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Lofoten Summer Camp: Looking Ahead

Nathan Thanki June 24, 2013 0 Comments
In just one month from now, an Earth in Brackets contingent will join other youth activists from Canada, Nigeria, and all across Europe in Lofoton, Norway, for Young Friends of the Earth Europe's (YFoEE) annual summer camp. The six of us just wanted to add our voices to the chorus of excitement already building ahead of July's gathering. The location is clearly important: the Lofoten islands are...

On the World Social Forum – Tunisia, March 26-30

Nathan Thanki April 13, 2013 0 Comments
by nathan thanki The dust having finally settled following the first ever World Social Forum in the Arab world, which took place at El Manar University in Tunis from March 26-30, we must ask ourselves some tough questions about the future of the Forum. The event was highly anticipated, with many activists from a variety of social movements being drawn to and intrigued by post-revolution Tunisia,...

Climate Denial

Nathan Thanki February 16, 2013 3 Comments
by nathan thanki Climate deniers are everywhere. If we didn't already know that they were funded by Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Right Wing Billionaires (the Kochtopus has many tentacles) it would surely be a mystery as to how on earth they managed to make a living. At every level - town hall meeting, local paper, climate blog - these people pop up, often repeatedly, to cut and paste absolute...

No surprise, Connie: Doha was a failure

Nathan Thanki January 5, 2013 0 Comments
This is a response to European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard’s article entitled "Why the Doha climate conference was a success." It is soon to be available on New York Times dotearth blog.  By Anjali Appadurai and Nathan Thanki Connie Hedegaard doesn’t respond to our tweets. She ignores us in the halls of UN climate talks. So when we read her in the...

The Night Shift

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 1 Comment
by nathan thanki The minarets are blaring. A prayer might be all we have left. It's 5am on Saturday morning and a rag-tag bunch of rabble rousers are scattered across various benches in a temporary tent-come-food-court that we've named "westaurant."  It's been a long night - one of frustration, confusion, and every negotiating tactic under the sun (or moon!) The details...