Ecuador’s new mining and energy law puts the Galapagos Islands at risk
The new mining law contradicts what the Ecuadorian people expressed in recent referendums, but the government decided to push ahead with radical mining exploitation and energy privatization anyway. The decision sparked protests in Quito.
Local communities in Croatia oppose mega-farm project
Thousands of people protested against plans to build poultry mega-farms in Croatia, warning of health and environmental concerns.
Colonial mining fuels Israeli genocide: global protests target Glencore
Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.
Miners in Georgia rally against corporate exploitation
Miners and residents of Chiatura, Georgia, are rising up against Georgian Manganese, demanding solutions to the community’s socioeconomic and environmental crisis
Colombia hosts COP16 on biodiversity and condemns capitalist devastation
The international UN conference on biodiversity attempts to achieve key agreements, and fulfill prior ones, for the protection and conservation of the earth.
Why lithium power politics are playing out very differently in Chile and Bolivia
The people of Bolivia and Chile imagine a different kind of extraction: one that is controlled by those who live by the resources and one that does not destroy the earth.
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