Black Crosses Demonstrate Dangers of Coal

As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Kentucky for a “a pattern of violations,” concerned residents and activists constructed symbolic black crosses in front […]

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Italian Political Prisoner Update

Coalizione Contro le Nocività on 15 April 2010, in Swizerland, Costantino, Silvia and Billy were arrested by federal police with the charge of prepare an attack with explosive against an under-construction IBM research centre on nano- and bio-technologies near Zurich. Costantino and […]

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230 Animals Die in Tar Sands Tragedy

Workers are seen with a row of oil-soaked waterfowl at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake Settling Basin, 40km north of Fort McMurray Oct. 26th 2010. Over 200 birds were euthanized after landing on the settling pond From blogs.marketwatch.com The Canadian Press is reporting that […]

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Activists on Second Week of Hunger Strike

On Oct. 22 three Costa Rican environmental activists marked two weeks on hunger strike against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine in San Carlos in the north of the country. Some 14 activists from two organizations, the North Front Against Mining […]

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Idaho Refuses to Protect Wolves

The Idaho governor has told state officials to no longer protect endangered gray wolves or investigate their deaths. For the past couple of months I’ve been following the story of the gray wolf’s endangered status in the US northwest. The gray wolf […]

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