Posts Tagged ‘protectors’

Tribes And Water Protectors Ward Off New Black Hills Gold Rush

Native nations and citizen watchdogs were prepared to take action against the permitting, because this is not the first time the federal agency has moved to allow the renewal of large-scale mining at these headwaters of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Four toxic Superfund sites are the result of water pollution from the mining over […]

Komainu Hybrid Lion-Dog Protectors Of Asian Temples And Shrines

Tattoo art and designs, like virtually everything else in Japanese life, are often based on traditional beliefs or historical events. In fact, some of the most popular Japanese tattoo designs are of mythical creatures, like the komainu.  Read more Section:  News Premium Preview Read Later 

Water Protectors Lead A Movement To Close Navy Fuel Site After Leak

Above Photo: An action in front of the headquarters of the U.S. Navy Pacific Command. Greg Noir / Twitter. In the wake of a major leak by the Navy that contaminated O’ahu’s water supply, water protectors found unlikely allies among outraged military families. Upwards of 100 water protectors rallied outside the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu […]

150,000 ‘nature protectors’ to help DOE forces

150,000 ‘nature protectors’ to help DOE forces – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Some 150,000 people are participating in training courses in the fields of fire prevention and control to help rangers of the Department of Environment as “nature protectors”. A total of 1,371 training courses have been held in the country over the past eight months, […]

Prosecutor Sought Enbridge Funding To Prosecute Water Protectors

Above Photo: Water Protectors lock down to construction equipment at a Line 3 pipeline pumping station near the Itasca State Park in Minnesota as police in riot gear line up on June 7, 2021. Kerem Yucel / AFP / Getty Images. The Center for Protest Law & Litigation has obtained documents through our ongoing investigation […]

Fifteen Things Biodiversity Protectors Are Watching Out For In 2022

Above Photo: Bees are seen on a honeycomb cell at the BEE Lab hives at The University of Sydney on May 18, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images. It’s no secret that the diversity of life around us is plummeting fast. In 2020 alone, scientists declared more than 100 species to […]

New Campaign To Drop Charges Against Line 3 Pipeline Water Protectors

Above photo: Ron Turney. Anishinaabe Akiing, Minnesota – Today, defendants arrested while opposing the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline launched a campaign calling on Minnesota’s elected leadership to drop all criminal charges against over 700 water protectors. A Drop the Charges petition to MN Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison […]

Mi’kmaq Grandmothers And Water Protectors Celebrate Alton Gas Decommissioning

Company announced the end of Alton Natural Gas Storage Project today. Unceded Mi’kmaq Territory – After eight years of resistance led by grassroots Mi’kmaw grandmothers and water protectors to defend the Shubenacadie River from Alton Gas, the company has announced they will be decommissioning this project. We wish to express with the utmost humility and […]

Oil flows through Line 3 as water protectors continue resistance to pipeline

While oil started flowing through Line 3 pipeline on Friday, resistance to the pipeline will continue. Water protectors vow to keep fighting for climate justice as a challenge to the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to issue a key water-crossing permit for the pipeline is still pending in federal court. The owners of the pipeline, […]

Water Protectors Shut Down Major US-Canadian Tar Sands Terminal

Clearbrook, MN – This morning, Water Protectors erected multiple blockades at a major U.S.-Canadian tar sands terminal in Clearbrook, Minnesota in direct opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3. From grandmothers to young people, Water Protectors of all walks of life continue to stand up for the sacred. On one end of the mile-long blockade, grandmothers led […]

Thousands Of Water Protectors Rally At The Minnesota State Capitol

Above photo: Nedahness Greene, Resist Line 3. Calling on President Biden to Halt the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline. Nearly 200 held unpermitted space  overnight in prayer on the Capitol lawn. St Paul, MN – On Wednesday afternoon, more than 2,000 water protectors gathered outside the Minnesota State Capitol for the Treaties not Tar Sands […]

Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against Sheriff

Above Photo: Giniw Collective. Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the […]

Hundreds arrested at Line 3 ‘treaty people gathering.’ Water protectors vow to continue until the pipeline is canceled

Image Credit: Ginew Collective Nearly 200 people were arrested on Monday while protesting the Line 3 pipeline, a long-distance tar sands pipeline that runs across Indigenous land and threatens food and water resources, including the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Indigenous and environmental groups, and even some elected officials, condemned the aggressive use of a […]

Water Protectors Block Line 3 Construction In Honor Of Earth Day

By Resist Line 3. Popular Resistance. April 24, 2021 NOTE: Listen to this interview with Dawn Goodwin of the RISE Coalition on Clearing the FOG to learn more about the struggle to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline and how you can support it.   – MF Hill City, MN – Early Friday morning, five […]

Water Protectors Chain Themselves Inside Enbridge Line 3 Pipe

Above photo: Environmental activist Winona LaDuke (C) and water protectors stand in front of the construction site for the Line 3 oil pipeline near Palisade, Minnesota, on Jan. 9, 2021. Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images. Minnesota – Water protectors were arrested Thursday after halting construction at a Minnesota worksite for Enbridge’s Line 3 project […]

Water Protectors Construct Longhouse To Block Doors Of Puget Sound Energy HQ In Bellevue

Water Protectors Construct Longhouse To Block Doors Of Puget Sound Energy HQ In Bellevue Above Photo: From Earthfirstjournal.org Water Protectors have constructed a Longhouse to block the doors of the Puget Sound Energy HQ in Bellevue, WA. Permits were applied for but it was thought with the way PSE operate, they would understand if it was […]

Insulting protectors of society order, security mustn’t be tolerated

president.ir- President Rouhani had a phone call with the chief commander of Law Enforcement Force of Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Ashtari, and expressed condolences over the martyrdom of sincere, devoted police officers in the recent unrest, appreciating powerful, wise management by security forces, especially the police, for protecting the country’s security. In the phone […]

Water Protectors Block All Entrances LNG Facility In Tacoma

Water Protectors Block All Entrances LNG Facility In Tacoma Above Photo: From pugetsoundanarchists.org 150+ Water Protectors blocked all entrances of the construction site to the LNG facility in Tacoma, WA. *Multiple reports saying there have been arrests and heavy riot police presence* Reasons to oppose this project include:  It is being built without the consent of […]

Coalition Of Water Protectors Call For Nestlé Boycott

Above photo: From Waking Times Media. Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Mecosta, MI – Great Lakes water protector groups including U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous representatives united at the Water Is Life: Strengthening the Great Lakes […]

Watching The Hawks – The Water Protectors March On

Watching The Hawks – The Water Protectors March On Watching The Hawksyoutube.com Watching the Hawks Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace welcome the Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Harold Frazier along with Attorney and Tribal Member Tracey Zephier into the Hawks Nest to discuss the latest efforts in the fight to protect our water […]

Unarmed Man Shot In Back, Paralyzed By Cop Awarded $23.1 Million

On Wednesday, a federal jury awarded $23.1 million to Dontrell Stephens – an unarmed man shot in the back by a Palm Beach County, Florida sheriff’s deputy back in 2013. Dash-cam video of the incident emerged in April of last year showing Sgt. Adams Lin shooting Stephens four times after he was followed while riding his bicycle in West Palm Beach. […]

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