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Indigenous Human Rights Hearing in DC Scrutinizes Uranium Industry

Washington, D.C. β€” Members of the Navajo Nation, Ute Nation and Oglala Lakota Nation will testify on Wednesday during a thematic hearing on the impacts of uranium exploitation on the human rights of Indigenous peoples in the United States. The hearing is being held by…

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Protests Against Smith Foundry, Ex-EPA Scientist Calls Pollution Regulations a ‘Smokescreen’

Minneapolis, MN -- On January 11, 2024, community members gathered to discuss the future of the Smith Foundry in Minneapolis’ East Phillips neighborhood. The iron-casting facility has been found to violate health regulations, thereby likely threatening the well-being of people living nearby. In November, residents had called for the closure of the foundry after discovering records from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicating that the company had been exceeding Minnesota emission limits of particulate matter since 2018 β€” without notifying the state.

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One Year Since Tortuguita’s Killing: A Reflection on our Coverage of the Movement Against ‘Cop City’ and the First Eco-Activist Killed in the US

Thursday, January 18, 2024, marks one year since Manuel “Tortuguita” Esteban Paez TerΓ‘n was killed by police in the South River Forest outside Atlanta. A 26-year-old queer anarchist, Tortuguita had been an active participant in the movement against β€œCop City” for months before Georgia State…

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Contentious Copper-Nickel Mine Gets Permit Approval from MN Appeals Court

Saint Paul, MN β€” On Monday, December 18, the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a key air permit issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for a proposed copper-nickel mine formerly known as PolyMet. The company β€” NewRange Copper Nickel β€” views the decision as…

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Standing Rock Tribe Opposes New Draft Environmental Impact Statement on DAPL

Fort Yates, ND β€” An environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline conducted by a consulting firm connected to the pipeline is raising concerns. More than two years after the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was court ordered to conduct a new environmental…

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Protests Against Line 5 Continue in Wisconsin and the Courtrooms

β€œWe need to avert an oil disaster in Lake Superior. We need to save our water and our future.” That was water protector Gina Peltier’s message this summer. Peltier is one of many water protectors in the Midwest organizing against Line 5 tar sands oil…

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Repurposed Rubber: Tire Recycling in the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip, Palestine — In the besieged and blockaded Gaza Strip, a 27-year-old Palestinian created a car tire recycling project aimed at reducing environmental damage. In light of the difficulties getting rid of tires in Gaza with the Israeli blockade imposed on the Strip, Madian…

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A colorful bouncy castle house with pointy cone tips in its four corner columns sits on the basketball court at Brownwood Park in southeast Atlanta. To its right snacks and a popcorn machine sit on a folding table. Behind the snack table a banner hangs from trees reading β€œWe End Police Terror Together” with a painted image of a clenched green fist emerging from an overturned and smashed police car - brown roots feeding into the green fist can be seen growing into the ground through the smashed windshield of the upside down cop car.

6th ‘Stop Cop City’ Week of Action – Unicorn Riot Coverage

Atlanta, GA β€” During the week of June 24 – July 1, activists, organizers, and community members opposed to ‘Cop City’ are converging in Atlanta for a “Week of Action” against the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. People gathered in and around Atlanta to mobilize…

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‘Stop Cop City’ Week of Action Begins: Day 1

Atlanta, GA – The sixth ‘Week of Action’ against the Atlanta Police Foundation’s proposed urban warfare training center, currently under construction in the Weelaunee Forest but facing mounting legal challenges and public opposition, is beginning on Saturday with a kick-off rally in Brownwood Park in…

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‘Cop City’ Protesters Visit Nationwide Insurance

Scottsdale, AZ β€” β€œI’m here in an official capacity, representing Nationwide,” said a protester in a blue wig and a skintight blue acrylic body suit. She wore placards strung across her shoulders with hand-painted replicas of the Nationwide logo on the front and back of…

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Atlanta City Council Approves $67 Million in Public Funds for ‘Cop City’

Atlanta, GA β€” Following hundreds of speakers who voiced their opposition to funding β€˜Cop City’ over a 14-hour public comment period, Atlanta City Council approved $67 million in funding for the controversial project early Tuesday morning.

Starting Monday morning, crowds amassed at City Hall to…

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The Battle of Sainte-Soline

Sainte-Soline, France β€” It is a Saturday morning deep in rural western France. Tens of thousands of activists, organized in different marches, left a self-managed protest camp next to the idyllic village of Vanzay. They headed toward the construction site of a water reservoir, dubbed…

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Acrylate Water Safety Emergency Hits Philly; Residents Scramble for Bottled Water

Philadelphia, PA β€” A warm and sunny Sunday afternoon was suddenly interrupted by an emergency phone alert: Philadelphia authorities warned the city water supply could be endangered and everyone should cease using drinking water after 2 p.m. Eastern time. Within minutes, people headed to grocery,…

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Georgia State Troopers making arrests after storming the Stop Cop City music festival in the "RC Field" clearing in the South River Forest near Atlanta on March 5, 2023. On the left, one arrestee is pinned down my two officers in dark blue kneeling on them. In the middle-left of the shot, a person sitting down can be seen sitting and about to be arrested. On the right center part of the image, a man in a neon green National Lawyers Guild legal observer hat is lying down on the ground with his hands out to the sides - presumably having done so on orders by an arresting officer. A Georgia State Patrol higher-up is seen striding towards the prone NLG observer with black leather gloves on his hands; other officers in frame do not appear to be wearing gloves.

Behind the #StopCopCity Domestic Terrorism Warrants

Atlanta, GA β€” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County…

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An Historic Direct Action in a Forest Outside Atlanta

DeKalb County, GA – In broad daylight Sunday, March 5, a group of about three hundred masked people wearing mostly camouflage and black clothing stormed the main police security outpost within the Weelaunee Forest at the proposed construction site of the β€˜Cop City’ project. Demonstrators…