Contact Occupy the Machine: occupythemachine@riseup.net 406-748-6347 On February 11th, 2012, Premadasi Amada and Dillon Thomson will begin a speaking tour of at least eight cities to promote Occupy the Machine and build ties with various communities affected by extraction industries. The OTM […]
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How Sierra Club Learned To Stop Worrying About The 99% And Love Wall Street
Check out “Big Greenwashing 101” a new feature article from the EF! Newswire on the Sierra Club’s shady affiliations in light of recently revealed Chesapeake Energy gas company scandal. From the article: “John Muir must be rolling over in his grave… The […]
Continue readingFact Check: Europe Says Goodbye to GM
About a week ago, we published a report based on a story by the Daily Mail that had been spreading around the internet about Monsanto pulling out of the UK. It turned out that the story had been recycled from 2003, and […]
Continue readingHungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Cross Posted from True Activist Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry […]
Continue readingActivists Take Over OCA Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation
Cross Posted from PDX ADL [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/36583531 w=400&h=711] Oregon Cattlemen’s Association Board Meeting Take Over and Disruption from PDX ADL on Vimeo. Corvallis, OR – On Friday, February 10,th, activists from both Seattle and Portland Animal Defense League and Cascadia Earth First! […]
Continue readingOaxaca Governor Gabino Cue protects paramilitaries; people mobilize
By x carolina Now it’s back to the streets, or rather the mountain highways of Oaxaca for the Triqui comrades expelled under fire from the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala on September 27, 2010. After 15 days of frustrating, deceitful negotiations, […]
Continue readingIt’s Time for Anti-Nuke Activists To Step It Up
by Eesha Williams, of Valleypost.org Yard signs reading “Nuclear Free Vermont in 2012” began appearing on roadsides in the Brattleboro area at least five years ago. Around that time, at town meetings, the people of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, Marlboro and other […]
Continue readingWest Virginia treesitter sentenced to 7 days for defending mountains
Last summer Catherine Ann MacDougal took to the trees to shut down a mountaintop removal coal mining operation in West Virginia. She lived in a tree for 30 days on the mine site, preventing Alpha Natural Resources from blasting the mountain. Today […]
Continue readingDefend the Redwoods: Richardson Grove Action Camp Feb. 11-13
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has a plan to widen and realign Highway 101 at Richardson Grove to accommodate the largest commercial trucks on the road. Caltrans would cut down trees and destroy the roots of ancient redwoods causing substantial, irreparable […]
Continue readingIn the Path of the Mining-Energy Locomotive–Resisting Colombia’s Quimbo Hydroelectric Project
By: Entre Aguas While the tone of Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, is much more diplomatic than his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, the state policies of militarizing territories to facilitate resource extraction under the guise of economic development and counter-insurgent security have not […]
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