Cross posted from Gothamist.com Marshall Curry has profiled NASCAR hopefuls and Newark Mayor Corey Booker (which earned him an Oscar nomination), and his latest, If A Tree Falls, follows the plight of Daniel McGowan, a former member of the Earth Liberation Front, […]
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Zapotec protesters shot on behalf of Canadian mining company
Correction: It has come to the author’s attention that this article may contain misinformation. The Los Angeles Press originally reported that FPR ‘militants’ could be involved in the shootings. In fact, the FPR, a communist subgroup within the Seccion 22 teacher’s union […]
Continue readingGitxsan Chiefs reject Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline
Less than a week after the Obama administration rejected the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, another proposed pipeline designed to export tar sands oil has run into roadblocks! cross-posted from APTN VANCOUVER-Gitxsan hereditary […]
Continue readingWarantless GPS Tracking Ruled Unconstitutional
Crossposted from the NY Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruledthat the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. But the justices […]
Continue readingFrom Endangered To Problem: Wisconsin Wolf Hunt To Begin Next Week, Minnesota Set To Host Its Own Hunt
from the Earth First! Journal Editorial Collective Following the removal of wolves from the federal endangered species list last month, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has announced that some residents will be able to hunt “problem” wolves by next week. In […]
Continue readingNew Zine on Resistance to Loop 202 in Phoenix
The corridor that Loop 202 is a part of is also factored into a smaller corridor called “the Sun Corridor”. The Sun Corridor is based on the idea that in the near future many parts of North America will form “Mega-regions” which […]
Continue readingBrazilian Landless Camp Evicted
Cross posted from BBC News Brazilian riot police have stormed an illegal settlement of landless workers in Sao Paulo state to reclaim the land for its private owners. Several cars were set alight as residents tried to defend their homes in the […]
Continue readingUndercover Officers Had Children with the Activists They were Surveilling
by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis / The Guardian Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both […]
Continue readingActivist Begins Prison Sentence for Refusing to Name Names and For Quoting Dave Chappelle
By Will Potter / GreenIsTheNewRed.org Utah animal rights activist Jordan Halliday has begun a 10-month prison sentence for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about his political beliefs and political associations. It is believed to be the first time in […]
Continue readingObama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline, Leaves Door Open to New Application
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuag05wlKg]The Obama administration today formally rejected a bid by Canadian energy company TransCanada to build a $7 billion oil pipeline linking the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The Keystone XL project, which was estimated to create […]
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