Yesterday hundreds of people convened in downtown Pittsburgh to protest the development of “fracking,” a new and untested method of natural gas extraction that is threatening to take over Pennsylvania and neighboring states. Fracking has been shown to pollute water supplies, cause […]
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Black Crosses Demonstrate Dangers of Coal
As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Kentucky for a “a pattern of violations,” concerned residents and activists constructed symbolic black crosses in front […]
Continue readingGrand Jury Resister Sentenced to Prison Time, more
From Voice of the Voiceless Today, Jordan Halliday was sentenced in federal court to 10 months in prison for his refusal to answer questions during a grand jury investigating ALF mink releases in Utah. In other news, the Fur Farm Intelligence Project […]
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Coalizione Contro le Nocività on 15 April 2010, in Swizerland, Costantino, Silvia and Billy were arrested by federal police with the charge of prepare an attack with explosive against an under-construction IBM research centre on nano- and bio-technologies near Zurich. Costantino and […]
Continue readingZombie Ducks, Exposing Gold Mining in Ghana, Anti-Mining Protests in New Zealand, etc.
“One day before Halloween, environmentalists dressed up in their ghoulish best for a serious cause – they wore costumes of dead waterfowl to show their distain over the latest tailings pond tragedy in northern Alberta.” Read more here According to the UK’s […]
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