Detroit’s terrible incinerator has been shut down, supposedly due to economic failure. The Global Justice Ecology Project team worked with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and local community groups to publicize the pollution caused by this incinerator, which became the […]
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Chevron CEO’s Speech Interrupted, Direct Action Against Coal in Scotland, IMF Weekend of Resistance, and more…
Activists with Change Chevron infiltrated and interrupted a speech of Chevron’s CEO, and turned it into convo bout their toxic pollution in Equador. After activists confronted the CEO, one audience member shouted, “keep standing up to them!” Direct Action in Scotland In […]
Continue readingCivil Liberties Defense Center Releasing Benefit Album
See more info about this awesome new album at the link below: CLDC_OneSheet
Continue readingBoreal Boycotts are Back, and more
Less than five months after some logging companies and large environmental groups declared a truce to the “war in the woods” a remote Ontario First Nation is calling for renewed boycotts against Weyerhaeuser Corporation, one of North America’s largest lumber producers. In […]
Continue readingUrgent: Navy Training Threatens Marine Sanctuary
The Navy has proposed changes to its Northwest Training Range Complex off the northwest coast of the US, such as increasing use of sonar and explosives along crucial whale migration routes and, astoundingly, in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. This article […]
Continue readingBiggest Day of Climate Action in History, Direct Action in Canada, Enviro-Arrest!, more…
Around 7347 events in 188 countries rallied to change causes of climate change with 350.org yesterday during a day of Work Parties. Work parties organized for the sake of clean energy, community and mutual aid took place from Afghanistan to Aukland, New […]
Continue readingAnimal Liberation: 20,000 Mink Freed in Sweden, Sabotage in Turkey
Animals liberated in Sweden Anonymous “During the night of October 4 all 20,000 mink were released from a fur farm outside Skillingaryd. Although most Swedes are against fur farming, there are currently 1.4 million animals trapped in cages. This is contrary to […]
Continue readingAnti-Greenwashing Direct Action in Portland, Call to Climate Justice Action
On the morning of October 5, 2010 anonymous environmental activists representing the interests of the earth and peoples oppressed by green washed business took action against Go Green, a $175 dollar per person business conference. Environmental activists locked the doors to the […]
Continue readingProtest in NYC Against Torture of US Activist, 500 Others in Belgium
No Borders Camp in Brussels, Belgium— (Photos here) There was a protest in NYC: Belgian Consulate against the police brutality and torture of activists perpetrated against last Friday’s No Borders’ Camp in Belgium. During the No Border Camp, “a convergence of struggles […]
Continue readingGreenpeace Direct Action and more
About 60 Greenpeace activists have blockaded part of the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels to protest the widespread use of nuclear technology. They came with four samples of radioactive waste collected at public places near reprocessing facilities in Britain and France and […]
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