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<div class='node-body'><p>Victory for environmentalists may be near in one of the more overlooked battles in the war against Canadian tar sands oil.</p>
<p>A backdoor plan by Canada's Enbridge and the US-based ExxonMobil to establish an alternate tar sands pipeline has met fierce resistance in the small town of South Portland, Maine where the proposed export terminal would be built.</p>
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<div class='node-body'><p>Victory for the environmentalists may be near in one of the more overlooked battles in the war against Canadian tar sands oil.</p>
<p>A backdoor plan by Canada's Enbridge and the US-based ExxonMobil to establish an alternate tar sands pipeline has met fierce resistance in the small town of South Portland, Maine where the proposed export terminal would be built.</p>
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On February 1968 The antiauthoritarian anticapitalist Matzpen initiated in Jerusalem the first (18 strong) vigil again 1967 occupation. Two years l...
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Winnipeg, Man. — A group of Pimicikamak citizens from Cross Lake will arrive at Manitoba Hydro headquarters tomorrow, June 19, to deliver their own version of the “Friendly Reminder Notices” that Hydro has sent to many homes in Cross Lake....
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WHITE CLAY, NEBRASKA – Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer was arrested today [June 17] in White Clay, Nebraska. It was not immediately known what he is charged with at press time. He was reportedly taken to Rushville, Nebraska for booking,...
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<div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 560px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/turkey-standingman.jpg" style="width: 560px; height: 342px;" title="Erdem Gunduz (C) stands in a silent protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul early June 18, 2013.
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<div class='node-body'><p>'Standing man' protests have gone viral across Turkey as the silent, living monuments to mass uprising met by government crackdown spread amidst violent raids.</p>
<p>It started with one man who stood silently in Turkey's embattled Taksim Square Monday, facing an image of Kemal Ataturk covering the Ataturk Cultural Center.</p>
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As CNN reported in October 2011, the oil boom at the Bakken formation in the Dakotas and Montana comes with a price. The resultant crime wave, due to tens of thousands of oil workers descending on the area and looking to party, has overwhelmed small town...
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<div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/rtx10qps.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 383px;" title="Relatives of Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison shout slogans during a protest to demand the release of the detainees, outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa June 17, 2013.
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<div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/rtx10qps.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 383px;" title="Relatives of Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison shout slogans during a protest to demand the release of the detainees, outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa June 17, 2013.
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<div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/brazil-protests-single-image-cut.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 326px;" title="Over 100,000 people took to the streets of Rio de Janiero Monday night.
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<div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/brazil-protests-single-image-cut.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 326px;" title="Over 100,000 people took to the streets of Rio de Janiero Monday night.
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Washington, DC – On Friday, 12 civil society organizations urged the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, to conduct a formal investigation into the human rights impacts of the Barro Blanco dam located...
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<div class='node-body'><p>The Supreme Court pushed back Monday against a longstanding practise in the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry under which large-scale companies pay producers of generic copies to hold off introducing those low-cost drugs into the marketplace.</p>
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<div class='node-body'><p>The Supreme Court pushed back Monday against a longstanding practise in the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry under which large-scale companies pay producers of generic copies to hold off introducing those low-cost drugs into the marketplace.</p>
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