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documentLawsuit Launched Over U.S. Delay on Petition to Phase Out Oil Drilling on Public Lands
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by Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2023 — Conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department for failing to respond to a petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 9:33pm PDT
image12th Annual Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference returns to Atlanta, Georgia
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
Everyone is welcome to join us in Atlanta, Georgia August 10-14, 2023 in Downtown Atlanta Olympic Village, Morris Brown College and key Agriculture locations....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 9:29pm PDT
imageCourt: U.S. Failure to Protect Pacific Humpbacks From Deadly Entanglements Was Unlawful
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by Center for Biological Diversity
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2023 — A federal court ruled in favor of the Center for Biological Diversity yesterday in a lawsuit arguing that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to protect endangered Pacific humpback whales from deadly entanglements in sablefish pot gear off California, Oregon and Washington....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 9:29pm PDT
imageLithium Americas and Biden Violating Sacred: Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium
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by Brenda Norrell
Breaking News: "I cried seeing this yesterday," said Dorece Sam, Fort McDermitt Paiute, seeing the destruction of the earth on the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass for a lithium mine, in northern Nevada. "To see this shattered my heart," Sam said of the violation of the sacred. "There are no cultural monitors."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 12:27pm PDT
imageColombia_Río Sogamoso de Santander: ¡Aguas para la vida…!
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by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Colombia_Río Sogamoso de Santander: ¡Aguas para la vida…!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 10:04am PDT
imageNevada Bill Would Let State Wildlife Agency Conserve Monarchs, Other Pollinators
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by Center for Biological Diversity
RENO, Nev., March 13, 2023 — Nevada’s Assembly Natural Resources Committee will consider a bill today that would give the state’s Department of Wildlife authority to manage pollinators and other insects that need conservation....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2023 9:05am PDT
textNLG Condemns "Stop Cop City" Music Festival Arrests in Atlanta by National Lawyers Guild
Law enforcement detained at least 35 people in Atlanta on Sunday, March 5, at a solidarity music festival over a mile away from the Cop City construction site....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 3:56pm PST
imageThe Fukushima Catastrophe Continues 12 Years After The Meltdowns
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by Labor Video Project
March 11 is the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and meltdown of three reactors. The disaster continues and the melted nuclear rods still remain in the broken reactors and have to be cooled by water which then becomes radiated. Two activists talk about the present situation after 12 years....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 7:58pm PST
textPutin’s war has caused oil industry price gouging, EOPA officials call for it to stop by Ramon du Houx
Elected officials say to protect the world we need to accelerate the transition off of fossil fuels to end our dangerous dependency. They want to end the price gouging on gas caused by the oil industry using the war in Ukriane as an excues to raise prices...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2023 5:41pm PST
imageThe NTSC, E.Palestine Railroad Wreck, Rail Safety & Nationalization With RWU's Hugh Sawyer
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by Labor Video Project
WorkWeek looks at the NTSB report on the toxic railway wreck in East Palestine and the causes of it with railroad engineer Hugh Sawyer who is with Railroad Workers United. He reports on the systemic issues that have led to this and many other derailments, the dangers that the East Palestine community are faced with and the need for nationalization of the railroads....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:02pm PST
imageThree Tribes File New Lawsuit Challenging Thacker Pass Lithium Mine
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by Protect Thacker Pass
Late yesterday, three Native American Tribes — the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Summit Lake Paiute Tribe — launched a major new lawsuit against the Thacker Pass lithium mine. This new case contains major allegations that were not heard in the prior court case, and may be a significant roadblock for the mine....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:29pm PST
imageGreenpeace occupation of Shell Oil Platform Ends with no Arrests
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by INDYRADIO
Shell Oil wants US$130,000 for the use of their drilling platform by Greenpeace: Press release includes occupation timeline....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2023 5:25pm PST
imageFederal Judge Approves Lithium Mine on Paiute Massacre Site and Thacker Pass
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by Brenda Norrell
A federal judge ruled that Lithium Americas, based in Vancouver, Canada, can proceed with a vast lithium mine at the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Protecting the sacred, Paiute said the fight is not over. Lithium mining for electric car batteries is greenwashing for the corporate and U.S. agenda. It's the new bandwagon with a hidden agenda for corporate dollars and greed, violating the sacred....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2023 9:02am PST
textThe right to water and 7 challenges to the welfare state by B Schusta, S Wixforth & S Pirklbauer
Visions need concrete, tangible measures that provide security in times of uncertainty and reliably carry all people through the huge changes. The sooner the challenges to the welfare state are recognized and addressed, the sooner the indispensable ecological transformation will also become a social one....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2023 11:13am PST
imageColombia: Asamblea de Liberación de la Madre Tierra en conversa con Raúl Zibechi
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by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Colombia_Cauca: Asamblea de Liberación de la Madre Tierra en conversa con Raúl Zibechi...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2023 8:24am PST
textOil Industry Seeks Supreme Court Review of California Offshore Fracking Ban by Center for Biological Diversity
9th Circuit Refused Previous Request, Upheld Lower Court Decision...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2023 11:38am PST
imageDriver of Truck Killing Paiute Journalist Myron Dewey Seeks Plea Deal
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by Brenda Norrell
The driver of the truck that killed Paiute journalist Myron Dewey is seeking a plea deal, Myron's daughter Taylor Dewey said following a pre-trial hearing at Tonopah Justice Court in Nye County, Nevada. Myron was killed when John David Walsh of Reno pulled into his lane on an isolated dirt road near his family's home in Yomba, Nevada on Sept. 26, 2021. The day before, Myron live streamed from the Fallon bombing range, opposing its expansion, and urged protection of the Paiute Massacre Site at...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2023 9:01am PST
imageToday is Joye Braun Day -- We Remember the Lakota Pipeline Fighter: In Her Own Words
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by Brenda Norrell
Today is Joye Braun Day, Lakota mother and activist of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation in South Dakota. We remember Joye, in her own words, from stopping mega loads, protesting the KXL pipeline, and ultimately setting up the first tipi at the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2023 7:54am PST
textCalifornia's record high gas prices have set the stage for showdown with oil companies and by Hank Greenberg
On November 19th, Californians paid $5.30 per gallon of gasoline, while Texans paid $3.02. Stopping this price gouging with a windfall profit cap has become a priority of the governor. If Gov. Newsom can pass a windfall profits cap, it will be viewed as a major victory over the California oil industry. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s official plan to combat these high prices was introduced by State Senator Nancy Skinner, on the day the legislature reconvened to swear in members, Decembe...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2023 4:04pm PST
imageArgentina: Represión para el saqueo de los bienes comunes
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by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Argentina: Represión para el saqueo de los bienes comunes Brutal agresión policial en San Nicolás: NO a la impunidad! Red Latina sin fronteras Enero 7 del 2023...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2023 3:58am PST
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