For most Ogoni, the multinational oil giant, Shell is their number one enemy because of the strong impression they have that the operations of the oil giant in their area before it was halted only brought them misery, anguish and pain. The […]
Join the Caravan in support of indigenous communities who are in their fourth decade of resisting massive coal mining operations on their ancestral homelands of Big Mountain & Black Mesa, AZ. November 19th – 26th, 2011. We are excited to once again […]
Afectadas y afectados por la construcción de presas recorren Centroamérica para reunirse en el VI Foro Mesoamericano de la Red Latinoamericana contra de las Represas [REDLAR] en Pacuare, Costa Rica. Del 22 al 25 de septiembre, afectadas y afectados por […]
By Bill Savadove A major anti-pollution protest has forced the Chinese government to take swift action for the second time in as many months, spurred by a rising environment movement that is spreading online. More than 500 residents living near a plant […]
TUCSON, AZ.— Under the guise of border security, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill today that would grant border-enforcement agencies free rein on federal lands within 300 miles of the US-Mexico border. After […]
Earlier this month, we posted news of the call to occupy Wall Street, in the spirit of Tahrir Square (and other recent popular uprisings: Spain, Greece, London…) Yesterday, the day after New York Mayor Bloomberg publicly expressed his fear of riots in […]
(re-posted from Radical Mycology) Over 200 people gathered in northern Washington state this past Labor Day weekend to learn about the many uses of the fungal kingdom at the world’s first Radical Mycology Convergence. For four days, people gathered from several countries […]
Cross Posted from Economy in Crisis A World Trade Organization panel ruled this week that U.S. “dolphin safe” labels on tuna products were overly burdensome and restrictive to trade. The ruling stems from a 2009 challenge to the labeling requirements by the […]
COLEMAN, FLORIDA—The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee confirm Leonard Peltier has been moved to the US Penitentiary at Coleman, Florida. The following information was provided late Wednesday by the Committee: “According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Leonard Peltier has been moved […]
From September 21-30 the group Reclaim the Fields will meet in Rosia Montana, Romania for their third annual gathering. “Food, land, seed, water and indigenous knowledge are too important to be commodified or centralised in the well-known capitalist way. We resist the […]