Dozens of protesters were attacked by police with pepper spray and seven people have been arrested so far in a day of action against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). On November 30, starting at 8 am hundreds marched and converged on […]
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“The leading passion of my life has been… hatred of modern civilization”
Check out another great EF! Newswire review, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, by EP Thompson, PM Press, re-released 2011. Morris was a Romantic poet and famous designer of chintzes, wallpapers, and furniture. But was he an anti-civ primitivist? Herein lies the importance […]
Continue readingBolivia and the Law of Mother Earth
Update Alas, the wild and wet dream of an ecotopia in Bolivia is but lies on paper and another example of the emptiness of beautiful intentions applied to government rhetoric. The article below was written in the salad days of Evo’s hope […]
Continue readingOil Spill in South Platte River
by Anthony Swift, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Colorado officials fear that vast amounts of petroleum have been leaking into the South Platte River from a broken pipeline at a refinery operated by tar sands producer Suncor. It is not yet clear […]
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