In a remote part of northwestern British Columbia lies the Sacred Headwaters. It’s where three important wild salmon rivers originate – the Skeena, Nass and Stikine. First Nations and local communities depend on the vitality of the Headwaters for their livelihoods. And […]
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From the Woods: Tar Sands blockade update
I’m currently part of a team of awesome friends roving through the woods of east Texas as part of the Tar Sands Blockade (TSB). This is an epic fight to defend Texans’ homes and land against the clearcutting and pollution caused by […]
Continue readingAudubon Society sticks nose deeper up ass of GOP
Spineless eco-lobbyists and right-wing bureaucrats unite against “extremists” National Audubon and many of the organization’s state groups have long served as a lobbying force in favor of compromise-induced industrial pillage (For those in Florida, think: Eric Draper). Today, they’re stepping it up […]
Continue readingArmed Struggle for the Redwoods
A belated review of The Big Trees by panagioti, for the Earth First! Newswire If you like the idea of blowing up dams, burning down court houses, and standing side-by-side with Quakers in a reluctant armed revolt against the corrupt logging industry—and […]
Continue readingSan Carlos Apache Make Annual Sacred Run Up Mount Graham
by Lee Allen / Indian Country Today The annual weeklong San Carlos Apache Mount Graham Sacred Run—up from the Arizona desert reservation to the spirit people living on a mountain top more than 100 miles away—has entered its third decade. As he […]
Continue readingStatement from Tim DeChristopher Regarding Decision on Appeal
Cross Posted from Peaceful Uprising “After nearly four years in the criminal justice system and 14 months in prison, I have decided not to continue my appeal through the federal court system. I greatly appreciate the pro bono efforts of Ron Yengich, Liz Hunt […]
Continue readingThe Earth First! Death Cult? It does have a nice ring to it!
Did you ever stop to consider that the wild and hairy anarchists of the Earth First! Movement are really just a bunch of death cult Illuminati in cahoots with big government, Time magazine, the Shriners and um, aliens and lizard people and shit? […]
Continue readingMore Jobs on a Dead Planet?
Bummer Reports of Pro-Industry “Protest” Around the World As the Earth shows ever-increasing, irrefutable signs of overlapping global crises in biodiversity loss, climate change and human cancer rates, the work-vs-ecology debate continues to distract good people around the world and fuel the […]
Continue readingCommunity defeats giant cement company in Mexico
CEMEX cannot burn more waste in the state of Hidalgo In a statement released yesterday by GAIA, the Huichapan community, in the central México’s state of Hidalgo, has achieved a historic victory, after 6 months of protests and legal actions that drove […]
Continue readingSunrise Intervention at Gas Industry Convention
It was 7:00 am, the last day of the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s annual convention in Philadelphia, when a group of 40 or so people gathered to meet the gas industry face to face. “We just wanted to see what they had to […]
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