Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) was founded in 1971 for the purpose of providing information to the public on the effects of energy development and resource exploitation on the people and their cultures, lands, water, and air of New Mexico and the Southwest.

SRIC's purpose, including the focus on issues affecting the Southwest, has remained essentially unchanged, although it now has a successful record in affecting issues of national and even international importance, such as nuclear waste management and uranium mining reclamation. SRIC also has helped empower dozens of local community groups so that they effectively participate in government and corporate decisions that affect them.

Members of North America's Gwich'in Tribe speak eloquently about caribou. They're part of the history, culture and lore of this tribe, which makes its home north of the Arctic Circle
"We depend on the caribou, as Gwich'in people, for food, clothing, medicine, tools and spirituality. And in return, the caribou depend on us to take care of the land for them so they can continue to be free," said Sandra Newman a council member of the Vuntut Gwich'in (guh-WITCH-in) First Nation.
Newman, and other Gwich'in like her, are opposed to energy development along the icy coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) because they say they fear it will disrupt the calving area for the Porcupine caribou herd, which tries to migrate each spring to that area.
It is known among the Gwich'in as "the sacred place where life begins." ....
But 22 years earlier, the Gwich'in and their tribal cousins not only courted oil and gas corporations, they signed a wide-ranging lease allowing energy development and refining on their own tribal lands, which are adjacent to ANWR.

A new holy war is growing within the conservative evangelical community, with implications for both the global environment and American politics. For years liberal Christians and others have made protection of the environment a moral commitment. Now a number of conservative evangelicals are joining the fight, arguing that man's stewardship of the planet is a biblical imperative and calling for action to stop global warming

ChevronTexaco on Trial in Ecuador

In 2001 the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) launched the Native Networks Website to welcome you to the field of Native media throughout the Americas. The site provides information about new productions and media makers, current areas of special interest and accomplishments in the field.

The Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to presenting and disseminating information about the work of Native Americans in media. The Center's Native Networks Website has four goals:To provide a representation of current work in the field of Native American media including film, video, radio, television and new media.To provide information to the public about the outstanding media productions which have been presented in the museum's programs.To provide the FVC and NMAI a way to maintain regular and frequent contact with the community of Native American independent media producers.To provide a space for Native media makers to exchange ideas and to gather professional information.

The Chiapas Media Project

The writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has been executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.
The country's military rulers ordered the execution of Mr Saro-Wiwa and eight other dissidents should go ahead at 0730 local time (0830 GMT).
They were taken in chains to a prison in the southern city of Port Harcourt and hanged.
The activists were condemned to death 10 days ago after being found guilty of involvement in four murders.
Mr Saro-Wiwa insisted they were framed because of their opposition to the oil industry in the Niger-Delta region of southern Nigeria.
At his trial Mr Saro-Wiwa said the case was designed to prevent members of his tribe, the Ogoni, from stopping pollution of their homeland and getting a fair share of oil profits.
Dozens of Ogonis have been imprisoned by the military regime led by General Sani Abacha who seized power two years ago.