See resources from Veterans For Peace.) Get and wear white poppies and blue scarves and World BEYOND War gear. Share graphics and videos. Use hashtags #ArmisticeDay #NoWar #WorldBeyondWar #ReclaimArmisticeDay Use sign-up sheets or link people to the Peace Pledge. Learn More About Armistice Day: Armistice Day 100 in Santa Cruz Film Celebrate Armistice Day, Not Veterans Day Tell the Truth: Veterans Day Is A National Day of Lying An Armistice Day Newspaper from Veterans For Peace We Need a New Armistice Day Veterans Group: Reclaim Armistice Day As Day Of Peace A Hundred Years After the Armistice New Film Takes Stand Against Militarism Wait Just a Minute On Armistice Day, Let’s Celebrate Peace Armistice Day 99 Years On and the Need for a Peace to End All Wars Reclaim Armistice Day and Honor the Real Heroes An Armistice Day Poem Audio: David Rovics on Armistice Day Armistice Day First Audio: Talk Nation Radio: Stephen McKeown on Armistice Day World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, activists, and allied organizations advocating for the abolition of the very institution of war. Our success is driven by a people-powered movement – support our work for a culture of peace. Opt-in for important, timely mobile messages.         World BEYOND War 513 E Main St #1484 Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA Privacy policy. Checks must be made out to "World BEYOND War / AFGJ" or we can't deposit them. Switch to receiving only one e-newsletter every two weeks. Should giant war-profiteering corporations decide what emails you don't want to read? We don't think so either. So, please stop our emails from going into "junk" or "spam" by "white listing," marking as "safe," or filtering to "never send to sp

 

 

Comment 2019 on NADG Reporting Armistice Day by Abel Tomlinson.

NWA Letters to the Editor 11-27-19

Newspaper should cover peace efforts thoroughly.

For the sake of balance and peace, I offer a counterpoint to the Democrat-Gazette's Veterans Day extravaganza. Remarkably, the newspaper went overboard with a full page ad, and over two more full pages of editorials, cartoons, images and stories.

Please recall that Nov. 11 was originally Armistice Day, an internationally recognized day for peace, a solemn remembrance of the horrors of world war. Many nations still celebrate it, but the U.S. government replaced it in 1954.

Many veterans, past and present, have denounced this change. In fact, the wonderful organization Veterans for Peace is engaged in a #ReclaimArmisticeDay campaign.

In 1973, author and World War II veteran Kurt Vonnegut wrote:

"(Once upon a time,) all the people (who fought in World War I) were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute ... that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. (Old) men who were on battlefields ... told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God ... when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Armistice Day has become Veterans Day.  Armistice Day was sacred.  Veterans Day is not. So I will throw Veterans Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things."

Rory Fanning, a more recent veteran of the so-called global war on terror, wrote, "Armistice Day was sacred because it was intended to evoke memories of fear, pain, suffering, military incompetence, greed and destruction on the grandest scale for those who had participated in war ... Armistice Day was a hallowed anniversary because it was supposed to protect future life from future wars.

"Veterans Day, instead, celebrates 'heroes' and encourages others to dream of playing the hero themselves ... But becoming a 'hero' means going off to kill and be killed in ... one of our government's current, unending wars ... for reasons that have very little to do with democracy or freedom. (The) day is more of a slap in the face than a pat on the back to those who served, despite the endless thank yous, parades, (etc.)."

I applaud the Democrat-Gazette should they publish this, in the interest of First Amendment freedoms, which our veterans are told they fight for. Ironically, we should thank Trump's intermittent dark honesty in admitting troops are fighting for oil in Syria. Bush and Obama were not half that honest.

If we are sincere about honoring veterans, we must work harder at understanding causes of wars, and harder at preventing them. What could be more disrespectful to veterans than sending more youth to kill and die in another preventable war?

I helped organize events for peace locally, including three months of weekly "Stop Iran war" protests this summer, and rarely the Democrat-Gazette covers them. KNWA and 40/29 cover them often, in more depth. I encourage the Democrat-Gazette to offer more balanced war and peace coverage, or explain why not?

Abel Tomlinson

Fayetteville

11/27/2019 NWA Letters to the Editor

 

Janine Jackson takes a quick look at coverage of Veterans Day 2019, including the origin and peacemaking purpose of Armistice Day.

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Table of Contents:  OMNI Armistice Day Newsletter #13, November 11, 2019, 101st ANNIVERSARY

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/11/omni-armistice-day-newsletter-november.html

NADG Reporting the End of WWI Leading Not to Peace but as Veteran’s Day preparing for the next war, from Nov. 8 to Nov. 12.

 

Let’s Celebrate Peace Not War

Veterans for Peace

World Beyond War, David Swanson

The Humanist

Calendar of Peace Activities

Two Books offering an alternative history:
Docherty and MacGregor, Hidden History: the Secret Origins of the First World War.

Jack Beatty, The Lost History of 1914.

Other US Wars.

Kurt Vonnegut on Armistice Day.

Buy an Armistice Day shirt.

Read OMNI’s newsletters on WWI and other US Wars.

 

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ECOSOCIALISM NEWSLETTER #1

Collected by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology

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I gathered these publications mainly from the socialist organization Monthly Review via its magazine of the same name.  Many similar articles on the subject were published in the MR without the label, and many more elsewhere.  The collection was randomly jotted down as I scanned each copy of the magazine and mronline.org during 2019-2020.

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Ecosocialism is a vision of a transformed society in harmony with nature, and the development of practices that can attain it. It is directed toward alternatives to all socially and ecologically destructive systems, such as patriarchy, racism, homophobia and the fossil-fuel based economy.

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The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology by John Bellamy Foster.  Monthly Review, 2020.  $23.00 – $35.00

Publisher’s description and various praise:

Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Foster continues this narrative. In so doing, he uncovers a long history of efforts to unite issues of social justice and environmental sustainability [exploitation of employees/human resources and exploitation of natural resources] will help us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary emergencies.

The Return of Nature begins with the deaths of Darwin (1882) and Marx (1883) and moves on until the rise of the ecological age in the 1960s and 1970s. Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Frederick Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Jay Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism. In the process, he delivers a far-reaching and fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology. Ultimately, what this book asks for is nothing short of revolution: a long, ecological revolution, aimed at making peace with the planet while meeting collective human needs [GND: ending the fossil fuels regime with justice].

     In the century following Marx’s death, left-wing scientists and writers made major contributions to the development of modern ecological thought. Foster’s brilliant new book recovers that history, making the work and ideas of those neglected ecosocialist pioneers accessible to the activists who are building today’s movements against global environmental destruction.  —Ian Angus, author, Facing the Anthropocene; editor, Climate & Capitalism

     What does ecology have to do with a critique of capitalism and a movement for socialism? What are the roots of ecosocialism? For more than twenty years, John Bellamy Foster has engaged in serious thought and massive research, delving into the relation of ecology and socialism, while charting the odyssey of the network of left activist-intellectuals who forged a philosophical-scientific-political vision of our ecosystem and the forces threatening its survival. The result is a monumental book, a genealogy of ecosocialism, a priceless resource for those pursuing this path today.  —Helena Sheehan, author, Marxism and the Philosophy of Science and Navigating the Zeitgeist

     Leftists have too readily seen capitalist science and technology’s goal—the domination of nature—as inherently progressive. In The Return of Nature, John Bellamy Foster tells a different story. The recognition that we humans, rather than dominating, are part of nature, both transformed by and transforming it, was central to Marx and Engels’ dialectical thinking. Foster’s richly detailed and ground-breaking history tells the story of the British and American scientists and activists who in the century following Marx’s death, adopted and built on this dialectical tradition, from Engels’ Dialectics of Nature to the fast developing science of ecology and the birth of the radical science movements of the 1970s. A tour de force.

—Steven Rose, emeritus professor of neuroscience, Open University
     By now, many people will have heard about the ecological ideas of Karl Marx. And everyone knows that the modern environmental movement is filled with anti-capitalist energies. But was there anything in between? In this landmark work, John Bellamy Foster fills in the gap and reconstructs an unbroken genealogy of dialectical thinking about the environment, from the last days of Marx to the first stirrings of Western environmentalism. From the neglected writings of numerous thinkers and scientists—evolutionary biologists, not the least—he reconstructs a treasure trove of ecological insights that will keep scholars and activists preoccupied for years to come. The common knowledge of Marx’s environmentalist leanings derives from Foster’s Marx’s Ecology from 2000. With The Return of Nature, he has given ecological Marxism an epic chronicle that speaks straight to the crises of our times: a sequel and prequel of extraordinary power.  —Andreas Malm, author, Fossil Capital: On the Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
     John Bellamy Foster’s magnificent The Return of Nature tells the story of the late nineteenth and early twentieth scientists and other intellectuals who followed paths laid out by Marx and Engels with respect to the profit-driven degradation of the environment and biosphere. Foster convincingly depicts the genesis, in the writings of figures such as William Morris, Joseph Needham, and Rachel Carson, of an ecosocialist vision whose further development represents the best hope of the present period. He helps us answer the question posed by one of the book’s heroes, the novelist and essayist Christopher Caudwell (1907-1937), “How can we think of the future without holding it to our own barrenness?”  —Stuart A. Newman, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College; coauthor, Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial Bioscience

     Following up on his influential Marx’s Ecology, in this tour de force John Bellamy Foster fills in the broad historical and philosophical details spanning the post Darwin moment to the vibrant 1960s when ecology became common currency, detailing how dialectical thinking penetrates all. Previous histories of ecology have failed to embrace Marxism’s critical association with the development of ecology as a political subject, something this book does elegantly and thoroughly.  —John Vandermeer, Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; author, with Ivette Perfecto, Ecological Complexity and Agroecology

John Bellamy Foster is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. His previous books on ecology include: The Vulnerable Planet, Marx’s Ecology, Hungry for Profit (edited with Fred Magdoff and Frederick Buttel), Ecology Against Capitalism, The Ecological Revolution, The Ecological Rift (with Brett Clark and Richard York), What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with Fred Magdoff), Marx and the Earth (with Paul Burkett), and The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark).

 

Review of Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism.  

Mronline.org (5-3-19)

Clearly there will be ecological issues to resolve once capitalism has been defeated, but that will require a system being put in place that is capable of dealing with the disaster. In other words a society that is not based on the competitive accumulation of capital.    Source

“I am not arguing that rising population is the root cause of the ecological crisis… That is the fault of the capitalist system of production and the commodification of the planet. . . .What I am arguing is that rising population is a major contributory factor.”]

[To reduce warming we must reduce rapidly  1) the capitalist system of unrestrained production growth and commodification, and 2) population growth.  –D]

 

Victor Wallis.  Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism.  2018.  Google Search 1-20-19. 

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Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism Paperback – June 19, 2018. ...Red-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation in the last half-century.

MR Online. Victor Wallis.  Red-Green Revolution.
https://mronline.org › Review The scale of environmental crisis is absolutely terrifying. So I was very pleased to read Victor Wallis' new book Red-Green Revolution. . .

 

 Michael Löwy.  Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe.  Publisher’s description: Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. This vision combines an understanding of the destructive logic of the capitalist system with an appreciation for ongoing struggles, particularly in Latin America. 

Jane Kelly and Sheila Melane, eds.    Ecosocialism or Barbarism.   2^ND ed.  

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Mar 16, 2020 — In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation.

 

 

David Pepper.  Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice. Routledge, 1993.

Abstract	Presents a provocatively anthropocentric analysis of the way forward for green politics and environmental movements, exposing the deficiencies and contradictions of green approaches to post-modern politics and deep ecology. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
Keywords	Human ecology Political aspects  Social ecology  Deep ecology  Green movement Justice
Categories	Deep Ecology in Philosophy of Biology Justice in Social and Political Philosophy Socialism and Marxism in Social and Political Philosophy Varieties of Justice in Social and Political Philosophy

 

Articles

Ecosocialism: an alternative to global capitalism.  Mronline.org (11-3-20)

 

Over the past four decades or so, various leftists have become more sensitive to the environmental degradation in developed and developing capitalist societies and post-revolutionary societies, particularly in the former Soviet Union and, in recent times, China.  | more…

 

Fw: For An Egalitarian, Cooperative Road To An Ecosocialist Future - PopularResistance.Org

lolly tindol

Oct 10, 2020, 7:36 AM (1 day ago)

How does this compare to the GND?

Lolly

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Welcome to Global Ecosocialist Network .  mronline.org (1-30-20).  

The Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) is being launched at a moment of extreme danger for humanity. The intensity of the crisis and the scale of the danger is hard to grasp or express adequately because, unless you are in one of the parts of the world currently experiencing extreme weather, it cannot yet literally be […]

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Ian Angus on the politics of ecosocialism.  Mronline.org (8-16-19).  Ecosocialism — in particular the Marxist wing of the ecosocialist movement — builds and acts on that understanding.   Source    

Ecosocialism and a just transition.  Mronline.org 6-23-19.

The idea of a “just transition” is appearing everywhere these days, most notably in the preamble of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which refers to the need to take “into account the imperatives of a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development […]   Source    

 

[Green New Deal =  rapidly replacing US fossil fueled neo capitalism with sustainable energy and a just transition.  –Dick]

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