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On Tuesday, atleast 12 people were injured and 59 arrested when Honduran police violently cleared several roadblocks set up by protestors
demanding the ratification of a law that would prohibit open pit mining - a process that involves the use of cyanide, mercury, and other heavy metals.

The protesters also called for public meetings to give people the chance to decide whether they even want the mining operations to occur; and additionally for mining companies — among them Goldcorp (formerly Glamis Gold) — to begin carrying out measures to mitigate …

Wilmar, the world’s biggest trader in palm oil, is illegally logging rainforests, deliberately setting forests on fire, and intentionally destroying lands that are home to numerous communities in Indonesia without even consulting them.

Friends of the Earth (FOE) and two other NGO’s recently released a report (pdf) discussing these activities.

Point for point, Wilmar emphatically denies all of this — but Laili Kharnur of Lembaga Gemawan, who traveled to attend the release of the report, said in an interview she had witnessed first hand the misery caused by Wilmar’s activities:

“For …

[translated for RA by Rosalind Gil. Links added by me. See here for the Declaration in Spanish]

Declaration of Durugubuti
Garífuna, Lenca and Vía Campesina representatives have come together as part of the Foro de Biodiversidad: Territorio y Cultura (Forum on Biodiversity: Lands and Culture) to declare that we honour the spirits of our ancestors who were massacred seventy years ago during the dictatorship of Tiburcio Crías and we declare that:

Faced with the offensive of the neo-liberal Plan Puebla-Panamá, a plan to reinforce neocolonialism amongst our peoples and to spread the powerful neo-liberal transport and maquila network, we …

Here’s a story about the Palm Oil Industry in Colombia, as recalled by Ian Lander who attended a meeting with a member of Organizacion Nacional Indigena De Colombia (ONIC) which represents those living in the Choco and Amazonas regions of Colombia…

From www.biofuelwatch.org.uk - Colombia has endured civil violence and murder for over 25 years. The paramilitaries claim to force guerrillas out of rainforests when it is clear the land is owned by the indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, who have title to the land.

We were told of one case where paramilitaries displaced 25,000 people and stole from them, 30,000 …

At the end of March, a report coming out of a ten month Canadian government-led roundtable was completed, which “lays out recommendations for a CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] framework of good conduct for Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating abroad… If implemented, the CSR framework would establish standards and reporting obligations for Canadian companies. It would also create an ombudsman office to investigate and assess complaints, and to evaluate compliance with the standards. The report lays out procedures for withholding government services to companies in cases of serious non-compliance, while also supporting the development of tools to promote good …

EcoWellness: Race and hazardous waste
By Christine dell’amore, UPI
March 22, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — Twenty years after a landmark study proved a link between hazardous-waste sites and minority neighborhoods, the phenomenon has only settled deeper into U.S. towns and cities, a new report says.

What’s more, the racial differences are much greater than previously thought, according to “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” a preliminary anniversary report released today. The full report will be made public on April 22, Earth Day.

The updated report found more than 9 million Americans live in neighborhoods within about 2 miles of the 413 commercial …

Appeal to Exonerate Betty Krawczyk: Who Are the Real Criminals? By Joan Russow, http://PEJ.org
March 20, 2007

One of the reasons given by Madam Justice Brown, for convicting Betty Krawczyk,was that she had failed to follow appropriate channels within the legal system. Perhaps the judge is unaware of the conundrum that opponents of key natural areas of contention face in going through the so-called “appropriate” channels.

INJUNCTIONS AS EQUITABLE REMEDIES
In 1991, A specialist in injunctive law once said that injunctions are equitable remedies not constrained by the strait jacket of the law. And that injunctions move with time and circumstances (a …