Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced launching a massive coordinated information-seeking campaign. 34 ACLU affiliates are filing over 375 requests in 31 states across the country with local law enforcement agencies large and small that seek to uncover […]
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More bomb attacks against nanotechnology in Mexico
The same group who took credit for anti-technology bombing in April, which news sources in Mexico reported exploding at Universidad Politécnica in Valle de Mexico, has claimed more attacks. According to Time Magazine, “An anti-technology group… was responsible for a package bomb […]
Continue readingBolivians march against development plan
Reposted from Al Jazeera [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiYvwzPc-E&] Bolivian indigenous activists have started a long protest march from the Amazon plains to the country’s capital in against a government plan to build a 306km highway through a national park in indigenous territory. Bolivian President Evo […]
Continue readingWild Horse Round Ups, Prison Labor and the Border
In a new trend that connects the taming of the wild, the prison complex and the militarization of the borderlands between the US and Mexico, wild mustangs brutally rounded up throughout the Southwest are being sold to prisons in Nevada and Colorado. […]
Continue readingOpposition to bear farms in China
by Earth First! Journal Earlier this week, we re-posted a story on the suicide of a bear in captivity at a Chinese bile farm. We got several comments on the story, including one from the group Animals Asia, who has been a […]
Continue readingEmergency order is sought to halt wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana
As Idaho and Montana prepare to open a major hunting season on a newly recovered wolf population, a coalition of groups went to court over the weekend to ask for an emergency injunction to stop the hunt. “Beginning in less than three […]
Continue reading‘Black Flags and Windmills’ a new film about Common Ground, New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/27543529]
Continue readingMemo Shows Prison Mail Screened by a “Counter-Terrorism Unit”
Article by Peter Young, resposted from the site Voice of the Voiceless Read the memo here The memo appears to have been inserted accidentally into an envelope for a rejected letter to Earth Liberation Front prisoner Joyanna Zacher when it was returned […]
Continue readingMother bear chooses suicide over slavery
[Find out about the opposition to Chinese Bear Bile farms here] The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself. The bears were […]
Continue readingWeekend Round-Up of Disaster and Disorder
Oil leak in North Sea confirmed by Shell Oil giant Shell was accused of being secretive on Friday over an oil leak from one of its platforms in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. Shell publicly reported the spill on […]
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