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Among corporate America's most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St Scholastica have taken on the likes of Google, Target and Citigroup - calling on major companies to do everything from AI oversight to measuring pesticides to respecting the rights of Indigenous people. "Some of these companies, they just really hate us," said Sister Barbara McCracken, who leads the nuns' corporate responsibility program. "Because we're small, we're just like a little fly in the ointment trying to irritate th...
Euronews (English)
Climate activists glued themselves to the tarmac at four German airports this morning, forcing a temporary halt to flights as part of a “relentless” campaign against fossil fuels. The Last Generation group said a total of eight activists were involved in the protests at Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg and Stuttgart airports, which started around 5am. It follows a string of similar protests this summer. The group is demanding that the German government negotiate and sign an agreement on a global exit from the use of oil, gas and coal by 2030. "What is at stake right now are billions of human li...
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Artist Sasha Skochilenko and her partner Sonya Subbotina were not able to wed in their home country of Russia because it does not recognise same-sex marriages. But with Skochilenko newly freed from Russian prison and living in Germany, where same-sex marriage is legal, the couple plans to tie the knot. "I feel that I’m in a very free country because we can walk down the street, and if I kiss Sasha, not only would no one tell us that it's disgusting, but they won't even pay attention to it, because it's just in the nature of things," said Subbotina. "People often have distorted opinions about t...
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By Maxwell Radwin MEXICO CITY — The representative of a prominent advocacy group for Mexico’s fishing industry was killed in July after speaking out against organized crime in Baja California, where illegal fishing is rife. Minerva Pérez Castro was shot in the town of Ensenada on July 8 just hours after making public comments about the presence of illegal fishing in the state, as well as the extortion of local fishermen and buyers. She represented Baja California in the National Chamber of Fisheries and Aquaculture Industries (CANAINPESCA), Mexico’s main trade group that advocates for the gene...
Mongabay
The recent attempted assassination of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, which resulted in the death of one rally attendee and injuries to the candidate and two others, was not an isolated event. The high profile incident occurred against a backdrop of lower-level attacks and violent protests across the country that indicate too many Americans are increasingly willing to exchange battles over ideas for fists, bullets, and firebombs. It's a sign of an existential political climate in which nobody thinks they can afford to lose—or that opponents can be allowed to win. Not-So-Isolated ...
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By Maxwell Radwin After years of delays, officials in Peru said they’re moving forward with the construction of a controversial copper mine despite concerns from local communities that the project could pollute rivers and destroy agriculture. The Tía María copper mine in Valle del Tambo, in southern Peru, will begin operations before the end of this year, President Dina Boluarte said during a national address, reversing her promise to protect tourism, small-scale farming and agriculture exports in the area. “The population of Valle del Tambo already has an economic activity that works and isn’...
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By Daniel Shailer Protesters in the northwest Mexican state of Sonora are blocking the country’s largest mining company, Grupo México, from withdrawing water, in an ongoing standoff against the company and state police. Since June 2, residents of Bacoachi, a rural town 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the U.S. border, have protested in shifts along Evans Canyon Road between the town’s thoroughfare and the Bacoachi River, a tributary of Sonora River. The blockade, which locals insist has remained nonviolent, was broken up once in July before being reinstated the following day. Only water truck...
Mongabay
“When people ask me, ‘What can I do as an individual about the climate?’, I reply: ‘Don’t be an individual - work together with others,” says Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project. Statistics show that the vast majority of people in Europe care about the climate crisis: more than half of European voters believe it should be a priority while only 16 per cent see it as a secondary issue, according to a Euronews-Ipsos poll conducted ahead of this year’s EU elections. The problem is, most of us don’t know what to do about it. After decades of committed climate action - from bein...
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By Maxwell Radwin Conservation has become a near-impossible task in many parts of Venezuela. Government funding has dried up, political pressure has scared away international donors, and criminal groups continue to overpower the areas where the worst deforestation is happening. As the country prepares for an election at the end of the month — one that could be rigged in the ruling party’s favor — many environmental groups are quietly wondering how they’re going to survive another six years under President Nicolás Maduro. “Environmental organizations, as well as Indigenous leaders, are finding ...
Mongabay
Flights at Germany's busiest airport Frankfurt were temporarily suspended on Thursday when climate activists glued themselves to the tarmac Over 100 flights were cancelled. Federal police reported that several demonstrators entered the airport early in the morning. Climate activist group Last Generation say that six protesters cut through the perimeter fence and approached the runways by foot, bicycles, and skateboards. Flight operations began "gradually resuming" shortly before 8am, and the airport announced on X that all runways were back in operation shortly after. Around 140 flights, appro...
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