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ACTION NEEDED Wolves Nationwide Losing Critical Protections
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, sadness, safety, politics, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, nature, wildlife, safety, prevention, treatment, sadness, suffering, slaughter, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, killed, killing, animaladvocates )

Kelly
- 18 days ago - org2.salsalabs.com
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed removing crucial Endangered Species Act protections from wolves across the lower 48 states. Newly-confirmed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has a big choice
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Sacred Earth: Faiths for Conservation
Society & Culture  (tags: animals, climate-change, climate, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, globalwarming, green, habitatdestruction, habitat, nature, pollution, protection, politics, Sust )

JL
- 68 days ago - worldwildlife.org
Many of the most important conservation places in the world are sacred. Sites like the Amazon, South Dakota's Black Hills, and the Mekong River are deeply rooted in local spiritual and cultural traditions.
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The Hidden Massacre of WhiteClay   video
Society & Culture  (tags: Whiteclay, Lakota Indians, Nebraska, Petition, illegal alcohol sales, massacre, destruction, shameful, South Dakota )

Dandelion
- 184 days ago - youtube.com
Whiteclay extension was incorporated into the Pine Ridge reservation by 2 acts of Congress, Theodore Roosevelt's executive order removing this was illegal in 1904. Illegal sale of alcohol to Pine Ridge residents started immediately upon removal of this.
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Stand Up With Julia Trigg Crawford and Her Family to Save Their Land
Society & Culture  (tags: environment, Trans Canada, destruction, humans, rights, ethics, family, freedoms, law )

Carrie
- 251 days ago - nacstop.org
It is a sad day here at Red'Arc Farm as I watch TransCanada's work crew cut my fence and start putting survey markers all across my pasture. Their actions just strengthen my resolve to continue fighting this battle and appeal the ruling to a higher court.
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Stop Tanzania From Evicting the Maasai Tribe From Their Land ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: environment, humans, protection, habitat, destruction, animals )

Cher
- 275 days ago - forcechange.com
Do not evict the Maasai people from their traditional land in favor of allowing a big game hunting corporation to move in.
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Yolanda Oqueli: Mining Activist Shot and Wounded in Guatemala ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, freedoms, rights, protection, shot, mining, destruction, violence, environment, health, activists )

Cher
- 284 days ago - amnesty.ca
Please add your name to Amnesty's petition asking the President of Guatemala to provide appropriate protection to Yolanda Oquelí and her family, and to activists working against human rights violations caused by mining operations
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ACTION ALERT: June 16 Vote - Tell Kansas City Council: Get City Out of Building New Nuke Weapons! PLEASE SIGN !
Society & Culture  (tags: nuclear weapons, protests, kansas city council, buildings, destruction, finances )

Simone
- 709 days ago - change.org
It's entirely unprecedented for a city to help finance, and for a city agency to own, a plant for producing nuclear weapons components - nowhere in the world has a city had such participation. Yet Kansas City has put up municipal bonds to help finance a
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Execs Responsible for Deadly Mine Disaster Get New Jobs ! PLEASE SIGN PETITION ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, environment, protection, rights, safety, death, mining, destruction, ethics )

Cher
- 714 days ago - news.change.org
A little over a year ago, a massive explosion in the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia killed 29 mine workers. According to a newly released independent report commissioned by the state, the explosion was caused by lax safety precautions, shoddy
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ACTION ALERT: End Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies for Big Oil ! - PLEASE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: climate, legaliation, big oil companies, envifronment, destruction, pollutio, wildlife, taxpayers, subsidies )

Simone
- 742 days ago - action.biologicaldiversity.org
The 2011 first-quarter profit reports are in. Exxon's profits soared more than $10 billion, up a whopping 69 percent from last year. Shell reported profits of $6.9 billion, up by more than 30 percent. And despite the devastating Gulf oil spill, BP made
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ACTION ALERT: Call for Shut Down of Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia ! PLEASE SIGN !
Society & Culture  (tags: nuclear power plants, destruction, armenia, protection, humans, environment )

Simone
- 787 days ago - change.org
The recent earthquake in Japan has shown vividly the inherent dangers of nuclear power plants in seismically-active areas. If Japan was caught off-guard, then what is to say of the undemocratic and economically poor country of Armenia?
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Ban Endosulfan ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: environment, protection, destruction, Endosulfan, humans, habitat, nature )

Cher
- 808 days ago - change.org
Despite being a poison and having caused many human sufferings and irreparable ecological damage this chemical is still sold and used in our country.Endosulfan which has been banned across 74 countries in all the continents after elaborate studies.
21 comments
'THE ANCESTORS ARE CRYING' - SPIRITUAL CEREMONY AT GLEN COVE
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, religion, culture, society, politics, rights, news, humans, environment, ethics, activists, destruction, environment, protection )

Kat
- 968 days ago - indybay.org
Come join us on the REAL FRONT LINES FOR MORE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS FOR INDIAN COUNTRY!
THE ANCESTORS ARE CRYING! BRING YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR MEDICINE, YOUR SONGS to stop the eco-rape and destruction of the shell mound where the Ancient Ones Sleep!
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AN AMAZON CHERNOBYL? Chevron Fights Potentially Historic Environmental Damages Case
Society & Culture  (tags: ecosystems, CORPORATE, corporate, destruction, environment, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, environment, law, rights, politics, society, ethics, government, freedoms, corruption, crime, culture )

Cal
- 1003 days ago - uk.reuters.com
A run-down court building that also houses the local casino in this Amazon jungle town is the unlikely venue for the largest environmental damages lawsuit ever tried.
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