from OBP In dense forests off I-5 in Josephine County, Oregon, up a few miles of winding dirt roads, a handful of tents, a hammock and an acoustic guitar mark the camp of those describing themselves as “forest defenders.” This land, at […]
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Reportback from Lützerath
sent to Earth First! Newswire / by A In small gangs, cops start charging towards groups of protesters, beating up people with batons and pepper spray, kicking and pushing them to the ground. Dozens of people are injured, many with serious head […]
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 readingBulldozer Stopped in ATL Forest by Horde of Forest Defenders- Call to Action
from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest On June. 2nd, a horde of forest defenders were able to stop a bulldozer on the edge of the woods (that was being escorted by kkkops) from destroying the forest by throwing rocks, deploying fireworks, & […]
Continue readingA Message From A Tree sitter
from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest They destroyed our camp, & sawed one of our platforms apart, but we still got up into same tree in opf near juvy to defend the forest, & we left a message for our oppressors & […]
Continue readingForest Defender Sits in Tree to Protest Luxury Homes Development in Ann Arbor
by Steve Neavling / Detroit Metro Times A forest defender camped high in a tree Monday morning to protest a planned development of luxury homes in a forested section of Ann Arbor. The protester, who goes by the name Nuthatch, plans to […]
Continue readingDefend the Barricades; Calling Feral Anarchists to Atlanta Forest!
from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest “No Forest? No Peace! Truck the Police!”, reads a banner hanging from a skypod attached to an overturned truck blocking the ONLY Bridge crossing the little creek between the police construction staging ground and the main […]
Continue readingI Believe That We Will Win: Two Perspectives on Defend the Atlanta Forest
from Defend the Atlanta Forest They say Atlanta is a city in a forest. What happens when cops, developers, and Hollywood team up to decimate some of the very woods the city claims to treasure? In the last year, a widespread and […]
Continue readingThe first forest walk after the eviction and uprooting of a part of the Osterholz forest: A rollercoaster of emotions
From Enough 14 Wuppertal, Germany: I arrived in the stormy weather with pouring rain and I was delighted that nonetheless some people came to o the forest. In the pavillion I saw a few wreaths and some banner. One banner said: “Missing […]
Continue readingBetween Brock and a Hard Place: Campers Stage Intervention to Save Badger Setts from Destruction in Brighton Stand-Off
from Freedom News A month ago, just after New Year, a group of youth climate activists took land on Coldean Lane in Brighton. They put up a treehouse in opposition to developers plans to fell healthy trees and destroy active badger setts. […]
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