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Gulf Coast activists tell 'Big Green' quit exploiting disasters for financial gain
2016-07-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ColorLines: In a new open letter, a group of 11 Gulf Coast environmental justice activists are demanding "respect and solidarity" from national "Big Green" organizations that they accuse of exploiting their local disasters for financial gain and treating poor people of color as "poster children for environmental injustice." The activists, who hail from EJ groups including 350 Louisiana, Houstonians Against Tar Sands and Radical Arts & Healing Collective, published the letter on a New Orleans website June...
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Record number of environmental activists murdered in 2015
2016-06-20 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Change News: Dionel Campos was publicly executed on 1 September 2015. Leader of the Manobo tribe in the Philippines, he had opposed large scale mining and logging on his people`s traditional lands. After the deadly attack on him and two others, Bello Sinzo and Emerito Samarca, 3,000 of his community fled their homes. We get threatened, vilified and killed for standing up to the mining companies on our land and the paramilitaries that protect them, said Michelle Campos, his daughter. We know the...
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Australia: Wentworth activists GetUp to mischief Malcolm Turnbull election posters
2016-06-19 10:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: While the ordinary voters of Wentworth sheltered from the rain on Sunday afternoon, a small group of activists set out on a stealthy campaign against their local member, the prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. Dubbed the guerilla street nannas by GetUp climate campaign director, Sam Regester, the group, mostly comprised of women in their 60s, braved the weather to check on their latest endeavour: a set of corflute signs showing the torso of a man in a business suit crossing his fingers. More...
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Great Barrier Reef authority says media, not activists, misinterpreting the data
2016-06-04 07:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, has played down a report that said he accused activist scientists and lobby groups of distorting maps and data to misrepresent the extent of coral bleaching on the reef. The authority withdrew from a joint announcement from the national coral bleaching taskforce about the extent of coral bleaching earlier in the week because Reichtel believed maps accompanying the research did not depict the full picture. The taskforce...
Activists wanted to clean up a coal ash dump. Dump sued activists for complaining
2016-06-03 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Four residents of a tiny Alabama town are fighting back against a giant landfill operator after the Georgia-based company, Green Group, filed a $30 million defamation suit against them. The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court to dismiss the suit on Thursday. Green Group operates a toxic coal ash dump in Uniontown, Ala., a small, mostly black community where half the residents live below the poverty line. The Arrowhead landfill draws coal ash - the sludge left by burning coal -...
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