The Rainforest Foundation has been supporting the struggle of the Panará people of the Brazilian Amazon for many years. It has been a rewarding experience: once on the verge of extinction, the Panará have been able to secure their traditional lands, and are reclaiming their culture and way of life. It is one of the few stories of hope and victory to celebrate in the Amazon today.



Six Panará leaders are coming to New York City for the first time, and it's our pleasure to invite you to two events we're organizing in their honor in the coming week. Basic information is below; for more background information, please visit our website at http://www.rainforestfoundation.org.

hydrarchist writes "Busting the Water Cartel

A Report From Inside the Activist Coalition at the World Water Forum

Dispatch

By Holly Wren Spaulding

Special to CorpWatch

March 27, 2003

Kyoto - The conveners of the third World Water Forum, the World Water Council and Global Water Partnership, tried hard last week to sell the idea that there is a consensus behind their control, distribution and conservation of the world's water. But efforts to turn the Forum into a thinly veiled commercial for corporate solutions to the global water crisis backfired. Instead, many delegates were convinced by arguments put forward citizens' groups framing the water debate as a human rights issue.

Alan Moore writes "The "Green Home" show is opening at the Winter Palace in Staten Island April 27th, 2003, as part of the Staten Island Greens' Eco-Fest for a Sane and Sustainable Future.

The question is, how do we live in this world? How do we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of creation, and how is this relation expressed in works of art? The show will combine the global and the local -- prescriptive conceptual art and work, mostly by regional artists, on the theme of a domestic relation with nature.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Hey, check out the great parody page at dow-chemical, then compare it with dow. Nice work!

Now read below:"


[Updated] These Shitheads at Dow/Union Carbide are responsible for bringing down slash.autonomedia.org, and numerous other critical media sites yesterday. See comment attached below.

hydrarchist writes: this is part II of the article. All of the notes are to be found at the foot of this page. Click here to return to the first part."

This kind of technology-led restructuring of production
conditions (including technique-led restructuring of the
conditions of supply of laborpower) may or may not be functional
for capital as a whole, individual capitals, in the short-or-
long-run. The results would depend on other crisis prevention
and resolution measures, their exact conjuncture, and the way in
which they articulate with the crisis of nature broadly defined.
In the last analysis, the results would depend on the degree of
unity and diversity in labor movements, environmental movements,
solidarity movements, etc. And this is a political, ideological,
and organizational question.

hydrarchist writes:
Because of its length, the following article has been divided into two parts. The second part can be found here. All foototes to the essay can be found at the end of the second installment. The work was initially published in 1988 in the founding issue of the innovative journal Capitalism, Nature and Socialism. Other work produced by them can be found here.

"Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
A Theoretical Introduction*

By James O'Connor

"Those who insist that [environmental destruction] has
nothing to do with Marxism merely ensure that what they
choose to call Marxism will have nothing to do with what
happens in the world."-- Aiden Foster-Carter

Summary

This article expounds the traditional Marxist theory of the
contradiction between forces and relations of production, over-
production of capital and economic crisis, and the process of
crisis-induced restructuring of productive forces and production
relations into more transparently social, hence potentially
socialist, forms. This exposition provides a point of departure
for an "ecological Marxist" theory of the contradiction between
capitalist production relations and forces and the conditions of
production, under-production of capital and economic crisis, and
the process of crisis-induced restructuring of production
conditions and the social relations thereof also into more
transparently social, hence potentially socialist, forms. In
short, there may be not one but two paths to socialism in
late capitalist society.

Karnataka writes:

KRRS Activists Destroy Bt Cotton in Davanagere

DH News Service, Davanegere, August 6, 2002

Activists of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) destroyed Bt cotton
cultivated in an area of two acres at Rudranakatte near here on Sunday.

report at http://krrsquitmonsantoaction.8m.net/

photos at http://krrsquitmonsantoaction.8m.net/photo.html

The activists led by KRRS President Prof M D Nanjundaswamy convinced the
farmers before destroying the crops. Security was tightened in the village
to prevent any untoward incident. However, the police could not take any
steps against the activists as they destroyed the crops after convincing
the farmers.

Mallappa and Hanumanthappa, two farmers of the village had cultivated Bt
cotton. The KRRS activists told them that the crop would have to be
destroyed since it affected the environment.

KRRS office-bearers Kodihalli Chandrashekhar, K T Gangadhar, Honnur
Muniyappa, H Manjunath, M Channabasappa and hundreds of activists
participated in the operation.

Earlier, addressing the villagers, Prof Nanjudaswamy alleged that the crop,
though disease-resistant, would destroy farmer-friendly insects and affect
the environment.

He charged that the foreign companies were engaged in destroying the
agriculture here.

KRRS

Karnataka Rajya Ryota Sangha

[Karnataka State Farmer's Association]

Prof.Nanjundaswamy

President

2111,7th-A Cross,3rd Main,

Vijayanagar 2nd Stage

Bangalore-560 040-India

Phone:+91-80-3300965

Fax:+91-80-3302171

E-mail:swamy.krrs@vsnl.com;krrs_123@yahoo.com

A federal jury in Oakland today awarded $4.4 million in damages to two Earth First organizers who were injured in a 1990 car-bomb blast, agreeing with plaintiffs' arguments that FBI agents and Oakland police violated their civil rights by focusing on them as suspects.

This is GREAT news.

for the whole story see

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2 002/06/11/MN.DTL

Below is an alert from the NYC waste activists. The Greens may want to use a stronger message but the feeling is that we are about to lose recycling in NYC. Call your city council person soon and often.

Spread the word!

Critical Mass Rides for More Gardens

Friday, 7 pm, March 29, 2002

Union Square Park, North, NYC

This is it, the big one. Strap a flower pot to your head and hop on your bike or your blades and come out and join us! This will be a moving celebration to draw attention to our community gardens. Starting with the Radical Rockettes and ending with a huge musical after party. The eclectic musical jam will be at El Paradiso Garden, located on 5th St. between avenues C and
D. There will also be a potluck, so bring food to share. For help
transporting the food call us ahead of time. 212 802-8222