Update: Looks like we are fell for it. This was a pretty clever stunt by GreenPeace, the Yes Men, and an 84 year old Occupy Wall Streeter! More here: http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/blog/shellfail-inside-story-greenpeace-yes-men/blog/40876/ Shell executives and shareholders probably heartily wish today that their send-off party […]
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Flagstaff Community Members Begin Hunger Strike for Protection of the San Francisco Peaks
FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Two young Flagstaffians announced the beginning of a hunger strike to call attention to human rights violations sanctioned by the US Forest Service and perpetrated by Arizona Snowbowl and the City of Flagstaff on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at […]
Continue readingAn Invitation from Cascadia
Cascadia is a vast area of wilderness that includes Oregon, Washington and stretches north through British Columbia, Canada. The Cascadia Forest Defenders and Cascadia Earth First! of Oregon are dedicated to protecting the dense forests of giant trees, cold rushing waters and thriving […]
Continue readingMom’s Sure Fire Recipes for Sabotage: A One Act Play
Daughter: Hey mom, what can I do now to insure that I can get into venture capitalism when I grow up? Mom: Honey, why would you want to do something that will only alienate the human spirit and lead to the destruction […]
Continue readingPro-Mountain Activists Hold Sit-In, Others Shave Heads to Protest Mountain-top Removal in Appalachia
from Appalachia Rising [UPDATE: 22 arrested in sit-ins. For updates, photos, videos and details on how to support them, visit Appalachia Rising] (Washington, D.C.) — This morning residents from four states severely impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining began sit-ins in protest […]
Continue readingSyngenta Settles US Lawsuit for Poisoning 1,887 Community Water Supplies & Gets Banned in France Over Bee Die-off
compiled by the Earth First! Journal Collective Syngenta pays $105 million to settle US litigation By JIM SUHR Last month Swiss chemicals maker Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to settle a nearly 8-year-old lawsuit over its popular agricultural herbicides. According to […]
Continue readingPipeline in northwest Alberta ruptures
From Deep Green Resistance News A huge spill has released 22,000 barrels of oil and water into muskeg in the far northwest of Alberta. The spill ranks among the largest in North America in recent years, a period that has seen a […]
Continue readingFBI Increases Activist Repression
Newly released FBI “Domestic Terrorism” training materials unveil the misinformation circulating within the government against resistance groups such as anarchists, animal rights activists, environmentalists, and “black separatists.” The FBI have broadened the rhetoric used against even non-violent groups, citing them as “domestic […]
Continue readingHow the Hydro-Fracking Industry is Destroying Communities
Information compiled from EcoWatch The Riverdale Mobile Home Park in Jersey Shore, PA is under major threat of eviction due to plans to build a 3 million gallon PER DAY water withdrawal site at the property to service natural gas drilling. Beginning […]
Continue readingTuesday: Stop Spectra, Resist Fracking In NYC
Cross Posted from OccupyWallStreet Stop Spectra: New Yorkers Resist Hydro-fracking and a Dangerous and Unnecessary Gas Pipeline What: Corporate terrorists are threatening to blow up a huge chunk of Manhattan, poison New Yorkers with radioactive gas, pollute our drinking water, and contribute […]
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