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There are real alternatives to fossil fuels.

Bradley Hughes Reviews Robin Macqueen's lecture on renewable energy. The problems of finite resources, energy poverty and climate change can, and must, be addressed with real technological alternatives.more

People with disabilities unite and fight back

Disability activists link up with other struggles to fight back and build another world

The Occupy movement has opened up new avenues for people to struggle against Austerity. Disability activists, those hardest hit by the cuts, are trying to connect their struggle to the broader movement against Austerity and fightback.more

Pro-democracy Protestors in Eastern Saudi Arabia Find their Way in the Streets

The Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia

There is no "humanitarian intervention" in Saudi Arabia, the Western-backed dictatorship which has been shooting protesters in the streets.more

Arab Spring continues as Yemeni President is forced from power

The Arab Spring topples another dictator

While protests have forced the Yemeni dictator from power, the West and its allies in the region are trying to contain the revoltmore

Pipeline ethics: profit is god

unethical oil

The movement on both sides of the Canada/US border to stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline can measure its strength by the massive, multi-million dollar corporate ad campaign designed to sell the public on the project.more

Mobilizing can stop the Tories

Anti-Ford movement stops Hudak

While sustained protests against Ford derailed Hudak's campaign for Ontario Premier, the NDP missed the wave by campaigning to the centre. The movement will need to continue outside the legislature.more

Pipelines and poverty kill in Kenya

The human price of oil

On September 12 a leaking oil pipeline passing through the densely populated Sinai slum in Kenya exploded, killing more than...more

BP returns for more profits and pollution

BP is back in the Gulf Coast

BP has filed applications to drill new deep-water wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The applications came just one week...more

Feds ignore suicide epidemic in First Nations communities

The willful ignorance of Canadian governments at all levels is perpetuating the cycle of abuse that First Nations people have...more

People with disabilities face cuts, fight back

It's not a question whether Austerity will affect Canadians with disabilities, but a question of when.

Movements in the UK are showing how people with disabilities and their allies can fight back against Austerity measures.more