Ashley Dawson
@AshleyDawsonNYC
Climate justice activist + author of "Environmentalism from Below", "People's Power", "Extreme Cities", & "Extinction: A Radical History" + CUNY Professor
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http://ashleydawson.info 31-03-2011 02:15:06
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More background info on the 3 cancelled offshore wind projects. The wind industry has been trying to build ever-bigger turbines in a quest to generate as much power (and MONEY) as possible. But they've hit a wall #PublicPower eenews.net/articles/3-off…
New York State just pulled the plug on 3 MORE problem-plagued, privately built offshore wind farms. Check out our opinion essay on the crisis in offshore wind, which explains why we need PUBLIC WIND POWER Desen Sevi Özkan NYC-DSA Ecosocialists 🌹 nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…
This morning, Laura Kuenssberg asked Chris Stark about a protest in the Science Museum’s new #climate gallery…
But failed to mention that the protest was *against* the sponsor #Adani - the world’s biggest private producer of coal! 🙄
#stopadani #bbclaurak
Adani's Carmichael coal mine VS scientists & First Nations Leaders
'There is clear scientific evidence of harm being done to the water... this is going to harm who we are as a people, our cultural identity'
Science Museum's sponsor Adani Group acts against science & culture.
join me & other DSA San Francisco comrades in reading 𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 by the great Ashley Dawson - next month!
Happy International Day of Peasant Struggles! La Via Campesina (Official EN) has some great resources to celebrate including Jim Goodman’s classic In Praise of Peasants commondreams.org/views/2009/04/…
I’m looking forward to the The Graduate Center launch of my new book, Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century, published by Cornell University Press. This Friday, April 19th from 4:15-6:15pm Room 9206 CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave NYC
gc.cuny.edu/events/dr-marc…
Today with La Via Campesina (Official EN) we mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles, remember the Eldorado do Carajás massacre in 1996 and honour the resistance of peasants worldwide who persist in their struggle for social justice and dignity.
viacampesina.org/en/call-to-act…
As an organization building power in low-income immigrant communities, our members have felt the impact of debt crises first hand.
That's why we're taking on the vulture funds destroying our communities and demanding #debtcancellation at the IMF's Spring meetings. #CanceltheDebt