Ecology/Environment

20/10/20
Author: 
Unist'ot'en Solidarity Brigade       
Photo of RCMP violently arresting Sepwecemc land defender blocakding Trans Mountain Drilling under the Thompson River Friday
From coast to coast right now Indigenous people are being attacked by state and settler forces for defending their inherent rights. 
20/10/20
Author: 
Alex Nguyen
Climate Strike Vancouver - photo: Christopher Porter

Oct. 19, 2020

Harrison Johnston remembers standing in a little coffee shop last September, watching in awe as a massive crowd marched from Vancouver City Hall to the Central Library downtown.

Then a lead organizer with Sustainabiliteens, a youth-led climate movement in Metro Vancouver that coordinated the Sept. 27, 2019, climate strike, he said he had only expected up to 20,000 people. Instead, the protest became the largest in the city’s history, with over 100,000 people filling the streets.

19/10/20
Author: 
Tom Phillips and Dan Collyns in La Paz
Luis Arce, centre, celebrates with his running mate, David Choquehuanca, right, on Monday. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

19 Oct 2020 

Exit polls for presidential election project win for Luis Arce as rival concedes defeat

Evo Morales’s leftwing party is celebrating a stunning political comeback after its candidate appeared to trounce rivals in Bolivia’s presidential election.

18/10/20
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Bush fire devastation in Australia. The country is near the top of Swiss Re’s index of risk to biodiversity and ecosystem services. Photograph: Adwo/Alamy

12 Oct 2020

Trillions of dollars of GDP depend on biodiversity, according to Swiss Re report

One-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, according to an analysis by the insurance firm Swiss Re.

Natural “services” such as food, clean water and air, and flood protection have already been damaged by human activity.

18/10/20
Author: 
Paris Marx
California Wildfire

A new report shows that the world's top 1% is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half of the planet. The conclusion is clear – to fight climate change, we have to fight the ruling class.

16/10/20
Author: 
Mchael Potestio
Police arrest a protester at Trans Mountain's Mission Flats worksite on Oct. 15. Photograph By FACEBOOK

Oct. 15, 2020

On Oct. 15, members of the We, the Secwépemc Unity Camp to Stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline walked across Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and onto the Trans Mountain site. There, at least one protester, a woman, sat on an excavator and called for others opposed to the pipeline expansion project to help stop the work being done.

Several people were arrested on Thursday (Oct. 15) at the Trans Mountain construction site on Mission Flats in Kamloops.

15/10/20
Author: 
First Nations Leaders
Oct. 13, 2020
The standoff is ongoing.

"We call for solidarity actions from coast to coast. Take action where you stand, or come stand with us on the yintah."

-Gidimt'en Checkpoint

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