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In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s novel about the Great Depression, Tom Joad, the novel’s central character, a man who has been made poor and who is on the run from the law, tells his mother in the climactic scene that: “I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and (…)

Par Benjamin Dessus et Bernard Laponche, Editions du Seuil, 176 pages, 13€
Ce livre clair et concis démontre la nécessité et la possibilité d’en finir avec le nucléaire.
Il commence par réfuter les arguments spécieux de ses partisans sur l’indépendance énergétique prétendue ; sur la sûreté (…)

The European Union is changing its rules on how carbon is traded in response to a series of fraud cases and the financial crisis. This report looks at how corporate lobbies are trying to influence this process, and notes that such measures are bound to fall short since they attempt to "regulate (…)

Cuenca (Ecuador), Publicado en Diagonal Nº158
Tras la publicación del libro ‘Noir Canada’, sobre los abusos de las mineras canadienses, la empresa minera Barrick Gold ha demandado al colectivo al que pertenece el investigador William Sacher por once millones de dólares.
DIAGONAL: ¿Cuáles son (…)

Sortie du rapport du CCFD-Terre Solidaire « Paradis fiscaux : le G20 de la dernière chance »
A la veille du G20 Finances des 14 et 15 octobre à Paris, dernière réunion des ministres des finances avant le Sommet de Cannes, le rapport du CCFD-Terre Solidaire dresse le bilan d’un des combats (…)

La primera década del siglo XXI fue una década pérdida en la lucha contra la pobreza, a pesar del excelente rendimiento económico de las economías emergentes, dijo Roberto Bissio, coordinador de Social Watch, en las vísperas de los días internacionales contra el hambre y la pobreza.
Social (…)

Miguel Palacín fue uno de los fundadores de la Confederación Nacional de Comunidades Afectadas por la Minería (CONACAMI) y hoy es coordinador de la Confederación Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas (CAOI). En esta entrevista, realizada en Lima antes de la segunda vuelta de las elecciones, repasa (…)

Depuis 2008, les G20, regroupant les chefs d’Etat des 20 pays les plus puissants de la planète, se succèdent. Officiellement « pour éviter l’effondrement du système financier et de l’économie mondiale » et « pour assurer une croissance mondiale fondée sur des bases saines et solides ». Pourtant, (…)

The Occupy Wall Street movement seems to have defied many of its early critics, with tens of thousands of people still supporting those camped out at New York’s financial centre and the heart of US capitalism a month after the protests started.
It has since spread to over 70 cities across the (…)

La amenaza más grave que enfrentan los maíces mexicanos son las gigantes empresas transnacionales de semillas -como Monsanto- que a nivel mundial controlan el mercado de semillas transgénicas, que presionan por todos los medios a su alcance para que México les otorgue permisos de siembra de maíz (…)

A plan to boost agribusiness, but based mainly on family farming and cooperatives, in Argentina is geared to producing and exporting more food – in a more sustainable manner.
That is the goal of the Strategic Agribusiness Plan (PEA) that representatives of the country’s 23 provinces and of 53 (…)

The idea of taxing international financial transactions is gaining ground. The European Union is promoting it internationally and studying the possibility of imposing it throughout the bloc, or at least in the euro area.
But it is still not clear what the scope of the tax would be or what the (…)

Barriles cuidadosamente colocados hacen fila en la puerta de muchos hogares del barrio de Leona, en Kaolack, ciudad de 20.000 habitantes en el oeste de Senegal. Son señales del éxito de un proyecto para introducir el biogás como combustible.
Amadou Faye, cuya familia cría vacas, cabras y (…)

I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be (…)

Next year, in June, world leaders will get together in the joyful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to mark 20 years of UNCED—the Earth Summit (see Down to Earth, May 15, 1992).
Unbelievably, it will be 40 years since the Stockholm conference, when the question of the environment first caught (…)

The world is tipping over into unknown territory. All the pundits are now starting to agree with US economist, Nouriel Roubini, famous for his prediction of the 2008 financial crash, that a second recession is inevitable. South Africa’s Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus has also added her voice (…)

The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results.
Creative (…)

“Yes we accepted to sell our land, but we had no choice...”, Community member, Bousra village
Economic land concessions (ELC) are long term leases granted over land for agro-industrial exploitation. Over the past years, ELCs have dramatically increased in Cambodia and are the subject of severe (…)

Le gouvernement français vient d’annoncer avoir saisi « le Conseil général de l’industrie, de l’énergie et des technologies (CGIET) en vue de l’abrogation des trois permis suivants : Nant (détenu par la société Schuepbach), Villeneuve-de-Berg (Schuepbach) et Montélimar (groupe Total) », effaçant (…)

Ce texte de Cândido Grzybowski, sociologue et directeur de l’Ibase, a initialement été publié en portugais sur Outras Palavras, et il a été traduit par Isabelle Miranda, traductrice bénévole pour rinoceros.
Ceci est un cri d’angoisse et un appel. Seule la citoyenneté mobilisée, accompagnée de (…)