Interview with Milton Carrera from the Resistance in San José del Golfo, Near Guatemala City Descargar: MP3 (1.1 MB) Just 28 kilometers from Guatemala City, between the towns of San José del Golfo and San Pedro de Ayanpuc the peasant communities are…
Massmart now has 384 operational stores in 12 African countries. As a subsidiary of the retail giant Walmart it is part of a network of 10 524 operations around the world. The Massmart / Walmart head office is in Johannesburg…
Friends of the Earth visits the Canadian Embassy to protest Pac Rim gold mine fiasco On Monday, November 12, I joined representatives of several environmental and public interest groups gathered in front of the grandiose and distinctly odd Canadian Embassy,…
Coca-Cola Philippines is systematically replacing regular jobs with contractual workers. Apart from promoting early retirement programs and replacing its senior workers with contractual employees, the company is also aggressively outsourcing many of its regular jobs. More insidiously, Coca-Cola imposed a…
Building solidarity and strengthening our struggles to address the economic and climate crisis in the fight to change the system Last September 17, 2012, in an inspiring expression of solidarity from the South to the North, more than 35 social…
Friends of the Earth visits the Canadian Embassy to protest Pac Rim gold mine fiasco On Monday, November 12, I joined representatives of several environmental and public interest groups gathered in front of the grandiose and distinctly odd Canadian Embassy,…
ASEAN peoples push for corporate accountability in ASEAN: Make ASEAN work for the people and not for big corporations? In the face of the looming economic integration of the ASEAN member-economies in 2015 and the widespread concerns on practices of…
Guatemala, El Salvador / November 2012. Real World Radio will cover this tour organized by Friends of the Earth International, whose main goal is to bring light to the social, environmental, cultural, political and economic impacts that the mining extractive…
Friends of the Earth International commemorates Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death on November 10 as a day of solidarity with victims of mining, oil and gas activities around the world and a celebration of all the activists who continue to resist. Sixteen…
Rockaway resident Christine Walker walks along the beach under what is left of the boardwalk in the borough of Queens, New York, Monday, November 5, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) Less than three days after…
In recent weeks Ecuadorian authorities and civil society have been hit with a worrying piece of news. The Ecuadorian state has been ordered to pay $ 1.7 billion plus interest to the U.S. Company Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) for having…
Facing the evictions: Demonstration of reoccupation ! To rebuild – against the airport! Pitchforks, wooden beams, planks, nails and tools in hand… Meeting Saturday November 17th in the morning. —-Facing the evictions: Demonstration of reoccupation ! —-…