An anti-Fascist rally in Phoenix drew several Earth First!ers, including members of the Earth First! Journal editorial collective, who joined in solidarity their anarchists, brown berets and other anti-fascist allies in resisting the ideals of environmental racism and genocide practiced by the […]
Dozens of protesters lined Route 54 to express dissent against Gastem USA’s plans to “frack” at a Cherry Valley site, off Irish Hollow Road. click here for more. A gunboat kidnapped several oil service workers yesterday. A statement purporting to be from […]
After being sentenced to 3 years for “stalking” (participating in home demonstrations against animal torturers), Kevin Olliff was released on time served. Keep up with his case online here. Prisoner Steve Murphy, accused of attempted arson in the name of the Earth […]
From the Palm Beach Post “In case you ain’t already heard, the lawless troglodytes of South Florida’s Earth First! community are the rootinist, tootinist swamp anarchists this side of the Brazilian Pantanal,” says an Earth First! blog post about the move. “We […]
A dozen or so members of Genesee Valley Earth First gathered shortly after noon alongside Cobbs Hill reservoir in southeast Rochester to protest what they see as the environmental risks of the controversial natural-gas extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. […]
Oleg Kashin, a reporter who wrote articles about the destruction of the Khimki forest, was methodically beaten nearly to death by two unknown assailants, and is now in intensive care. Meanwhile, editor, Mikhail Beketov, who is now confined to a wheelchair after […]
From the Associated Press: “The Lincoln Police Department began making arrests Monday morning when a handful of the several dozen protesters refused to leave an access route where they were blocking trucks headed to the construction site. Lincoln Fire Chief Phillip Dawson […]
Pennseylvania Homeland Security Internal e-mails from the Homeland Security office reveal a determined effort to recruit local people receiving its intelligence bulletins — municipal police chiefs, county sheriffs, local emergency management personnel — into its network of citizen spies… One bulletin warns […]
It’s been ten years since a group of activists from across Europe came together at the UN COP 6 climate talks in the Hague to form the Rising Tide coalition for Climate Justice: a group that recognised, even in 2001, mainstream climate […]
Activists with Maine Earth First! stood in protest alongside Friends of Lincoln Lakes this morning in opposition to the “Rollins Wind Project”, an industrial wind project that will clearcut over 1,000 acres of ridge-line above the 13 Lincoln Lakes, erect 40 giant […]