Two others prepare for trial By Everglades Earth First! Palm Beach Gardens, Florida— Four activists with Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) attended a court hearing today, related to the treesits in an ongoing campaign to stop the expansion of Scripps Biotech facilities into […]
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First Nation Tour brings truth to France on Tar Sands Development
A small delegation of First Nations members toured Strasbourg and Paris, France this week to meet with investors, French government and EU government with a specific message, “Canada is a developed country with “high” human rights standards yet the tar sands development […]
Continue readingMarch on Blair Mountain to stop MTR Coal Mining, June 5-11, 2011
By Rising Tide North America Dear Friends– If it was easy, they wouldn’t call it a “struggle.” In 1921, 15,000 miners took up arms against the coal industry’s gun thugs and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent […]
Continue readingGrangemouth Biomass Protesters ‘Block Port’
Four people have been arrested in a protest against a proposed biomass power station at Grangemouth docks. Twenty protesters from Action Against Agrofuels blocked both the access roads to the port, but police said South Shore Road had now been reopened. The […]
Continue readingReview: A Look at Technological Slavery-the collected writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski
Click here to read the full .pdf text with images from Vol II. of the 30th Anniversary of the Earth First! Journal Click here if you can’t open .pdf to read the full text only version by Panagiotis Evangelos Nasios Tsolkas Many […]
Continue readingMy Water’s On Fire Tonight
See the two videos below. The second one is an actual demonstration of faucet water catching fire due to hydrofracking. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4&feature=player_embedded#at=132] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZ4LQSonXA]
Continue readingRadio Report: Florida has no reporting requirements for controversial pesticide methyl iodide
Click here to listen to the radio report by Kelly Benjamin Methyl iodide is a controversial pesticide that has been approved for use in agricultural fields in Florida and California despite vocal opposition linking it to cancer and other ailments. Today is […]
Continue readingFirst Nations group protests tarsands pipeline proposal
cross posted from CBCNews About 40 people marched through downtown Calgary Wednesday to protest a proposed pipeline project that would carry oilsands crude to the west coast. Calgary-based Enbridge wants to build two pipelines from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C., stretching 1,170 kilometres. […]
Continue readingObama Vows to Increase Oil Production in US: Drill Baby Drill
by the Earth First! Journal Collective Heads up Gulf coasters and Alaskans, Obama wants more of what is killing you and the ecosystems that would sustain you. In his weekly radio address this week, President Obama announced he will set into motions […]
Continue readingAnother Worker dies at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
By Mandie Sami, wires A worker at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has died. It brings the total number of deaths at the complex to three since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck in March. The man, aged in his 60s, […]
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