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1. El Salvador’s FMLN confronts challenges from the right

   right-wing parties quickly introduced a thinly disguised water privatisation law. Response by the FMLN and ... forcefully: “We do not believe that private business should have majority control over [water] resources; it ... clamour of our people, who are calling for clean water in every home and who cannot pay the cost if this ...

2. German forest defenders say: ‘Hambi stays!’

   vehicles and water cannon. A recent survey put national support for the protests and preservation of the ...

3. Knitting Nannas meet the Wollongong candidates knit-in

   most vulnerable areas, our water catchments. CSG mining licenses can be reissued anytime.” The Nannas ... a ban on coal seam gas mining in the drinking water catchment? 2. Would you vote for legislation for ... a permanent ban on coal seam gas mining in the drinking water catchment? 3. Would you move legislation for ...

4. Disaster on the Darling

   sheep and cattle have died after drinking affected water. Country towns have switched to emergency water ... supply measures, while farmers in affected areas are buying tanks of fresh water or driving hundreds of ... have reported that the water, normally a milky-tea shade, has turned a lurid emerald green. It appears ...

5. Anger in WA as Labor reneges on gas promises

   metropolitan from unconventional gas. “It looks like the promise of fracking bans is being watered down before ... a process from exploration to mining and development that can cause health, water and land use issues. “The ... unconventional gas industry poses to tourism, health, land, water, and farming in our region. “We call on the ...

6. Neil Young celebrates birthday by performing at Standing Rock

   latest song, “Indian Givers”, seeks to raise awareness about the Native American water protectors in ... continues, despite federal orders mandating for it to be stopped. Activists and “water protectors” who have ... pipeline and seeks to raise awareness about the Native water protectors in North Dakota. The lyrics ...

7. I thought the world was fucked, then I heard these 10 albums

   of her boat, with just water and three sandwiches, and I thought this was crazy,” she said. On March ...

8. Good news (for a change)

   Brigade and ACT Fire and Rescue combined to spray water on the animals. ACT Wildlife said cooling the area ... to fly over Lake Burley Griffin and drink water, something they do not typically do until sunset. ...

9. Samir Amin on value in a divided world

   bed or fetch him water from the river”. When land is freely available, the usual rules of capitalism ...

10. Farmers stand strong against BHP

    and creeklines. This can affect natural water flow regimes and water quality." Moreover, the ... driving the campaign? The fact that the government refused to commission a water study and that they are ... planning laws in NSW, the word "water" is not mentioned once in any compensation acts and in this ...

11. Public hostility stops Snowy sell-off

    of electricity on demand (by releasing water through turbines or through firing up one or more of the ... would result in loss of control of the water managed by SHL, which is needed in order to maintain the ... SHL, it was granted a 75-year water licence. This gave SHL proprietary rights over the collection, ...

12. Letter from the US: Toxic waste shows how system fouls things up

    including the release of toxins into the atmosphere, water and the rest of the biosphere. Two notable ... Elk River near Charleston, West Virginia. The water of about 300,000 people was poisoned. The ... authorities told people not to drink, bathe or wash dishes in the polluted water. Some got sick. This caused ...

13. Trump ratchets up attack on immigrant children

    Willmington, North Carolina, which was isolated by flood waters, told NBC News she feared being separated from ... her children by ICE if they evacuated to a shelter. TV shots of vehicles plowing through flood waters ...

14. Trump ratchets up attack on immigrant children

    by flood waters, told NBC News she feared being separated from her children by ICE if they evacuated ... to a shelter. TV shots of vehicles plowing through flood waters show they included ICE vehicles. In ...

15. Letter from the US: Teachers strike blow against school privatisation

    “Strike Throws Cold Water on a City’s Embrace of Charter Schools”. The article began: “Carrying protest ...

16. Kurdish activist: 'I'm on hunger strike for freedom'

    pressure. I take one tablet of B1 vitamin and one tablet of B12 vitamin daily. I drink sugary water three ...

17. SBS 2018 Eurovision judge L-FRESH The LION joins Israel boycott

    Massive Attack, Rogers Waters, Patti Smith, Annie Lennox, Faithless, Brian Eno, The Pixies, ...

18. India: Farmer protests hit by repression in Tamil Nadu

    black flags were stopped as they tried to resupply the protesters with food and water by sea. The ... the Coca Cola, Pepsi and KFC companies. These companies are well known for usurping water supplies ... through corrupt means while people remain desperate for drinking water. Farmers also suffer from a lack of ...

19. Action calls for end to Bahrain invasion

    International solidarity Chris Jenkins Boorloo/Perth A crowd of 200 people marched on the US consulate in the Perth CBD on March 22 to protest the invasion of Bahrain by Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates (UAE) soldiers to suppress the democracy movem ...

20. Venezuelan commune activists vow to 'take the offensive'

    public services such as water, electricity and rubbish collection under the communes’ purview. The ...

21. Green New Deal is a first step towards eco-revolution

    history, accompanied by abysmal poverty. It isn’t efficient when air and water is increasingly polluted, ... forcing people to buy bottled water, thus enhancing profits. We have to be very clear about what we ...

22. Residents demand action over suspicious toxic fire

    and the upper parts of the bay. It also set up pumps to try and rid the creek of contaminated water ...

23. Protests greet Trump’s pipelines order, Sioux pledge resistance

    Trump's  executive order  to allow the pipeline that threatens the water supply of the Standing Rock ... make America great again,” he added, referring to the dramatic poisoning of water supplies that has hit ... on our treaty rights, contaminating our water and the water of 17 million Americans downstream… ...

24. Boss Watch: Liberal governments bring in huge job cuts

    HIV/AIDS and sexual health training for youth workers and World AIDS Day activities will also go. Water ... cuts could put us in the poo Sydney and Illawarra water workers rallied on July 5 against huge job ... water and environmental standards at risk".  One thousand workers took part in a stoppage in Sydney ...

25. In Mexico, there are many types of earthquakes

    Most of us get water for only 30 minutes a week. The poor parts of Puebla City and state, like much of ... water in their homes, and most Mexicans earn less than US$380 per month. But there is no “mark yourself ... they didn’t have anything to eat and had only been given water and blankets by the army. Most people ...

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