A Resounding NO to GE Trees Declaración de Asunción Rechazo a todos los Árboles Genéticamente: Un NO Rotundo a los Árboles GM (PDF) Declaração de Asunción rejeita todas as árvores geneticamente modificadas: Um esmagador NÃO às árvores transgênicas (PDF) We,...
More municipalities are trading out observation of Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October. The Daily Beast reports that "business in the entire state of Alaska, however, will be closed for Indigenous Peoples Day, after Gov. Bill Walker...
Originally published at Intercontinental Cry: BY TRACY BARNETT A contingent of at least 1,000 indigenous Wixárika (Huichol) people in the Western Sierra Madre are gearing up to take back their lands after a legal decision in a decade-long land dispute with...
As Chile is still in the running for future GE tree plantations and will be hosting next years bi-annual IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference, I pass along this relevant article: A report on the evolution of forestry subsidies in Chile. This is an English translation...
Originally Published by DeSmogBlog: BY STEVE HORN On September 9, the Obama administration revoked authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on federally controlled lands and asked the pipeline's owners, led by Energy Transfer...
PBS News Hour reported from the Dakota Access pipeline protests this weekend. Over 100 Native American tribes are gathered at Standing Rock Reservation, where PBS reporter William Branghan recapped a week of protests. Brangham explained one of the reasons for the...
Via World Rainforest Movement: September 21st is the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Launched in 2004, this international day commemorates people's resistance and struggles in defense of territories and against the expansion of...
GE Free New Zealand, a member of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, continues to denounce research on genetically engineered (GE) trees by Scion, New Zealand's Crown Research Institute specializing in forestry science. Despite some non-GE...
Previously published by IntercontinentalCry.org: By Shena Cavallo "A nurse put me on a stretcher and tied my hands and feet," said Sabina Huillca. "I asked them to bring me my little baby girl but instead they anesthetized me. When I woke up, the doctor was...
By now you've probably heard the incredible news that Native-led organizing forced the Obama administration to put a temporary halt to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that would cross through the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reservation and threaten their...