by Onion / Earth First! Newswire Work was stopped for the fourth consecutive day Friday, on Arizona governor Ducey’s illegal border wall in the Coronado National Forest. Protesters put their bodies in between the machines and the destruction they were bent on […]
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Group Sues to Halt Logging Near 2,000-Year-Old Redwood on Russian River
from San Francisco Chronicle A group of tree lovers in Sonoma County has filed a lawsuit to block logging near a 2,000-year-old redwood tree on the banks of the Russian River. In late November, Cal Fire approved a timber harvest plan that […]
Continue readingBlue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s Press Release on Walton Lake Timber Sale
sent to Earth First! Newswire / by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project A Ninth Circuit Court panel has granted Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s motion for a stay, leaving in place the injunction that prevents the Forest Service from logging the mature and old […]
Continue readingGermany: Defend Lützerath
from Enough 14 Lützerath. Germany. After the long struggle to save the Hambacher forest, the focus of many activists changed to Lützerath, a small village which is to be demolished for a brown coal open pit mine: Grazweiler. Many villages and major parts of […]
Continue readingConcerning the Closure of APD’s Firing Range
from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest On the evening of Saturday, November 19, chainsaw-wielding militants took action to close down the Atlanta Police Department’s shooting range inside the Weelaunee Forest, where APD trains weekly to kill and maim the people of Atlanta. […]
Continue reading“Haunt Cop City” Banner Drop in Tallahassee
from It’s Going Down Report from Tallahassee, Florida on banner drop in solidarity with the campaign to #StopCopCity in so-called Atlanta. Originally posted to Scenes from the Atlanta Forest. On October 31st, a mischievous banner drop was spotted at Florida State’s Student Union. […]
Continue readingWashington: Many, Many Trees Spiked in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Day of Action
from Puget Sound Anarchists submitted anonymously – Over the last several weeks we have spiked large swaths of trees in the so-called “Capitol State Forest” in rural so-called “Thurston County, Washington” (ancestral Nisqually, Squaxin, and Chehalis land), leading up to the November […]
Continue readingForest Defenders Build Anti-Logging Blockades In Mattole Forest
from It’s Going Down In recent days, forest defenders in the Mattole forest took action against multiple logging plans in the area by building blockade structures that prevented workers from entering their worksite, costing the company valuable time and money. Blockades were […]
Continue reading#StopCampGrayling Protesters Hang Banner, Light Fireworks At DNR Director’s Home
from It’s Going Down The following action report was originally published by Stop Camp Grayling on social media. For more background on this struggle, see this zine here. Forest defenders descended on Department of Natural Resources (DNR) director Dan Eichenger’s home last week to demand […]
Continue readingOld Forests Are Worth More Standing
[EF! Newswire Editor’s Note: By using the link below, you can send a personalized letter to some bureaucrats about protecting mature forests and send a few tweets around about it… Then you should go out and build a treesit in every 80+ […]
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