The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective is releasing its 17th calendar this coming fall. The theme for 2018 is ‘Awakening Resistance,’ reflecting on organizing in the current political climate.
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Their message: Stop the export of toxic gasoline to West-Africa – and end the era of fossil fuels.
We will be telling the truth in the courtroom; namely, we would do again and again exactly what we did that day.
Thousands of mink for the first time felt their feet on the ground and with little jumps departed from that camp to freedom!
Alberto Toledo participated as an activist and territory defender against mining and wind energy megaprojects, and against the high cost of electricity in the communities of Chahuites and the Eastern Zone of the Isthmus region. He was also part of the Formation of Indigenous Peoples of the Oaxacan Isthmus and belonged to the National Network of Civil Resistance.
On 20th May 1997 police, baileffs, and unknown men-in-black, started removing protesters from the site of what is now Manchester Airport’s Runway 2. It would take four weeks to remove everyone from the tunnels and the trees, and twenty years later they still haven’t built another runway anywhere in the UK.
A group of Greeks in Thessaloniki who have been resisting a controversial gold mine in their country took some time away from the struggle to show support for Standing Rock resistors who are currently facing heavy fines and trumped up felony charges.
In July of 2012, Sven and Natasha were arrested for “conspiracy to blackmail,” a charge stemming from their efforts to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory and the target of the worldwide campaign known as Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).
The mine will generate toxic waste two-fold the volume of Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf mountain. A community of 300 families will have to be relocated should the project go forward.