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Guatemalan indigenous need rights protected, UN official says: by Rick Kearns (Indian Country Today)
Due to human rights violations affecting the indigenous peoples of the country, Guatemala risks becoming “ungovernable” according to the U.N. official in charge of indigenous rights after a visit in June. These problems revolve around the lack of indigenous rights to prior consultation, as well as territorial and civil rights in Guatemala according to James Anaya, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people.
Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice! La Via Campesina invites people’s movements to mobilize around the world
Social movements from around the world are mobilizing for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide.
Partly because of the dominance of the oil, gas, and coal industries, which have been providing cheap fuel by omitting the costs of climate change and air pollution from fuel prices, relatively little has been invested in developing the earth's geothermal heat resources. Over the last decade, geothermal energy has been growing at scarcely 3 percent a year.
By Karen Spring, August 31, 2010 (spring.kj@gmail.com)
Last Thursday and Friday (Aug 26-27), police and military violently repressed public school teachers that have taken to the streets for almost 3 weeks to demand, amongst other things, that the Pepe Lobo regime return 4 billion lempiras (or some 200 million dollars) that were taken from National Institute of IMPREMA, an institution that manages teacher's pension funds, after the military-oligarchic coup against President Zelaya on June 28, 2009.
Afghanistan Crisis Deepens: U.S. Canada and NATO threaten to extend war.
by Tim Kennelly
On March 13, 2008, Canada’s Parliament voted to extend the country’s military “mission” in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The warmakers correctly estimated that fixing an exit date would deflect mounting opposition to the war among the Canadian public and buy time for Canada’s continued participation.
The time has come to send a Canadian Boat to Gaza this fall, along with other ships heading to the besieged strip from all around the world. But we need your support to make it happen.
The tragic May attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has only strengthened the resolve of people from many nations to put together another flotilla to challenge the years-long illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. This blockade is enforced by Israel's unlawful attacks on humanitarian aid ships in international waters. The blockade is also sustained by the Canadian government's unconditional support for Israel. It falls upon us, the Canadian people and our schools, unions, community and faith organizations to change this unjust status quo.
Bill Van Auken- With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated.
Climate-related Security Predictions Coming True in Pakistan Matthew O. Berger
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (IPS) - Analysts have been warning for several years that the impacts of climate change directly relate to the national security of the U.S. and other countries, but the link has never been so clear as it is today in northwest Pakistan. The security implications of climate change first got official U.S. government attention this February, in the Quadrennial Defence Review, a four-yearly report from the Pentagon on the direction of national security strategy.
Cruise ships using Can«ada as dumping ground Critics say
By Carmen Chai, Postmedia NewsAugust 21, 2010
Waters off British Columbia are the "toilet bowl of North America" as dozens of cruise ships heading to and from Alaska dump sewage in Canadian waters, environmentalists say.
American regulations have been tightened in the last decade, forcing cruise ships to follow stringent sewage treatment rules before disposing of waste in Alaska or Washington state.
But the vessels have another option: they can unload sewage and grey water -- waste water from showers, sinks and laundry -- into B.C. waters where rules are "lax."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-genovali/just-say-no-to-organic-fa_b_669696.html Executive Director, Raincoast Conservation Foundation Posted: August 24, 2010 02:24 PM British Columbia (BC) farmed salmon could carry a certified organic label if federal aquaculture boosters have their way. The proposal by the Canadian General Standards Board and organic aquaculture working group at Fisheries and Oceans Canada to give the organic stamp of approval to BC farmed salmon raised in open net-pens is nothing short of Orwellian.
Shamus Cooke - If you’ve listened to recent speeches the President has given about the economy and the Iraq war, you’d think that two of the biggest social issues facing working Americans are improving. But facts are stubborn things.
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Social movements from around the world are mobilizing for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
