Peru Mining Protest Turns Deadly in Puerto Maldonado

[EF! Newswire note: the politics behind this story are tricky. We suggest reading more background on recent mining struggles to get a clearer picture of the context in which these protests have occurred.] Peruvian protests against government plans to regulate small-scale mining […]

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Bolivians march against development plan

Reposted from Al Jazeera [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiYvwzPc-E&] Bolivian indigenous activists have started a long protest march from the Amazon plains to the country’s capital in against a government plan to build a 306km highway through a national park in indigenous territory. Bolivian President Evo […]

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Aung San Suu Kyi backs Burma dam protesters

Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has joined forces with environmentalists and minority groups with an appeal for a rethink of a large dam project. Suu Kyi urged the Myanmar and Chinese governments to re-examine the project on the Irrawaddy River […]

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Puerto Rican Pipeline Protests Extend to New York

NEW YORK—Local Puerto Rican leaders and activists gathered outside Federal Plaza on Thursday to demand that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deny the permits for a proposed gas pipeline requested by the Puerto Rico Electric and Power Authority (PREPA). “This gas […]

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