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"Cruel:" Trump Admin. Moves to Take Land of Mashpee Tribe—Whose Casino Plans Irked President's "Special Interest Friends"—Out of Trust

Mashpee Wampanoag marchers head to their traditional powwow grounds to hold a rally in Mashpee, Mass. on Oct. 6, 2018.

'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law

Julia Conley, staff writer

" This is what the tribe has been fighting for many months. Their fearless organizing continues to change the game."

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Coronavirus Crisis, Says Coalition, Must Force Wall Street to Finally Recognize Perils of Climate Shocks 'Barreling Towards Us'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Protesters picketing outside a JP Morgan Chase branch on Manhattan in November 2019 as part of a growing national movement to hold the bank accountable for its central role in funding the global fossil fuel industry.

"In this recovery we face a clear choice: bail out the fragile fossil financial...

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As Wells Fargo Joins Banks Rejecting Funding of Arctic Drilling, Pressure Heats Up on Others to 'Do Their Part'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Climate campaigners continue to demand all banks reject financing of climate-wrecking projects.

Bill McKibben called the development a "victory for the Gwich'in, the wildlife...

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"From coast to coast we are rising up in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en nation and against colonial violence and land theft," said Vanessa Gray, Anishinaabe Kwe Land Defender from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and one of the organizers of Sunday's demonstration. "It's clear that Canada is a state built on the removal of Indigenous people for resource extraction."

'Against Colonial Violence and Land Theft,' Indigenous Activists and Allies Target Mining Industry Convention in Toronto

Protesters Arrested After Police Raid Mohawk Railway Camp Constructed in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en

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

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

Crudeau Oil protest

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

Trudeau Calls for 'Dialogue' as Indigenous Rights Protesters Declare, 'When Justice Fails, Block the Rails'

UBCIC leaders at the BC legislature

Protests Continue Across Canada in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders Fighting Fracked Gas Pipeline

Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids

'Colonialism In All Its Ugliness': Indigenous Land Defenders Condemn Violent Police Raid on Camp Blocking Pipeline Construction

Cedar Mesa Citadel Ruins

Trump's Final Plan to Open Treasured Public Lands in Utah Called 'Sellout' to Big Oil

TMX protest

'We Will Continue to Fight,' Protesters Vow After Canadian Court Dismisses Indigenous Challenge to Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Indigenous People in Brazil Vow to Defeat Bolsonaro After "Perverse" Attack Claiming Tribes Are Still "Evolving" Into Human Beings

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Climate Movement Takes Aim at Wall Street, Because 'Money Is Only Language Fossil Fuel Industry Speaks'

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Criming While White Vs. Saving What Is Sacred In This World

This week gave us an appalling view of American "justice" in all its white privilege and cognitive dissonance: The acquittal of a bunch of ignorant, armed, white, male hooligans who laid boisterous claim to Oregon land that was never theirs, and the tear-gassing, shooting and arrest of peaceful, praying Standing Rock Sioux seeking to protect their own revered land/water from destruction - to "do something good and right." After 500 brutal years, shame, America, again.

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Indigenous Environmental Network

Seven Congressional Leaders Join 450+ Progressive Organizations to Demand People’s Bailout in Response to Coronavirus Crisis

350.org

Climate Justices Means Respecting Indigenous Rights – 350.org Statement Supporting Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Greenpeace

Greenpeace Statement on Arrests of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders and Solidarity Protesters

Reporters Without Borders

Canada: RCMP Must Respect the Rights of Journalists to Cover Indigenous Protests

Indigenous Environmental Network

Peaceful Indigenous Land Defenders Threatened With Violence

Women's Earth & Climate Action Network

Indigenous Women File OECD Specific Instance Against Credit Suisse for Rights Violations Regarding Pipeline Financing

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Sue Branford

Spreading the Word of God and Coronavirus: Outrage Over Evangelical Group Trying to Contact Isolated Amazon Tribes Amid Pandemic

Raúl M. Grijalva

Trump’s Border Wall Isn’t Just an Assault on Native Americans, It’s an Assault on American History

Osprey Orielle Lake & Katherine Quaid

Celebrating Climate Women on International Women's Day

Linda McQuaig

Jason Kenney Treated with Kid-Gloves, Indigenous Protestors with Assault Rifles

Ellen Moore, Jen Moore

Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government

Amanda Follett Hosgood

At the Unist'ot'en Outpost, a Tightknit Group Readies for Police

Evelyn Red Lodge

The Art of Criminalization

David A. Love

The Australia Fires Portend a Future of Climate Apartheid

Council of Canadians

Is Our Right to Peaceful Protest Disappearing?

David Korten

The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over