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World Water Day, Protect the Universal Human Right to Water ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, water, protection, habitat, humans, rights )

Cher
- 34 days ago - change.org
Protect our right to water. If you don't speak out, our access to clean, safe, affordable water is at risk.
11 comments
South Florida Water Managers Raise Questions About Expanding Rock Mining Near Everglades Restoration -- South Florida Sun-Sentin
Environment  (tags: environment, Everglades, wetlands, water management, rights, mining, nature, conservation )

Raffi
- 73 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
Environmental concerns are growing for plans to expand rock mining in an agricultural area targeted for Everglades restoration. Star Ranch, mined by Ron Bergeron's excavation operation, would expand its digging to almost 600 additional acres west of
5 comments
Access to Water Key for World's Poor: Experts
Environment  (tags: society, rights, humans, environment, protection, water, climate, world )

Cal
- 98 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
An international cast of politicians, industry leaders and United Nations officials joined forces Monday to improve access to water and halt a tide of deaths in poor nations.
1 comment
Climate Emergency: Call the U.S. House Today!
Environment  (tags: climate-change, avaaz.org, global-warming, climate, weather, politics, congress, HouseofRepresentatives, u.s., USA, legislation, law, rights, freedoms, constitution, petition, environment, government, world, information, resources, education, CO2emissions )

SirRobert
- 152 days ago - care2.com
Your participation could help cast the deciding vote! Please visit this entry site and receive telephone details, along with Climate Change Resource Information. TY!!!
18 comments
Defend Sacred Sites: San Francisco Protest May 6th
Environment  (tags: Indigenous People, Sacred Sites, conservation, endangered, environment, destruction, nature, pollution, protection, religion, culture, society, ethics, rights )

Kat
- 203 days ago - indybay.org
PROTESTS TAKING PLACE IN SAN FRANCICSO, PHOENIX, TUCSON AND SONORA, MEXICO! The Mexican government and a company called CEGIR/Centro de Gestion Integral de Residuos S.A. want to build a hazardous waste dump in O'odham territory, near the sacred site..
22 comments
Mount Taylor Named One of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
Environment  (tags: Mount Taylor, Indians, American Indians, Native Americans, culture, society, news, sadness, rights, ethics, religion, freedoms, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution )

Kat
- 204 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
WASHINGTON - The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Mount Taylor, near Grants, N.M., to its 2009 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This annual list highlights important examples of the nation's architectural, cultural...
14 comments
Help STOP the ARCTIC OCEAN MULTI-SALE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT: TAKE ACTION!
Environment  (tags: americans, culture, society, death, ethics, government, interesting, rights, politics, lies, obama, ethics, animals, conservation, destruction, environment, habitat, habitatdestruction, pollution, protection, water, wildlife )

Kat
- 240 days ago - mynewsletterbuilder.com
Alaska Native coastal communities need your support. Please submit a comment to the Minerals Management Service by the deadline of March 30, 2009 on the ARCTIC OCEAN MULTI-SALE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PLEASE TAKE ACTION!
19 comments
'Barack In, Barrick Out!'
Environment  (tags: Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, Shoshone Indians, Mt. Tenabo, ethics, freedoms, government, news, culture, society, ethics, americans, politics, interesting, environment, religion, rights, destruction, endangered, conservation, habitat, habita )

Kat
- 308 days ago - bsnorrell.blogspot.com
the Federal District Court in Reno, Nevada will begin a two day injunction hearing to protect the world-recognized Shoshone spiritual area, Mt. Tenabo from what would be one of the U.S.' largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines. Just two months...
15 comments
100 Companies No Environmentalist Should Ever Support
Environment  (tags: Environment, companies, Violation, Rights, Law )

Jollygirl
- 424 days ago - x-raytechnicianschools.org
If you're worried about environmental issues, take a look at this list of offenders and make sure you're not contributing to their assault of the environment.
20 comments
I Was Shot, Claims Anti-Whaling Activist
Environment  (tags: science, research, investigation, news, humans, interesting, protection, risks, death, prevention, safety, news, rights, ethics, environment, conservation, endangered, whaling, water, suffering, animals, destruction, conflict, violence )

Kim
- 625 days ago - stuff.co.nz
Japan has dismissed as a lie claims by the captain of an anti-whaling ship he was shot at during the latest confrontation with a whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean.
5 comments
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America
Environment  (tags: abuse, corruption, crime, freedoms, propaganda, constitution, freedoms, government, terrorism, rights, freedoms, abuse, AlternativeMed )

Rachel
- 724 days ago - newstarget.com
This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut down and their authors imprisoned.
17 comments
Greenpeace Protests Japan Ban On Anti-Whaling Ship!
Environment  (tags: whaliing, greenpeace, Animal Welfare, rights )

Rachel
- 969 days ago - today.reuters.com
Barring Greenpeace's anti-whaling ship Esperanza from docking in Tokyo violates free speech and suggests that Japan may have something to hide, the environmental group said on Thursday. The ship had hoped to bring its campaign to Japan, where whaling...
3 comments
   

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