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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Grand Jury Resister Sentenced to Prison Time, more
From Voice of the Voiceless Today, Jordan Halliday was sentenced in federal court to 10 months in prison for his refusal to answer questions during a grand jury investigating ALF mink releases in Utah. In other news, the Fur Farm Intelligence Project […]
Continue readingItalian 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 […]
Continue readingZombie Ducks, Exposing Gold Mining in Ghana, Anti-Mining Protests in New Zealand, etc.
“One day before Halloween, environmentalists dressed up in their ghoulish best for a serious cause – they wore costumes of dead waterfowl to show their distain over the latest tailings pond tragedy in northern Alberta.” Read more here According to the UK’s […]
Continue readingMontana Protest: Latest in Movement to Stop Oil Shipments
Yesterday, a group of protesters gathered outside an Exxon station in Missoula to fight dependence upon fossil fuels. (Click here for more.) Rising Tide is among several organizations (see related story) seeking to halt the shipment of hundreds of pieces of equipment […]
Continue readingIndigenous Blockade of Major River Ends in Peru, New info on I-69, more
About 4,000 indigenous people ended their blockade of the Marañon river of the Peruvian Amazon today after meeting with representatives of the regional government and the company they are protesting against, Argentina’s Pluspetrol. After an oil spill in June, the Peruvian government […]
Continue readingHalliburton Used Unstable Cement in Deep Horizon
According to the New York Times: “Halliburton and BP knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but […]
Continue reading230 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 […]
Continue readingActivists 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 […]
Continue readingIdaho 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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