Monthly Archives: August 2012

Earth First! Blockades TECO Coal Plant at RNC in Tampa

by Everglades Earth First! UPDATES: Seven people in total were detained for blocking the roads which stopped all traffic into the coal plant for near four hours. Six were locked down in the road and one was dragged off the top of […]

Yanomami Indians ‘massacred’ by goldminers in Venezuela

Cross Posted from Survival International Goldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Survival International. Witnesses of the aftermath described finding ‘burnt bodies and bones’ when they visited the community of Irotatheri in the […]

Russia Dumped 17 Nuclear Reactors and Tons of Waste in the Arctic

by Charles Digges / Bellona.org Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian […]

Undercover Narc Enabled Houston Felonies

Cross Posted from FireDogLake Why did undercover Austin Police Department Detective Shannon G. Dowell provide material support for an activist protest that resulted in them being charged with a felony in Houston? That’s the question I want answered after speaking with Ronnie […]

Unis’tot’en Action Camp

Report from the struggle to stop the Pacific Trails Pipeline by subMedia.tv This is the second video subMedia.tv has produced about the struggle to stop a natural gas transport project called the Pacific Trails Pipeline or PTP. The Unis’tot’en, a clan of […]

Remains Are of Woman Who Was Scalped, Hate Crime Investigated

Human remains found about a year ago in Kentucky belonged to a woman of Native American descent who appears to have been scalped, state police said Tuesday. Detective Chad Winn told The Associated Press that the case is being investigated as a […]

Hurricane Isaac May Stir Up Oil From BP Spill

by Lynne Peeples As Hurricane Isaac batters the Gulf Coast, some experts are warning that the storm could threaten more than levees, power lines and gas prices. Isaac’s high winds and rains, they speculate, could also stir up remnant crude oil from […]