We just received word that another unreported oil spill occurred, this time in the Niger Delta. On May 10, 2010 ExxonMobile caused the 16th worst oil spill in world history, spilling 214,475,800 gallons of oil. As the US and Europe ignore the […]
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Saturday Morning Irony: Happy World Environment Day!
At the same time as the first tar balls started washing up on the beaches of Florida, Reporters without Borders released a report stating that environmental damage reporting is the most dangerous job in media. To top it off, today is World […]
Continue readingAfrica News: Troubles in Nigeria, Save Peter Erlinder
Beset by industrial disasters and environmental militants, the State of Nigeria is on shaky ground. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has been strategically attacking the infrastructure of Shell oil as well as corrupt politicians and businessmen from […]
Continue readingLockdown at White House and Protest at BP: DC Heating Up
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BvMr5fiDDk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] In protest against Free Trade and the auctioning off of Indigenous lands in the Amazon, activist Q’orianka Kilcher and her mother, Saskia Kilcher chained themselves to the White House fence on Tuesday. Covered in black paint to represent the horrible environmental […]
Continue readingTimber Harvesting in Roadless Areas
Judges ruled against a lawsuit brought by Greenpeace and Cascadia Wildlands Project in May, effectively allowing four timber sales in the Tongass Roadless Area of Alaska. The struggle for the conservation of roadless areas has historically been very strong in the Tongass, […]
Continue readingA New Movement? Mounting Dissent Indicates New Roles for Environmentalists in the Age of Disaster
Protest movements are re-emerging in several points of resistance. Through traditional war-and-economics-oriented protests to environmentalist demonstrations, the whole world is shuddering from expressions of grief and turmoil. What is this tumult going to turn into? Is there a future for this resistance, […]
Continue readingAnother Case of Factory Farm Cruelty Exposed!
From Compassion Over Killing: Compassion Over Killing (COK) is releasing an undercover video today that reveals shocking abuses inside Cal-Cruz Hatcheries, a chicken and duck hatchery in Santa Cruz, California. While employed at the facility for nearly a month in 2009, a […]
Continue readingRising Tide Action, 150 Police Officers Suppress Ohio Protest, plus International News
Northern Rockies Rising Tide, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the National Wildlife Federation, the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club, UM Climate Action Now, and the No Shipments Network will be hosting A Walk Through the Tar Sands today to protest the Montana […]
Continue readingExclusive Interview with Farm Sanctuary
The EF! Newswire was able to conduct a brief interview with Gene Baur, President, and Susie Coston, National Shelter Director, of Farm Sanctuary. We talked about the mission of Farm Sanctuary, the case of Conklin Dairy Farm and about factory farms in […]
Continue readingA Reeling World Gasps for Breath
Through murky lens of what might turn out to be the most catastrophic oil spill ever, the world’s usual violence becomes intensified. How are we to deal with these times? Protests against BP are still ongoing after a difficult weekend Police were […]
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