The coming Tempest in Tampa by Russ McSpadden The Dance By now its old hat. Every four years the Republicans gather to formally nominate their candidate for president of the United States and every four years large scale street demonstrations vacillate between […]
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Decade Long Fight Against Dam Victorious!
From Root Force La Parota Dam has been definitively canceled. The government of Guerrero has formally abandoned all plans for the dam and will inform the Mexican federal government that it will not approve its construction. After nearly 10 years of struggle, […]
Continue readingBlow, Blow Seminole Wind…
Blow across the home of the bureaucrats, the lobbyists and the cops by Clinton Tyree While the Tampa police and several media outlets obsess about whether or not some bricks and pipes on top of a building were intended to be launched […]
Continue readingOne Extinction Leads to Another
from Science Daily When a carnivore becomes extinct, other predatory species could soon follow, according to new research. Scientists have previously put forward this theory, but a University of Exeter team has now carried out the first experiment to prove it. Published […]
Continue readingELF prisoner Jesse Waters to be released soon
Send him a letter today! Last fall, Jesse Waters—a man from the Detroit area—was sentenced in Grand Rapids for his role in an Earth Liberation Front (ELF) activities in the early 2000s (the same activities that got Marie Mason over 20 years […]
Continue reading838,000 Acres Protected for Jaguar Could Mean an End to the Rosemont Mine Proposal in Arizona
by Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star The U.S. proposed Friday to designate about 1,309 square miles across Southern Arizona and a sliver of New Mexico as prime habitat that is essential for conservation of the endangered jaguar. Among those areas is […]
Continue readingExtinction Explosion
Teetering on the dire precipice between existence and annihilation, time is running out for the Royal Bengal tiger, the Great White shark, and Victorian koalas. There are reports that species in Brazil’s coastal rainforest are disappearing faster than scientists can keep track […]
Continue readingBREAKING NEWS: Protect the Peaks Tree-sit Update & Video
— Protect People – Clean Water, Clean Snow! – [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XMtLiX1pk&w=560&h=315] UPDATES on TREE-SIT as of Tuesday, August 21st 3:15 PM – ALERT: 5 Fire Dept. people at tree-sit. One Fire Dept. tactical climber on site. Ground support asked them not to […]
Continue readingAction Alert: Save the Peaks Campaign Erects Tree-Sit
Tree-Sit Halts Pipeline Construction on the San Francisco Peaks, Protester Demands Clean Water and Clean Snow FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From Monday, August 20, 2012 Flagstaff, AZ – This morning we erected a tree-sit to protect our community and our children from the […]
Continue readingMan killed by Chinese police in Tibet mining protest
One Tibetan was shot dead and six others arrested on Aug. 15 as Chinese security forces dispersed a crowd of some 1,000 Tibetans protesting against the re-opening of an environmentally destructive mine in Markham County of Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. The […]
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