Cross-posted from Infoshop.org Hello friends, We’re writing you from Blair, West Virginia, in the heart of the coalfields. We are in Logan County, which is the belly of the beast for the coal industry. We fight directly in the trenches against the […]
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Trial for Coal River Mountain treesitter coming up…
and other updates from Appalachia The trial for Squirrel, one of the treesitters from Coal River Mountain campaign featured in the last Earth First! Journal (Mabon 2011 issue), is scheduled at 9:30AM on February 9th in the Raleigh County Magistrate Courthouse in […]
Continue readingConfiscation of Black Mesa Herd
ALERT!!! Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating horses and calves belonging to several Dineh people of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. These livestock impoundments constitute human rights violations against traditional Dineh (Navajo); they take away one of their major food sources and […]
Continue readingAnonymous hacks another private intelligence company, reveals spying on Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance
Documents reveal law enforcement sharing information with STRATFOR Computer hackers known as Anonymous leaked information obtained by hacking into private intelligence firm Stratfor’s computer network. The documents—what Anonymous is calling a teaser—suggest that from at least October to November 2011 Stratfor worked […]
Continue readingMonsanto attacked by Anonymous hackers!
In a thread of hack events from the Anonymous group, the most recent target has been Monsanto.com. Anonymous, which briefly knocked the FBI and Justice Department websites offline as well as Music Industry websites in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site […]
Continue readingIndonesia: Mining permit revoked after mob torches company’s office and frees prisoners
The Indonesian government has announced that it will revoke the permit for a controversial gold mine after massive rioting against the project. The protests were aimed at Sumber Mineral Nusantara a company hoping to open the mine on Sumbawa island. The crowd, […]
Continue readingAnimal-rights activist wins $15 grand in leafleting-arrest lawsuit
By Vinny Vella Edward Coffin said yesterday was “bittersweet,” even though he ended it $15,000 richer. The city agreed to pay Coffin, an animal-rights activist, that sum as a settlement. He sued the city last year with the help of the state’s […]
Continue readingNew Orleans Hurricane Protection Plan To Rely on Wetland and Delta Restoration
By Mark Fischetti / Scientific America More than six years after Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, a plan has finally emerged to protect the area from future storms. It relies heavily on the restoration of wetlands […]
Continue readingMonsanto Admits Defeat in France, Biotech Corn Contaminates
by Gordon Davis / The Scottish Farmer FRANCE HAS held firm in its opposition to Monsanto’s genetically modified MON 810 maize – and the agri-chemical multinational has admitted defeat. Monsanto had been putting legal pressure on the French government to lift its […]
Continue readingConservation On The Front Line: Muara Tae’s Last Stand Against Big Palm Oil
from Intercontinental Cry Deep in the interior of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, the Dayak community of Muara Tae is struggling to defend itself from a sustained assault by palm oil companies. It’s Muara Tae’s last stand, warns Pak Singko, a traditional leader from […]
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