COP-16 in Cancún: Day 1

From infoshop.org Entering the city of Cancún—site of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change’s sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16), which began today—one is struck immediately by the number of ‘areas de revision’—checkpoints, effectively—maintained by the Mexican police, with the support of […]

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Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Unite Against Mining

Indigenous Peoples from across Latin America have issued a unified declaration demanding an end to large-scale surface mining by transnational companies on indigenous peoples’ lands. “We state emphatically: no to mining, yes to life,” they declared. The Lima Declaration calls for governments […]

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Huge Victory For the Sea Lions!

After a year of deliberation, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to block the National Marine Fisheries Service’s killing of federally protected sea lions on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. In Defense of Animals (IDA) and the Sea […]

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Dispatch from EF! Italia

The protest (against the expansion of an enormous garbage dump near Naples) continues with road blocks near the landfill site. Waste collection is still broken, and the people set fire to rubbish bins—while all this happens in Terzigno, the landfill is closed, […]

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Tar Sands Resistance Summit a Success

The inaugural International Tar Sands Resistance Summit wrapped up near Missoula last Monday, November 22, with a packed house at the Missoula City Council meeting. As the first true snowstorm of the season coated the street outside, inside the council was voting […]

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Animal Rights Militia Liberates 20 Turkeys

During the early morning hours of November 14th, members of VT ARM liberated 20 turkeys that had been wrongly separated from the wild and cruelly forced into a small pen without shelter. According to a communique, “We will use whatever means necessary […]

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National Day of Mourning, the Build Up to Cancun

That was in 1970, during the first National Day of Mourning, an annual protest by Native Americans of the recounting of the Thanksgiving holiday. Each year since, they have gathered on Cole’s Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, to recount their people’s history, and […]

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Copenhagen Climate Activists Found Guilty

Two Danish activists who took part in the Copenhagen climate demonstrations last December have been found guilty of organising and instigating violence and vandalism, and have both been given four-month suspended sentences. One of the three judges in the case disagreed with […]

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