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      Protesters hold a "Stop Failing Us'' banner during the demonstration outside the Bank of England in London as world leaders meet in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit on November 6, 2021. ​

      'Promise Breakers': Report Exposes Rich Nations Failing to End Fossil Fuel Financing

      "While the Glasgow Statement is a success story that's having a real-world impact in shifting finance away from fossil fuels, some countries like the U.S., Germany, and Italy have broken their promise," said a lead author.

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 15, 2023

      A report released Wednesday by Oil Change International reveals that while the Glasgow Statement is already shifting billions of dollars from fossil fuels to clean energy around the world, some rich nations are still failing to live up to promises made under the 2021 agreement.

      During COP26—the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland—34 countries and five public finance institutions vowed to cut off financing for new international fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022 and instead invest that money in clean power.

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      Frankfurt Attacks Human Rights of Palestinians by Canceling Roger Waters' Concert

      In a more civilized world, the German city would be giving the well-known musician an award for his courage, not trying to silence him with state censorship for his criticism of Israeli apartheid.

      Vijay Prashad
      Katie Halper
      Mar 12, 2023

      After a highly acclaimed run in North America, Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour across Europe. The long journey includes shows in Germany, with the final concert in the country originally planned to take place in Frankfurt on May 28. On February 24, however, Frankfurt’s city council and the Hessian state government announced the cancellation of the Frankfurt concert, for “persistent anti-Israel behavior,” and called Waters an antisemite.

      The cancellation of Waters’s concert is a threat to free speech and artistic freedom. It is designed to silence legitimate criticism of Israel’s government emanating from the world human rights community and within Israel itself. Waters’s music has captivated the world for more than five decades. Over that time, he has also become a respected human rights advocate. In response to the decision by Frankfurt’s city council, artists and human rights leaders, including Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, and Glenn Greenwald, have signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.

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      Police remove an activist on January 11, 2023 in Lützerath near Erkelenz, Germany.

      The Battle of Lützerath Marks Beginning of a New Stage for Global Climate Movement

      The dominant system of capital and state has already made its choice: it wants collapse and will violently confront anyone who opposes it.

      João Camargo
      Jan 31, 2023

      In early January 2023, in a tiny village in western Germany, tens of thousands of climate justice activists faced off against thousands of police in a showdown over the fate of the fossil industry in central Europe. The gigantic mobilization of means to secure the destruction of a village and the expansion of one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines—Garzweiler—in the center of Europe marks a new historical moment. To consider what happened in Lützerath as a defeat of the movement is to misunderstand history.

      In Lützerath two historical forces clashed. On one side, the climate justice movement, which has been organizing for decades and since 2019 has become a global mass movement. In opposition to this was the German coal multinational RWE, backed by thousands of police coming from at least 14 German cities to defend the decisions of the German federal government and the government of North Rhine-Westphalia. More than symbolic, the battle of Lützerath was fought on the initiative of the climate justice movement to halt the extraction of 280 million tonnes of coal from beneath the devastated village.

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