Two Sundays ago, I traveled to the nation's capital to attend what was billed as "the largest climate rally in history" and I haven't been able to get the experience -- or a question that haunted me -- out of my mind. Where was everybody? First, though, the obvious...
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Film Flicks
The Amandla! Film That Matter Series, 2012 Here is a taste of just some of the films we’ve got lined up for the first quarter of the year. These films are screened every fortnight at the AIDC. Check out our Facebook page for more information @Amandla! Media. TAC:...
Another brick in the wall: 30 years on – a short biography of the great struggle song | by Andre Marais
When they protested in the winter of 1980, high school students fighting apartheid’s gutter education had a brand new marching song in their arsenal. This song became the trademark of the tumultuous events of that year and the succeeding decade, as opposition to...
Facts about Climate Change
1. What is climate change?Climate change is a long-term shift in the climate of a specific location, region or planet. The shift is measured by changes in features associated with average weather, such as temperature, wind patterns and precipitation. What most people...
Extreme Weather Set To Worsen With Climate Change: IPCC | by Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA - An increase in heat waves is almost certain, while heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones, landslides and more intense droughts are likely across the globe this century as the Earth's climate warms, U.N. scientists said on Friday.The U.N....
Capitalism And Environmental Catastrophe | by John Bellamy Foster
This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on "The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment" organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011. It was based...


