A Miami police officer arrested animal rights activist Arnold Christopher Lagergren, 41 outside the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo, Florida on Saturday. The off-duty officer detained Lagergren at gunpoint after phone calls to police accused the man of taking pictures of […]
Continue readingMonthly Archives: September 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: An Earth First! Film Review
by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] Thanks to a reel operator in a Scandinavian theater who kindly filmed the Rise of the […]
Continue readingTasmanian Forest Defender Needs Support
Ali Alishah is a Tasmanian forest activist who is spending his second week in custody after standing up for what is right in Tasmania What is not right in Tasmania is the proposed pulp mill, the continued logging of old growth and […]
Continue readingNew Documentary about Brandon Darby and the 2008 Republican National Convention Betrayal
Watch the documentary free here through October 6. “How did two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention? Better This World follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) […]
Continue readingIf Money is the Root of All Evil, then Earth First! is an Angel
Our online fundraiser through Kickstarter (which has 22 days left) is sort of tricky. If we reach our stated goal of 2,000 dollars we get the money. If we don’t reach 2,000 we don’t get anything. Yikes! We aren’t good at this […]
Continue readingWomen of Blood Tribe block Murphy Oil’s fracking in Canada, calling “all strong-hearted people” to join them in defending their land
Kainai Nation, Southern Alberta—Members of the Blood Tribe; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Lois Frank, and Jill Crop Earred Wolf were arrested September 9, 2011 and charged with trespass in their own community on Blood Tribe land by tribal law enforcement and RCMP, after parking […]
Continue readingAnimal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) Liberates Elk from Oregon Farm
Article by Peter Young, reposted from Voice of the Voiceless Animal Liberation Front cuts away fencing, release elk from farm On the night of August 29th, the Animal Liberation Front raided the Damascus Elk Farm (23255 SE Highway 212) in Clackamas, Oregon. […]
Continue readingTortured HIV Lab Chimps Released After 30 Years of Testing
Like prisoners emerging from a lifetime behind bars, a group of chimpanzees step blinking into the sunlight with what appears for all the world to be a wave and a smile. And they have much to be joyful about. For this is […]
Continue readingUncle Monkeywrench Wants You to Support the Eco-Resistance
We need you! to support 30 years of no-compromise, grassroots, direct action print media! If you like the EF! Journal, the EF! Newswire and the promise of a wilder future (or would simply like us to stop asking for money), please donate […]
Continue readingPeru approves ‘historic’ indigenous rights law
Cross Posted from Survival International Today, indigenous people across Peru are celebrating President Ollanta Humala’s decision to approve the Prior Consultation Law. This is an important step forward for indigenous rights in the country. On Tuesday night, Peru’s Congress unanimously approved a […]
Continue reading