Dozens of protesters were attacked by police with pepper spray and seven people have been arrested so far in a day of action against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). On November 30, starting at 8 am hundreds marched and converged on […]
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“The leading passion of my life has been… hatred of modern civilization”
Check out another great EF! Newswire review, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, by EP Thompson, PM Press, re-released 2011. Morris was a Romantic poet and famous designer of chintzes, wallpapers, and furniture. But was he an anti-civ primitivist? Herein lies the importance […]
Continue readingBolivia and the Law of Mother Earth
Update Alas, the wild and wet dream of an ecotopia in Bolivia is but lies on paper and another example of the emptiness of beautiful intentions applied to government rhetoric. The article below was written in the salad days of Evo’s hope […]
Continue readingOil Spill in South Platte River
by Anthony Swift, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Colorado officials fear that vast amounts of petroleum have been leaking into the South Platte River from a broken pipeline at a refinery operated by tar sands producer Suncor. It is not yet clear […]
Continue readingO’odham Pepper Sprayed in Phoenix ALEC Protest
David Ortega, Tohono O’odham native elder, suffered a stroke after being pepper sprayed by police and is now at the hospital. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona— Tohono O’odham David Ortega, veteran and elder, suffered a stroke today after being pepper sprayed by police at the […]
Continue readingNew Earth First! Journal Hits the News Stands!
The newest issue of the Earth First! Journal is out and chocked full of radical analysis, campaign updates, fiction, poetry, and art. Below are a few of the articles available here in pdf format to read online. (click the image above to […]
Continue readingArrests as anti-tar sands protesters blockade DfT
Cross posted from Edie.net Police swooped on a group of protesters who attempted to blockade the offices of Government building. The protesters blocked the door of the Department for Transport (DfT) building in central London this morning (November 28). Activists from campaigning […]
Continue readingForget Doha: Japan Joins TPP
By Sasha The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is quickly and silently bringing about the largest free trade area in the world. Negotiations have lingered in the corridors of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summits since 2002, leading to a core agreement between Brunei, New […]
Continue readingBlast from the Past: “The Politics of Radical Environmentalism” 1987 Earth First! documentary
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhTTAVbDEfw&w=640&h=360] This film is a pre-released version of the documentary “Earth First!: The Politics of Radical Environmentalism” produced by Chris Manes. Its an examination of Earth First! in the early days, filmed at, and around the time of, the 1987 Grand […]
Continue readingTropic of Chaos, Green Scare 2.0 and Talking Strategy with Christian Parenti
Check out these two new contributions from former Earth First! Journal editor, Sasha, featured in the Reviews and Articles sections of the EF! Newswire: Tropic of Chaos: book review and interview with author Christian Parenti; and Green Scare 2.0: Drugs, Terror, and Environmentalism
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