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Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize by Ms. Mairead Maguire. “Individually each has given countless examples of courage exposing governments’ illegal actions that caused millions of deaths – putting their own freedom and lives on the line. Collectively, their lives of self-sacrifice and selflessness constitute remarkable demonstrations of the magnificence of the human spirit. … could protect and help save the lives of these three … would honour the will of Nobel … give great hope to publishers, journalists, writers, and many who face repression and persecution by their governments” — sign the petition!

On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden signed executive orders to scrap plans for future drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, cancel the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. But what about the other climate wracking fracked gas and tar sands pipelines in the US? We have also got a petition for the DAPL pipeline. Send an email to media@earthjustice.org if the petition does not work at you either. We have not got a response on it so far.

Several major European banks responsible for financing billions in Amazon oil trade have committed to immediate exclusion measures on the trading of oil from the Amazon Sacred Headwaters of Ecuador! Exactly where the Texaco/Chevron disaster has once happened. BNP Paribas Group, Credit Suisse, ING Group, and Rabobank were responsible for over 50% of financing provided in the last decade – that’s over $5.5B USD. Share the news in the light of the upcoming 2021 World Economic Summit.

The Biden administration has promised bold action on climate, but are they also willing to protect those who have spurred this change?

In many developing countries, murder and land grabbing are on the order of business, driven by large corporations as well as banks from the 1st world. For example, henchmen from Sinar Mas in Indonesia killed Ibu Nurhayana's son because he wanted to enforce his land rights against the palm oil and paper company. Sign the petition.