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Posts Tagged ‘activist’
Uncategorized, Sep 26th, 2011,
Throat cancer has claimed the life of one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s luminaries of environmental and human rights activism. Wangari Maathai, Kenya’s founder of the Green Belt Movement, has died from throat cancer at the age of 71. The Green Belt Movement combined ecological causes with social justice issues and planted 20-30 million trees on the African continent. In 2004 Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism on behalf of the environment, women’s rights and political transparency. She also served as a government minister and Member of Parliament in her…
Tags: activist, Africa, Kenya, Wangari Maathai
Conservation, Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 28th, 2010,
Last night marked the premier of an awesome new series on Animal Planet, starring none other than Ric O’Barry and his son, Lincoln. Sound familiar? Well, they should. O’Barry was the lead activist in the award-winning film, The Cove, and he and his son are continuing their mission to save the dolphins. The new three-part series, Blood Dolphins, will be following the O’Barrys on their campaign to help the dolphins. Last night’s premier was about their return to Taiji (where The Cove was filmed)—right at the start of the dolphin season. However, a covert investigation of the cove suggested that…
Tags: activist, Animal Planet, award-winning documentary, Blood Dolphins, dolphin hunts, dolphin slaughter, japan, new tv series, Ric O'Barry, save the dolphins, Taiji, The Cove
Conservation, Politics, Aug 26th, 2010,
Environmental activists have been fighting to save Russia’s Khimki forest from plans to build a federal highway through it. On Sunday a rock concert in protest of the highway plans was held in Moscow, attracting some 2,000 people. Police prevented sound equipment from entering the concert area, but well-known Russian rock singer and political critic Yuri Shevchuk performed songs without amplification. From an AFP article: While the demonstration on Pushkin Square against the construction of the road had been sanctioned by the Moscow authorities, they had explicitly banned the holding of a concert. The protest combined environmental activism, anti-government sentiment…
Tags: activist, concert, forest, highway, Khimki, Moscow, protest, Pushkin, rock, Shevchuk, square
Climate Change, Politics, Aug 22nd, 2010,
In a bit of ‘News of the Weird’ meets environmental activism, a protester glued herself to a desk in the Royal Band of Scotland’s headquarters on Friday. Hundreds of activists have been holding a Climate Camp outside of RBS headquarters, near Edinburgh Scotland in protest of the bank’s loans to fossil fuel companies, thereby facilitating climate change or ‘climate chaos’. From a Press Association report: The activist managed to enter RBS by dressing like a businessperson – as opposed to an eco warrior – and thereafter glued her hands to a desk with super-glue. She was arrested after paramedics helped…
Tags: activist, bank, camp, change, chaos, climate, glue, headquarters, protest, protester, RBS, Royal, Scotland
Climate Change, Politics, Jul 28th, 2010,
Cap and trade or emissions trading schemes can be confusing. They have been touted as the chief market-based solution for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, preserving valuable natural resources like forests, while making money for rich and poor countries alike. The far right and climate change skeptics hate them for obvious – and sometimes less obvious – reasons: they hate government meddling in the free market and regulating business and industry to the point that they believe in a vast ‘socialist’ conspiracy involving all prominent climate scientists. Or is it just a simple question of which class and which industries will…
Tags: activist, cap and trade, carbon, change, China, climate, copenhagen, Decodcidio, emissions, environmentalist, European, exchange, hacked, justice, market, scheme, social, trading
Conservation, Pollution, Jul 27th, 2010,
Mining giant Vedanta Resources will be having its annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday in London, where the company is headquartered. But this year, shareholders will be met by a well-publicized protest. Activist groups including Amnesty International have consistently criticized Vedanta for human rights violations and poor environmental practices, particularly in the Indian state of Orissa. From an article in the Observer: […] a damning Amnesty report criticised Vedanta’s record in Orissa, where it runs an alumina refinery at the foot of the Niyamgiri hills, alleging river pollution and damage to crops. The hills are home to around 8,000 Dongria Kondh…
Tags: activist, Amnesty, Avatar, Dongria, India, international, Kondh, london, Na’vi, Niyamgiri, Orissa, protest, shareholders, Vedanta
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Jun 15th, 2010,
Last week Queensland Alumina Limited was fined $90 thousand Australian (78k USD/63k euros) for an industrial incident that released caustic vapors within 6 km of their Gladstone alumina refinery last year. The company pleaded guilty to the charge of causing serious environmental harm. According to a report by ABC News Australia, the main section of the refinery had not been inspected or maintained for up to 30 years. Another Australian aluminum facility, the Rio Tinto Alcan bauxite and alumina mine east of Darwin, is being investigated by the Northern Territory department of resources due to a fuel leak of 70,000…
Tags: activist, alumina, aluminium, aluminum, australia, Australian, bauxite, Bianca, environmental, human, Jagger, mine, Orissa, tribes, Vedanta
Climate Change, Dec 30th, 2009,
In order to bring more attention to the issue of climate change and the urgency of climate action, several activists participated in a long-term hunger strike, with many more across the globe joining in for shorter fasts. The fast lasted 43-44 days and ended when the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen ended. Although an idea that may seem a bit shocking to some – myself included – fasting or taking part in hunger strikes is a form of civil disobedience and social activism with strong and historic roots stretching back to ancient India and pre-Christian Ireland. Famous hunger strikers…
Tags: activist, Climate change, climate justice, climate justice fast, copenhagen, fast, hunger strike
Nature, Politics, Oct 9th, 2009,
Fighting to save the environment almost always guarantees that death will be involved somewhere; the question is: Whose? Amazon Indians were battling police on Wednesday, in a protest against laws they believed would encourage mining and oil drilling on their lands. Taking place on the Upano River in Ecuador’s southeastern Morona Santiago jungle province, this brutal encounter killed 1 Indian and 2 civilians; and left 9 other Indians and 40 police wounded. According to Ecuador’s Amazon Indian federation, CONFENAIE, the 2 civilians who were killed were actually Shuar Indians. Amazon Indians fear that President Rafael Correa will bring ruin to…
Tags: activist, amazon rainforest, Ecuador, Indians
