Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
… Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 … many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. … but I did not have any information. So they tortured me brutally for three days. Before …
Elephants are sublime creatures. But in Thailand they are forced to undergo Phajaan, the breaking of the spirit of the elephant - so that they will submit to the wishes of tourists. BELLA LACK, an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, is exposing this cruel practice
… Tourism and the torture of our sublime elephants Bella Lack | … that they are resistant to any man-inflicted torture, this is completely untrue. Sick …
The European Investment Bank’s (EIB) board granted it’s biggest ever investment this week, a £1.3 billion loan for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). This contentious grant has been attacked by those fighting for democracy and climate justice. KATIE HODGETTS dissects 2018’s most controversial decision…
… fuel use is slamming shut. Corruption and torture "The banks’s biggest ever investment … is marred by allegations of corruption and torture. Planning for failure On top of this, …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… happens a lot. PL has killed the tree and tortured the tree-sitters for no financial … logging across Guerrero, was arrested, tortured and sentenced to eight years in jail …
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story.
… that describes both Haiti’s landscape and its tortured history. The recent political …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… creatures being starved, choked, enmeshed and tortured by plastic waste. It also had an …
The Flemish highways agency this week admitted it was cutting down trees to stop migrants hiding behind them. NICK MEYNEN argues that the story is a perfect illustration of tunnel vision applied in and beyond Belgium
… and handed over to the Sudanese police to be tortured. Francken uses language that was last …
Indigenous communities are dedicating themselves to protecting the land, ecosystems, and traditional cultures with thousands of years of history. In Canada, Lush Spring Prize 2017 winner Indigenous Climate Action is supporting some of those communities. Lush Times writer KATIE DANCEY-DOWNS visits Indigenous Climate Action to find out more.
… we speak to all say they experienced years of torture and abuse: verbal, physical, and …
Fakenomics: When free-marketeer, Friedrich von Hayek, died in 1992 he left a legacy of neoliberal think tanks that would work against climate change. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… General Augusto Pinochet , whose death squads tortured and murdered thousands of citizens …
Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva - Brazil’s former president - has been imprisoned for corruption. International legal experts have condemned Lula’s incarceration as unlawful and unconstitutional. LUCIA ORTIZ from Friends of the Earth Brazil argues the corruption claims are trumped up as part of a right wing attack on human rights and grassroots movements
… coup, in which thousands of activists were tortured, disappeared and murdered, and …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… of people being jailed, disappearing, being tortured and killed. That trip, those people …
Does the fight for social justice include animal liberation? Municipalist organizing can build a transformative future for all creatures.
Animal liberation from below: toward a radical interspecies municipalism The Symbiosis Research Collective | 6th August 2018 Comment Animal Rights Radical Municipalism Climate Change …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
… using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten labour leaders in …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
Blackout Britain Mark Townsend | 1st June 2004 News Nuclear Power Stations Blackouts Electricity Gas Energy Alternatives Nuclear Carbon Dioxide Solar Wind Energy Politics And Economics Within two …