Varios, “Proyecto Protesta”

“Protesta es tu derecho
Pero más que eso
Es tu obligación […]

Protesta es la conciencia colectiva que despierta
Protesta es la marea humana que se manifesta […]

Que no hay bondad en ningún gobierno
Sólo creo en la organización real del pueblo
En l@s que van más allá del establecido […]”

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: Fossil fuel industry must be “imploded” to avoid climate destruction

This report on The Guardian from 10 July relays the radical German climatologist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber’s honest appraisal of the chances for keeping global warming below the “safe” limit of a 2C rise in average global temperatures, since the onset of industrialism.  Toward this end, he forthrightly concludes that the fossil-fuel system must be overthrown in the short term.  In his own words,

“In order to stay below 2C (3.6F), or even 3C, we need to have something really disruptive, which I would call an induced implosion of the carbon economy over the next 20-30 years. Otherwise we have no chance of avoiding dangerous, perhaps disastrous, climate change.”

Praxis interview with Paul Messersmith-Glavin on Climate Change, Capital, and Organizing

@Taylor Weech (Truthscout)

This is a link to the Soundcloud audio version of Paul Messersmith-Glavin’s 14 July interview on the Praxis podcast regarding climate change, capitalism, and radical organizing.  Paul’s conversation with host Taylor Weech is wide-ranging but focused on the gravity of the ecological crisis.  Paul shares his experiences with Hella 503 and the Parasol Climate Collective, particularly in terms of the climate canvass these groups carried out in the St. John’s proletarian neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, and he provides a solid philosophical anarchist framing for radical, anti-systemic action to limit the future severity of global warming.  He envisions such a type of praxis as melding together Occupy Wall Street and the Movement for Black Lives, “times a thousand, or a hundred thousand.”

Paul is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS), and a co-editor of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.  He also wrote the foreword to Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe.