Govt Urged To Revoke Rheinmetall Denel Munition’s Operating Licence
CAPE TOWN – The man representing Rheinmetall Denel Munition’s 2018 explosion victims believes the government must revoke the German company’s operating licence.
CAPE TOWN – The man representing Rheinmetall Denel Munition’s 2018 explosion victims believes the government must revoke the German company’s operating licence.
Climate and Capitalism’s Death Drive, Biden Sells Out Working and Poor People, Military Drives Climate Crisis.
So here we are again at another COP (Conference of the Parties). Well, some of us are in Glasgow, Scotland at the COP itself, and some of us, this writer included, are sitting at a distance, trying to feel hopeful.
Includes Devon Grayson-Wallace, Peace Action Maine, facilitator; Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard; Janet Weil, Veterans For Peace, CCMP; David Swanson, World BEYOND War.
Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility.
We’re passed the “First, They Ignore You” phase.
David Swanson, co-founder of World BEYOND War will tell us about the big campaign to get COP26 to include the biggest source of environmental damage of all: the Military/War System.
In a remarkable feat of epistemic magic, 500 environmental and peace organizations and nearly 25,000 individuals have endorsed a petition that will be delivered to the COP26 climate conference — a petition proposing a solution that could add dramatically to efforts to protect the Earth’s climate, but a solution that it is impossible for most members of the homo sapiens species to become aware of.
This report finds that the world’s biggest emitters are spending an average 2.3 times as much on arming borders on climate finance, and up to15 times as much for the worst offenders. This “Global Climate Wall” aims to seal off powerful countries from migrants, rather than addressing the causes of displacement.