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China: Thousands of displaced farmers in 5 day protest over hydroelectric dam
Chinese paramilitary police crushed a five-day protest by up to 2,000 Chinese villagers who complained that they weren’t being paid enough to relocate for one of China’s largest hydroelectric power projects, according to local officials. The villagers set roadblocks, physically harassed officials […]
Continue readingIMF Resistance: Mobilization Against the World Bank, D.C. April 15-17th
Call to Action for the Spring 2011 IMF/World Bank Meetings! On April 16, 2000, twenty-thousand protesters besieged the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. In 2011 the IMF and World Bank are again meeting on April 16. Their previous schemes […]
Continue readingThe Terraba fight proposed hydro-electric dam in Costa Rica
Following several large protests, Costa Rica’s indigenous Terraba people have filed a lawsuit seeking to halt construction of a hydro-electric power station due to flood a large swath of their territory, officials said Wednesday. The power plant is the biggest such project […]
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