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Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Toxic Chemicals Costing Society Billions in Damages to Human Health Alone

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A field of soybeans. (Photo:  Tom Erickson /flickr/cc) Common Dreams  | Mar 6, 2015 | Sarah Lazare New study finds hormone-dis...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Industrial Vs Organic Farming Myths Busted

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Natural Blaze  | Mar 3, 2015 How can we feed the world—today and tomorrow? The biggest players in the food industry—from pestici...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Busted! Fukushima Operator Concealed Radioactive Leak for Nearly a Year

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© AP Photo/ Toshiaki Shimizu Sputnik  | Feb 26, 2015 Tokyo Electric Power Co., TEPCO, has been slammed by fisherm...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Camping in Amerika: How the System Does Not Protect You

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TruthStream Media  | Feb 17, 2015 This video is a rant of sorts filmed half an hour after we confronted someone who had drunkenly...

‘Tiny houses’: California homelessness gets new $40 solution (PHOTOS)

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Watch video RT  | Feb 21, 2015 An Oakland artist is ingeniously battling homelessness in Oakland, California: he builds small...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs

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Water is Life! - Milwaukee in solidarity with those fighting water shutoffs in Detroit. Photo: OccupyRiverWest.com. The Ecologist ...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

California wants to close fracking wells to protect drinking water during historic drought

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RT  | Feb 11, 2015 The US Environmental Protection Agency has waded into the fight between oil and water in drought-stricken Cali...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Senate approves Keystone XL pipeline despite veto threat

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A depot used to store pipes for Transcanada Corp's planned Keystone XL oil pipeline is seen in Gascoyne, North Dakota November 14, 20...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Kansas Officials Admit "Strong Correlation" Between Quakes & Fracking

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Zero Hedge  | Jan 21, 2015 | Tyler Durden “If the government and the Kansas Corporation Commission care about the people of Kansa...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Pesticide Industry Seeks to Leverage Power Through EU-US Trade Deal

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"The pesticide industry’s proposal hides its true aim: to weaken, slow, or stop efforts to protect people and the planet from exposu...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Fracking caused earthquake boom in Ohio town – study

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Anti-fracking demonstrators protest on 51st Street and 7th Avenue.(AFP Photo / Bryan Thomas) RT  | Jan 6, 2015 In March 2014, ...
Friday, January 2, 2015

How a Low-Tech Seed Bank in Greece Preserves Thousands of Heritage Crops

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Photo by Prensa 420 / Flickr . Yes Magazine  | Dec 29, 2014 | Jeffrey Andreoni Members of the Greek seed bank Peliti say that...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

How The Elite Stay In Power

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We Are Change  | Dec 30, 2014 In this video we break down in simple terms a very complex game that is happening behind the scenes...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Poverty and Fear Still Rankle, Ten Years After the Tsunami

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Common Dreams  | Dec 26, 2014 | Amantha Perera, Inter Press Service Men walk past destroyed buildings in the Hambantota town i...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Fukushima and the institutional invisibility of nuclear disaster

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Black smoke at Fukushima Daichi, 24th March 2011. Photo: deedavee easyflow via Flickr. The Ecologist  | Dec 20, 2014 | John Downe...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won

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Common Dreams  | Dec 19, 2014 | Sarah Lazare Acuña de Chaupe at her property in front of the Blue Lagoon (Photo: Jorge Chávez Or...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Movement against Fracking Wins as New York Bans Hydraulic Fracturing

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Global Research  | Dec 19, 2014 | Kevin Zeese In a major victory for people who have been working to stop hydraulic fracturing ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Out of Control Fracking Well Forces Evacuations

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Efforts Tuesday to regain control of a fracking well Tuesday failed.  (Photo: bill baker /flickr/cc) Common Dreams  | Dec 17, 2014...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Canada pressures US to pass Keystone XL as falling oil prices threaten project

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Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP RT  | Dec 15, 2014 The Keystone XL pipeline may no longer make economic sense to build, thank...