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Solidarity Action “Justice for Berta Cáceres”

    Solidarity Action    Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity     Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and spokesperson for more than 20 years of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Cívico…

Press Conference in Geneva at the UNHRC

  The Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity & for Peoples Sovereignty, an international coalition of more than 200 organisations, social movements and networks convenes to a: PRESS CONFERENCE Thursday 10th March 2016 12.30 pm Place des…

Disputed Coca-Cola Plant Shut Down in Kala Dera, India

Disputed Coca-Cola Plant Shut Down in Kala Dera, India Deteriorated Groundwater Conditions Lead to Closure   For Immediate Release February 10, 2016  San Francisco:  The Coca-Cola company has stopped production at its disputed bottling plant in Kala Dera in Jaipur,…

In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy

  Janet Redman: Foreign Policy in Focus   A Canadian oil conglomerate is suing the U.S. over its actions to protect the climate. It’s a small taste of what could come under the TPP.   A few years back, I was…

Sign PTP, a setback for Canada

      Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, January 29, 2016 – Following the agreement in principle of a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), announced on 5 October after more than five years of secret negotiations, now behold the ministers of the 12 countries of…

State of Power 2016

  TNI’s fifth annual State of Power 2016 report explores the intersect of power and democracy. Featuring prominent activists and academics, its essays feature the long battle between economic power and popular democracy, expose the different powers seeking to undermine…

Not a minute of silence, but a lifetime of struggles

    Note of the Movement of People Affected by Dams, MAB, on the case of disappearance of Nilce Souza Magalhães, MAB leadership in Rondonia.         Until this moment, the investigation being conducted by the civil police…

The marketing behind poisoning people

  by Diana Aguiar (FASE), Alessandra Cardoso (INESC), and Marcela Vecchione (NAEA/UFPA).    In the airport of Belém in the Amazonian state of Pará, Brazil, an advertisement of the French company Imerys states, “Where you least expect it. Kaolin is…