Cross Posted from Charlotte Observer Six Greenpeace protesters were arrested after unfurling a sign in front of the Duke Energy building Wednesday morning, protesting the company’s recently-approved rate hikes. The protesters ascended 20-foot-tall tripods and hung a banner between them that read […]
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Venezuelans Blockade Streets, Burn Tires After Oil Spill
Cross Posted from ABC News Hundreds of protesters blocked streets and burned tires in eastern Venezuela on Wednesday to demand clean water after a recent oil spill polluted rivers and streams that supply local storage tanks. “We have not had water […]
Continue readingProtests Planned as Counterinsurgency Prevails in Penn
A group of mainstream enviros are protesting a State Senator in Pennsylvania for helping to pass zoning ordinances that forbid regulation of natural gas drilling. In a press release, the Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Penn Environment, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and Conservation […]
Continue reading#OccupyDuke Protest Kicks Off Greenpeace Campaign
from quitcoal.org On Monday, 16 Greenpeace activists were arrested after unfurling a banner at the Progress Asheville Power Station hang a banner on a smoke stack at the plant. Activists secured themselves to the coal loader and conveyers, which prevented coal from […]
Continue readingEcuador: Indigenous Leaders Want Stop to Oil
Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazonian lowlands are calling for the government to drop plans to auction 21 leases near the Peruvian border for oil drilling. After a two-day meeting on February 7 and 8, the leaders delivered a statement to the Ministry […]
Continue readingBring the Animals Back to Black Mesa!
From theprecarious.com Rangers employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs rode in on horse back and four wheelers, armed with portable corals and livestock trailers, to take horses and calves from Dineh tribal elders living on Black Mesa, last week. Residents of […]
Continue readingSolidarity needed for MOVE 9 defendants!
The EF! Journal received love and appreciation from behind the bars, deep in the belly of the US injustice system. Two members of the incarcerated MOVE 9, who are still imprisoned for their efforts towards black liberation in the seventies, wrote to […]
Continue readingBurning Their Fortress to the Ground
Athens in flames… again The news tells us that the riots are about austerity measures. But here at the Earth First! Newswire, we suspect there’s something more to it. Having gotten to spend some time in Greece last year, we think that […]
Continue readingHow Sierra Club Learned To Stop Worrying About The 99% And Love Wall Street
Check out “Big Greenwashing 101” a new feature article from the EF! Newswire on the Sierra Club’s shady affiliations in light of recently revealed Chesapeake Energy gas company scandal. From the article: “John Muir must be rolling over in his grave… The […]
Continue readingFact Check: Europe Says Goodbye to GM
About a week ago, we published a report based on a story by the Daily Mail that had been spreading around the internet about Monsanto pulling out of the UK. It turned out that the story had been recycled from 2003, and […]
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