By Russ McSpadden Following three days of mass protest, overturned police cars, tear gas and violent clashes between protesters and riot police, the city government of Shifang in the province of Sichuan, southwest China, announced last week that it is scrapping plans […]
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EF! blockade shuts down frack drilling in PA state forest
Nearly 100 Earth First! activists, friends and allies forced a 70-foot-tall EQT hydrofracking drill rig to suspend operations for 12 hours yesterday in Pennsylvania’s Moshannon State Forest. This is the first time that protesters have shut down a hydrofrack drilling operation in […]
Continue readingBrazil tribes occupy contentious dam site
Cross Posted from Al Jazeera A cluster of 12 men from the Xikrin tribe chant in their native language while marching together, arms interlocked, stomping their feet against the dry red dirt. They say this is their call of resistance from the […]
Continue readingState Of Emergency In Cajamarca Follows Four Deaths in Mine Protests
Cross-Posted from Peruvian Times A state of emergency has been declared in three provinces in the Andean department of Cajamarca, located in northern Peru, following the deaths of four people during protests against the multi-billion dollar Conga gold project. Peru’s Executive branch […]
Continue readingUS succeeds with shameful backdoor deal to empty whaling ban
Cross Posted from GreenVegans.org Japan and all IWC member nations who want to see the commercial whaling ban lifted are rejoicing tonight. Describing the non-aboriginal whaling conducted by the Bequians of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) as fitting within the definition […]
Continue readingThe Paraguayan Coup
How agribusiness, landowning and media elite, and the U.S. are paving a way for regional destabilization by Francesca Fiorentini July 4, 2012, Buenos Aires It has been nearly two weeks since the parliament of Paraguay orchestrated an institutional coup that removed President […]
Continue readingLove in the Time of the Apocalypse
Review by Russ McSpadden For the avid apocalyptic fiction readers out there… Gregory Blecha (the father of a really dear friend and fellow Earth First!er who I’ve spent some time in lock-downs and even jail with) has published a terrifyingly funny novel […]
Continue readingThis Summer Is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’
By AP / SETH BORENSTEIN (WASHINGTON) — If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. […]
Continue readingUS Coast Guard Creates ‘Protest-free Zone’ in Alaska Oil Drilling Zone
from PressTV.com The United States Coast Guard will establish and enforce “a 500-meter safety zone” around the Shell Oil Company’s drilling vessel Noble Discoverer as it drills exploratory offshore wells in the sensitive Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska beginning this […]
Continue readingWe Were Wrong on Peak Oil. There’s Enough to Fry Us All
A boom in oil production has made a mockery of our predictions. Good news for capitalists – but a disaster for humanity by George Monbiot / UK Guardian The facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years […]
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