Changing the System, Not the Climate: July Social PreCOP begins

by nathan thanki Greetings from Las Islas Margaritas, the site of the first ever social preCOP on climate change. Over the past few years on this website you may have read many dispatches, reports, polemics, and laments from the prefabricated halls of various UN climate change negotiations. We have watched and written as the process to negotiate a new global climate treaty (or whatever) was...

Towards a New Abolitionism

Crossposted from The GC Advocate (http://opencuny.org/gcadvocate/).  By guest contributor Jesse A. Myerson, writer, activist and author of the forthcoming 'Onward: An Occupier's Guide to Understanding the Current Crisis When I began to write this essay, there were cars floating on Wall Street. It sounds like some sort of trader lingo, perhaps describing General...