Global day of action against extraction : Aotearoa call to action

March 21, 2011 On April 20th dozens of environmental, climate, and social justice groups will target government and corporate operations with aggressive protests and civil disobedience in an International Day of Direct Action Against Extraction being organized by Rising Tide North America. The protests will commemorate the 1 year anniversary of BP’s Gulf Oil Disaster

By Jim Polson, Kim Chipman and Mark Chediak – Mar 13, 2011 Global expansion of nuclear power may draw more scrutiny and skepticism as the world watches Japan struggle to prevent a meltdown at a reactor damaged by a record earthquake, a former U.S. atomic regulator said. “This is obviously a significant setback for the

World Carbon Trade Organization vs. the people and the planet Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle – February 2011 During protests against the WTO (World Trade Organization) meetings in Cancún, Mexico in September 2003, Lee Kyung Hae, a South Korean farmer and La Via Campesina member, martyred himself by plunging a knife into his heart while

Part I World Marches to Methane Annihilation “[T]he question is not will this methane be released, but when.” – Robert C. Hendricks, NASA, November 2007 The architects of death: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who,

MEDIA RELEASE: ‘Wai 796 report good for the climate’ DATE: 22nd December 2010 FROM: Climate Justice Taranaki “The waitangi Tribunal 796 Report on the Management of the Petroleum Resource, released today, is a clear finding that the Crown breached the rights and protection of tangata whenua promised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. If the Tribunal’s