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Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines
2016-07-07 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: On July 1, two gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed anti-coal activist, Gloria Capitan, inside her karaoke bar in Mariveles, Bataan in the Philippines. Capitan, 57, sustained three gunshot wounds, two in the neck and one in the arm, local media reported. Her eight-year-old grandson reportedly suffered injuries from a stray bullet that grazed his arm. Capitan was a president of Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Mamamayan ng Lucanin, a community-based organization, and she led her community in a series of...
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Sweeping child beggars off Senegal's streets won't solve trafficking, activist warns
2016-07-04 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sweeping child beggars off Senegal's streets will not alone stop the trafficking and exploitation of tens of thousands of children, a leading child rights activist said on Monday. President Macky Sall announced last week that the children, known as talibe, must be taken off the streets immediately, and that those who force them to beg would be fined or imprisoned. Children are sent by their parents in Senegal or trafficked from neighbouring West African countries including Guinea-Bissau to...
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An Indigenous Environmental Activist Is Building a Solar Network in the Heart of Canadas Tar Sands
2016-06-19 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Last summer, in a remote Alberta First Nation surrounded by pipelines and increasingly plagued with oil spills and forest fires, workers wearing reflective vests attached 80 giant solar panels to 20-foot poles. Overseeing the operation and coordinating its documentation with a film crew was Greenpeace campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo. "It's a big system," the 34-year-old Cree Lubicon woman told VICE from the job site last August. "It will probably be one of the biggest solar installations in...
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Meet the activist getting sued for complaining about a coal-ash dump
2016-06-17 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Esther Calhoun lives in Uniontown, a small town in Alabama where more than nine out of ten residents are black, and half live below the poverty line. Her family has been there for as long as she knows. Her parents and grandparents worked as sharecroppers on a plantation, and generations of her ancestors were buried in the towns cemetery. Uniontown is also home to the Arrowhead Landfill, a dump that draws tons of coal ash - a byproduct of burning coal - from across the country every day. A 53-year-old...
Brazilian indigenous land activist killed in conflict with farmers - govt agency
2016-06-16 05:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An indigenous activist was shot dead in southwestern Brazil and at least six others seriously wounded when their camp was attacked by armed farmers, a government agency said. Clodiode Rodrigues de Souza, 26, a member of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous group was killed and five other adults and a child were hospitalized in Mato Grosso do Sul state on Tuesday, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), said. The campaigners had set up a camp in a push to have their ancestral land claims to be formally...
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