The RAMPS Campaign put a couple of tree-sitters up on Coal River Mountain to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. The tree-sit has stopped Alpha Natural Resources strip mining operations on Coal River Mountain. Catherine-Ann MacDougal and Becks Kolins currently are sitting in trees […]
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Leopard injures cop in India before being killed
Source AP KOLKATA, India— A leopard that mauled 11 people in a fierce showdown with Indian villagers has died of knife wounds after being captured. The snarling adult, male leopard leapt at locals and forest officials as they tried to drive it […]
Continue readingAmerican Legislative Exchange Council EXPOSED; Protest at annual ALEC meeting in New Orleans, August 3-6, 2011
ALEC stands for American Legislative Exchange Council. They are an ultra conservative front group that brings corporations and politicians together. ALEC’s private sector board is made up of representatives from GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Koch Industries, to name a few. They write model laws […]
Continue readingBlack Cat Sabotage Handbook Released
from Infoshop.org Announcing the online release of the Black Cat Sabotage Handbook The Black Cat Sabotage Handbook is a resistance movement artifact that appeared mysteriously (thank you, whoever you are!) in the distro area at the 2010 Wild Roots Feral Futures eco-defense […]
Continue readingFOREVER WILD 2011: Celebrate the life of Walkin’ Jim Stoltz!
Below is a snippet of a press release about the August 20 celebration of Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, an Earth First! musician from the early days of the movement who passed in September last year: Friends, family and admirers of one of Montana’s […]
Continue readingInternational Updates from “Car-Free Cities” movement: Mexico, Russia, Italy, Austria, Poland, Slovenia…
From World Carfree Monthly News ECOLOGICAL CAMP IN KHIMKI FOREST As featured repeatedly in this bulletin, the resistors to a construction of a highway through a forest outside of Moscow have come up with many creative ideas. They have now lined up […]
Continue readingCascadia Forest Defenders Action Camp starts next week in Oregon
Activists are invited to to support direct action in defenseof a beloved, ancient coastal rainforest, the Elliott State Forest. Under the watchful mismanagement of the Oregon Department of Forestry,timber barons are actively razing this rare, 93,000 acre cathedral of previously untouched wilderness. […]
Continue readingJustin Solondz’s Address Released
From NYC Anarchist Black Cross According to federal authorities, Mr. Solondz made incendiary devices that destroyed a horticulture center at the University of Washington in Seattle in May 2001. Prosecutors also accuse him of burning down buildings and vehicles in Oregon that […]
Continue readingNEW VIDEO… Earth First! Dances on Governor’s Table in Tar Sands Protest
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vd4QC_rB4&w=640&h=390] HELENA, Montana—Check out this new short film from the Earth First! occupation of the Montana capitol against the Tar Sands and other industrial energy infrastructure in the Northern Rockies, following the 2011 Round River Rendezvous. Five people locked down, 20 danced […]
Continue readingCyberactivist Group AntiSec Hacks Defense Contractor and FBI
Hacktivist group AntiSec started the week with yet another intrusion on a government contractor, this time targeting Booz Allen Hamilton and posting what it claims are 90,000 military email addresses and passwords from the contractor online. The group–a spinoff from the Anonymous […]
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