Hundreds of people converged in Charlotte, NC on May 9 to protest Bank of America’s (BoA) annual shareholders meeting. Activists from Appalachia fighting mountaintop removal coal mining joined forces with housing rights activists, unions, immigrant rights groups, and the Occupy movement to […]
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Lawsuit Challenges Old-growth Logging Near Grand Canyon
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a 25,000-acre timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest near Grand Canyon’s north rim. Approved in January, this is the U.S. Forest Service’s fifth attempt to sell old-growth trees […]
Continue readingSadie and Exile Transfered to Re-Entry
Cross Posted from War on Society According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, ELF prisoners Sadie and Exile have been transferred to the custody of the Seattle Community Corrections Office after spending more than 6 years in full confinement. These kind of facilities […]
Continue readingProtestors at Michigan’s Fracking Auction
LANSING – An auction of state-owned oil and gas rights on 109,000 acres across lower Michigan, including Oakland County, was briefly disrupted this morning by anti-drilling demonstrators. One protester, who stood up as bids were being taken and began to talk […]
Continue readingClimate Activists Disrupt UK Energy Summit
cross posted from IndyMedia UK On May 3rd, hundreds of protesters from climate and anti-cuts groups across the country teamed up to block the UK Energy Summit in the City of London. [1] They descended on the conference venue at 11.45 am, […]
Continue readingB.C. Economist Blocks Coal Trains In White Rock
About a dozen protesters, including one of Canada’s leading energy-environment economists, were arrested Saturday after setting up a blockade on train tracks in White Rock, B.C., aimed at stopping U.S. coal trains from reaching local ports. Mark Jaccard, a professor of sustainable […]
Continue readingLakota, Navajo and Supai to UN Rapporteur: Halt genocide and eco-cide
Cross Posted from Censored News Native Americans in Arizona and South Dakota delivered powerful testimony on the destruction of their homelands by uranium mining, coal fired power plants and oil and gas drilling, during sessions with UN Rapporteur on the Rights of […]
Continue readingFirst Step Towards Fracking in Michigan, DNR Auctions Rights to 109,000 Acres
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Hydraulic Fracturing Comes to Michigan – Auction May 8, 2012 On May 8, 2012, the Michigan DNR will auction mineral and oil rights to 109,000 acres of Michigan public land. This opens public lands to oil and gas drilling and […]
Continue readingZombie Ants Fight Fungus with Fungus
By Devin Coldewey The Cordyceps fungus has become a staple of “stranger than fiction” nature stories: Its complex and lethal parasitism of ants, causing the insects to climb as high as they can before the fungus bursts like a horn from their […]
Continue readingActivists block coal shipment to Duke Energy power plant
CHARLOTTE, NC—This morning, activists from Greenpeace, RAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival), Katuah Earth First!, and Keepers of the Mountains Foundationblocked a coal train en route to the Marshall Steam Station, a Duke Energy coal-fired power plant, and branded the cars […]
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