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1. ALBA, social movements push to avoid cop out at COP21

   land degradation in order to promote sustainable land management practices and water catchment ... control over our lands, biodiversity, waters, and territories”. The group, which represents about 200 ... tends to water down the difference between developed and developing countries, promoting more the use of ...

2. Philippines: Police shoot hungry protesters

   Mindanao are talking about hunger and worsening water crisis in Bukidnon, the Lanao and Davao provinces,” ... worsening the water situation in Mindanao and called on the government “to cushion impacts by ordering ... and ensure proper management of water resources among others”. In an April 1 statement, left-wing ...

3. Opposition grows to radioactive waste dump in Flinders Ranges

   the proposed site is in a very fragile area. It's next to a very important water hole in that ... water has leaked into the Pacific Ocean for six years and continues to this day. Fukushima has now ... contaminated one-third of the Pacific Ocean. Seventy per cent of the Earth's surface is made up of water ...

4. Climate, capitalism and refugees

   police forcing them back. Trapped in downtown New Orleans, many went several days without food, water and ... National Guard were rescuing people, providing medical aid and handing out food and water. Within six days ... warned it will lead to conflicts over scarce water and food. This can be seen in Syria, where a major ...

5. United States: After Sandy — the storm next time

   water. When a local told me this on my first day there, I didn't quite believe him until he pointed ... out clearly visible five-feet-high water mark on every building — except those destroyed by fire. ... buildings built on the water's edge across Queens, from Long Island City to Astoria to Flushing —as if ...

6. Protests reclaim King’s real legacy

   iron ore?’, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds water?’” In ... captains of industry … “Now this means we are treading difficult water, because it really means that we are ...

7. NT Intervention opened way to Aboriginal community closures

   Macklin never pulled the pin on water and power. She got rid of jobs, encouraged what the Council of ... the power and water on, is chicken feed. The government just granted $54 million to build police ... stations in seven remote communities under the federal budget. In contrast, keeping water and power going ...

8. Australia's war on people smugglers is really a war on refugees

   Indonesian navies, the refugees are lacking food, water and fuel and their boats – not designed for ... the small amounts of food and water that the navies have given them. This is Australian policy at ... May 22, 2015 1054 Rohingya women in a boat drifiting in Thai waters on May 14. Tony Abbott Analysis ...

9. New project maps Australia’s nuclear sites

   Northern Territory ceased, part of the area was converted to a lake. As a crocodile-free water body in the ... in Queensland, there is ongoing seepage of saline, metal and radionuclide-rich waters from tailings, ... there has been ongoing site contamination and lasting impacts on water quality. [Jim Green is the ...

10. 'Extreme energy' threat new threat to planet

    to opencast mining as coal has become less readily available, or the push out into deeper water for ... methane, toxic and radioactive water pollution and waste, severe air pollution, wholesale industrialisation ... afford to drink bottled water and are less insulated from the environmental consequences. The recent ...

11. Russia, Pakistan show need for climate action

    villages. Thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed due to flood water. Livestock, household goods, ... clothes, shoes and other items have been destroyed. Residents of villages are without drinkable water ... desperate need of food and clothing. Disease is spreading fast due to the lack of drinkable water. Flu, ...

12. Western Sahara: ‘We only want our country’

    anything. It was a very difficult situation. If the Moroccan and Mauritanian armies found some water, they ... killed camels or donkeys and put them in the water to make it undrinkable. Sometimes, planes would fly ... difficult. In summer, when it’s hot, the children go to school and they just have hot water to drink, there ...

13. Music can give ‘voice to voiceless’

    water in the next 30 years and that the world might die really fucking thirsty. What do you see as some ... of the most important issues facing people in general at the moment? Well, besides the water problem ... water … Um, that’s a lot on my plate as I see it. Also, I don’t like the police just like I don’t like ...

14. The Base-Load Myth

    phase-out of electric off-peak hot water and its replacement with solar hot water and instantaneous gas. ... simultaneously with a rapid growth in efficient energy use, solar hot water, wind power and bio-electricity. ...

15. Sudan: Military start fresh attacks

    killing up to 500,000 people. The government has exploited conflicts over water and land between the Nuba ... farming areas to graze livestock and find water. They are descendant from Arabs who came to the area more ... enjoy rights of migration and access to pasture and water”. However, reports of violence have continued. ...

16. Pakistan: 'The spirit of March 15' — pro-democracy movement wins:

    were carrying salt and water for those injured in the fighting. Others helped carry people to the ... blinded by the gas, before some people gave me enough water and salt. My friend Murtaza Khwaja (who was ... we had no idea what this battle at the GPO really meant. We were just looking for water and a place ...

17. Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in concentration camps

    least mentally". Rights agencies have reported food, water and medicine shortages, and resulting ... inundated with water and waste from toilets flooded throughout the camps. Demanding the immediate release of ... of running water and sanitation. There are also severe restrictions on communication with the outside ...

18. Rudd's policy is racist — refugees are not illegal

    international waters, a second boat — also carrying refugees from Sri Lanka — sent out a distress signal off the ... navy to intervene and prevent asylum seeker vessels from reaching Australian waters — most notoriously ... "Pacific Solution". Under the policy, refugees who reached Australian waters were imprisoned on ...

19. Haiti: US military occupation worsens suffering, blocks aid

    deliver the humanitarian relief — the food, water and medicine — that Haitians will need in the coming ... capital, Port-Au-Prince, were still without food, water and medical supplies. Aid agencies, meanwhile, have ... downtown, where the people urgently need water, food and medicine", Wilson Guillaume, a 25-year-old ...

20. South Africa: Campaign against new coal mines gathers momentum

    African infrastructure, including for electricity and water. More than 200 organisations have signed up in ... costs imposed by Eskom are extremely high, including the complete degradation of water sources, air ... tapped. Eskom was given responsibility for rolling out more than a million solar-powered hot water heaters ...

21. Nuclear power: no solution to climate change

    efficiency and solar hot water can also substitute for baseload coal. In Australia, 4600 megawatts of coal ... power are kept running between midnight and dawn for the sole purpose of heating water. As the switch is ... made to solar and gas hot water, these coal stations could be retired and their daytime generation ...

22. Canada: Fossil fuel expansion planned in British Columbia

    surrounding air and water. Hydrogen sulphide is a common waste byproduct that can kill when breathed in high ... natural gas from underground rock formations, a toxic mix of water and chemicals are injected under ... of New York because it pollutes underground water. Fossil fuel extraction is set to expand in yet ...

23. Palestine: Fresh condemnation of Gaza siege

    Freedom Flotilla, during which Israeli naval commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara in international waters ... cuts prevent doctors from treating patients. And the situation regarding clean water is terrible. There ... is virtually no access to clean water, as the entire ground system has been contaminated.” Schorno ...

24. Community wins 'battle for Bickham'

    Pages River, 100 metres from the proposed site. It said: “In an environment where water resources are ... threaten water sources. The Land Access Bill was drafted in response to a Supreme Court decision that found ... in favour of two farmers challenging coal development in Caroona on the basis of damage to water ...

25. Nothing new under the NT sun

    workers at the remote Newcastle Waters station had already walked off, demanding wages and treatment equal ... Newcastle Waters strike spread across the vast outback through word of mouth. Daniels revealed that other ... militant actions. Gurindji man Lupgna Giari was the leader of the Newcastle Waters strike. He became ...

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