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Shut down the Dryden Mill!
“It is time for some justice!” Clayton Thomas-Müller, prominent Cree activist and writer, called out to members of Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong (White Dog) First Nations protesting outside the Dryden Mill on 21 May. The Dryden Mill has been a site of trauma and oppression for these Anishinaabe communities for decades. In the 1960s and 70s […]
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Grassy Narrows continues to resist nuclear waste site
On 6 June, members of Grassy Narrows First Nation and Fort William First Nation will gather with supporters in Thunder Bay (in northwestern Ontario, Canada) to protest plans to bury nuclear waste on Treaty 3 territory. Since discovering the proposal to build a “deep geological repository” for nuclear waste at a site near Ignace, Ontario, […]
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Shut down the Dryden Mill
On 21 May, First Nations communities gathered outside the Dryden Mill to call for an end to the ongoing poisoning of their environment.
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Three months of Iran-linked attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Since the US-Israel war on Iran, CPT Iraqi Kurdistan has monitored 751 attacks, including 22 killed and 112 injured, in Iranian strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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The “new law”: screening, detention, and containment on the North Aegean islands
Greece's new draft migration law marks an escalation in deterrence, incorporating frontline regions such as Lesvos into an expanded enforcement architecture.
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Life for all
A few weeks ago, two dead manatees were found within 24 hours of each other in the San Silvestre Marsh, a vital water source for the people of Barrancabermeja and one of the most important ecosystems surrounding the oil port. Over the past seven years, sixteen manatees have died there, raising concerns that oil pollution […]
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