Cross Posted from KMOV Activists trying to save the Blair Mountain battlefield from coal mining protested Friday in West Virginia and Missouri, at the offices of two companies that control access to much of the land where unionizing coal miners fought authorities […]
From HuffingtonPost Here we are almost a year away from the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that happened as a result of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on March 11th of last year, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces that it is approving […]
Cross Posted from Reuters Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on […]
Cross Posted from The Local City officials said on Wednesday morning they were pleased with how the operation in the Schlossgarten park went. They said 2,500 officers had encountered little violence. But protesters, who were trying to protect 176 trees that authorities […]
Cross Posted from Bite Back Victor VanOrden Woodbury County Jail P.O. Box 3083 Sioux City, IA 51102 USA In February 2012, Victor was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted burglary and one count […]
Two activists with the animal rights group “Negotiation Is Over” (NIO) have been arrested at a protest in Florida. One of them, NIO founder Camille Marino was arrested on an out of state warrant, and is awaiting extradition to Michigan. In Michigan, […]
Cross Posted from Kansas City Star By Hurst Laviana, The Wichita Eagle Activists from across the country will gather this weekend in Wichita to attend a series of “Occupy Koch Town” events that will focus on energy, environmental and climate policies. […]
By Karlen Aslanian, from Azatutyun Police used force on Friday against more than a dozen environmental activists who were camped in a public park in downtown Yerevan to protest against the construction of several shops there. The Yerevan municipality authorized the construction […]
Japanese whalers asked a US federal court in Seattle to make the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society stop harassing them during their whale hunt in the Southern Ocean. Based out of Friday Harbor, Washington, Sea Shepherd and its lawyers argued the Japanese had […]
Van Eck Global, a New York-based money management firm with $35 million in assets from dirty energy, today launched an energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on companies that look for and produce “unconventional” sources of oil and gas, such as oil […]