by David P Ball on the Vancouver Media Co-op Canadian mining company Goldcorp – accused of human rights & environmental abuse in Guatemala – faced what may be its largest protest yet at its annual general meeting in Vancouver today. The colourful march […]
KTLA News Four environmental activists dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse arrested outside Walt Disney Studios Wednesday have been released after posting $1,000 bail. Jennifer Binstock, 29, of San Francisco; Christopher Toomey, 52, of Redondo Beach; Blake Hodges, 26, of Irvine; and […]
Earlier this year, the Quechua People in the Peruvian state of Cusco, launched an ambitious plan to send 1,500 varieties of Potato to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle. It was first time Indigenous Peoples ever contributed to the […]
By Anita Tucker Arkansas News Bureau Nearly two dozen 55-gallon barrels with labels indicating they contain chemicals used in the natural gas well fracturing process have been pulled from Choctaw Creek near the Van Buren County community in Arkansas. Clinton Mayor Roger […]
Reported by: KARK 4 News A federal lawsuit has been filed in Little Rock to prevent gas drilling under Greers Ferry Lake in north central Arkansas and in the Ozark National Forest in northwest Arkansas. Those bringing the suit against […]
From the Committee to Stop FBI Repression Statement (May 18, 2011) “FBI agents, who raided the home of Mick Kelly and Linden Gawboy, took with them thousands of pages of documents and books, along with computers, cell phones and a passport. By […]
Two others prepare for trial By Everglades Earth First! Palm Beach Gardens, Florida— Four activists with Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) attended a court hearing today, related to the treesits in an ongoing campaign to stop the expansion of Scripps Biotech facilities into […]
A small delegation of First Nations members toured Strasbourg and Paris, France this week to meet with investors, French government and EU government with a specific message, “Canada is a developed country with “high” human rights standards yet the tar sands development […]
By Rising Tide North America Dear Friends– If it was easy, they wouldn’t call it a “struggle.” In 1921, 15,000 miners took up arms against the coal industry’s gun thugs and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent […]
Four people have been arrested in a protest against a proposed biomass power station at Grangemouth docks. Twenty protesters from Action Against Agrofuels blocked both the access roads to the port, but police said South Shore Road had now been reopened. The […]