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Anger and Confusion After Facebook Suspends Environmental and Indigenous Groups' Accounts Ahead of Pipeline Protest

Protesters outside the Canadian consulate in New York City rally against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and in solidarity with the Wet'Suwet'en First Nations people on February 18, 2020. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images)

Activists Ramp Up Pressure on Other Insurers After Swiss Company Ditches 'Climate-Wrecking' Trans Mountain Pipeline

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Activists with Insure Our Future gathered outside Liberty Mutual's Boston and Seattle offices in December 2019 to demand the insure company "take bold action in the face of the climate emergency and stop insuring fossil fuels."

"Zurich's decision to walk away from the pipeline just underlines how risky this project has become."

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'Amazing News': Climate Activists Celebrate Victory After Forcing Company to Abandon Proposed Tar Sands Project

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Environmental and Indigenous activists protested outside a hall at the start of a plenary session during the COP25

While welcoming this win against the fossil fuel industry, organizers vowed to...

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42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With 'Moral Clarity' and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Crudeau Oil protest

"Projects that enable fossil fuel growth at this moment in time are an affront...

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'Monstrous': Docs Show Canadian Mounties Wanted Snipers Ready to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders Blockading Pipeline

'Shame on Trudeau': Anger Stirred as Canada's Energy Board Approves Trans Mountain Pipeline

'Bring It On': Green New Deal Champions Welcome McConnell's Cynical Ploy for Up-or-Down Senate Vote

Line 3 critics

Documents Show Police Using Private Security Firms to Target Anti-Pipeline Organizers Fighting Line 3 Project

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'If the Water Is Rising, Then So Must We': Indigenous Peoples March in Washington Against Global Injustice

First-Ever Indigenous Peoples March Will Fight Against Injustices Faced Across the Globe

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'Shameful Day for Canada': First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested

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As Canadian Police Target Pipeline Protesters on First Nations Territory, Solidarity Actions Planned Across North America

Accused of Lying to His Own Agency's Investigators, Departure Doesn't Save Zinke From DOJ Probe

Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Calls for Indigenous-Led 'Green New Deal' as She Fights Minnesota Pipeline Expansion

'Run Bernie Run!': New Campaign by Progressive Democrats Says 'Courage and Vision' of Sanders Best Choice for 2020

Progressives Rally on Election Day to Ensure Overwhelming Turnout Thwarts GOP's Voter Suppression Playbook

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Nike Keeps Just Doing It So Prepare For More Racist Idiots Burning Their Shoes (Evidently Sometimes While Still Wearing Them)

The smoke's barely cleared from the charred remains of the Nike stuff furious white guys burned - each time, it was said, an angel got its wings - to "boycott" the company for making "son-of-a-bitch" Colin Kaepernick the face of its new "Just Do It" campaign. Still, Nike is unfazed. They've erected a huge Kap billboard, and are debuting a slick TV ad featuring Kap and other uppity types during Thursday's NFL opener. This time, dudes, maybe give your shoes to a homeless vet?

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Earthjustice

U.S. Tribes Decry Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Approval

Friends of the Earth

Canada NEB Recommends Tar Sands Pipeline, Threatening Salish Sea, First Nations People, and Orca Survival

Earthjustice

Northwest Tribes Respond to Canada’s Continued Push for Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

Report Finds 11 Banks Increased Financing to TransCanada Subsidiary Building Coastal GasLink Pipeline, Despite Wet’suwet’en Opposition

Earthjustice

Northwest Tribal Leaders Testify in Opposition to Canadian Pipeline Expansion

Women's Earth & Climate Action Network

Indigenous Women’s Delegation Takes Fossil Fuel Divestment Demands To New York City and Washington D.C.

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Elana Sulakshana

Who’s Insuring the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Debra Utacia Krol

Beyond November, Indigenous Communities Honor Culture and Heritage Year-Round

Chris Hedges

The Last Battle of the Cree Nation

Lawrence Wittner

Most Americans Actually Reject Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy

Rhea Suh

Three Earth Day Lessons for Green New Deal Activists

Rebecca Gordon

Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg

Michael Galant

Unions Can Take on International Fights—and Win

Bronwen Tucker

The Fight to #StopTMX Continues as Feds Approve Their Own Pipeline

Andy Rowell

“Shameful” Trudeau Accused of Violating First Nations Rights Over Gas Pipeline

Negin Owliaei

Inequality at the Center of Chicago Charter School Strikes