| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
Worldwide Protests against Chevron; Appalachia’s Agony, Mountaintop Removal
No More Impunity! Communities Worldwide Protest ‘Gangster Corporation’ Chevron
Decrying what they say are Chevron’s crimes against humanity, communities across five continents are rising up on Wednesday in an international day of action against the oil giant. Organizers with Amazon Watch have called Anti-Chevron Day to unite all of the communities worldwide that have been burdened by the devastating operations of a company they say has wrought “ecocide” and has been perpetuated with “impunity.”
‘Appalachia’s Agony’: The Human Effects Of Mountain Top Removal. The Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Act is the first law ever proposed that would end the human rights/ human health disaster that is Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia. Communities near Mountaintop Removal sites suffer shockingly disproportionate levels of cancer, heart disease, pulmonary disease, birth defects and other physical and mental illnesses. More than four thousand people die in West Virginia mining communities every year. Science calls these “excess deaths.”
Sources: Common Dreams, Popular Resistance.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
