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Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies

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Read time: 12 mins Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. Tags: Trans Mountain Expansion Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indigenous communities Tiny House Warriors Kanahus Manuel

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NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities

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Read time: 4 mins The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color ( BIPOC ) and low-income communities. Tags: environmental racism racism environmental justice Misinformation fossil fuel companies

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Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill

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Read time: 4 mins Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today. . Tags: Petroecuador Amazon Frontlines

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Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids

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Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police continued their raids on Wet'suwet'en land in British Columbia. Tags: British Columbia Coastal GasLink indigenous communities Wet'suwet'en RCMP

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Canada Steps Up Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples To Push Fossil Fuel Pipelines Forward

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Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers.

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COP25: Anger Over Lack of Action for Vulnerable States as Climate Talks Conclude

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From youth groups to indigenous people, civil society has been more riled than in previous years, as the disconnect grows between momentum on the streets and the slow progress of the negotiations. Tags: Friends of the Earth climate activism oil change international UN climate talks COP25

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Rascism, Hate and Police Brutality are Alive and Well in Canada

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These groups target Muslims, Jews, women, LGBTQ+, Indigenous people and people of color. These people are a threat to Canadians and people around the world. Compared to whites, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police in the U.S. Canada is a bastions of the white supremacy movement.

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