Tag Archives | environmental destruction

  • Allies take place outside Glencore offices ahead of Annual General Meeting in Switzerland. Photo: screenshot

    Colonial mining fuels Israeli genocide: global protests target Glencore

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 29, 2025 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.

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    Criminalizing environmental activism

    Originally published: nacla on October 4, 2017 by Moira Birss (more by nacla)  | (Posted Oct 14, 2017)

    Berta Cáceres, assassinated in her home on March 3, 2016, was just one of hundreds of Latin American environmental activists attacked in recent years. At least 577 environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) were killed in Latin America between 2010 and 2015—more than in any other region—as documented by Global Witness.