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, …
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 …
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 …