Dr Emadeldin Adly Nada_Reflection on COP27

AFSAfrica – Mar 12, 2023

In February 2023, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) hosted a crucial meeting at the Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe. The meeting brought together over 40 state and non-state actors from 16 African and European countries to discuss the outcomes of COP27, the global climate change negotiations that took place in 2022. The participants included civil society actors, media, government ministries, and donor representatives, all of whom are key actors in the fight against the climate crisis in Africa.

The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the outcomes of COP27 in addressing the key demands of Africa in global climate change spaces, and to identify opportunities for the adoption of Agroecology as an Africa-led solution to tackle the climate crisis. The meeting provided an opportunity for state actors, African group of negotiators and civil society organizations to exchange ideas, experiences, and strategies, which will help to strengthen Africa’s position in forthcoming negotiations and decision-making.

We asked some of the participants to share their thoughts and experiences from COP 27, as well as their perspectives on the way forward for Africa in the fight against climate change, specifically how to advocate more effectively for the inclusion of agroecology as a solution for climate change adaptation in Africa. Some of the insights and reflections are discussed in this video.

Community Managed Natural Farming – Vijay Kumar

AFSAfrica – Sep 23, 2020

Vijay Kumar presents the revolutionary CMNF initiative which has already converted 600,000 farmers to agroecology.

Food-matters,

Dr George Wamukoya, Group Leader for African Group of Negotiators Expert Support (AGNES-Africa)

AFSAfrica – Mar 12, 2023

In February 2023, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) hosted a crucial meeting at the Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe. The meeting brought together over 40 state and non-state actors from 16 African and European countries to discuss the outcomes of COP27, the global climate change negotiations that took place in 2022. The participants included civil society actors, media, government ministries, and donor representatives, all of whom are key actors in the fight against the climate crisis in Africa.

The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the outcomes of COP27 in addressing the key demands of Africa in global climate change spaces, and to identify opportunities for the adoption of Agroecology as an Africa-led solution to tackle the climate crisis. The meeting provided an opportunity for state actors, African group of negotiators and civil society organizations to exchange ideas, experiences, and strategies, which will help to strengthen Africa’s position in forthcoming negotiations and decision-making.

We asked some of the participants to share their thoughts and experiences from COP 27, as well as their perspectives on the way forward for Africa in the fight against climate change, specifically how to advocate more effectively for the inclusion of agroecology as a solution for climate change adaptation in Africa. Some of the insights and reflections are discussed in this video.

Rough weather pummels California

NBC News – Mar 12, 2023

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Central California faced pounding hail. This comes after a levee failed in Northern California’s Monterey County, swamping the community of Pajaro. NBC News’ Steve Patterson has more on the rescues underway.

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What’s Fascism Got to Do With It? The Ideological Origins of the Holocaust

University of California Television (UCTV) – Mar 12, 2023

Twentieth-century fascism was a political ideology encompassing totalitarianism, state terrorism, imperialism, racism, and, in Germany’s case, the most radical genocide of the last century: the Holocaust. Historians of the Holocaust tend to reject the notion of fascism as a causal explanation for its origins. Conversely, scholars of fascism present the Shoah as a particular event that is not central to fascist historiography. In this lecture Federico Finchelstein examines the challenge the Holocaust presents to the transnational history of ideology and politics.

A leading contemporary authority on global fascism, Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College and Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR. Recorded on 01/18/2023. [3/2023] [Show ID: 38422]

00:00 Start 00:09 Introductions 10:00 Main Presentation 46:27 Audience Q&A

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The Next Frontier of Environmental Justice: Place-Making for Black History

Harvard Extension School – Mar 12, 2023

Join the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education and Trust for Public Land for a Park Bench Chat about the growing movement to preserve Black history and culture sites across the United States. Today only three percent of sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places focus on the experiences of Black Americans. This collective injustice deprives us of a full understanding of the story of America. We have a short window of time to preserve these sites before they are lost forever – either due to development, decay, or the people associated with them pass away. Undervalued for far too long, there has never been a greater sense of urgency to accelerate the protection of important sites representing Black history and culture as well as unearth and celebrate the stories of resistance, self-determination, and agency of Black Americans across all of America’s protected lands.

Featuring Lindi D. von Mutius and Jocelyn Imani

Video produced by Harvard Division of Continuing Education’s Online Course Technology and Innovation Team at Brattle Square Studio and edited by Pedro Almanzar.

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• Harvard Extension School: Welcome from the Deans – Virtual Open House 2022
• Celebrating Our 50th Anniversary
  
• Climate-Smart Cities™–Boston | The Trust for Public Land
• Meet The Trust for Public Land’s new President and CEO – Diane Regas
• Climate-Smart Cities™–Boston | The Trust for Public Land
• Survive and Thrive: Climate-Smart Cities™ | The Trust for Public Land

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Further material on past environmental justice courses offered through the Harvard Extension School is available online. The course known as ENVR-145 was presented for eight years from 2007 through 2014 under the leadership of James Hoyte. 

Honored member of the Board of Directors of The Trust for Public Land.

Jamie Hoyte was co-founder of the Harvard “Working Group on Environmental Justice,” and co-instructor of the Harvard Extension School’s ENVR – E145 course – “Introduction to Environmental Justice.”

James (Jamie) Hoyte had served in the Massachusetts state government as Secretary of Environmental Affairs as part of the administration of Governor Michael S. Dukakis.  He brought his extensive experience in environmental preservation and regulation within the state government to Harvard when he joined the administration at Harvard as Associate Vice President and Assistant to the President under President Neil Rudenstein and subsequently his successors Lawrence Summers and Drew Gilpin Faust.

Jamie Hoyte drew upon his years of service within Massachusetts state government as he worked to found the “Working Group on Environmental Justice” at Harvard and taught courses in the field of environmental justice first at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, then as part of the newly created “Environmental Science and Public Policy” concentration in Harvard College and eventually through the online learning program of the Extension School within the Division of Continuing Education. from 2007-2014.

Introduction to Environmental Justice – ENVR145:

• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2014
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2013
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2012
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2011
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2010
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2009
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2008
• Introduction to Environmental Justice – 2007

with the assistance of Dr. Rhona Julien and Dr. T. C. Weiskel.

See related:

• Related Environmental Justice research.

Yellen rules out bailout for Silicon Valley Bank: “We’re not going to do that again”

Face the Nation – Mar 12, 2023

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called the Silicon Valley Bank failure a “concern,” but she emphasized that there would not be a bailout. “We’re not going to do that again,” she told “Face the Nation.”

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The BYSO Youth Center for Music

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras BYSO – Mar 7, 2023

The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) is creating the BYSO Youth Center for Music at 235 Huntington Avenue to establish a home for our young musicians in the heart of Boston. Click here to learn more: https://www.bysoweb.org/home/

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European Water Crisis Worsens as Heat Waves and Drought Continue to Blanket the Continent –

Paul Beckwith – Mar 11, 2023

Lots of Europe is bone-dry at the moment. The normal precipitation this winter has not materialized, so consequently lakes, reservoirs, and rivers are at much lower water levels than normal, by about 50 to 60% or even more. The famed ski resorts in the Alps are suffering from greatly reduced snow pack accumulation.

Last summer Europe endured its most severe and widespread drought in 500 years, and there has been no recovery since then. Thus, this years drought has a four to five month head start over what occurred last year. There is almost no precipitation in the forecast either.

Ground water measurements by the GRACE gravity anomaly satellites show that lack of water in Europe has actually been occurring since 2018.

In this video I chat about this extremely dire water situation in Europe and the abrupt climate system change causes (attribution studies show 20x worsening of droughts). I wonder whether this is a weather whiplashing situation where there will be an excess of water in a few years, or if this is becoming a quasi-permanent situation for Europe. I wonder if the jet stream has actually started rotation about a lower latitude center-of-cold with the lack of Arctic Sea Ice, and is actually passing south of Europe more frequently than it did before, reducing storm paths over the continent. Whatever the case, people living in Europe need to wake up to this new reality of a more water constrained environment.

Chris Hedges | The LIE of INFLATION – YouTube

Chris Hedges Fan Club – Mar 12, 2023

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Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour (2018). Obey, a documentary by British filmmaker Temujin Doran, is based on his book Death of the Liberal Class.

Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East (he is fluent in Arabic), and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) serving as the paper’s Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the war in the former Yugoslavia.

In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University.

Hedges, who wrote a weekly column for the progressive news website Truthdig for 14 years, was fired along with all of the editorial staff in March 2020. Hedges and the staff had gone on strike earlier in the month to protest the publisher’s attempt to fire the Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer, demand an end to a series of unfair labor practices and the right to form a union. He hosts the Emmy-nominated program On Contact for the RT (formerly Russia Today) television network.

Hedges has also taught college credit courses for several years in New Jersey prisons as part of the B.A. program offered by Rutgers University. He has described himself as a socialist, specifically an anarchist, identifying with Dorothy Day in particular.