San Francisco Bay Area organizations offering education-based trips to Cuba will now be able to fly out of Oakland International Airport, which has been approved as one of only 4 charter flight gateways to the Caribbean island. Airport officials announced today that...
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TEHRAN — Not participating in the 2012 London Olympics is a nightmare for every serious athlete, but for the Iranian women’s soccer team the defeat was extra bitter after they were disqualified right before a crucial qualifying match because they wore Islamic headscarves...
June 6, 2011
NEW YORK CITY///NEWS ADVISORY// With World Day Against Child Labor right around the corner, students and social justice leaders and groups will gather...
June 6, 2011
Is it possible to grant Mother Earth the same rights as people? And what does that mean? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation on a new law in Bolivia, which redefines natural resources as blessings and gives nature the same rights as human beings. How...
June 1, 2011
It is alleged that civil servants were among those who profited from the purchase of blood supplies imported from abroad throughout the 1990s.
On Wednesday 14 people were arrested in three Brazilian cities.
The darkly named Operation Vampire has revealed...
May 27, 2011
With 43 lobbyists and a federal influence-peddling budget of at least $35 million this past election cycle, Chevron must have an ambitious agenda for the...
May 26, 2011
"We are the human face of Chevron's operations, armed with the memories of our dead relatives, our neighbors, our sick children," said one woman who traveled from Ecuador."
San Ramon, CA - Yesterday, Chevron's Annual General Meeting of shareholders kicked off at the San Ramon...
May 26, 2011
MANHATTAN (CN) - More than 20 influential Chevron shareholders, including the New York comptroller and Oxfam America, signed a letter urging Chevron to enter settlement negotiations with a group of indigenous Ecuadorean who won an $18 billion environmental lawsuit...
May 26, 2011
With Chevron Corp. set to hold its annual shareholder meeting this morning, a global network of the company's critics on Tuesday released a report accusing the oil giant of environmental crimes around the world. This marks the third year in a row that the activists...
May 25, 2011
A big banner with the words "Chevron Guilty: Clean Up Amazon" fluttering under Richmond-San Rafael bridge on Monday morning, hung by 5 environmentalists who have accused the energy giant of causing rainforest pollution in Amazon, have got them into trouble. The...
May 25, 2011
May 25, 2011
SAN RAMON -- Activists besieged Chevron at its shareholders meeting here Wednesday, in a gathering punctuated by shouts from attendees, warnings the event would be terminated early and interventions by security guards. The acrimony at the annual meeting nearly...
May 25, 2011
WHAT: Colorful Protest Rally Outside - Creative Visuals -
Local and International Shareholder Activism Inside Chevron’s Annual Shareholder Meeting
WHEN: Wednesday, May 24
7:00am – 11:00am
WHERE: Chevron’s World Headquarters...
May 25, 2011
Women traversed the globe from as far as Ecuador, Nigeria, Colombia and Indonesia to make their voices heard today at Chevron’s annual shareholder’s meeting in California. In contrast to last year–when activists were denied the mic–22 indigenous, First Nation and...
May 25, 2011
Several activist groups and dozens of supporters rallied at Chevron's headquarters during the company's annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday morning to demand environmental, economic and climate justice. Organizers said they want Chevron to take responsibility for...
May 24, 2011
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May 24, 2011
Chevron destroys everything, except profits. And by everything, we mean everything. The Amazon rainforest and its indigenous communities? Check. The Boreal Forest in northern Canada and its indigenous communities? Check. The Niger Delta? Check. Indonesia, Texas, and Iraq...
May 24, 2011
UNITED NATIONS - An international coalition of academics and environmental activists has launched a global campaign for the creation of a new U.N. convention to protect "mother earth". "It will not be an easy struggle to have the rights of nature understood and adopted....
May 24, 2011
UNITED NATIONS - An international coalition of academics and environmental activists has launched a global campaign for the creation of a new U.N. convention to protect "mother earth".
"It will not be an easy struggle to have the rights of nature understood and...
May 24, 2011