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 ! —-…
Solidarity Statement from THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN DISMANTLE CORPORATE POWER AND STOP IMPUNITY We support Mexican indigenous communities who are resisting the construction of another wind farm on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. We express…
This was a workshop organized by the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network, Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, Focus on the Global South, Seattle-to-Brussels Network (S2B), Transnational Institute (TNI), Indonesia for Global Justice, Ecologistas en Acción, SOMO, War on Want and…
As the presidential candidates were prepping for their fiery debate last week, Huffington Post broke a story linking Mitt Romney’s pre-Bain Capital consulting company, Bain & Co., to Big Tobacco’s expansion in Russia. The tobacco epidemic currently devastating Russia, which Prime Minister…
Is it not time for a more systemic approach and campaign to dismantle TNC power, end corporate impunity, and put people and nature before profits? Political Context As the main agents of neoliberal globalisation, TNCs have sought…