BLOCKADE!
This short documentary follows land defenders and their allies in their fight against Law 97, a forestry reform that would have handed over the province’s remaining forests to industry.
Tag Archives: politics
ExxonMobile Executive Assassinated in the Streets of Brussels
from NBC News Police in Belgium are investigating the murder of a British oil executive who was shot and killed in front of his wife in Brussels in mid-October. Nicholas Mockford, a 59-year-old executive for ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, was […]
The Earth First! Death Cult? It does have a nice ring to it!
Did you ever stop to consider that the wild and hairy anarchists of the Earth First! Movement are really just a bunch of death cult Illuminati in cahoots with big government, Time magazine, the Shriners and um, aliens and lizard people and shit? […]
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
By Brian Merchant / Motherboard What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and […]
Video of RNC Coal Plant Blockade in Tampa
http://blip.tv/indy-tv/earth-first-shuts-down-coal-power-plant-during-the-2012-rnc-6338474
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Manipulated the Hurricane Forcast to Sabotage the RNC
from Climate Progress On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the government manipulated hurricane forecasts in order to force Republicans to cancel a day of their national convention, saying the model “allows them to do it.” “The hurricane center is the […]
Texas Judge Rules TransCanada Can Seize Pasture for Keystone XL Pipeline
By SAUL ELBEIN / New York Times PARIS, Tex. — The Canadian energy company TransCanada can take over land owned by a Texas farmer to build its Keystone XL pipeline, a county judge ruled on Wednesday night. In a 15-word ruling sent […]
Teribe Tribe of Costa Rica Fights for Indigenous Autonomy, End to Hydroelectric Projects
by Jaime Lopez Pablo Sibar, a grassroots leader from the Teribe native tribe of Costa Rica celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9th with a protest before the National Assembly. He has been doing so over the […]
Villagers in Senegal Vow to Stop Land-grabbing Biofuels Project
By Agence France-Presse Villagers from northern Senegal vowed Thursday to fight a project by Senegalese and Italian investors to produce biofuels on their land, a venture already forced to relocate once by deadly protests. “We will fight those who want to take […]
China’s environmental protests: simple NIMBYism or cutting edge people power?
By Graham Land The internet is taking a lot of credit for fermenting social unrest and facilitating effective protest. The Arab Spring, the Occupy movement and the Green Revolution in Iran are three well-known examples of how social media has played a […]