Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Disney, Weyerhaeuser Join Forces to Protect the World’s Forests From Themselves? The Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical and Duke Energy are among 24 major companies that have agreed to develop a methodology to assign value to the world’s forests, freshwater […]
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Farmers Stand up to Monsanto Seed Police
By R.T. Jones This just in from Wood Prairie Farm. . . Seventy-five family farmers, seed businesses, and agricultural organizations representing over 300,000 individuals and 4,500 farms filed a a brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal […]
Continue readingChinese Environmentalists Protest, Riot, Defeat Copper Plant in Sichuan
By Russ McSpadden Following three days of mass protest, overturned police cars, tear gas and violent clashes between protesters and riot police, the city government of Shifang in the province of Sichuan, southwest China, announced last week that it is scrapping plans […]
Continue readingEF! blockade shuts down frack drilling in PA state forest
Nearly 100 Earth First! activists, friends and allies forced a 70-foot-tall EQT hydrofracking drill rig to suspend operations for 12 hours yesterday in Pennsylvania’s Moshannon State Forest. This is the first time that protesters have shut down a hydrofrack drilling operation in […]
Continue readingAnti-fracking Blockade in Moshannon State Forest
Posted by Marcellus Earth First! Tree-Sitters Halt Hydrofracking Operations Activists from Marcellus Earth First! have erected a slash pile blockade and two tree sits blocking an access road to an EQT hydro-fracking site in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield County, PA., halting […]
Continue readingBrazil tribes occupy contentious dam site
Cross Posted from Al Jazeera A cluster of 12 men from the Xikrin tribe chant in their native language while marching together, arms interlocked, stomping their feet against the dry red dirt. They say this is their call of resistance from the […]
Continue readingState Of Emergency In Cajamarca Follows Four Deaths in Mine Protests
Cross-Posted from Peruvian Times A state of emergency has been declared in three provinces in the Andean department of Cajamarca, located in northern Peru, following the deaths of four people during protests against the multi-billion dollar Conga gold project. Peru’s Executive branch […]
Continue readingUS succeeds with shameful backdoor deal to empty whaling ban
Cross Posted from GreenVegans.org Japan and all IWC member nations who want to see the commercial whaling ban lifted are rejoicing tonight. Describing the non-aboriginal whaling conducted by the Bequians of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) as fitting within the definition […]
Continue readingThe Paraguayan Coup
How agribusiness, landowning and media elite, and the U.S. are paving a way for regional destabilization by Francesca Fiorentini July 4, 2012, Buenos Aires It has been nearly two weeks since the parliament of Paraguay orchestrated an institutional coup that removed President […]
Continue readingLove in the Time of the Apocalypse
Review by Russ McSpadden For the avid apocalyptic fiction readers out there… Gregory Blecha (the father of a really dear friend and fellow Earth First!er who I’ve spent some time in lock-downs and even jail with) has published a terrifyingly funny novel […]
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