With BHP and Mitsubishi reviewing their massive QLD coal mining operations, their bankers — #MUFG, #SMBC and #Mizuho being the biggest — must stop undermining their #climate commitments and refuse any further finance until these companies publicly rule out their giant proposed expansion projects.

We condemn US-led #imperialism, including military aggression against #Iran, #Venezuela, #Lebanon, the illegal blockade of #Cuba and the Israeli-US-led genocide in #Palestine. We call for peace!

Read our statement on this global existential threat👇

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How Bolivia’s cacao farmers took on the gold-mining industry – and won As rising gold prices fuel environmental destruction, communities in the country’s biodiverse heartland are passing laws against mining

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Why a Feminist and Just Energy Transition Is the Only Way Out of the Climate Crisis | Common Dreams ​As we look toward Santa Marta, the message is both simple and profound: We cannot solve the climate crisis with the same logic that caused it.

Why a Feminist and Just Energy Transition Is the Only Way Out of the Climate Crisis www.commondreams.org/opinion/just...

Reclaim Our Commons, Resist Corporate Capture: A Manifesto for Earth Day 2026 On this Earth Day, as India endures record-breaking heatwaves and the unpredictable fury of extreme floods, we must confront the primary driver of our ecological collapse: unchecked corporate power…

Reclaim Our Commons, Resist Corporate Capture: A Manifesto for Earth Day 2026 foeindia.net/2026/04/22/r...
Sharing with great thanks to @FoEIndia

Kevin Warsh told me he was "independent" and a "tough guy." YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Kevin Warsh told me he was "independent" and a "tough guy."

So I asked him to name just one aspect of President Trump's economic agenda that he disagrees with.

You'll never believe what he said.

In March we hosted the 2nd snow gum summit.

Following our Snow Gum Summit 2025, the 2nd one built on last year's conversations about the Victorian Alps to connect scientists, First Peoples, land managers & communities across the Alpine bioregion.

www.melbournefoe.org.au/recap_snowgu...

Stop the Olympic destruction Australia plans to destroy sacred Indigenous land to build a new Olympic stadium. We can’t let this happen. The Indigenous community and local groups are fighting back, and they need our help. Join th...

Australia plans to bulldoze sacred Indigenous land in Victoria Park to build an Olympic stadium. The Indigenous community is fighting back, and we can help — please join me by adding your voice to prevent this destruction! secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Our guide for making a quick, powerful submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources.

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Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for...

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms
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New analysis: Santos contributes to quadrupled gas prices for Australians - Market Forces Wednesday 8 April: New Market Forces analysis reveals Australia’s second biggest oil and gas company, Santos, is contributing to nearly quadrupled gas prices on the East Coast of the country by priori...

MEDIA RELEASE: New analysis reveals Australian oil and gas company, Santos, is contributing to nearly quadrupled gas prices on the East Coast of the country by prioritising the sale of its fossil fuels overseas, adding to cost of living pressures.

www.marketforces.org.au/new-analysis...

I wish science could explain what’s happening.

Make Polluters Pay: Victorian Training & Planning Day A training and planning day for people across Victoria working to win a Climate Compensation Fund paid for by big polluters not communities.

Since launching the campaign calling for a national Climate Compensation Fund communities across the continent have stepped up to make big polluters pay their fair share.

Hundreds of people have joined the campaign & VIC is leading the way.

Training day, may 2.

events.humanitix.com/victraining

Could This Actually End Citizens United? Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections.

If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

False claims from The Australian do a disservice to public debate Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...

False claims from The Australian do a disservice to public debate
www.foe.org.au/false_claims

Gov. Evers vetoes five anti-LGBTQ bills on International Transgender Day of Visibility The vetoes come as attacks against transgender and nonbinary individuals continue across the country. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, approximately 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been intr...

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Gov. Tony Evers vetoed five anti-LGBTQ bills targeting transgender and gender nonconforming youth on International Transgender Day of Visibility

Signed the vetoes in a private ceremony Tuesday at the Wisconsin State Capitol, surrounded by LGBTQ kids, families, advocates and community members

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

Blood for oil: From Gaza to Iran, the western war that is burning West Asia Conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States spans decades, rooted in revolution, and regional rivalry. Evolving through proxy wars, sanctions and recurring military escalations

Please read to get a strong alternative to MSM, and share widely.
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Palestinian Land Day at 50: Unite. Rise. Resist On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians remain unbroken in our struggle for liberation.

On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians remain unbroken in our struggle for liberation.

This must not be a moment of resignation - it must be one of escalation.

Channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action and pressure.

https://loom.ly/K1gdgOc

AI and Nuclear Proliferation As long predicted, the world order is shifting, away from American unipolar dominance and toward a system of increasingly bold middle powers and a new superpower and true U.S. peer in China. We are ob...

www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/27/a...

UN adopts Ghana's slavery resolution, defying resistance from US, Europe A resolution proposed by Ghana at the United Nations on Wednesday to recognise transatlantic ​slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations has been adopted despite resis...

UN adopts Ghana's slavery resolution, defying resistance from US, Europe www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

US-EU deal: Europe locked into fossil gas blackmail Today, the European Parliament approved the US-EU trade deal. This is bad news for Europe’s energy transition and security.

🚨 BREAKING: The 🇪🇺 Parliament agreed to lock us into fossil gas blackmail

MEPs approved the US-EU deal, which has been informally coupled to the purchase of 🇺🇸 LNG. To the great benefit of fossil fuel corporations. To the great expense of climate, democracy & European sovereignty.

Our reaction 👇

Governments announce $2b bailout for Boyne aluminium smelter Rio Tinto, the federal and state governments have struck a landmark partnership to secure the long-term future of the Boyne aluminium smelter.

Big news: Mining and metals giant Rio Tinto has announced it favours renewables over gas and coal for its major aluminium smelter.

Today I stood with @EnvironmentTasmania on the 1yr anniversary of an egregious act of environmental vandalism, when the Govt legislated to push the Maugean skate to extinction. But it’s not too late, the new Environment Minister can act now to save the skate #auspol #politas

Fund the National Anti-Racism Framework | The Australian Greens

Whatever your political persuasion, please join me in signing this call to our PM to act on racial discrimination!
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Cyclone Narelle: ‘compact’, dangerous and unusually predictable Cyclone Narelle is expected to cross the Queensland coast on Friday morning. It has followed a predictable westward path, which is highly unusual.

'Sea surface temperatures in the northwest Coral Sea are currently 0.5–1.0°C above average, and this has fuelled the storm’s rapid intensification.'

theconversation.com/cyclone-nare...

Western Arctic Lease Sale Auctions Off More than a Million Acres of Ecologically Sensitive Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling Vast natural areas, long protected from extraction, were included in 187 tracts that oil and gas companies bid on for oil development

Terrible news: oil companies get access to 187 tracts in Alaska totaling about 1.3 million acres.

'The lease sale threatens to bring a new onslaught of harmful oil & gas drilling & other industrial activity to ecologically sensitive areas'.

earthjustice.org/press/2026/w...

First Nations electorate names must remain Proposed changes to Queensland electorates would see several stripped of their First Nations names: from Maiwar to Oodgeroo. The hypocrisy is clear. These proposed changes are racist – relegating Firs...

I just signed a Talk Black petition: First Nations electorate names must remain. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...