21 Tar Sands Resisters Arrested Blocking U.S. Oil Sands Project In Utah
80 protesters associated with Utah Tar Sands Resistance physically blocked access to the equipment being stored off Pope Well Ridge Road, near where U.S. Oil Sands is beginning work on Utah’s first commercial fuel-producing tar sands mine at PR Springs. Several protesters entered a fenced enclosure and locked themselves to equipment, according to protester spokeswoman Jessica Lee. Deputies arrested 13 Monday morning, loading them into white county vans. Another six were arrested while blocking the road and demanding their friends’ release. late Monday afternoon, Utah Tar Sands Resistance tweeted that two more were arrested outside the Uintah County Jail, bringing the total number of arrests to 21.
Presbyterian Church (USA) Votes to Divest from Firms Tied to Israeli Occupation
U.S. activists are hailing what is being called a major milestone for the global campaign to boycott and divest from Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. At its general convention on Friday, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to divest from three companies it says supply Israel with equipment used in the occupation of Palestinian land. The companies are Motorola Solutions, Caterpillar and Hewlett-Packard.
Only 100 Cross River gorillas left in Nigeria
Africa’s rarest and most threatened ape, the Cross River gorilla, that inhabits a small area on the Nigeria-Cameroon border is on the brink of extinction. According to a recent estimate by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), their population has dwindled to around 100 in Nigeria. IUCN, in 2008, had listed Cross River gorillas in the list of critically endangered species since the total number of mature individuals were estimated between 250 and 300. The reason for their continuing decline is widespread hunting for bush meat trade, habitat fragmentation and diseases such as Ebola and anthrax recorded among apes in the Cross River region of Cameroon and Nigeria.
React to the killing of innocents in Middle East
Also boycott following Israeli related companies
Intel
Motorola
Hewlett-Packard
Amazon.com
IBM
Pampers
Coca-Cola
Caterpillar
GAP, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein, BOSS, M&S, DKNY which uses Delta-Galils textile
Gillette
Head & Shoulders
Vicks
Old Spice
Procter & Gamble
Johnson & Johnson
Revlon
McDonald’s
Nestle
Milkmaid
Maggi
KitKat
L’Oréal
Please reduce oil use as energy source as well as fertilisers, plastics etc in the chemical industry.
This list is not complete.