Anti-Mining Protests in Peru Surge, Mayor Arrested

Compiled & Composed by Britni Peruvian riot police clad with helmets and plastic shields charged in to the municipal building in Espinar, Peru on Wednesday  to arrest mayor Oscar Mollohuanca in his office for leading a protest against Swiss-based global mining company […]

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North Carolina Pledges Action Against Fracking

On May 19th, roughly 200 people gathered in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, to participate in a colorful march organized by Croatan Earth First! on Occupy Well Street’s Day of Action Against Extraction. Protesters marched through downtown with giant puppets, emulating […]

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Anti-Loggers Held Back by Officials

Forestry Administration officials reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from travelling to Koh Kong town yesterday on their way to the site where prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot last month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in a convoy […]

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Climate Activists Disrupt UK Energy Summit

cross posted from IndyMedia UK On May 3rd,  hundreds of protesters from climate and anti-cuts groups across the country teamed up to block the UK Energy Summit in the City of London. [1] They descended on the conference venue at 11.45 am, […]

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B.C. Economist Blocks Coal Trains In White Rock

About a dozen protesters, including one of Canada’s leading energy-environment economists, were arrested Saturday after setting up a blockade on train tracks in White Rock, B.C., aimed at stopping U.S. coal trains from reaching local ports. Mark Jaccard, a professor of sustainable […]

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Activists Detained Over Reef Protest

Police detained several environmental activists after they painted a sign on the side of a coal ship in Gladstone Harbour in central Queensland, Australia, saying the Great Barrier Reef is in danger. About a dozen Anti-Coal activists led by Greenpeace staged a […]

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Groups gather at Mendiola to protest mining

MANILA, Philippines – Environmental and militant groups gathered at Mendiola near Malacañang on Saturday to kick off an “intensified” campaign against mining in the country. The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment is calling for a moratorium on all mining applications of […]

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