[Yeah, that’s right. We EF! Journalistas occasionally escape the doldrums of office life and get out to the woods to raise some hell. The following is a first hand account, re-posted from TarSandsBlockade.org] One Blockader’s Story (Day 25) Monday’s early morning hike […]
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Large Predators Moving to the City: Urban Coyotes on the Rise
The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s human population will be living in towns and cities. Many new Urbanites have long, furry muzzles, […]
Continue readingFilthy War Machine: US Military Industrial Complex, World’s Worst Polluter
The United States Military, the Pentagon. Most fossil fuel burned, most greenhouse gases released, biggest source of Mercury released into the environment, biggest source of radiological (Uranium, Plutonium) releases and the biggest amount of HAZMAT materials released into rivers, lakes, oceans and […]
Continue readingWhen Big Oil Attacks
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOucQBLNOa4&feature=player_embedded] Tuesday afternoon in East Texas, after police brutally tortured two protesters locked to a backhoe and workers resumed destruction of the forest, members of the Tar Sands Blockade, determined not to be deterred by violence, moved in to try and stop […]
Continue readingMore Jobs on a Dead Planet?
Bummer Reports of Pro-Industry “Protest” Around the World As the Earth shows ever-increasing, irrefutable signs of overlapping global crises in biodiversity loss, climate change and human cancer rates, the work-vs-ecology debate continues to distract good people around the world and fuel the […]
Continue readingTexas Tar Sands Blockade Continues Despite Police Torture
Despite summer being over, things continue to heat up in Texas for the Tar Sands Blockade as we enter day 3 of the tree-sit. On Monday, 8 people took to the trees to defend the land from clear-cutting that would allow for […]
Continue readingTar Sands Blockade begins 8-person tree sit
Re-posted from Tar Sands Blockade Eight people climbed 80 feet into trees in the path of Keystone XL construction, and pledged not to come down until the pipeline is stopped for good. Construction cannot proceed until tree-sitters descend and TransCanada clear-cuts through […]
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