Articles by Pontus Westerberg
UN climate deal on the brink ahead of Durban talks
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No Comments
The UN climate talks, COP17, begin at the end of November. This could be the last chance to save the current international climate deal. The first period of the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012 and rich industrialised countries are pushing to replace it with a system that is based on voluntary reductions in carbon emissions [...]
Infographic: How banks cause hunger
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 4 Comments
This infographic from the World Development Movement shows how banks and other financial speculators are betting on prices in financial markets, causing dramatic spikes in the cost of food.
PR company copyrights “radical media”, threatens to sue activists
Posted on April 30, 2011 | 18 Comments
This post first appeared at eatanicecream.com Radical media has a long history in social movements, from The British Worker, launched during the 1926 TUC General Strike, via audio cassettes with subversive messages passed around during the Iranian revolution, the Zapatistas, Samizdat and Indymedia to blogs, Facebook and Twitter used during the recent revolutions in Egypt and [...]