Daughter: Hey mom, what can I do now to insure that I can get into venture capitalism when I grow up? Mom: Honey, why would you want to do something that will only alienate the human spirit and lead to the destruction […]
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143 arrested at August 29 tar sands protest in DC
Reposted from Indy Media DC click here to view the video August 29th was the 6th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and barely a day after the departure of Hurricane Irene from DC. Delayed by the storm […]
Continue readingWage Slave Dilemma
Check out more of Stephanie McMillan’s Code Green comics here. The following text was posted on McMillan’s site accompanying the Wage Slave Dilemma comic: “The capitalist system sets up a false jobs vs. environment conflict, that serves the system on both sides. […]
Continue readingCan Deep Green Resistance bridge the gap between two political prisoners in Utah?
by Panagioti, co-editor of the Earth First! Journal The eco-resistance movement is in the midst of a growth spurt. Cases like that of Tim DeChristopher, known as Utah’s Bidder 70, represent a significant change in the battlefield between ecology and industrialism; they […]
Continue readingAlright You Dirty So-and-Sos, the Online Funding Drive Continues
Earlier in the week a post appeared on the Earth First! Newswire announcing the start of our one month online funding drive. The Earth First! Journal collective, that group of lovable editorial anarchists, is in need of funds to keep the Earth […]
Continue readingThree Heavy Machines torched at Ukraine Construction Site
reported by activists in Ukraine (photo from 057.ua): “In the night of August 28th, 3 wheeled loaders were torched in Gorky Park (Kharkov, Ukraine). According to the chief engineer of Gorky Park, Oleg Grinenko, the loaders had just started their work in […]
Continue readingMidwest Rising Protest Blocks Traffic to Protest Coal
Earlier this month, participants in the Midwest Rising conference in St. Luis followed up their gathering with a four day tour of direct action and civil disobedience, culminating in a 200-person protest outside of Peabody Coal’s headquarters that blocked traffic. Among other […]
Continue readingWrite a letter to Willow Cordes-Eklund in jail for defending Maine’s mountains
Send Willow a letter in jail today. She received a 10-day sentence for blocking construction of TransCanada’s industrial wind turbines in endangered lynx habitat on the Boundary Mountains, starting August 25, so notes mailed in the next 24 hours from the US […]
Continue reading2012 Presidential hopeful says she’d drill for oil and gas in the Everglades
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who has argued for the dissolution of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said this weekend that she is open to oil and gas drilling in the Everglades. Bachmann commented that all options, and ecosystems, should be made […]
Continue readingTrophy Hunters, Cattle Industry and the State of Alaska Appeal Listing the Polar Bear as Threatened
By the Earth First! Journal Collective On August 25, dozens of intervenors, from the cattle industry to trophy hunters, filed three notices appealing a US district judge’s decision in favor of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2008 listing of polar bears […]
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