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1. 10 reasons not to include burning native forests in the RET

   plantations, not natural forest. There are different geographies, climates, water supplies and industry ... logging is contributing to general environmental degradation of vast tracts for native forest, water ...

2. Turkey: Government implicated in ISIS suicide attack

   some of the vehicles carrying the injured with water cannons and threatened those helping the wounded”. ... gas and water cannons. There have also been worldwide protests in solidarity. On July 20, the US ...

3. Ecuadorians struggle for land reform and food sovereignty

   Food sovereignty focuses on democratising access to and control over land and water resources. In Latin ... its concentration in a few hands and the privatisation of water. Food sovereignty in Ecuador is ...

4. Dave Zirin: How Hurricane Katrina provoked new rise of the political athlete

   five days to get food or water?” Thomas was hardly alone. Saints receiver Joe Horn said: “It's ... deal amid the #BlackLivesMatter era first braved the political waters in supporting Obama's ...

5. Unconventional gas boom: more risks, fewer jobs

   growing fast. Impacts on water, food, health and the environment, associated seismic risks and climate ... unconventional gas mining. It poses risks to water, food, health a Analysis ...

6. Britain hosting Games in age of discontent

   water have severe and debilitating birth defects. “The Olympic organisers could not have chosen a worse ... December 18: “In 2009, at the 25th anniversary of the tragedy, the BBC took a sample of water from a hand ...

7. Australian uranium industry in trouble after Fukushima

   recently started. Water management problems continue to plague the mining and milling of uranium at Ranger. ... from the town's water supply. In Queensland, the new Liberal National Party government has so far ...

8. Bowen ignores rights of refugee 'close to death'

   hospital, he began refusing water on November 22 and tried to cut the veins in his arms two days later.   He ... 30 days already. Five are now refusing water, several have collapsed and most are determined to ...

9. Canada: Indigenous peoples idle no more

   boiling water, and importing water. The village almost had a complete evacuation due to health conditions, ...

10. Letter from Turkey: the movement needs your help!

    a complete media blackout. But the police arrived with water cannon vehicles and pepper spray. They chased ... free wireless networks for the people on the streets. Restaurants offered food and water for free. ...

11. Youth candidate: ‘Climate change is a social issue’

    don't make a crash conversion to renewables there is going to be vast food and water shortages affecting ... killed in custody and don’t have access to the same basic levels of housing, water, education and health ...

12. Fresh hunger strike hits Israeli jails

    al-Dabbas. The detainees are taking only salt and water. The hunger strikers later demanded to be transferred ... are threatening to stop drinking water if there is no response to their just demands. [For more ...

13. Behind the coup in Ecuador

    contains laws guaranteeing access to clean water, giving groundbreaking legal rights to the environment and ... mining, oil extraction and water. Rather than negotiate, he has described these groups as “infantile” and ...

14. Book now: Climate Change Social Change, Melbourne Sep 30-Oct 3

    oblivious of the water in which they swim. It is capitalism’s ethic, outlook, and internal values that we ... of water, air, and soil, as well as disparities of wealth, significant periods of high unemployment, ...

15. What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism

    breathe. We are as oblivious of it as fish are oblivious of the water in which they swim. “It is ... rational and socially benign system. They include pollution of water, air, and soil, as well as disparities ...

16. The Tent Embassy 'debacle' from a protester’s POV

    threw plastic water bottles and water at the cars. At this point things began to get fairly nasty. One ...

17. Resistance activist to run for Qld seat: 'We must stop CSG'

    truly insane. The picture is clear: coal seam gas extraction will pollute ground water, surface water ...

18. El Salvador: Left challenge gathering momentum

    unpopular government moves, such as the privatisation of water resources. Targeted killings have increased ... January and that of anti-water-privatisation activist, 19-year-old Hector Antonio Ventura, in May. In ...

19. A tipping point for the climate action movement

    solar water heaters. The heaters will be provided on favourable terms to communities and the income ... solutions. To nationalise water is a must. We also must nationalise energy; we cannot have brown coal ...

20. Peru: Government crisis deepens as struggles explode

    52% of Southern Copper's taxes. Thousands blockaded roads and cut water supplies. Three people ... provinces have been calling for a greater share of mining taxes to fund basic services such as water ...

21. The woman who tried to save Lake Peddar

    Scott Millwood Allen & Unwin, 2008 256 pages, $26.95 (pb) As the dam waters began rising over Lake ... destroyed by the flood waters and underneath a layer of silt it is intact. There is a campaign to drain the ...

22. Stimulus package prepares way for attacks

    With the threat that the package may not be passed, the ACTU's concerns went to water. "This ... $900 million to go to long-term water projects to improve the flow of the Murray River as the cost of ...

23. Stop the genocide: Sri Lanka wages war on Tamil people

    a single meal a day. Chronic malnutrition is simply a matter of time. Potable water, too, is in short ... defecate in the open. The area's medical officers fear an outbreak of water-borne communicable ...

24. To save planet, end capitalism, Morales says

    the increase in the processes of desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher ... Morales said. Furthermore, "in the hands of capitalism everything becomes a commodity: water, soil, ...

25. Refusing to wave the flag of war

    water rations in punishment cells. The absolutists, who rejected the entire military authority structure ... for the navy. Bread and water, and solitary confinement, was again the familiar price they paid for ...

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