Tag: Environment

As Canadian mining giant Goldcorp closes its Marlin mine, it’s walking away from fears of chemical contamination and deep social rifts in the once tight-knit Indigenous communities of rural Guatemala.

Amid neoliberal government policies, rampant climate change, and corporate land grabbing, the National Farmers Union continues to fight for sustainability, income security, and farmers’ dignity.

Canadian capital stands to benefit from the fraudulent election of a far right-wing government that has brought down the full force of the military on Hondurans – particularly on activists like Berta Cáceres.

Protesters of the Site C dam in the Peace River Valley are facing a civil suit from both BC Hydro and the B.C. government.

The largest contemporary Indigenous art exhibition in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s history, INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE is framed as an act of rebellion and a revitalization of Indigenous culture that challenges dominant Western methods of artmaking and presentation.

Do we have a problem imagining carbon neutrality?

An interview with activist Alyssa Symons-Belanger after her release from arrest.

The film Flin Flon Flim Flam documents a bloody and violent trail of HudBay’s resource extraction practices.

The liberalization of China’s economy has widened the gap between rich and poor, rendering clean air and clean water a privatized luxury.

Fort Chip is but one northern Albertan community resisting the toxicity and displacement wrought by the oil industry.

The cultural prevalence of the #liveauthentic trend is lining pockets and rewriting history.

David Gray-Donald speaks to one of the activists who was involved in shutting down Line 9 at the Quebec–Ontario border on December 7, 2015.

How are the devastating effects of climate crises in Cuba managed by female farmers?

An activist’s first-hand account of shutting down Line 9.

Bonus video feature for Joshua Campbell’s story, “A Very Fertile Occupation.”

A Canadian fertilizer giant and the Saharawi people.

According to a federal inventory, the vast majority of Manitoba’s most highly contaminated sites are in First Nations communities.

The Unist’ot’en continue to square off with pipeline companies and the RCMP.

Maude Barlow stresses the need for broad mobilization from below in addition to voting to defeat the Harper government this fall.

A planned megaproject that would dwarf the Panama Canal and split Nicaragua in two reveals much about both the Ortega regime and global capitalism today.