Location finally announced! After a grueling search for the ultimate EF! Round River Rendezvous (RRR) site that took us to the ends of the universe, we believe we have found it! Less than 70 miles north of Edward Abbey’s childhood home on […]
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Hey Daniel McGowan… Get A Job!
Earlier this year, Daniel McGowan and his support crew put out a call for post-prison support. (That’s right, Daniel will be in a halfway house by the end of the year.) One of the conditions for his release is employment. And the […]
Continue readingImploding Coal Plant Video of the Week: the Mohave Generating Station 6/8/2012
Down with them all! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3AFtbZO4d4]
Continue reading‘My place is destroyed’: Albertan in wake of Red Deer River oil spill
Nathan VanderKlippe and Dawn Walton / The Globe and Mail Gord Johnston grew up on the banks of the Red Deer River, at a place his family first settled in 1939. On Thursday evening, just before 7, he returned home to the […]
Continue readingNorth Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
byNicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica June 7, 2012, 11:47 a.m. Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller’s formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund local businesses. But Keller, […]
Continue readingBig Coal’s Sleazy War
By Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone Magazine This is “End Mountaintop Removal Week Washington DC,” an attempt by activists to draw attention to the rape and pillage of Appalachia by Big Coal. Yesterday, 22 activists were arrested during a sit-in at congressional […]
Continue readingA Free State against Fracking?
Consider yourself invited to join the eviction resistance at Pennsylvania fracking site A week into the resident-led occupation of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, PA, the following message has been circulated by the fine folks with Occupy Well Street. Basically, […]
Continue readingJune 11 Day of Eco-Prisoner Solidarity around the corner
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/43202213 w=400&h=300] [The video above includes a full recording of the Never Alone roadshow which traveled the US this Spring building support for June 11 organizing. Along with thorough up-to-date information on ecoprisoner support, state repression and security culture, the film […]
Continue readingClearcutting Redwoods for Wine Vineyards?
by the Center for Biological Diversity SANTA ROSA, Calif.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a controversial proposal by a Spanish corporation to clearcut 154 acres of redwood forest to plant wine grapes in northwestern Sonoma County. The Sierra Club’s Redwood […]
Continue readingEarth First! Journal Volunteer Work Week set for this Summer
Hey you campaign hoppers and summer travelers! If you have a way to get down to South Florida following this summer’s Round River Rendezvous, consider joining forces with the Earth First! Journal. The Earth First! Journal Collective is hosting a Volunteer Work […]
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