by Leanna First-Arai / Truthout In direct violation of warnings by the International Energy Agency that new oil, gas and coal development should have ceased in 2021, and by UN Secretary General António Guterres that government support for fossil fuel production is “delusional,” the federal […]
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How Extinction Rebellion Aids Counter-Insurgency & Legitimizes Police Violence
from Green Anti-Capitalist Media In the wake of civil rights era activism, states and Police around the globe have rapidly developed and widely utilised methods of Counter-Insurgency against every popular movement threatening to create a more just, and equitable world. Some movements […]
Continue readingTrees Are Our Friends: A Zine on Building Tree Houses
sent to Earth First! Newswire [Editors note: This zine looks rad, but none of us at the Newswire are familiar enough with treehouses to have properly proofread it.] We’ve cut and pasted the intro below; to download the full zine, click on […]
Continue readingThe US Activists Holed Up in Treehouses to Block $90 Million “Cop City”
by Mike Jordan / The Guardian The sign in the forest reads “You are now leaving The U.S.A.” Then, high up among the branches of a white oak tree, there is a treehouse the size of a closet. It is draped on […]
Continue readingThe Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground
by Matthew Wolfe / New York Times Magazine This year, one of the last fugitives of the Earth Liberation Front pleaded guilty to arson — at a moment when climate activists are again flirting with radical ideas. Late one summer evening in […]
Continue readingEndangered Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Is Being Sabotaged by Ranchers and Federal Employees
by Spencer Roberts / The Intercept SOME SAY CLEOPATRA died by drinking a poison wolfsbane tincture to avoid being taken prisoner. Thousands of years later, a similar fate met another captive queen: the matriarch of the Prieto wolf pack. When she was snared in April […]
Continue readingThe Hidden Story of a Notorious Guatemalan Nickel Mine
by Sandra Cuffe / The Intercept CRISTÓBAL POP VIVIDLY remembers when the lake suddenly turned red. Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ fishermen depend on Lake Izabal, Guatemala’s largest lake, for their livelihoods, and Pop had just been elected president of the local fishers guild when […]
Continue reading“Disastrous News”: Widespread Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underway
by Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams An assessment of the Great Barrier Reef’s health released Friday reveals widespread bleaching of the world’s largest coral organism, sparking fresh demands for the Australian government to ditch fossil fuels and finally commit to protecting both the […]
Continue readingIn Defence of the Attack on the CGL Drill Site
from Montreal Counter-Information On February 17 the Coastal GasLink drill pad site by the banks of the Wedzin Kwa (morice river) was seriously damaged by an unknown group of courageous individuals. As anarchist individuals living in the North who are supportive of […]
Continue readingOne of Europe’s Most Important Nature Reserves is Being Destroyed Due to Poland’s Racist Border Policies
from Freedom News Right now, the Polish state is building the largest barrier ever seen in Europe. The wall is to be built over 180 km along the border with Belarus. The planned height of it is 5.5 meters, of which 5 […]
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