By Bill Savadove A major anti-pollution protest has forced the Chinese government to take swift action for the second time in as many months, spurred by a rising environment movement that is spreading online. More than 500 residents living near a plant […]
TUCSON, AZ.— Under the guise of border security, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill today that would grant border-enforcement agencies free rein on federal lands within 300 miles of the US-Mexico border. After […]
Earlier this month, we posted news of the call to occupy Wall Street, in the spirit of Tahrir Square (and other recent popular uprisings: Spain, Greece, London…) Yesterday, the day after New York Mayor Bloomberg publicly expressed his fear of riots in […]
Cross Posted from Economy in Crisis A World Trade Organization panel ruled this week that U.S. “dolphin safe” labels on tuna products were overly burdensome and restrictive to trade. The ruling stems from a 2009 challenge to the labeling requirements by the […]
COLEMAN, FLORIDA—The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee confirm Leonard Peltier has been moved to the US Penitentiary at Coleman, Florida. The following information was provided late Wednesday by the Committee: “According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Leonard Peltier has been moved […]
From September 21-30 the group Reclaim the Fields will meet in Rosia Montana, Romania for their third annual gathering. “Food, land, seed, water and indigenous knowledge are too important to be commodified or centralised in the well-known capitalist way. We resist the […]
by Jon Cohen Resurrecting a heated debate that began in 1987, a petition has led the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to announce that it has initiated a review of whether it should “uplist” the status of captive chimpanzees from “threatened” […]
Arcata, CA—Next week, Sept 20, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), Mike Mease and co-author of Deep Green Resistance, Derrick Jensen, will speak at “Bring Back the Buffalo,” an event which also include music by native artists and an open discussion lead […]
Burning Books opened its doors last week, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. Leslie Pickering is a co-owner of the space, along with two others. He is also a former spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front who appears […]
A Miami police officer arrested animal rights activist Arnold Christopher Lagergren, 41 outside the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo, Florida on Saturday. The off-duty officer detained Lagergren at gunpoint after phone calls to police accused the man of taking pictures of […]