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Up one levelFriends of the Earth groups and partners need your help - it only takes a minute or two to send an e-mail in support of one of the actions below. If you want to keep informed of our actions please join the cyberactivist network mailing list (you will typically get 1 or 2 e-mails each month).
take action on climate refugees
Friends of the Earth Australia is putting pressure on its new government to deliver on policies relating to the displacement of climate refugees in the Pacific. Pacific Island nations are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, collapsing ecosystems and the contamination of their fresh water and crops with salt water. These detrimental impacts of climate change are already evident but are predicted to worsen.
demand justice for the victims of bhopal
Please take urgent action to call for justice for the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal disaster who have once again walked 800km to Delhi seeking an appointment with the Prime Minister to seek redress for their long standing demands.
citizens of the world say: arroyo out!
Filipino people have taken to the streets again in an attempt to oust President Arroyo, frustrated by a long series of scandals. The most recent to hit the Philippine government is the NBN-ZTE broadband network project, with accusations against Arroyo's husband that he sought kick-backs from the deal. Ongoing Senate hearings on the allegations have exposed to the Filipino people the web of corruption amongst Arroyo's officials and allies. A beleaguered Arroyo publicly admitted to knowing about "anomalies" of the deal much earlier. This triggered fresh calls for her resignation.
disappearance of environmentalist jose salgado
Friends of the Earth Colombia are asking for your help to show solidarity with José Abelardo Salgado, an environmentalist who disappeared on 31 March 2008.
Urge India to abandon steel megaproject
In a massive resource sell-out, India has granted South Korean multinational Pohong Steel Corporation (POSCO) permission for a huge steel mining, manufacturing and export project in Orissa state. Protesters against the project have already been violently attacked. Now police appear set to launch an armed attack as they attempt to occupy part of the 6,000 acres the government promised to POSCO at a throwaway price.
no to dredging scheme in Port Phillip bay
At the beginning of February dredging will begin at Port Phillip Bay (Melbourne, Australia) by Dutch company Royal Boskalis Westminster, putting marine life in the bay at risk. The southern waters of Australia, including Port Phillip Bay, have the highest diversity of marine species anywhere in the world.There are 5000 species in the bay, 90% occur nowhere else on Earth and many have never been fully studied.
switch off november 2007
On the occasion of the presentation of the scientific report of the United Nations on climate change in the week of 12 - 17th November in Valencia, a number of environmental organisations, trade unions, social and citizen organizations in Spain are calling for a public action on the 15th November 2007 between 20:00 and 20:05 in the evening.
Filipino workers in burma solidarity action
In an act of solidarity with the thousand protesting monks, and ordinary women and men in Burma, Filipino workers shaved their heads in front of the Burmese Embassy in Makati City, Philippines. Different groups and sectors of the Philippines social movements have been actively demonstrating their protest against the Burmese military, and expressing their solidarity with the people of Burma. For the past week, demonstrations and pickets in front of the Burmese embassy in the Philippines have been held almost on a daily basis, as the protest actions in Burma continue.
amazonian dam project threatens bolivian biodiversity
Thanks for taking part - the hundreds of signatures that we collected have been forward to IRN who will send the petition to the Brazilian government asking for to adequate studies on the project's environmental impact are carried out before going ahead with the two dam projects on the Amazonian Madeira river.
square world
From May 19th till May 30th 2008 the 9th UN Convention on Biological Diversity will take place in Germany. We want to show the participants what's important to you, the kids of the world. Take everything you can imagine concerning "diversity" and put it in a box.
maandagshoek press release
On Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 18 community members [1] in Maandagshoek in the Tubatse Municipality north of Burgersfort were arrested, among them two breastfeeding women and a pregnant woman.
maandagshoek
Eighteen people including pregnant and breastfeeding women, were arrested last Wednesday (23 May 2007) for allegedly placing stones in a community road that was being used by the mining company, Nkwe Resources who is undertaking exploration in the area.