Trade unions, university students, peasants and other groups in Peru are holding a 48-hour strike in Cusco that has suspended train services to the Inca citadel Machu Picchu due to protests over an irrigation project that critics say could leave communities without water.
Six activists chained themselves to a crane in western Turkey on Monday to protest a hydroelectric dam that will mean the destruction of an ancient city of Allianoi.
An estimated 1500 Scouts gathered in the little town of Vlaardingen near Rotterdam on Saturday to create an aerial image of 10:10, a global campaign to cut carbon emissions by 10 percent a year starting this year.
A group of 12 Chilean activists began an open-ended “massive solidarity fast” on Sept. 14 to support indigenous Mapuche prisoners who have been carrying out a liquids-only hunger strike since July 12. They were arrested under a Pinochet-era law that criminalizes legitimate forms of protest against the seizure of their lands.
Thousands of protesters led by high school students marched on Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo on Sept. 16 to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the “Night of the Pencils,” when student protesters demanding free public transportation and other benefits were kidnapped and killed by the military dictatorship.
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Defying a media blackout and severe backlash, Tibetan monks, nuns and residents of a threatened mountain community are showing the world their resistance to a Chinese dam.
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