Mar 17, 2017 | Brazil, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News, Videos
Video via TeleSURtv.net: Video ALEXANDER MAIN, [in D.C.] via Dan Beeton, beeton@cepr.net, @ceprdc Senior associate for international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Main recently wrote the piece “Congress must take attacks on Brazilian...
May 2, 2016 | False Solutions, Featured, Latin America, Political Repression & Murder, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Videos
I was deeply saddened this Saturday when I learned of Daniel Berrigan’s death. During the troubled times of the US involvement in Southeast Asia, his actions inspired many from my generation to stand up to authority. He and others who broke laws to save lives...
Nov 6, 2015 | Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Social Media News
DAPHNE WYSHAM, daphne@sustainable-economy.org, @daphnewysham In Portland, Oregon, Wysham is director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy. She said today: “The Pacific Northwest is facing the carbon equivalent of five Keystone...
Oct 1, 2015 | Protests & Resistance, Social Media News
In August, Global Justice Ecology Project’s Ruddy Turnstone was one of 13 Greenpeace protesters who repelled off the side of the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Turnstone hung 100 feet in the air above the water for almost 40 hours, blocking a Shell Oil...