Fredericton Peace Coalition

“Hundreds of thousands of hectares of mineral claims are being “staked” without consultation — let alone approved by affected communities, many of whom are in land claims negotiations and land use-planning exercises.”

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“There is a cruel irony about the marketing of “Polar Bear diamonds” at a time when the polar bear is being seriously threatened by global warming and the incursion of development into Canada’s boreal region.”

Women in Black Vigil

Perhaps making us safer is not the real aim. Winning the war may not be the point. Militarily counterproductive tactics have been the norm in many developing countries; widespread attacks on civilians tended to attract support for the enemy. In Sudan, government-backed raids on civilians (today in the west, in the past in the south) stimulated support for rebel groups. They were also lucrative. In the south, the lure of oil has been a key motive in the creation of famine.

“At least 1,280 workers have been arrested in a series of immigration raids targeting meatpacking plants owned by the company Swift. The raids took place in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa and Minnesota It marks the largest sweep of its kind ever against a single company.”

Botswana’s High Court has ruled that hundreds of Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to return.

Afghan women are seeking death by fire.