This week 20 Amazon Indians walked to the Belo Monte dam site to demand the company keep its promises to compensate indigenous communities. Police shot them with 'rubber bullets' and stun grenades, wounding four. Tensions are rising ...
… Brazil: Amazon Indians shot at Belo Monte dam site … 30th May 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Brazil Amazon Water Energy Corporations … belo-monte-blockade-cut.jpg This week 20 Amazon Indians walked to the Belo Monte dam …
Peru, notorious for its brutal exploitation of forests, oil and minerals, theft of indigenous lands and murder of eco-defenders, is an unlikely host for the COP20 climate talks, writes Alexander Reid Ross. Except that Peru's actions reflect the corporate land-grabbing agenda manifest in the false solutions on offer in Lima this week. It's a time for resistance, not compromise!
… protestors from Saweto in the Peruvian Amazon protest at ongoing land grabs and … of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin recently stated: "We are outraged …
The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Texas has ejected two indigenous men from Ecuador and rejected their 'gift' of posters showing rainforest oil pollution. Chevron was holding its annual general meeting at the museum.
… representatives from the Ecuadorian Amazon travelled to the Permian Basin …
Sarawak's lucrative logging industry has given rise to dynasties of enormous wealth and political power, writes Chris Lang, as revealed in this courageous investigation by Lukas Straumann. And the kingpin is multi-billionaire Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak for 33 years, whose whose property empire spans the globe.
… Malaysian loggers. "The book is available on Amazon and the book's website, …
Following The Ecologist's revelation about Ecover's use of synthetic biology to make laundry detergent, the company has put its trials on hold, writes Jim Thomas. But to regain public trust, the company must re-engage honestly with its critics, and its customers.
… indirectly drives destruction in the Amazon and Cerrado region. Under Bonsucro, …
Heathcote Williams remembers India's great campaigner Professor Nanjunda's whose direct actions against Monsanto, KFC, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and the WTO inspired a nation and created an unstoppable movement of 10 million ...
… corporate cash tills. As Cargill deforest the Amazon to grow animal feed for fast food And …