The Peruvian Congress approved a packet of laws on July 3 which critics say subjects the country to neoliberal reforms that threaten to undermine environmental and labor protections and…
The Conservative government’s decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline is the greatest threat to national unity since the Quebec crisis in 1995. It is reminiscent of Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program of 1980, except in that case the program…
Hundreds of survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster burned effigies of two Olympics officials Friday to protest Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the London Games. The protests were on the eve of the 27th anniversary of the disaster in…
Why did the FBI detain and question a 62-year-old British environmentalist upon his arrival at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport? The bureau won’t say, and the activist, who was subsequently shipped back to London, never got a…
More than 5,000 Afro-Colombians blocked roads between the western department of Choco and the interior of Colombia Tuesday to protest the aerial spraying of coca fields with pesticides. The illegal harvests are sprayed from the air with glyphosate, a…
During the constituent process of 2008, Ecuador’s social movements successfully introduced essential guarantees of certain rights for the transformation towards a fairer society and at the same time, in harmony with nature. The new Constitution makes significant progress: recognizing…
What does the region of Ardeche, known for its bucolic medieval villages in southern France, have to do with the Bolivian Amazon? Not the wine, that’s for sure. Not much, in fact, except that both places are mobilising against…
Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid a national furore over the way opposition to the road has been handled. On Sunday police fired tear gas and rounded up hundreds of…
As leaders from two of the world’s largest financial institutions, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, met for annual meetings here Tuesday, a delegation of activists from India called on the World Bank to follow through with…
‘What makes civil disobedience compelling and a cause for the general public to reflect on is the courage of the individual to follow his or her conscience over the law…’: Bruce Cox, executive director of Greenpeace Canada. Forty…
