Namibia’s Uranium Rush
Uranium mining companies have been exploring the arid country of Namibia looking to open new mines. Rössing, a Rio Tinto mine has already been operational for more than 30 years. The implications this mine and future operations is explored from the perspective of the communities living nearby [EJOLT] Marta Conde, a PhD candidate at ICTA-UAB and coordinator of EJOLT’s work on nuclear energy, investigates social movements and resistance...
Environmentalists and workers of the world, unite!
The conflict between labor and the environment is a neoliberal construct. What we need is a broad coalition that can fundamentally transform production. by {Stefania Barca}* on [roarmag.org] Nowadays it sounds so familiar, almost natural: the mutually exclusive demands and apparently opposing agendas of labor and the environmentalist movement. But in fact, this artificial division is nothing more than a crucial neoliberal strategy to...
FânFest is the biggest multi-art activist festival in Romania which started with a community’s struggle to protect their land and inspired a generation.
9 years ago a small seed was planted in Rosia Montana: can music spark a revolution? FânFest is the biggest multi-art activist festival in Romania. [indiegogo] It started with the battle to stop the largest gold mine in Europe and grew to be the epicenter of one of the biggest civil and environmental movements in Eastern Europe. This tiny village in the Apuseni Mountains in Transylvania has captured the imagination and hearts of...
¡Chao HidroAysén!
It’s not every day we celebrate a victory as significant and hard-won as today’s triumph in the eight-year campaign to protect Chilean Patagonia from the destructive HidroAysén dam project! by {Emily Jovais} on [ International Rivers] 6 June 2014 This morning, Chile’s highest administrative authority – the Committee of Ministers – made a unanimous decision to overturn the environmental permits for the controversial five...
Ecuadorian Government Seeks to Quash Legitimate Yasuní Referendum
The people have spoken The world is watching. Let them vote! The 22nd May is the International Day for Biological Diversity; this valuable diversity is the reserve through which terrestrial organisms were able to differentiate themselves, thus allowing the evolution of species. The National Park of Yasuni (Ecuador) has the highest number of tree, insect, birds, and mammal species per hectare on the planet, however this vital reserve...
May 21st, International Anti-Chevron Day
We invite you to unite in a joint statement rejecting the poor operational and corporate practices of Chevron, and to participate in a global day of action scheduled for May 21st that is called the “International Anti-Chevron Day” By Leah Temper on [EJOLT On the international day of action against Chevron we would like to highlight a call for Signatures from the Anti Chevron campaign and a global map of conflicts caused by Chevron...
