Environment

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WINTER’S END | PLAYING THE NUMBERS BLUES | IF THE SPRING IS SILENT

March 22, 2025 fwstaff
  WINTER’S END this leafless tree is alive with the dance of birds this drizzle reminds me of dew the silence of this bell is probably just a sleight of sound this absence of Light […]
China has developed sodium ion batteries to replace lithium ions which are more expensive and much less available
Domestic News

Biden’s Tariffs on China: A Unionist Response – Part 2

June 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Part 1 discussed how Biden has undermined his own publicized campaign to fight global warming by imposing huge tariff increases on China. Part 2 explores how the billionaire ruling class, patrons to […]
COP28 solidarity demonstration with Palestine
International News

COP28 Summit Concludes with Contradictory Agreement

December 21, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A two week-long annual climate conference sponsored by the United Nations in Dubai ended on December 13 with an agreement to “transition from” the use of fossil fuels on a global scale. […]
UAW President Shawn Fain
Domestic News

New UAW President Holds Off Endorsing Biden Until Workers Get Decent Pay in EV transition

May 16, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On May 3, newly elected United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain posted a letter to the union’s 400,000 members that the union will not give its usual endorsement to President Biden, […]
Despite promises not to, Biden is opening Alaska wilderness to more oil drilling
Domestic News

Earth Day 2023: Biden’s betrayal, government repression and sodium batteries

April 21, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry April 22 is this year’s “Earth Day.” Since 1970 that date highlights the struggle by environmental activists, particularly from the Indigenous communities, against Big Oil and big business in their ceaseless profit-driven […]
Environmental, trade union and cultural associations denounce genocide by poisoning, the harassment of activists
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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN AS AN ECO-DEFENDER

February 24, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright For Keziah Nuissier, Madly Etile and Mumia Abu-Jamal, Three generations of anti environmental racism warriors who never met but who by breaking silence organically interconnect their struggle For our young ancestors, Tortuguita. […]
Egypt COP27 ending without key agreements
International News

COP27 Concludes While the Environmental Crisis Continues

November 26, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There were high expectations for the United Nations Climate Conference held in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh. COP27 took place on the African continent amid months of preparations by governments, non-governmental […]
The spokesperson of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, Sleydo, points out that the Coastal GasLink pipeline will not have a favourable financial outcome
International News

Kill The Drill

November 5, 2022 fwstaff
By Decolonial Solidarity Ottawa PRESS RELEASE Wave of mobilization against RBC in support of Wet’suwet’en sovereignty  More than 35 Decolonial Solidarity groups across Canada, the US, and Europe are mobilizing to protest the Royal Bank […]
Egypt COP27 graphic
International News

COP27 to be held in Egypt amid global challenges

September 16, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African nations are preparing for the United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) scheduled to take place in the Egyptian resort area of Sharm-el-Sheikh from November 6-20. This gathering is taking place during a […]
Gidimten Checkpoint
International News

Wet’suwet’en Water Protectors Evade RCMP

January 8, 2022 fwstaff
Gidimt’en Checkpoint Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4th, 2022 – Unceded Gidimt’en Territory, Smithers (BC): Two weeks after Wet’suwet’en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors […]