Larry Gibson, long-time environmental activist, died of a heart attack Sunday, September 10, while working on Kayford Mountain, the family home in Raleigh County which he spent the last decades of his life protecting from the coal mining practice known as mountaintop […]
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Villagers Sue Diamond Firms for Pollution in Zimbabwe
Report by Caiphas Chimhete, original story from The Standard The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) and villagers living along Save River are seeking a court order to bar three diamond mining companies in Marange district from polluting water sources. ZELA is a […]
Continue readingMining Will Hit Tiger Habitats
by Rashme Sehgal, from Asian Age Conservationists warn that indiscriminate coal block allocation will destroy tiger habitats of central India. Geological Information System analysis whereby Coal India Ltd maps were juxtaposed against satellite images of forest cover undertaken by the Ecoinformatics Lab […]
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Croatan Earth First! is hosting a direct action training camp this fall Oct 20-21st at a local veggie farm near Pittsboro, NC. There will be tent camping available for the weekend, and people are free to come and go. Plan to stay […]
Continue readingCrazy Horse was a Sober Warrior
31 Notes on the Alcohol Wars at Pine Ridge by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] 1. Autumn Two Bulls is the mother […]
Continue readingEmployment Opportunities at the Earth First! Journal
Greetings! The Earth First! Journal Collective is currently seeking playmates in our south Florida office for short-term and long-term engagements. As long-time Earth First!ers, we know how hard it is to commit to a bioregion outside our own, however, we believe that […]
Continue readingVideo of RNC Coal Plant Blockade in Tampa
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Continue readingBanks Profiting from Global Food Crisis
by Tom Bawden / The Independent Barclays has made as much as half a billion pounds in two years from speculating on food staples such as wheat and soya, prompting allegations that banks are profiting handsomely from the global food crisis. Barclays […]
Continue readingRising Tide shuts down construction of a coal haulage railway line in Australia
Eco-activists have shut down construction of a coal haulage railway line in the Hunter Valley to protest the industry’s expansion in the region. A Rising Tide activist secured himself to a 10m-tall tripod during a pre-dawn raid on the Rutherford site, where […]
Continue readingNews Round-Up from Eco-Rebellion World Wide
Wow! Its been a wild week, and we’ve gotten a bit behind on the news as several EF! Newswire contributors were tied up in Tampa at the RNC protests. But it looks like that blue moon may have gotten some people pretty […]
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