Four people were arrested this morning outside of the Chevron Building during a peaceful protest of Chevron’s shareholders’ meeting. Over 30 people had gathered, holding signs and banners denouncing militarization and environmental destruction with the intention of entering the meeting. The assembly, […]
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Two New Oil Spills, Lots of Nudity
What Happened, 2010? I thought we were getting along! As though the spooky Deep Horizon oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t enough, we learned yesterday that two new oil spills have occurred, one in Alaska at a pump station 100 […]
Continue reading7 Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Daring Demo
7 Greenpeace activists were arrested Monday afternoon for boarding an offshore drilling support ship and painting Anti-Offshore Drilling slogans and symbols. They were all released this morning on bail. Click here for more photos.
Continue readingJudi Bari Commemorated in Fine Style
[slideshow] Two events took place in the Bay Area in California to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney and attacks on Earth First! by the FBI. On May 23, a packed house at La Pena Cultural […]
Continue readingMay 27: International Day of Action against Mining and Free Trade in El Salvador
Pacific Rim and other corporations in El Salvador have been destroying the land and polluting the environment for decades with impunity, first through martial law and then through the invisible hand of trade agreements. On May 27, the Committee in Solidarity with […]
Continue readingCourt of Miracles in Parliament, Dirty Coal Suit, UNiform, and more oil spill updates…
Hey y’all. It’s been a big day in the enviro news world. Despite recent tumult, the EF!J Collective is on tryin’ to stay on top of everything. The UK EF! Action Update was released today! Don’t miss it! (OH, and a little […]
Continue readingNews Roundup 5/23
Six activists locked down inside the border patrol’s lobby here in Tucson, and they all were cited and released. Just walked away, and felt damn good about it. They won the local news cycle, sending racist cops a strong message. But they […]
Continue readingBig Northern Greenwash: Who Speaks for the Trees?
So a new management deal has been signed for Canada’s Boreal Forest. It’s being hailed as the largest forest deal in the history of the world. You can see the map above: orange will be ‘protected’, gray areas will not. The fragmentation […]
Continue readingCascadia Summer 2010!
Republished from the CFD site. This looks like an attractive option for those who can’t or won’t make it out to the east coast Rondy. It’ll hopefully spawn a long campaign that folks can plug into all summer. ATTENTION FOREST DEFENDERS: Join […]
Continue readingNews Roundup 5/20
Greenpeace UK made BP a new flag. The coolest part is, they’re still taking suggestions for other new BP flags. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzc5wUigEC8] The Oil Spill is now leaking between 76,000 and 104,000 barrels per day. That’s a pretty wide range of guessing, but […]
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