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imageNew Zealand Government Is Not Fit to Sit on UN Human Rights Council
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by Aziz Choudry repo
On 14 September this year, the New Zealand government and three other governments (Canada, USA and Australia) shared the dubious distinction as the only states to vote against the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 11:46am PDT
textMessage from the Earth: Free Opitz and Lehmann Now! by Bill Conroy, NarcoNews (reposted)
Saturday, October 20, 2007 The oil rich Niger River Delta of southern Nigeria is a murky swampland where men are at war with the Earth — and each other. An armed indigenous rebel group known as the MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) over the last few years has successfully disrupted the operations of major oil producers in the area through a string of attacks on oil facilities....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 11:05am PDT
imageAustralia: Nuclear Plans and Anti-nuclear protests
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by Takver - Sydney Indymedia
On Friday morning 25 protestors disrupted the start of the Australian Nuclear Association conference and the speech by Ziggy Switkowski, chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney. With anti-nuclear placards and chanting slogans the protest caused heated arguments with conference attendees before the building manager was called and ordered the protestors to leave. The protest and Switkowski's speech outlines that this Federal election campaign is ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 10:55am PDT
textRising Tide Announces 4 New Campaigns - Time to get involved! by Rising Tide North America (list)
Greetings from Rising Tide North America! It's been a while since you've heard from us. Thanks for being patient as our all volunteer collective grows and learns more about the best ways to keep in touch with our friends, supporters and allies. We've had a very intense and busy last few months. We are hatching some exciting plans for the coming year and wanted to share them with you! This is our new newsletter format, let us know what you think......
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 11:28am PDT
imageScientists say Ocean Acidity Increasing at Faster Rate
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by Takver - Sydney Indymedia
Ocean acidity is increasing at a much faster pace according to marine scientists meeting in Australia's capital, Canberra, at the Coral Reef Futures 07 Forum, October 18-19, 2007. "It appears this acidification is now taking place over decades, rather than centuries as originally predicted. It is happening even faster in the cooler waters of the Southern Ocean than in the tropics. It is starting to look like a very serious issue." said Professor Malcolm McCulloch of the Centre of Excellence f...
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 7:44pm PDT
textBCA E-Alert October 2007 by Breast Cancer Action
Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert-- a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members! If you think you've been added by mistake, please follow the directions at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 12:51pm PDT
text1K High Temp Records Broken in Sept. by reposted
[Highlights of Sept. NCDC report] Last month's combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the fifth warmest September on record and the global ocean surface temperature was the second warmest since records began in 1880....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 9:41am PDT
text5,000 protest nuclear waste dumping in north Germany by Diet Simon
In north Germany more than 5,000 people (police say 2,000) took part on Saturday 13 October in a demonstration against a planned final nuclear dump in the former Schacht KONRAD iron ore mine in Salzgitter. The demo was called by an action coalition of environment groups, trade unions and initiatives....
Posted: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 7:35pm PDT
textJeffrey Luers Has Been Moved by Friends of Jeffrey Free Luers
Jeffrey Luers has been moved from OSP to Lane County Jail in expectation of his re-sentencing hearing(s)....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 3:29pm PDT
imageFederal Judge Restores Endangered Species Act Protections for Oregon Coast Coho Salmon
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by Dan Bacher
In yet another sordid example of how the Bush administration has used flawed science, a federal judge in a lawsuit by Earthjustice, Trout Unlimited, Pacific Rivers Council and the PCFFA declared as illegal the administration's decision to strip away endangered species protections for Oregon coast coho salmon....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 5:29pm PDT
textU.S. Gold Mining Company Geocom to Strip Mine the Chilean Patagonia by Charles Spencer
The international Gold mining company Geocom Resources, along with Kinross Gold Corp., both United States based companies are quietly buying up the mineral rights to the Espolon Valley in the heart of the Chilean Patagonia totaling over 91,000 hectares (353 square miles), with over 318 claims in the region X....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 9:46am PDT
textAl Gore, UN Climate Change Panel Share Nobel Peace Prize by via Democracy Now
Friday, October 12, 2007 : Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to raise awareness on global warning. We get reaction from Guardian columnist and leading environmental campaigner George Monbiot....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:36am PDT
textChinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam "disaster" by wsws (reposted)
Friday, October 12, 2007 :After hailing the huge Three Gorges Dam for years as a major national achievement, the Chinese government has admitted for the first time that the project could be a disastrous failure with damaging environmental consequences. The about-face is not a revision of Beijing’s promotion of the unfettered operation of capitalist market....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:01am PDT
imageClimate Change: Arctic Sea Ice Heading for Rapid Disintegration
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by Takver - Sydney Indymedia
Arctic summer sea ice is headed towards rapid disintegration as early as 2013, a century ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections, according to 'the Big Melt' (PDF), a new review of recent scientific literature on climate change produced by www.carbonequity.info. We have gone past the tipping point for Arctic sea ice and now we watch the disintegration of the Greenland and the West Antarctic ice sheets which will result in catastrophic changes in sea level of 5 me...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 8:29am PDT
textStop Unregulated Solid Waste Transfer Stations by Suzanne Sullivan
This letter/article is urging congress, President Bush and the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Subcommittee Chairwoman -- Corrine Brown (D-Fla) to close the loophole in the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA), allowing unregulated solid waste transfer stations to operate simply because they propose to locate along railroads. The American people need to send a strong message to our elected officials that this threat to human health and ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 5:31am PDT
textMy visit with Daniel by friends of Daniel
Hello friends, It’s been a while since a proper update has gone out, so I wanted to use this opportunity to tell everyone about my visit with Daniel last weekend. Since many people reading this have never visited a prisoner, I thought it would be helpful to also provide an account of my experience doing so. Over the past 2 years, I have gone to see Daniel at county jail (in Eugene) and at a detention center (in Brooklyn), but this was the first time I had been to a prison, or what is offic...
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 2:07pm PDT
textURENCO’s rush to keep dumping uranium waste in Russia by SOFA Münster, translated by Diet Simon
A German anti-nuclear group says the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium, URENCO, is frantically seeking German and Dutch transport licenses to send waste to an open-air dump in Russia before Russia stops the dumping at the latest in 2009....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 12:00am PDT
textThe Making of a Climate Movement by NAM (reposted)
Originally From New America Media Saturday, October 6, 2007 : Public awareness of the climate crisis has grown enormously in the United States over the past two years, but the government's response lags far behind. Now, however, Washington's sluggish pace is calling forth a surge of activism aimed at persuading the next President and Congress to be far bolder--to advocate and deliver solutions as big as the problem....
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 9:53am PDT
imageBring the Pacific Fisher Back to Washington's Wildlands
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by CN repo
Fishers are small, reclusive members of the weasel family that were trapped to near extinction at the turn of the century. Despite a 2004 feasibility study that found abundant prey and denning habitat in the park, fisher haven't been documented on the Olympic Peninsula since 1969. Fisher biologists have determined that reintroduction is the best option for restoring fisher to Washington, and the Olympic National Park has now completed its review of a reintroduction plan. Image from PBI vi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:24pm PDT
textActivist Ted Glick on 32nd Day of “Climate Emergency Fast” to Protest Washington Inaction on Global Warming by via Democracy Now
Friday, October 5, 2007 : Ted Glick is the coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council. He is on the 32nd day of a fast to protest the failure of lawmakers in Washington to address climate change....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:48am PDT
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