Tag Archives: Coal

Coal Climate Showdown in Bangladesh

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 13, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Coal Climate Showdown in Bangladesh Click the link to sign the petition The bulldozers are warming up: any moment now a massively destructive coal mine could be approved in northwest Bangladesh that would displace tens of thousands … Continue reading →

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WIKILEAKS BANGLADESH – I

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 27, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews People’s Resistance to Global Capital and Government Collaboration is Vindicated Rahnuma Ahmed In reality, WikiLeaks leak of diplomatic cables from US Embassy, Dhaka reveal nothing new, they only serve to confirm what many of us across the … Continue reading →

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‘You cannot eat coal’: Resistance in Phulbari

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 19, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed   ‘Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat money.’ Cree proverb ‘[the] uprootedness and superfluousness which have … Continue reading →

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Profits versus the Poor

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 4, 2006

“I have lost a son, maybe I’ll lose another, but I won’t let them setup a coalmine here.” To Tahmina Begum who had lost her son Toriqul to police bullets, her land was also her family. It could have been … Continue reading →

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