Today government informant Brandon Darby, along with other Tea Party assholes, wrestled an editor of the Earth First! Journal and other immigrant solidarity activists out of a Tea Party conference in Orlando featuring pro-border, anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa County, Arizona. […]
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Keystone XL Pipeline Busted Down for Review
By Bill McKibben, crossposted from tarsandsaction.org Um, we won. You won. Not completely. The president didn’t outright reject the pipeline permit. My particular fantasy–that he would invite the 1253 people arrested on his doorstep in August inside the gates for a victory […]
Continue readingEarth First Padova (Italia) Call Out for December 11
December 11, 2011: a day of struggle to defend our future translated by Lilac At the beginning of October 2010, significant efforts had taken place to combat the megaprojects of our country in Messina, Florence, and the Val di Susa had launched […]
Continue readingOil Executive Calls Anti-Fracking Movement an Insurgency, Applies Psy-Ops
By: Eamon Javers Last week’s oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston was supposed to be an industry confab just like any other — a series of panel discussions, light refreshments and an exchange of ideas. It was a […]
Continue readingFBI Informant speaks alongside anti-immigrant sheriff at Tea Party conference in Orlando this weekend
That’s right, government informant Brandon Darby and border-loving sheriff Joe Arpaio are scheduled to speak side by side at the Choose Liberty 2012 conference hosted by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party, a group based in central Florida. This event will take place […]
Continue readingProtests Continue Against Iron Mining
By Karlen Aslanian Cross-posted from here Opposition politicians and environmental activists joined on Wednesday about two hundred residents of the central Armenian town of Hrazdan in protesting against the opening of an iron mine which they believe would have grave ecological consequences. […]
Continue readingNigeria: Ogonis Protest Non-Implementation of UNEP Report
Cross-posted from here More than 2,000 Ogoni people in Rivers State yesterday staged a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt against the non-implementation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report on the oil impacted sites in Ogoniland. The UNEP had conducted an environmental […]
Continue readingActivists face court over Opera House climb
By Angela Lavoipierre Cross-posted from here A court has heard three people charged for climbing the Sydney Opera House during an environmental protest will plead guilty. But two women who were allegedly involved with the action by conservation group The Last Stand […]
Continue readingThreatened animals suffer for Chevron’s gas project in Western Australia
Native animals are being killed almost daily on Barrow Island by workers on the controversial Gorgon gas project. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal “specially protected” species on the nature reserve off the Pilbara coast are being mown down, sometimes several […]
Continue readingThousands of protesters surround White House in opposition to TransCanada Pipeline
By Katarzyna Klimasinska Environmentalists opposed to TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline encircled the White House, urging President Barack Obama to reject the project even if it means overruling his own State Department. “It will be the real test of his character, you […]
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