CLUJ, Romania — About a dozen people occupied a historic building in the Romanian city of Cluj on Monday to protest a plan to mine gold using the controversial cyanide process in a nearby heritage area. “We call on the Romanian president […]
The New York Times published an excellent expose by Dimiter Kenarov last week on rural opponents of a proposed open pit gold mine near Krumovgrad, Bulgaria, along the border with Greece. The industrial project, spurred by the rising worldwide demand for gold, […]
Race and Occupation in the Land of the One Percent by Lilac Rural land use in the US has followed the pipeline of the American Dream. Since the Great Depression, farm ownership has fallen by two thirds. Today, half of farm sales […]
…Some roots and shoots of the #Occupy phenomenon… by Panagioti, Earth First! Journal editorial collective, As pointed out in a recent Crimethinc. text circulating among the new occupiers, “occupation” is not a new concept. Manifest Destiny-minded lunatics have been using the strategy […]
Last week, on October 27 in Altamira, Brazil, the Belo Monte Dam construction site was occupied by 400 indigenous people, fishermen and community members intending to permanently occupy the site and calling allied organizations and movements to join them. The occupation was […]
It sounds like EF!er s in Colorado have a lot on their hands these days. From tracking gold and silver extraction in the pending approvals of the Wildcat Mine proposal, to the opening 2.3 million acres of new oil & gas drilling […]
One arrested in accusation of zombie guts smeared on bank On Monday October 31st, the zombie army against coal marched from Occupy Portland at 3:00 PM to two Bank of America branches in downtown Portland. One protestor, Tim Swenson, was arrested in […]
Cross Posted from Insideclimatenews.com Transcripts from the [public State Department] hearings [about Keystone XL], along with any written comments that were submitted, are being organized into a reader-friendly format, although the spokeswomen could not say when that process will be completed. […]
The Occupation Times is a weekly print-and-web publication that serves those who participate in the leaderless, global resistance movement that has been most recently sparked by the occupation of Wall Street in New York City. Their aim is to keep the movement […]
“The development of the tar sands and other oil and gas fields in Alberta has carved up the Canadian province’s boreal forest, threatening herds of woodland caribou. But rather than protect caribou habitat, officials have taken a controversial step: the large-scale killing […]