New York, April 18th – This Wednesday, in commemoration of Earth Day, and under the shadow of the one year anniversary of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf, the UN General Assembly will discuss implementing...
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April 18, 2011
The olive and citrus trees were blooming all over Palestine on Prisoners’ day. Pink irises, red puppies, and yellow flowers weave interesting patterns among the endless green carpet underneath the fruiting almonds, fig, and loquet trees. Green almonds are eaten with a...
April 18, 2011
KABUL, 18 April 2011 (IRIN) - Aid agencies and education officials are concerned that scaling down school feeding programmes in impoverished rural areas of Afghanistan could adversely affect school attendance and the health and nutrition of hundreds of thousands of...
April 18, 2011
"The Oil Is Not Gone": BP Tries to Block Gulf Residents from Shareholder Meeting - By Antonia Juhasz
“There’s no way BP will deny us access. They’d be insane to do so. For one thing, they’d be breaking the law. For another, it would be the public relations equivelant of Tony Hayward’s ‘I want my life back’ debacle in response to the oil spill. Shutting Gulf Coast...
April 17, 2011
"The Oil Is Not Gone": BP Tries to Block Gulf Residents from Shareholder Meeting - By Antonia Juhasz
“There’s no way BP will deny us access. They’d be insane to do so. For one thing, they’d be breaking the law. For another, it would be the public relations equivelant of Tony Hayward’s ‘I want my life back’ debacle in response to the oil spill. Shutting Gulf Coast...
April 17, 2011
An investigation by “60 Minutes” casts doubt on the accuracy of the inspirational best seller “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson, saying it is filled with inaccuracies. It also says that Mr. Mortenson’s charitable organization, the Central Asia Institute, has taken...
April 16, 2011
April 14, 2011 - London
Antonia Juhasz speaks at BP's first annual shareholder meeting since the...
April 15, 2011
April 14, 2011 - London
Antonia Juhasz speaks at BP's first annual shareholder meeting since the...
April 15, 2011
Juhasz, author of the new book, Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Disaster and director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange...
April 15, 2011
Juhasz, author of the new book, Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Disaster and director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange...
April 15, 2011
(San Francisco, April 14) — As the first anniversary of the BP oil spill disaster approaches on April 20, the winner of Global Exchange’s domestic Human Rights Award, Wilma Subra, continues her work helping local communities hold toxic industries accountable for...
April 14, 2011
April 14, 2011
April 14, 2011
Protesters from British unions and the US state of Louisiana have rallied outside the ExCel Centre in London, where BP is holding its AGM.
Antonia Juhasz, is a BP shareholder and spokeswoman from the human rights group Global Exchange.
She said she was...
April 14, 2011
Protesters from British unions and the US state of Louisiana have rallied outside the ExCel Centre in London, where BP is holding its AGM.
Antonia Juhasz, is a BP shareholder and spokeswoman from the human rights group Global Exchange.
She said she was...
April 14, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- BP chief executive Bob Dudley on Thursday read aloud the names of the 11 men killed aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last year -- a response to stinging criticism at its annual shareholder meeting that the company was putting profits over...
April 14, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- BP chief executive Bob Dudley on Thursday read aloud the names of the 11 men killed aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last year -- a response to stinging criticism at its annual shareholder meeting that the company was putting profits over...
April 14, 2011
The hatches have been battened down at BP headquarters in London as angry shareholders, artists, campaigners and people from communities affected by its...
April 14, 2011
The hatches have been battened down at BP headquarters in London as angry shareholders, artists, campaigners and people from communities affected by its...
April 14, 2011
April 14, 2011 -- Gulf Coast fishermen and residents sponsored by the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health (www.gulfcoastfund.org) to travel to London to attend BP's first...
April 14, 2011