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“I’m taking this action to protect my grandchildren’s future”

Just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you cannot stop taking action for what you believe in. And yesterday was a case in point. Two seventy year olds, still putting their bodies on the line for environmental justice and indigenous rights.

Trump Plans “Illegal” Assault on Sacred Utah National Monuments

Next week, Trump’s attack on First Nations will get worse, when he is due to fly into Utah to make a formal announcement that he will reduce the size of the iconic and sacred Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

Amnesty: Investigate Shell’s “Complicity in murder, rape and torture” in Nigeria

Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into Shell's complicity in “murder, rape and torture in Nigeria” in the nineties.

Protesters Continue to Defy Shell by Occuping Plant in Nigeria

The decades’ long struggle for social and environmental justice in the Niger Delta continues, largely unseen by the wider world.

Resisting White Supremacy & Fighting for Justice

We stand with the students and community of Charlottesville as they stand up to fascism and fight white supremacy. Today and every day, we are committed to fighting for a more just and equitable world for all.

The “Expendables” Fight Back In Toxic Coal Ash Suit

"I call them ‘the expendables'. These men were treated like collateral damage, and they fell between the cracks in this toxic place.”

A 22 Year Struggle For Justice Against Shell

Sometimes the long, lonely struggle for justice does not take years, but decades. And at long last, four Nigerian women’s search for justice against Shell may be coming to an end.

“Free Speech Crisis” in US with Laws Designed “to Crush” Protests

Since Donald Trump was elected, there has been an assault on the pillars of what many would be considered a free and fair democratic society: the right to protest and the right to free speech.

Native Nations Rise March in DC Takes on “Tyranny” of Trump Administration

Tomorrow the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which have been leading the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, will take their fight to the oil-loving Trump Administration by marching on the White House.

“They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started”

Once again Big Oil has been forced to rely on brutal militarized force to bludgeon, bully, beat and intimidate peaceful water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. But in the face of such violence and intimidation, the growing movement against new fossil fuels will not be intimidated, it will only grow.