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08/28/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Oil pipeline company sues Greenpeace for racketeering, defamation, inciting violence and instigating eco-terrorism

Greenpeace and other environmental groups have found themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed by an oil pipeline company. Energy Transfer Partners, the operator of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, accused Greenpeace and the other groups of racketeering, inciting violence that was akin to “eco-terrorism”, and defamation. They claimed that the groups made […]

05/26/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Activists attempt to ESCAPE Ecuador after suffering shocking ordeal

When activist Carlita Shaw first headed to Ecuador six years ago, she had no idea what was in store for her. She went to the South American country to work on biodiversity conservation projects in conjunction with Amazon indigenous groups, and while she accomplished a great deal, her stay there has recently been marred with […]

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