(or how I learned to stop being a wastoid and threw a benefit show for the Earth First! Journal) By Matt Preira / Miami New Times Punk rock’s political history is pretty convoluted. But by most accounts, the fast-hard-and-loud aesthetic came into […]
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Fund Created for Fallen Forest Defender
Ethan Ethan Wyatt Braden was passionate about protecting the Cascade Forests. To honor his memory and fight for this cause, a new fund has been created in his name. All proceeds will be donated to the organizations he was directly working with […]
Continue readingNew Lawsuit Exposes Rift in Coal Exports Plan
By SASHA / Earth First! Journal Portland Field Office Last week, a rupture occurred with the coal industry world that shocked activists. Rio Tinto, an Australian company, which owns the US-based subsidiary Cloud Peak Energy, a 50:50 partner in the Decker Mine […]
Continue readingMountain Mobilization Kicks Off Summer of Solidarity with a Challenge to Strip-Mining
by Wren Awry Originally posted in Waging Nonviolence. Listening to the talk in Washington is depressing these days for those concerned about the future of our planet. Democrats join Republicans in trying to roll back environmental regulation, any discussion of climate legislation […]
Continue readingGettin’ Busy in the Coal Fields of Scotland!
Holy shite! Things have been going off in Scotland’s Douglas Valley. Starting July 11, folks with the Coal Action Scotland crew occupied Scottish Coal’s new opencast mine site, Glentaggart East, for Take Back the Land! – a week of action against the […]
Continue readingEarth First! Land Project: Call for Proposals
As you may have heard about at the 2012 Organizer’s Conference in Utah or seen featured in the Beltane issue of the EF! Journal, eco-prisoner Marie Mason submitted a proposal to the movement for an Earth First! Land Project. Earlier this month, […]
Continue readingEgypt Resists Monsanto’s Genetically-Modified Maize
by Tafline Laylin When an insect feeds on Monsanto’s genetically-modified MON810 maize plant, it is in for a nasty surprise. Encoded within the seed’s DNA is an especially insidious insecticide called cry1Ab that causes the insect’s stomach to explode after ingestion. Given its brutal […]
Continue readingMonsanto Expanding its GMO Operations to Offshore Fish Nurseries
by David Quilty The GMO soy industry, headed by agriculture giant Monsanto, is expanding into aquaculture and its soy will used to feed farm-raised fish meant for human consumption. A new report from Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Europe […]
Continue readingJordan is Free!
Cross Posted from Because We Must Yesterday, our good friend Jordan Halliday was released from prison after serving 10 months for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury that was fishing for information about the animal rights scene in Salt Lake City, UT. After refusing […]
Continue readingGorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps
By Ker Than for National Geographic News Published July 19, 2012 Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to […]
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