Comrades, Bernie Sanders and the Green New Deal are surging in polls. But we can’t win either without a mass movement. Please RSVP here to join DSA’s Green New Deal Campaign Committee this Sunday, February 23rd at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for a nationwide strategy call on how we’re…
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By Kyle Galindez $6 trillion—that’s how much the War on Terror has cost the US since 9/11. At the same time that there seems to be no end in sight to US military spending, we’re told that there’s no money to spend on issues that Americans actually care about, like…
Ecosocialism project-Fresno coalition with CAPS/CPR Ban chlorpyrifos, a harmful pesticide used on ag crops (see list of studies at end) by Maya Flores List of Contents: Intro / 2. Background on Chlorpyrifos / 3. Current Compliance / 4. Previous Bans / 5. on CAPS the OG non-profit org/6. Final thoughts…
On December 6th, the Global Carbon Project released their report finding that global carbon dioxide emissions reached a new apex this year, comparing the rise to a “speeding freight train.” 1 This news comes on the heels of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warning of societal and ecological…
The Camp Fire started under conditions of critically high wind, low relative humidity, and dry fuels. Nevertheless, numerous aspects of the fire itself, the response, and the aftermath point to the pressing need to replace the capitalist system with one that is democratically-controlled and run for human needs. Climate…
By James N and Magenna B Members of the NYC-DSA Ecosocialist Working Group The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report stating that “limiting global warming to 1.5° C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” over the next 12…
By: Tom Pike I dream of a world where every roof has solar panels, every basement has rainwater basins, every community has free heating and cooling, every vehicle is public, every dam is a battery, and every human is free. This makes me an ecosocialist. But, to the sometime frustration…
Written By: Ted Franklin | originally posted 9/18/18 on SCNCC “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” —W.E.B. Du Bois Shortly before protesters gathered around the world on the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit, an ecosocialist friend commented on the pointlessness of…
Historically marginalized communities in the U.S. are not only first and worst impacted by climate pollution, they are also largely last and least likely to reap the benefits of new clean energy and energy efficiency measures in municipalities around the country. Portland, Oregon is exhibit A for this reality.…
WHY ECOSOCIALISM? A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE By: System Change Not Climate Change co-founder, author, and DSA member Richard Smith Here’s the problem: We live on a planet with finite resources. But we live in an economic system, capitalism, which is based on infinite growth. In the 19th century, when…