By Mark Ames, The Exiled 21 December 11 With violence and government crackdowns making headlines from so many familiar parts of the world, there’s hardly been a peep in the media about the biggest and ugliest massacre of all: Last Friday in […]
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Justin Solondz Pleads Guilty
The man accused of building the firebomb used by Earth Liberation Front radicals to torch the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001 pleaded guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. Justin Solondz, 31, pleaded guilty to charges […]
Continue readingAnti-Coal Plant Protesters Storm Buildings, Evict Officials, Block Roads in South China
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Shenzhen, China— Residents revolted Tuesday against development plans in yet another town in Guangdong province, redoubling the challenge to the Communist Party in China’s most affluent and open-minded region. The newest uprising involved as […]
Continue readingA First Hand Look at Life in an Old Growth Tree Sit in Southern Tasmania
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Continue readingActivists Silenced by Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act File Lawsuit
by: Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report Animal rights activists filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to challenge the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), a law they say has violated their First Amendment rights and allows the government to label peaceful protesters as […]
Continue readingNew Tree Sit in Tasmania
Check out the blog theObserverTree to get real time updates and offer support. by CRAIG HOGGETT / The Mercury [On December 14, the Tasmanian forest defense group] Still Wild Still Threatened…set up a 60m-high tree sit-in at the TN044B logging coupe near […]
Continue readingNo War but the Eco-Class War!
Everglades Earth First! joins Occupy Palm Beach in March on Worth Avenue tomorrow Palm Beach Island’s Worth Avenue is home to some of the world’s most repulsive rich and elite. The following text is from a flyer that participants in the general […]
Continue readingGenetically modified moths called crop aid
cross posted from UPI A British company says genetically modified moths it has developed could be used to reduce the population of the vegetable-eating insects. Oxitec says its modified male diamondback moths, carrying a lethal gene, could be released into the countryside, […]
Continue readingHere it goes! Retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
Russian research team astonished after finding ‘fountains’ of methane bubbling to surface by Steve Connor cross posted from the Independent Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling […]
Continue readingTreesitter Denied Witnesses in PreTrial Hearing
by Squirrel, crossposted from RAMPS I was immensely disheartened to hear the magistrate’s flat-out denial of my lawyer’s request that our witnesses be allowed to testify on my behalf. During the past few weeks, I had been strengthened and moved by the […]
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