Sentences with phrase «activists from»

According to Sahrawi NGOs, on January 21, Moroccan authorities removed six Norwegian activists from international political and human rights organizations from Western Sahara.
The injunction prohibits activists from getting within five metres of Kinder Morgan's two terminal sites on Burnaby Mountain where work related to the pipeline expansion is underway.
The parallel between «lawfare» and what activists from the other end of the spectrum would call a SLAPP suit, or strategic litigation against public participation, is interesting.
I understand the governor's instinct to strike first so as to prevent all those anti-death penalty lawyers and activists from clogging up the phone lines Callin» Baton Rouge, but it seems a bit strange to someone who's filed most of his papers in county courts, rather than parish courts.
This morning six local activists from Chicago climbed over a fence at the Crawford coal plant, scaled a mountain of coal, and unfurled a huge 7 ′ x 30 ′ banner reading «Close Chicago's Toxic Coal Plants.»
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), held each year at the University of Oregon Law School in Eugene, brings together attorneys, practitioners, students, and activists from around the world to explore panel and keynote topics as interesting and diverse as global warming impacts in Africa to wolf recovery in Oregon.
Ms. Cáceres was shot dead on March 2nd in her home town in Honduras, less than one year since she was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize — a prestigious award recognizing grassroots environmental activists from around the world.
But the hard scientific data revealing no connection to «global warming» will not prevent the media and climate activists from their usual claims trying to link wildfires to «climate change.»»
The IPCC «scientists» and the activists from GreenPeace and WWF are peers.
In the afternoon, we were joined by several local activists from the nearby town of Plogoff, who successfully campaigned against a new nuclear power plant being built on the coastline in the 1970s.
Watch Indigenous activists from Idle No More San Francisco stand up to Big Oil by organizing healing walks in communities near refineries.
First proposed back in 1992 at the Earth Summit by the Government of Canada, it took activists from Oceana and and other conservation and ocean protection groups signing petitions by the thousands to get the UN to finally make it official.
Right now the exact route of the East - West Highway hasn't been revealed, but that hasn't stopped activists from spreading the word about it being a major threat to the state's natural heritage.
In February 2018, activists gathered in Johannesburg for a series of meetings, community exchange, and training as part of the decoalonise strategy to build the organising and campaigning capacity of anti-coal activists from Africa.
On Monday at noon, Ritter - Sorononen will join over a hundred activists from St. Louis and around the country to march through downtown St. Louis in a creative direct action to spotlight Peabody Energy and Bankof America's records of environmental and human exploitation.
Removing activists from the grant process will be beneficial to science and to the tax payers.
Composed of activists from across the political spectrum, A City for All represents an attempt to transcend the limits of party politics in order to build an urban coalition with a coherent social and environmental message.
To make sure delegates in Bonn, Germany, where climate negotiators are now gathering, get it, activists from 350.org and other groups created a spectacular
Various reports are coming out claiming that Russian authorities have reduced the charges against the Arctic Sunrise activists from piracy to hooliganism.
Activists from Climate Camp Cymru have blockaded a biomass plant in Port Talbot to protest against plans to produce electricity from imported woodchips.
Soon, the Obama administration published a five - page talking points memo assailing the economic assessment — written by two young, non-economist, pro-wind activists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Boulder, Colorado.
Inspired by Standing Rock protests, more than 100 activists from Maryland, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia camped out to voice their opposition to the pipeline over the course of the summer.
As politicians cop - out on genuine climate action at the international climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large across the city.
Tomorrow, Saturday June 12, activists from affected communities in the Bay Area refinery corridor and along crude by rail blast zones will come together for the last of four Refinery Healing Walks, which have traced a path of pollution from oil refinery to oil refinery across the northeast San Francisco Bay.
We brought together 45 young activists from across Europe to take part in a series of training events and actions, leading up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark 2009.
Activists from Friends of the Earth Europe, Food and Water Europe, HEAL and SOS Rosia Montana Brussels gathered outside the European Commission today to stand in solidarity with communities resisting fracking across Europe.
The Goldman Prize wishes to thank Yul Choi and his organization for inviting Prize winners to participate and collaborate with other environmental activists from throughout Asia.
Yesterday, on the eve of the UN Climate Talks, the Pacific Climate Warriors and activists from around the world used their bodies, their culture and their spirits to demand an end to the era of fossil fuels.
The day I spoke with her, El Haité had come to offer some words of inspiration at the Global Finance Action Summit, a gathering of climate finance experts and activists from different sectors.
Taking place in the months leading up to COP21 in Paris, the film chronicles activists from around the world and the different tactics they use to make their voices heard.
There they heard from author Chris Hedges, and climate activists from around the world.
I joined activists from all over the country who actively work to increase the safety, transparency, and accountability of the nuclear energy industry -LSB-...]
Secretariat can't pretend this time that this is to protect the young activists from the repercussions of a repressive regime like in Doha...
They are presented annually to six environmental activists from around the world who «demonstrate exceptional courage and commitment, often working at great risk to protect our environment.»
NEWS: UN climate pact should ensure basic rights of forest communities are respected, say activists from Liberia and Philippines
As politicians copped - out of genuine climate action at the international climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large across the city.
Lead by Kanahus Manuel and other activists from the Secwepemc tribes, volunteer builders from all over North America have began showing up to help with the construction of the tiny homes, which are being constructed on wheels so they can easily be moved along the proposed pipeline route according to where they are needed.
In Washington, DC, activists from the U.S. and Africa will demonstrate across from the World Bank's headquarters from 12:00 — 2:00 pm to call on the Bank to vote «no.»
Each year the Goldman Foundation recognizes six activists from around the world who have demonstrated awesome courage, creativity, and resilience in their efforts to defend wild nature and human communities.
Activists from across Alaska, California, and the country confirm their commitment to protecting ANWR and other irreplaceable wild areas in the Alaskan Arctic while Big Oil celebrates the business certainty for long - term refinery production offered by the market - based mechanism.
Set up by billionaires Nat Simons and his wife, Sea Change has been exposed by multiple investigators as a shell corporation that funnels huge sums to radical anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel activists from Vladimir Putin pals, giant Russian oil companies and investment groups, and more reputable sources like the Gates and Walmart Foundations.
On the occasion of the Friends of the Earth International days of action for climate justice, activists from Center for the Environment / Friends of the Earth Bosnia & Herzegovina gathered in front of the Republika Srpska government building to show clearly what the country can expect over the next 30 years if the government continues to pursue a policy of investing in fossil fuels.
Friends of the Earth groups from across the European network gathered for the annual general meeting, and following that celebrated a successful Basecamp — a festive weekend for local groups and activists from Friends of the Earth from across the UK.
Next week, anti-fracking activists from Washington County, Pennsylvania will be speaking in Winthrop and Jamaica Plain (details below) about their experiences with fracking and how their fight is conn...
Cáceres was shot dead in her home town in Honduras, less than a year since she was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize - a prestigious award recognizing grassroots environmental activists from around the world.
What: On Thursday, November 9th, community and grassroots leaders from the United States who make up the «U.S. People's Delegation», joined by activists from the Pacific Islands known as the Pacific Climate Warriors and Germany's Ende Gelende activists, will participate in a speak out and share personal stories of how their communities are being impacted by unjust policies, governmental unaccountability, the fossil fuel industry, and ever - present climate disasters.
In September 2017, energy experts and activists from 20 countries gathered in Spain and explored how clean, renewable energy can remain in people's hands.
Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate justice activists from around the world.»
Six years after starting a campaign to kick fossil fuel sponsorship out of cultural and arts institutions in the UK, activists from the collective, Liberate Tate, will be touring the US this month.
The homeless activists from SHARE and Nickelsville make a valid point: «Without shelter, people die.»
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