Native American Health Traumas Addressed
cross-posted from Indian Country By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native...
View ArticleVillagers Sue Diamond Firms for Pollution in Zimbabwe
Report by Caiphas Chimhete, original story from The Standard The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) and villagers living along Save River are seeking a court order to bar three diamond...
View ArticleMore Jobs on a Dead Planet?
Bummer Reports of Pro-Industry “Protest” Around the World As the Earth shows ever-increasing, irrefutable signs of overlapping global crises in biodiversity loss, climate change and human cancer rates,...
View ArticleFilthy War Machine: US Military Industrial Complex, World’s Worst Polluter
The United States Military, the Pentagon. Most fossil fuel burned, most greenhouse gases released, biggest source of Mercury released into the environment, biggest source of radiological (Uranium,...
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Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S....
Cross Posted from Democracy Now!: “While the cleanup has taken 10 years so far, the U.S. military is only scratching the surface.” – Vieques activist On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands...
View ArticleTribute to an inspirational campaigner, Francisco Goncalves
Tania McCrea-Steele Fri, 05/09/2014 The 8th of May was a very sad day for many people in the conservation and animal welfare world as we learnt that our fellow campaigner, Francisco Goncalves, had lost...
View ArticleFracking Chemicals, Brought to You By Susan G. Komen
by Julia Lurie / Mother Jones Photo from Baker Hughs. Here’s some news that frankly, I initially thought was a spoof: for the second year in a row, breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the...
View Article#GlobalFrackdown: Thousands Rally Worldwide to Call for Moratorium on Fracking
from Earth First! Newswire Attendees listen to speakers during the rally as the community and organizations join Food & Water Watch’s Rally against hydrofracking and the proposal to build a...
View ArticleElectromagnetic Warfare Training Coming to Washington Coast and Rainforests
from Exotic Hikes The rugged, beautiful Washington Coast and the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula will soon be the site of War Games conducted by the United States Military. In 2015, the United...
View ArticleLongtime Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship Indicted
Massey Energy Chief Executive Officer Don Blankenship waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 20, 2010, before a U.S. Senate Health and Human Services subcommittee hearing on mine safety....
View ArticleWhile 350.org Wins, Houston Continues To Be Sacrificed
by Perry Graham / Houston Free Press “Today is an achievement,” announced 350.org founder Bill McKibben in an email Wednesday, refering to an agreement reached this week between the U.S. and China on...
View ArticleDirect Action: Protesters Block Runway in Philippines to Stop Aerial Spraying
photo courtesy Interface Development Interventions from Mindanews Hundreds of residents barricaded the runway of the community airport in Surallah town in South Cotabato on Monday in protest of the...
View ArticleCree Marchers Stop at National Assembly to Protest against Uranium Mining
Cree youth walked nearly 600km to Quebec City to protest against uranium mining in Mistissani, Que. (Julia Page/CBC) by Geoffrey Vandeville / Montreal Gazette The National Assembly welcomed a small...
View ArticleSteelworkers Union, Occupy Wall Street Dump Manure at ExxonMobil Torrance...
Picketers in front of Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance Saurday morning Feb 21, 2015. Chuck Bennett — Staff Photographer from Daily Breeze Protesters clad in hazmat suits protested over the weekend at...
View ArticleMonsanto Employee Admits An Entire Department Exists to “Discredit” Scientists
by Christina Sarich / Natural Society Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there is an...
View ArticleGulf South Rising: Demonstrations Across US on Fifth Anniversary of BP Oil Spill
Rising Tide NYC shuts down a BP station / Photo courtesy Colin Kinniburgh (Twitter) from Earth First! Newswire Responding to a call from Gulf South Rising, groups in Louisiana, Texas, and New York rose...
View ArticleIsraeli Soldiers Deploy Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets against Pollution Protestors
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA from International Solidarity Movement Around fifty Palestinians and international activists gathered today in Tulkarem, east of Nablus, to protest the presence of 11 Israeli...
View ArticleAbandoned Uranium Mines Plague Navajo Nation
by Sonia Luokkala / Earth Island Journal Navajo Nation’s Monument Valley. Photo by Sonia Luokkala The mesas of Monument Valley rise deep red on the horizon. We are in Diné Bikéyah, land of the Navajo....
View ArticleThousands Protest PX Chemical Plant in Jinshui, China
by Jennifer Baker / Revolution News Thousands marched on Jinshan District Government building Monday afternoon to protest the construction of another PX chemical plant. The march chanted “PX Get out of...
View ArticleBetween Sludge Pond and Old Growth:
A Look at Glaring Oversights in the Proposal for New Federal Prison in Eastern Kentucky A towering hemlock tree deep in the heart of the Lilley Cornett Woods. Photo by J. Mazurek by Jordan E. Mazurek /...
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