Another one for our “There Goes the Neighborhood” file: the President of the United States announced yesterday that 1,200 National Guard troops are being called up to “secure our borders.” Many of these troops are going to be stationed in our beloved […]
Four Greenpeace activists dropped a large banner on the front of Dell’s headquarters in Austin today to protest the use of PVC vinyl plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs). Dell had promised to end the use of these toxic products by the […]
Four people were arrested this morning outside of the Chevron Building during a peaceful protest of Chevron’s shareholders’ meeting. Over 30 people had gathered, holding signs and banners denouncing militarization and environmental destruction with the intention of entering the meeting. The assembly, […]
What Happened, 2010? I thought we were getting along! As though the spooky Deep Horizon oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t enough, we learned yesterday that two new oil spills have occurred, one in Alaska at a pump station 100 […]
7 Greenpeace activists were arrested Monday afternoon for boarding an offshore drilling support ship and painting Anti-Offshore Drilling slogans and symbols. They were all released this morning on bail. Click here for more photos.
[slideshow] Two events took place in the Bay Area in California to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney and attacks on Earth First! by the FBI. On May 23, a packed house at La Pena Cultural […]
Pacific Rim and other corporations in El Salvador have been destroying the land and polluting the environment for decades with impunity, first through martial law and then through the invisible hand of trade agreements. On May 27, the Committee in Solidarity with […]
Hey y’all. It’s been a big day in the enviro news world. Despite recent tumult, the EF!J Collective is on tryin’ to stay on top of everything. The UK EF! Action Update was released today! Don’t miss it! (OH, and a little […]
Six activists locked down inside the border patrol’s lobby here in Tucson, and they all were cited and released. Just walked away, and felt damn good about it. They won the local news cycle, sending racist cops a strong message. But they […]
So a new management deal has been signed for Canada’s Boreal Forest. It’s being hailed as the largest forest deal in the history of the world. You can see the map above: orange will be ‘protected’, gray areas will not. The fragmentation […]