Cross Posted from Greenisthenewred.com As the Occupy movement carries out massive May Day protests around the country, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task force is trumpeting the arrest of “self-proclaimed anarchists” and “terrorists” who allegedly conspired to destroy a bridge in Ohio. Integral […]
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Fifty Bald Eagles Considered Sufficient to the US Fish and Wildlife Service
Why not protect bald eagles? by Payson Roundup The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seems bound and determined to minimize protections for Arizona’s growing — but still fragile — population of bald eagles. What a strange spectacle. What a sad waste. Repeatedly, […]
Continue readingHappy Beltane! Merry May Day!
From Oakland to Asia, from Madrid to Moscow people are striking, and celebrating! Here in South Florida the Earth First! Journalistas are celebrating the completion of the Betane 2012 issue of the Journal! It is out of our hands and will be […]
Continue readingNew Wyoming wolf plan would allow killing of hundreds of wolves
From the Center for Biological Diversity The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Wyoming has passed legislation and an amendment to its wolf-management plan that will meet federal approval and trigger removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves […]
Continue readingBeetles suspected in burning down two Canadian sawmills
[EF! Newswire note: Seems fishy that industrial logging, climate change and corporate greed is not to blame for destroying its own mills and killing its own employees… In any case, there’s two less mills in the world. For now, we say bravo […]
Continue readingCelebrating May Day with the Rossport Solidarity Camp
May Day! Day of Solidarity & work weekend 4-7 May Anyone feel like heading over to Ireland next week? Along with plans for actions against Shell, the weekend includes a talk by an Earth First! Journal editor who will be visiting overseas. […]
Continue readingEugene Po-Po Pick On Little Kids, Then Mace Moms
While CFD is out in the woods occupying the Goose timber sale, their friends in town are busy Occupying trees as well. It seems like the local media mostly didn’t notice, so Eugene Occupy the Trees had a small march. It was […]
Continue readingMexican indigenous community holds 14 police after killings
Inhabitants of an indigenous community in western Mexico detained 14 police officers and a local official after eight of their neighbors were killed by illegal loggers. Thursday’s detention was the latest flare-up of tension between the community in Cheran, Michoacan state, illegal […]
Continue readingProtesters occupy UC Berkeley-owned farm in Albany
Members of Occupy Cal, along with other Occupy protesters from the Bay Area, marched from Berkeley to a UC Berkeley-owned farm in Albany on Sunday afternoon with plans to set up an Earth Day encampment. After listening to speakers from various Occupy […]
Continue readingCan you tell real biotech nightmares from Hunger Games fiction?
A month ago, we here at the Earth First! Newswire exposed our nerdiness by publishing what some have called a hyperbolic claim that the Hunger Games trilogy could bring the eco-revolution. Well, we’re following up on that by re-posting a great quiz […]
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