Activists celebrate Friends of the Earth’s Day of Action in over 30 countries

Friends of the Earth Spain groups paint various collective murals to call for energy and climate justice. Amics de la Terra Mallorca highlights the island's energy model based on burning coal to produce electricity, widespread use of cars, planes and cruise ships, and oil prospecting threatening our coasts. Take a look at photos from Amics de la Terra Mallorca's Global Day of Action. On 14 October 2017, thousands of Friends of the Earth activists took part in the Global Day of Action Read more...

Take part! Global Day of Action for Climate Justice (14 Oct)

Friends of the Earth is organising a huge global day of action on Saturday 14 October 2017, in which groups from across the entire federation are taking part, with decentralised actions worldwide. In Mallorca, we're preparing a fun protest event where we'll ask you to join us in speaking out against the abuse of power of the big energy firms and demand climate justice. Programme: Free your energy! 10h-18h: Paint a mural with artist SOMA 11h-12:30h: Family game about Read more...

No to CETA! No to the TTIP! No to TISA! (3 June 2017)

The platform No al TTIP/CETA Mallorca and the Xarxa Municipalista speak out about the effects of the free-trade agreements on the planet's sustainability. At the Environment Fair on Saturday 3 June 2017 (Carrer Blanquerna, Palma), organised by the Associació de Veïns de Santa Pagesa in partnership with Emaya to celebrate World Environment Day, the platform No al TTIP/CETA Mallorca together with the Xarxa Municipalista invited people and organisations to take part in a photo action Read more...

Support the people of Guatemala

A well-known Spanish company, Ecoener-Hidralia, wants to build a dam in Barillas, Guatemala. The Galician hydroelectric company arrived in the area in 2007 with the aim of taking over the Canbalam River and the Barillas communities' natural resources. This same year, in a public consultation, more than 90% of the population opposed the construction of the power station. In complicity with the government, this company has been committing serious crimes against the population, such as Read more...

Act now: Let’s stop big business getting away with it in Honduras

19 May 2016 In two weeks, four activists have been murdered in Honduras for teaming up with native communities to oppose various huge projects that threaten the communities' lives and their way of living. All this has happened after the murder of Berta Cáceres in March. She was a leader of the indigenous Lenca people who gave her life defending human and environmental rights against a hydroelectric dam project, Agua Zarca, by the firm DESA. Rights that this business, in complicity Read more...

‘No al TTIP Mallorca’ registers a meeting request with the President’s office to drive the creation of a study group looking at the effects of the TTIP in the Balearics

The platform 'No al TTIP Mallorca', as the leader of the campaign against the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) and ISA (a specific services agreement) in Mallorca, has requested that the President of the Balearic government, Francina Armengol, immediately creates this parliamentary study group and shows willing to maintain a working meeting with a government delegation to help kick-start the group's tasks and actively Read more...

NO al TTIP Mallorca celebrates the Balearic Parliament’s brake on the free-trade agreement between Europe and the US

(Amics de la Terra is part of the platform 'NO al TTIP Mallorca'.) The platform 'NO al TTIP Mallorca' is celebrating the Balearic Parliament's approval of a motion against the current negotiation process for the free-trade and investment agreement between Europe and the US. The motion was presented by Més Per Mallorca, Més Per Menorca and Podem Illes Balears, and went ahead with the votes from these parties along with those from the PI, Gent Per Formentera and the PSIB-PSOE, after Read more...
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