Green Scare prisoner Marie Mason’s appeal for a re-sentencing has been denied by a federal appeals court. Coming immediately after fellow Green Scare prisoner Eric McDavid’s appeals have been exhausted, it is just another sign that the Obama administration will be not […]

Danish police have been ordered to pay tens of thousands of pounds compensation to hundreds of climate protesters, after a court ruling today. The unprecedented ruling coincides with the release of an audio recording from the policing of a protest outside the […]

At least four prisons in Georgia remain in lockdown five days after prisoners went on strike in protest of poor living and working conditions. Using cell phones purchased from guards, the prisoners coordinated the nonviolent protests to stage the largest prison strike […]

A broad coalition of conservation and clean energy groups, including Earthjustice, the Washington Environmental Council and The Sierra Club are trying to stop a permit to build a 416-acre coal export terminal on the Columbia River at Longview, WA. If allowed to […]

In the UK, environmental activists who were arrested before they could execute a planned shutdown of a coal-fired power station near Nottingham in April last year were today convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. Click here for more. Meanwhile, in Australia, […]

The Obama Administration has bargained for a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea that mimics the same language of NAFTA style free trade negotiated and passed by the Bush administration. The Peru Free Trade Agreement has already gone into effect, damning […]

On Wednesday, December 8, the 9th circuit court of appeals denied Eric’s request for a rehearing en banc. This means, in theory, that 11 judges reviewed Eric’s petition for a rehearing and not a single one of them found any merit in […]

After a year of huge disappointments, including the sentencing of several activists to multiple years in prison, anti-HLS campaigners are celebrating a potentially huge victory: In a statement released by anti-HLS campaigners, activists have disclosed that “Fortress Investment Group have ceased all […]

Several hundred nuclear energy opponents formed a human chain around a German nuclear storage site Sunday, to protest against transports of radioactive material. Click here for more. In other news, directed against foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc., more than 400 protesters reached Digos […]

The outcome of COP16, in spite of the government of Bolivia and the determination of indigenous peoples world-round, was the passage of several capitalist accords to decrease climate change by 2 degrees. Here are some of the contentious issues that have developed. […]