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 readingCanada: Sabotage at the Terrain Vague
from MTL Counter-Info The excavator that arrived at the boisé steinberg was sabotaged. All possible cables were cut. We will continue to fight the expansion of the port and its infrastructure. The people who plan the roads, the containers, the maritime strategy […]
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“Everyone’s against it:” The Powerlines Dispute In One of Victoria’s Most Marginal Electorates
from The Guardian A long-running dispute over proposed transmission lines in Victoria’s central highlands is a test case that could have ramifications for the state’s transition to renewable energy. The words “piss off AusNet” have been mown into a hill at Blampied, […]
Continue readingSabotage and Civil Disobedience in France: The Fight Against Mega-Basins and Water Grabbing
from Unicorn Riot Nearly 7,000 people gathered in the town of Sainte-Soline on Saturday, Oct. 29 and invaded a mega-basin development site to stop construction on the large water reserve despite a ban on protests and an unprecedented police presence. Composed of […]
Continue readingLawsuit Challenges Army Corps Decision Imperiling Wetlands Near Okefenokee Swamp
from Center for Biological Diversity On behalf of four conservation groups, the Southern Environmental Law Center today challenged, in federal court, a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to unlawfully reinstate jurisdictional determinations that removed Clean Water Act protections from […]
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. […]
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