During the week of June 13 in Lexington, KY, a meal of toxic coal sludge scraped out of a stream in eastern Kentucky was delivered to the president of a coal advocacy group, hundreds of concerned citizens attended an anti-mountain top removal (MTR) rally and march that ended at Kentucky Utility's headquarters, a film festival educated Lexingtonians about the dangers of strip mining and its repercussions, and activists passed out literature on the streets, all part of Mountain Justice Summer's week in Lexington, Kentucky.

Nucléaire/France : EDF a décidé le 21 octobre 2004 d'implanter le réacteur nucléaire de troisième génération, EPR (European Pressurised water reactor) sur le site de Flamanville, dans la Manche.

 
Montreal – As Bombardier executives and shareholders left their annual general meeting at the Sheraton today, a student hung a Tibetan flag off the hotel as protesters below demanded: “Bombardier: hors du Tibet / out of Tibet

For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elementary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up. Sixteen of the 150 participants in the Mountain Justice Summer campaign were arrested as they attempted to deliver a list of demands to the site's supervisor. Earlier in the day two campaign participants delivered the demands directly to Massey's head offices in Richmond Virginia.

We're not blocking traffic, we are traffic!

Nous ne bloquons pas le traffique, nous SOMMES le traffique!

 
Nous vous invitons à participer à l'Agora Festif, le 21 mai prochain à Montréal (Centre Étienne Desmarteau).

Placé cette année sous le thème du/des Jeu(x) de Société(s), cet événement artistique multidisciplinaire comprendra aussi un important volet social et réflexif intitulé « Vers un Forum Social Québécois ! ». Nous aurons ainsi l'opportunité de nous rencontrer et dialoguer lors de la mise en contexte, d'accueillir des nouveaux arrivants, dans le Hall vitré du 2è étage, pour l'activité nommée « Agora Réflexif » de 19 h à 22 h ou lors d'ateliers spontanés par la suite (Corrid'Art | 2è étage), et de réfléchir ensemble pour tisser des liens de solidarité entre nous, citoyens et organisations.

 
On Thursday April 21, over 100 people rallied against Weyerhaeuser at the Toronto Stock Exchange, demonstrating their support for the Haida Nation’s logging blockades. They came to show that we stand with the Haida and their demands for self-determination, Native rights, ancient forests, and sustainable local economies. Throngs of business people in the heart of the financial district were confronted by the sound of Native drummers, raging grannies, colorful banners, and pamphlets supporting the Haida and exposing Weyerhaeuser as an unethical and unsafe investment.

 
The Canadian mining industry has come under scrutiny lately, thanks to the mobilization of activists, NGOs and solidarity groups who organized a number of events to shine a spotlight on human rights and environmental issues, culminating in a demonstration in front of Alcan’s AGM on April 28th.