By Will Potter / GreenIsTheNewRed.org Utah animal rights activist Jordan Halliday has begun a 10-month prison sentence for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about his political beliefs and political associations. It is believed to be the first time in […]
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline, Leaves Door Open to New Application
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuag05wlKg]The Obama administration today formally rejected a bid by Canadian energy company TransCanada to build a $7 billion oil pipeline linking the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The Keystone XL project, which was estimated to create […]
Continue readingLoggers ‘burned Amazon tribe girl alive’ to force tribe to leave forest
By Raf Sanchez / The Telegraph Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land, reports claimed on Tuesday […]
Continue readingAction Alert from the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project
Wolves and lynx threatened by the “Deep” timber sale in Central Oregon The Paulina Ranger District of Ochoco National Forest is planning to revive the “Deep” timber sale already defeated by us in court as the “Jackson’ sale, with very few changes […]
Continue readingCanadian environmentalists block logging operations for one week and running
Environmentalists in Alberta, Canada have been blocking logging operations in the Castle Wilderness Area for over a week despite below freezing temperatures. On January 11 several dozen environmentalists, including local residents, set up tents on the access road for the logging operations. […]
Continue readingEgyptians demand environmental rights in the revolution
cross posted from Egypt Independent The leading slogan of Egypt’s revolution has been “Bread, Freedom and Human Dignity,” reflecting the deterioration of Egyptians’ quality of life throughout Mubarak’s thirty-year reign. Consequently, an array of human rights issues have featured among the demands […]
Continue readingThe Earth First! Journal Needs Your Help
Hey All, We are very close to printing our Brigid / Winter issue of the Earth First! Journal. We currently need another $1000 bucks to make this happen. Please help out by donating a bit of what you can. To donate got […]
Continue reading“Playing hard on high seas”
This weekend, journalist Rosslyn Beeby with the Canberra Times in Australia drew connections between Sea Shepherd and Earth First! in a follow-up story about the three activists detained on a Japanese wailing ship last week. Below are some highlights from the article, […]
Continue readingAnimal Self-Liberation Front strikes in Brazil in daring zoo escape
Refusing to wait for the aid of bi-pedal liberators, 8 capuchin monkeys took matters into their own hands January 11th and broke out of a Brazilian zoo. The monkeys utilized a rock to smash open the lock on their cage and made […]
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