Tag: Canada
Climate justice and Indigenous rights advocates rally in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en...
Solidarity actions took the form of rallies and protests at government buildings in Canada as well as in the United States.
Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion approved by Canadian Court despite indigenous peoples...
“Canada has bulldozered a pathway forward on this unsustainable project that is in no way honorable, in the interest of the public, or aligned with its commitment to implement federal legislation on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation
“The remaining lungs of the earth need to be respected. Those that work to protect those lungs deserve the same respect.”
Police were ready to shoot indigenous pipeline protesters in Canada, documents...
The protesters' lawyer Martin Peters said the police had acted as “security guards” for the company.
The story behind the world’s first private refugee sponsorship program
“There are seven countries right now designing programs based on what they’ve learned about ours.”
27 youth climate activists arrested for Canadian parliament sit-in demanding Green...
"Climate change is impacting us now, so we're acting now and we expect our politicians to do the same."
‘People are dying’: Bernie Sanders heads to Canada with an insulin...
"We are going to end pharma’s greed."
Massive resistance means the Trans Mountain Pipeline fight rages on
"People across British Columbia do not want this pipeline built and will make sure it isn't."
Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill banning whale and dolphin captivity
"Today is a really good day for animals in Canada."
Canada announces plan to ban single-use plastics
“As early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful single-use plastics from coast to coast.”
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A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
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From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.
Iranian American scholars denounce US-Israeli attack, warn regime change efforts will backfire
Far from leading to a popular uprising against the government, as President Trump has encouraged, the U.S.-Israeli attacks have forced Iranians to worry about their immediate safety from the bombs.