from Unicorn Riot On Wednesday morning, animal rights activists Amy Soranno and Nick Schafer were sentenced to 30 days in jail, 12 months of probation, and are required to provide their DNA to the National DNA Data Bank. Soranno and Schafer were […]
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UK: Window’s Broken at Schlumberger’s Fossil Fuel Research Center
from This Is Not a Drill Climate activists broke all the front windows of Schlumberger’s fossil fuel research centre located on the University of Cambridge’s West Site. Reporting their actions to the direct action website This Is Not a Drill, the activists […]
Continue readingUgandan Students Arrested by Local Police During Protests Against EACOP Project
from Common Dreams On Tuesday, Ugandan police arrested students heading towards the European Union offices to protest against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project (EACOP), a project led by French energy giant TotalEnergies. The arrest was unjustified, considering it was a […]
Continue readingShould the Ocean Have Legal Rights?
Human activities have put the ocean in serious trouble. We need a fundamentally different approach from most of today’s ocean-related decision-making, which is typically “anthropocentric in nature.” Read more in this article from The Revelator.
Continue readingAn Interactive Map of Extractive Infrastructure in British Columbia
from Montreal Counter-Information There is a ever growing amount of pipelines and other extractive projects within so-called “british columbia”. It is challenging to understand the scope of this infrastructure and how each project relates to others. We collected information about planned, in construction, […]
Continue readingActivists Liberate 24 Rainbow Trout and Sabotage Pump and Vacuum at Fish Farm
from Unoffensive Animal September, Brittany France. “WE CAME BACK FOR THE RAINBOW TROUTS A few months ago, we went to an organic trout farm in Brittany, France. We liberated 16 animals from it in a river. We thought that this was not […]
Continue readingMore Than 1,700 Environmental Activists Murdered in the Past Decade
by Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian More than 1,700 murders of environmental activists were recorded over the past decade, an average of a killing nearly every two days, according to a new report. Killed by hitmen, organised crime groups and their own […]
Continue readingColombia: Blockade by Communities Affected by Cerrejón Coal Mine
from London Mining Network Wayuú and Afro-descendant communities, resettled and historically affected by the Cerrejón Limited open-pit coal mine, decided to block the southern part of the mining operation in La Guajira due to the non-compliance of Cerrejón Limited, today, September 1, […]
Continue readingSweden: Activists and locals take action against limestone mining
from Freedom News UK Right now in Sweden, activists are fighting to stop the state from throwing open the doors to corporate impunity. When the company Cementa was barred from continuing to mine limestone on the island of Gotland on the basis […]
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