Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights, End Dirty Energy, Featured, Global Exchange News & Events, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 20th February, 2013 | 7 Comments
Gas and oil companies are quietly bringing fracking to the Golden State, placing not just Californians, but the planet at risk. In fact the process has already begun; promising to make California the number one oil producing state in the country, or as some call it The Saudi Arabia of the US—but at what cost? Global Exchange is working with communities to say “no” and leading a speaking tour April 15-22 through California’s fracklands.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights, Featured, Global Exchange News & Events on 3rd August, 2011 | 2 Comments
21 climate justice activists convened in San Francisco last weekend for the “Rights of Nature Activist Strategy Summit”. Attendees represented a wide range of organizations and fields; climate justice, environmental policy, and social justice organizations, think tanks, and experts in law. Summit attendee Meera Karunananthan shares her experience and thoughts from the summit.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights on 15th October, 2010 | 5 Comments
Blog Action Day: Water. It is widely understood that the ecosystems we as humans rely on to survive are diminishing, depleting, and drying up. Water— most essential to life– is being privatized and mismanaged at the cost of people’s heath and livelihoods, namely by multi-national corporations that are extracting water from communities without their consent.
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