Environment

Indigenous news: Apache Stronghold caravan, First Lady meets with tribal youth

July 9, 2015 By Andrea Perkins

An Apache Indian caravan is making a stop in Denver to draw attention to a land grab by a mining giant.

Today in history: Russell-Einstein manifesto for peace

July 9, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The manifesto urged nations to find peaceful ways to settle differences and to renounce the use of nuclear weapons, which only promised "universal death."

Capitalism the culprit in the Sixth Extinction

July 8, 2015 By Patrick J. Foote

If life on earth is to survive then we must reorient the means by which we survive currently toward keeping a balance with nature.

Vigil held for explosion victims as criticism of oil trains broadens

July 7, 2015 By Blake Skylar

Held by 350.org and the Sierra Club, the event marked the two-year anniversary of the disaster, the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, oil train explosion that killed 47 people.

Indigenous news: activism, identity, and honoring natives

July 2, 2015 By Andrea Perkins

On May 26, the town council in Newstead, New York voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day.