Source: Infoshop.org (AFP) July 3, 2011 CHIOMONTE, Italy — Around two hundred people, mainly police officers, were injured as officers clashed with masked protesters at a rally against a high-speed rail link in northern Italy Sunday, police said. Clashes between protesters and […]
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Good News for Khimki Forest Activists
Source: Infoshop.org One “Khimki hostage” acquitted, another one got 2 years suspended On the 24th of June, judge of the Khimki city court of Moscow region of Russia, Neonila Zepalova, sentenced “Khimki hostages”, anti-fascist activists Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, who were accused of organisation […]
Continue readingExxon causes oil spill in Yellowstone
Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and […]
Continue readingIron County mine proposal pits jobs against environment
Bill Heart of Trout Unlimited goes fly fishing on the Tyler Forks River. A proposed iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin raises concerns about water pollution Iron ore made this town, and many people believe an open-pit mine will help revive the […]
Continue readingGlobal Protests Against Burmese Military Actions At Dams
By Katy Yan and Grace Mang Cross-posted from here Kachins protest at the Chinese consulate in San Francisco Last Friday, hundreds of people in the US, Denmark, United Kingdom, Malaysia, and elsewhere gathered to protest the recent deadly clashes between Burmese authorities and […]
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