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1. Italy's Power to the People takes radical agenda to the polls

   pollution, water crisis and global warming. Power to the People also opposes the neoliberal policies of the ...

2. As detention health crisis heightens, medical students protest

   are overcrowded and have serious hygiene issues. Toilets often stop working and running water is ...

3. Tragedy and resistance: Australia’s refugee story

   detention centre by sending in police armed with metal poles after depriving people of food and water for ... in the detention centre months earlier. In West Haus the men have to wait hours for water and power ...

4. Puerto Rican teachers protest closures in face of violence

   capitalism. Many people still don’t have electricity or water. Batteries are being stolen out of generators. ...

5. Resilient Gazans defy Israeli killings

   humanitarian assistance, with limited access to the most basic amenities, such as water and electricity. “They ...

6. Residents oppose waste-to-energy incinerator in western Sydney

   drinking water and is only 5 kilometres from the proposed site: this would put the drinking water of 4.5 ...

7. Food sovereignty not ‘free trade’

   interests of multinationals, favouring the pillage of lands, indigenous peoples’ communal areas, their water ...

8. Crunch time for Labor’s decision on Adani

   will go ahead. We’ve been quite rightly questioning about the impact on water and some of the ...

9. US ‘morality’ on full display in Palestine

   Nations reported that Gaza was becoming unlivable. Nothing can go in or out — including food, water and ...

10. Palestinians resist Israel’s ‘slow genocide’

    water and they only get four-to-six hours of electricity per day, meaning that they cannot run certain ...

11. 'All-out war' amid mass arrests as Dakota pipeline struggle escalates

    water protectors and other activists who for months have waged resistance against the  Dakota Access ... say violates Native Americans' treaty rights and threatens their access to safe water. The ... the water," she said Friday. "We are innocent people — women, children, and elders." ...

12. Good news (for a change)

    millions from Yancoal, and is determined to stay and protect the community’s health, land, and water from ...

13. 'We need you to fight!', Bolivian VP tells Europe's left

    accumulating by expropriating what was once common: biodiversity, water, ancestral knowledge, the forests, ... is democracy if we take part in the common good. If we collectively need water, then democracy is ... taking part in managing water. If our heritage is a language, then democracy is defending that common ...

14. Are QLD and NSW the new gasland?

    changed to allow petroleum and gas exploration in state conservation and drinking water catchment areas. ... does not have to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act under an exemption granted by the Bush ... begin mining for gas under the Sydney water catchment. The letter acknowledged that damage to the ...

15. Venezuela: Land reform faces violent attack in valley

    an offshoot of the Mucujun River, a principal water source for the nearby city of Merida and the ... entire Andean region. Land reform and water Despite the quaint setting, the clash between politically ... initiatives. The dominant families in the valley, waving the banner of water conservation, have supported ...

16. Cyanide spill reveals the cost of gold

    cyanide-contaminated water to flow into rivers stretching several hundred kilometres through central Europe. The main ... dozens of dead deer, pheasants, ducks and other animals. Poisoned water is likely to filter into the soil ... and affect pasture and livestock. Contaminated water being used for irrigation poses further risks to ...

17. South Africa invades Lesotho

    dams, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Surprised at the strength of the Lesotho ... On August 6, police used water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of protesters who had ... the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). This US$8 billion, four-phase mega-dam project is jointly ...

18. Apartheid and the environment in South Africa

    Sachs, a spokesperson for the ANC. Erosion, water pollution, desertification and deforestation all ... Soon the place had no trees left." Lack of clean water is also a huge problem. Soil erosion has ... silted many of the homelands' water supplies. Millions of people are denied access to clean drinking ...

19. Scottish Militant Labour outlines its views

    defending people from sheriff officers, campaigning against water privatisations, Criminal Justice Act, ... can t rate the interests of your party above the interests of the working class. Water privatisation ... has also been very important for us in Scotland. Water has been privatised in England and Wales since ...

20. A hazard lasting millennia

    constitute the greatest long-term threat, while leaks, spills and ground water problems are the major short ... cubic metres of contaminated water from Ranger each wet season carry radioactive radium and toxic ... plants, water and animals. This is made worse by the poor construction of the tailings dam which has been ...

21. 'Pipelines are bound to spill': Campaigners' fears realised as Keystone suffers South Dakota oil spill

    a statement. “These pipelines are bound to spill, and they put communities, precious drinking water, and our ...

22. Your completely, absolutely reliable, 100% guaranteed guide to the 2018 AFLW season

    mysterious over-watering of every football ground in our fair city, the Dees will be forced to play their big ...

23. Why the refugee crisis will get worse

    such as food and water supplies that are being constrained by climate factors would lead to conflict. ... which claims that water shortages were a prominent factor in the 2011 Syrian civil war. According to the ... forced to move to urban areas due to dwindling water resources and their ongoing mismanagement. The ...

24. Fight against mining of coal and coal seam gas in north-west NSW

    country The battle to save land and water in north-west NSW's Liverpool Plains, from coal and coal ... for clothing. The Liverpool Plains is home to significant water reserves. Tim Duddy, a farmer and ... member of Caroona Coal Action Group, said the Liverpool Plains' underground water aquifers "are ...

25. Pilliga activists: 'Pepper spray won't keep us away'

    said: “I was peacefully protesting to protect our land and water from coal seam gas. I was in ... losing the greatest asset we have — our clean water. My livelihood is under threat and I'm feeling ... water.” Sixth-generation farmer Neil Kennedy (pictured) from Coonamble on the edge of the Pilliga ...

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