environment
Articles about the environment, including ecology, climate change, pollution and more.
Residents clash with police in Greek refuse dump row
Local resistance to open-refuse dump near Ioannina escalates to clashes after an army of 230 riot policemen charges barricades
On the 15th of October the residents of Elliniko village near the city of Ioannina, North West Greece, blockaded the construction of the open-refuse dump (XYTA) to which they have been opposed for over 18 months. The response of Athens was to send 19 battallions of riot police forces (MAT), that is about 230 policemen, to open the way for the bulldozers.
Locals attack police station after renewed repression of open refuse-dump related protests in south Corfu
The 3 month long protest against an open refuse-dump in south Corfu escalates to violent attack against police station after yet another repression of local protests. 2 men, including the village priest are held for subversion and rebellion.
On Saturday 9/08 the peacefull protests by residents of Lefkimi against the creation of an open refuse-dump at the periphery of their village were once again met with police repression: the riot-police made extened use of tear gas and disregarded home-asylum laws by attacking residents with battons within their very backyards.
Developing working class environmentalism - Arthur J. Miller
The basic cause of most environmental problems is the system of industrial greed: capitalism, both private and state. The owners of industry treat workers like they treat the rest of the environment. Our environmentalism should come from the understanding that all things are connected.
I do not say that all things that eco-groups do are bad. But we tend to follow the direction of groups that do not have the same interests as ours. Because of this we get burdened with baggage harmful to our class. For this reason and many others, we need to develop our own form of environmentalism based on working class interests.
One dead protester after barricades against open garbage-dump in south Corfu end in clashes with riot police
On the 29th of May residents of Lefkimi in Corfu erected barricades to stop the construction of an open garbage-dump near their town. Clashes with riot-police have left one dead, one parasylsed. The area is under police occupation.
The residents of Lefkimi in the south of Corfu island in greece are opposed to the construction of an Open Garbage-Dump (XYTA) near their town. The residents claimed that their marginalised, underdeveloped area known for its left-wing tradition and defience was being used as a refuse for the tourist-industry produced garbage of the north.
Anti-GM event at RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture, CCA, Glasgow, 2005. Art review – Tom Jennings.
Report on an event mixing art and politics.
Gene Genies by Tom Jennings
The struggle against Shell in the west of Ireland
This report was written for the International of Anarchist Federations in March 2007. A Spanish language version is here.
There are, at a very conservative estimate, currently thirty local campaigns against unwanted hazardous developments in Ireland.
Rossport: a closer look.
This article on the Shell to Sea campaign and on Rossport Solidarity Camp, was written in May 2006, for a publication which unfortunately did not see the light of day. It is a look at the campaign against the state and Shell’s “development” of a corner of the west of Ireland, situating it in an international context of environmental justice struggles.
This campaign against the plan to build an unprecedented high-pressure raw gas pipeline and refinery in Northwest Mayo is in its sixth year, but last spring took a turn towards popular protest and direct action and has shut down construction work.
Hurricane Katrina, and the good churchgoers of the U.S. South - prole cat
One person's experience of Church aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
Like many frustrated Southerners in the aftermath of the hurricane named Katrina, I drove a small truck-and-trailer full of food and water to South Mississippi. I met some refugees at a camp site, during the trip down. They appeared to be poor whites. One, a native of Bay St. Louis, was snarling against the "looters", using racial epithets.
Brazilian farmers' occupation kicks off 'Red April' protests
Landless Brazilian farmers have begun a series of coordinated protest actions, occupying properties belonging to a large paper firm.
News reports said on Tuesday that around 200 members of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) on Monday evening peacefully occupied a property belonging to the Suzano company in Itanpenitinga in Sao Paulo state. A second property was also occupied in Bonito, in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco.
Swaziland workers due to strike today
Strike action has been planned by employees of the Swaziland National Trust Commission if a demand for a 3.8% pay rise is not met.
The workers, represented by the Union of Swaziland Conservation Workers, have warned management of a strike if talks on wednesday and thursday failed. The pay rise was recommended by a government watchdog, however management have said there is not enough money to honour the recommendation.
