George Monbiot: We Can't Be Silent on Climate Change or the Unsustainability of Capitalist System | Daily Digest 08/31/2017

Surrounded by Oil Refineries, Port Arthur, TX Faces New Environmental Crisis Following Harvey Floods & Deandre Harris Was Savagely Beaten by White Supremacists in Virginia. Why Only Two Arrests So Far? Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Thursday, August 31, 2017 democracynow.org Stories George Monbiot: We Can't Be Silent on Climate Change or the Unsustainability of Capitalist System   While Houston continues to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, we look at the media silence on the human contribution to the record-breaking storm. British ... Read More → Surrounded by Oil Refineries, Port Arthur, TX Faces New Environmental Crisis Following Harvey Floods Six days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, the unprecedented storm is continuing to wreak havoc in Texas and parts of Louisiana. The death toll has risen to ... Read More → Deandre Harris Was Savagely Beaten by White Supremacists in Virginia. Why Only Two Arrests So Far? Another suspect in the brutal beating of a young African-American male during the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been ... Read More → Headlines → Death Toll from Harvey at 38 as Port Arthur, TX Floods Completely Explosions at Arkema Chemical Plant Near Houston Follow Flooding North Korea Tensions Rise as Trump Tweets "Talking is Not the Answer!" Federal Court Halts Implementation of Texas Anti-Immigrant Law SB 4 Immigration Protesters March on Trump Tower in Support of DACA ACLU: Immigration Agency Is Destroying Records of Human Rights Abuses Democratic Lawmakers Demand Hearing on Trump's Pardon of Joe Arpaio Afghanistan: U.S. Airstrike Kills at Least 11 Civilians Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrike Kills 5 Civilians at Checkpoint Bangladesh: 18,000+ Rohingya Refugees Flee Government Violence in Burma Another Suspect Charged in Charlottesville Beating of African American Charlottesville Marchers Demand Justice Following White Supremacist Violence U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Says Trump Inciting Violence Los Angeles to Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day Activists Bail Out Black Women, Calling for an End to Cash-Bail System Forward this email → Donate today → Follow BOOK RELEASE Pre-Order Your Signed Copy of Reclaiming Gotham, the newest book by Juan González, and find a speaking event near you!  WEB EXCLUSIVE James Hansen Hails Landmark Youth Climate Lawsuit: We Can't Rely on Our Politicians to Do Anything WEB EXCLUSIVE John Nichols: "Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America" COLUMN Hell Hath No Fury Like Mother Earth Scorned ACTION ALERT It takes seconds to vote for DN! to get @CREDOmobile donations this month. Please vote today! SPEAKING EVENTS 9/7 New York, NY 9/9 Culver City, CA 9/9 Sylmar, CA 9/12 Washington, DC 9/14 Tempe, AZ 207 W 25th St — 11th Floor — New York, NY — 10001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License