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Police Halt Activist-Led “Toxic Tour” of Corporate Polluters Sponsoring COP25
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez offered corporations a 90 percent tax break on a $2 million sponsorship.
8- and 11-Year-Old Siblings Rappel From Bridge Demanding Climate Action
At COP25, two young children staged an act of civil disobedience from a bridge overlooking the mass protest.
Indigenous and Youth Activists Slam Global Leaders for Climate Inaction
Climate scientists say the UN talks are failing to produce the drastic measures necessary to address the climate crisis.
Alternative Climate Summit Honors Victims of Corporate Crimes
Activists have converged on Madrid for COP25 and are hosting an alternative summit of their own.
Why Are Some of the World’s Biggest Polluters Sponsoring UN Climate Summit?
A group of climate activists walked out of a panel at the UN climate summit to protest the presence of oil companies.
Edward Snowden: In the US, I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth
"We have gone from the United States government’s war on whistleblowers to now a war on journalism,” Snowden says.
Sweden Offers Free Higher Ed, Universal Health Care, Daycare — Why Can’t the US?
Medicare for All and tuition-free universities have been at the core of the 2020 Democratic presidential debates.
Indigenous Leader Davi Kopenawa: Bolsonaro Is Killing My People and the Amazon
Kopenawa, a shaman of the Yanomami people, has dedicated his life to protecting his culture and the Amazon rainforest.
UN Report Finds Over 7 Million Children Worldwide Are Being Held in Detention
At least 410,000 of those children are detained in jails and prisons, where violence is endemic.
Indigenous Land Protectors Are Defending the Amazon and Paying With Their Lives
Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa will receive a Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize."