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Is Government Targeting Other Honduran Activists?
Gustavo Castro Soto Via The Institute For Public Accuracy. NOTE: Gustavo Castro Soto is a long time ally of founders of Global Justice Ecology Project for work in common in solidarity with the Indigenous people of Chiapas, Mexico. BEVERLY...
Urgent Action Needed to Save Life of Otros Mundos/ FoE Mexico Activist Gustavo Castro
From Otros Mundos, Chiapas To the Secretary of Human Rights, Justice, Interior, and Decentralization of Honduras To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico For national and international attention To all...
MST Women in Brazil Take Action Against Tree Plantations on International Women’s Day
On International Women's Day (March 8), 5,000 women from the MST (Landless Movement) entered a nursery of Araupel, in Paraná Brasil, and destroyed seedlings of pinus and eucalyptus trees. It was a protest against the expansion of plantations in their region, the green...
LISTEN: Tribe Says Drilling Project Would Have ‘Heartbreaking’ Consequences
National Public Radio recently published a report on the battle between oil and gas developers and the Blackfoot tribe in Montana over a long delayed drilling project. This area, this landscape, this wild, this solitude, this inextricably inalienable relationship we...
Gamilaraay, Githabul Men Lock on to Protect Country
Originally published in IntercontinentalCry.org. MAULES CREEK, NSW, AUSTRALIA - 2 MARCH 2016 - Today two Gamilaraay men, Paul Spearim and Allen Talbot and a Githabul man, Laurence Miles, have locked on to concrete barrels at the entrance to Whitehaven’s controversial...
As Rivers Run Black in Peru, Indigenous Tribes Left Cleaning Big Oil’s Disaster
Originally published by IntercontinentalCry.org A disastrous spate of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon have gone from bad to worse in recent days, leaving Indigenous tribes frantically trying to clean up the mess left by the nation's state-owned oil company. The...
Breaking: Indigenous Activist Berta Cacares Has Been Killed
Berta Caceres of the Indigenous organization COPINH in Honduras was a long-time ally from before GJEP when we were working as ACERCA. She was a powerful force and a tremendously effective organizer. This is a horrible loss, and another example of the danger of being...
Chiapas Communities Organize to Protect Sacred Lagoon from Tourist Highway
The reeds and grasses are as tall as Sebastián Pérez Méndez, if not taller. The vegetation is so thick it’s hard to see the water in the Suyul Lagoon that he and other local Maya Tzotzil residents are working hard to protect. Pérez Méndez crosses the road to point out...
WATCH: ‘Globalising Aotearoa’ on the Nature of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its Impact on Te Tiriti O Waitangi
Originally published by IntercontinentalCry.org. A short film discussing the nature of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its impact on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty representing the bicultural relationship in Aotearoa New Zealand. Jane Kelsey, Hone...
EU Decision Process Hinders Use of Genetically Modified Trees?
By Anne Petermann In this confused little piece from our friends at European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), GE tree researchers in the EU arguing for more lax regulations on GE trees also seem to imply that more stringent requirements are needed. The...
UPDATE: Mrs. Justinah Ojo Safe After Release from Abduction in Nigeria
UPDATE: Earlier this week, we posted a release about Mrs. Justinah Ojo, who was abducted in Nigeria. Friends of the Earth International sent along this update, stating that Mrs. Justinah Ojo has been released and is safe. Read on to see the letter from Friends of the...
New GM banana bound for Uganda set for human testing at Iowa State
BY RP Originally published by Free Speech Radio News, republished under Creative Commons License. You may wonder what protesters clad in banana costumes have to do with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But then you may not be up on a multi-continental GMO...
WATCH: FOOD, WATER, EARTH – THE BATTLE TO PROTECT ANISHINAABE LANDS AND WATER FROM EXTREME EXTRACTION
Should a precious ecosystem that provides for the culture and physical survival of the Anishinaabe people be sacrificed for a couple pipelines? Enbridge probably wouldn't have a problem with that. In fact, they'd answer with a smile; but if you were to ask Winona...
LISTEN: UNSR on the impact of the TPP on Indigenous Peoples
In this report from Indigenous Rights Radio, UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli Corpuz discusses the international trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership which is being negotiated by Canada,The United States, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Japan,...
Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti: An interview with Iderle Brénus
Originally published in Other Worlds. From an interview by Beverly Bell In Haiti, the majority of the people working the land are women. Not only are they there during planting, weeding and harvesting, but they also play a role in transforming and marketing food...
Groundbreaking Meeting Sets Course for Indigenous Climate Action
According to Rabble.ca, The Council of Canadians offered its support during a groundbreaking Indigenous Peoples Meeting on Climate Change on January 24-26. The meeting took place on Treaty 6 Territory in Edmonton, Alberta. Members and leaders of nations from around...
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Monsanto’s glyphosate now most heavily used weed-killer in history, study says
Flickr.com Monsanto's glyphosate is now most heavily used weed-killer in history, according to a new study. A paper published Feb. 2, 2016 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Sciences Europe reports that 18.9 billion pounds (8.6 billion kilograms) of glyphosate...
Peoples’ Movement Initiatives Key To Climate Solutions
EcoWatch recently published an article by Osprey Orielle Lake, highlighting the alternative events that took place during the COP21 climate meetings in Paris. As Lake points out, these alternative events may be the most important proceedings to take place in December,...
Ministry Ignores Thousands of Public Submissions on Genetically Engineered Trees
This release from late 2015 comes from GE Free NZ and Rage Inc. The release illustrates how widespread the threat of genetically engineered trees has become around the world. An update by the Ministry of Primary Industries evaluation of 18,000 + submissions, received...