Washington, DC—American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading bird conservation organization in the US, raised concerns this week about new draft Department of the Interior (DOI) guidelines for wind development that appear to have been overly influenced by energy industry lawyers and lobbyists. […]
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SHAC calls for Day of action against HLS top customers on July 29th
Last week Fortress Investment Group pulled out of their involvement with vivisection giants HLS and finally confirmed stopping their loan to HLS/Lion Holdings last week. Now SHAC, or the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign, asks activists across the world to concentrate on […]
Continue readingTim DeChristopher sentencing set for next week
Prosecutors unhappy about recommendations of less than 10-year maximum as a result of bidding on oil and gas leases to stall extraction in Utah SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—Federal prosecutors don’t like the sentencing recommendations made for an environmental activist convicted of interfering […]
Continue reading‘Protecting Mother Earth Gathering’ to be held July 28-31 on Indian Reservation ravaged by oil and gas industry
New Town, ND—Community members of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA) are hosting the 16th Protecting Mother Earth Gathering (PME) at the Little Shell Antelope Society arbor in the Four Bears Park campground, south of the 4 Bears Casino, from July […]
Continue readingTree sits Block Mining Operations on Coal River Mountain
The RAMPS Campaign put a couple of tree-sitters up on Coal River Mountain to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. The tree-sit has stopped Alpha Natural Resources strip mining operations on Coal River Mountain. Catherine-Ann MacDougal and Becks Kolins currently are sitting in trees […]
Continue readingLeopard injures cop in India before being killed
Source AP KOLKATA, India— A leopard that mauled 11 people in a fierce showdown with Indian villagers has died of knife wounds after being captured. The snarling adult, male leopard leapt at locals and forest officials as they tried to drive it […]
Continue readingAmerican Legislative Exchange Council EXPOSED; Protest at annual ALEC meeting in New Orleans, August 3-6, 2011
ALEC stands for American Legislative Exchange Council. They are an ultra conservative front group that brings corporations and politicians together. ALEC’s private sector board is made up of representatives from GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Koch Industries, to name a few. They write model laws […]
Continue readingBlack Cat Sabotage Handbook Released
from Infoshop.org Announcing the online release of the Black Cat Sabotage Handbook The Black Cat Sabotage Handbook is a resistance movement artifact that appeared mysteriously (thank you, whoever you are!) in the distro area at the 2010 Wild Roots Feral Futures eco-defense […]
Continue readingFOREVER WILD 2011: Celebrate the life of Walkin’ Jim Stoltz!
Below is a snippet of a press release about the August 20 celebration of Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, an Earth First! musician from the early days of the movement who passed in September last year: Friends, family and admirers of one of Montana’s […]
Continue readingInternational Updates from “Car-Free Cities” movement: Mexico, Russia, Italy, Austria, Poland, Slovenia…
From World Carfree Monthly News ECOLOGICAL CAMP IN KHIMKI FOREST As featured repeatedly in this bulletin, the resistors to a construction of a highway through a forest outside of Moscow have come up with many creative ideas. They have now lined up […]
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