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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…

Migrant Rights are Human Rights!

    Amsterdam, December 18, 2015   The movement of people across borders, especially into Europe, has been unprecedented in the second half of 2015. European governments as well as the EU Council have failed to address the humanitarian crisis…

COP21- VIDEOS: indigenous resistance

  International Rights of Nature Tribunal, Paris 5th Dec. 2015 – Fossil fuel extraction- presentations in English and Spanish The third International Rights of Nature Tribunal was held concurrently with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21) in…