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Tuesday, May 5th | 3:00-5:00 PM - Luhui Whitebear & Asa Wright in Conversation: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women's Day
2020-05-04 21:19:28| PortlandOnline
Livestreamed conversation with Luhui Whitebear and Asa Wright on art, activism, and the MMIW movement.
Murdered Russian diplomat image removed from Batman game
2017-10-09 18:36:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Gamers discovered a photo of murdered Russian diplomat Andrei Karlov had been used in Telltale's Batman.
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Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines
2016-07-07 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: On July 1, two gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed anti-coal activist, Gloria Capitan, inside her karaoke bar in Mariveles, Bataan in the Philippines. Capitan, 57, sustained three gunshot wounds, two in the neck and one in the arm, local media reported. Her eight-year-old grandson reportedly suffered injuries from a stray bullet that grazed his arm. Capitan was a president of Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Mamamayan ng Lucanin, a community-based organization, and she led her community in a series of...
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Record number of environmental activists murdered in 2015
2016-06-20 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Change News: Dionel Campos was publicly executed on 1 September 2015. Leader of the Manobo tribe in the Philippines, he had opposed large scale mining and logging on his people`s traditional lands. After the deadly attack on him and two others, Bello Sinzo and Emerito Samarca, 3,000 of his community fled their homes. We get threatened, vilified and killed for standing up to the mining companies on our land and the paramilitaries that protect them, said Michelle Campos, his daughter. We know the...
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Goldman Prize Winner Murdered in Honduras
2016-03-04 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A indigenous Lenca woman who was honored with a 2015 Goldman Prize last year for her fight against a destructive dam, was killed by gunmen last night in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. Berta Cáceres won a $175,000 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to defend the Gualcarque River, its environment and people from the Agua Zarca Dam. If built, the dam would cut off the supply of water, food and medicine for hundreds of Lenca people and violate their right to sustainably manage and live off...
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