You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Indigenous Activists Protest Shell in Durban

HeadlineDec 01, 2011

In news from Durban, activists with Canada’s Indigenous Environmental Network staged a protest on Wednesday outside of the local offices of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell.

Ben Powless: “We are here to protest Shell’s involvement in Canada, in the tar sands in northern Alberta, and their violations of human rights in indigenous communities.”

Democracy Now! will broadcast from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban all next week.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top