FBI Reveals Surveillance of Crusties, Farmers Markets, and Hikers

From Gawker.com In a new release of internal documents, the FBI has exposed surveillance activity conducted during the early-mid 2000s in the Pacific Northwest. Concentrated in and around Portland and Eugene, Oregon, the activity revealed such crack FBI activity as tailing a random […]

100 Groups Ask EPA to End Wildlife Poisoning From Lead Hunting Ammunition

Lead Kills Millions of Birds, Including Eagles, Condors, and Hurts Human Health WASHINGTON- One hundred organizations in 35 states today formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate toxic lead in hunting ammunition to protect public health and prevent the widespread poisoning […]

Giraffe Death at Nightmare Zoo

article cross-posted from Kitsap Sun SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without hitting a neighbor. Last week, a giraffe died with a beachball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers […]

Kellie Sentenced to Only 60 Days in Jail!

This afternoon, at 3:00pm, Kellie Vanorden stood before District Judge Steven Andreasen for attempting to release mink from a Sioux City farm. Kellie pleaded guilty in Woodbury County District Court to releasing an animal from an animal facility and attempted third-degree burglary. District […]

Fracking: ACT 13, The Worst Is Coming

Article by Steven Rosenfeld, from Alternet.org Pennsylvania, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed and where the U.S. coal, oil and nuclear industries began, has adopted what may be the most anti-democratic, anti-environmental law in the country, giving gas […]

Seen the latest Earth First! Journal yet?

Well, here are some sample articles from Brigid 2012, now up online: If Deep Green Resistance & the Occupy movement merged Reflections from Greece, Fall 2011 By panagioti, of the Earth First! Journal editorial collective Eat, Sleep, Click A bicycle-powered internet? or […]

Japanese whalers return to port

JAPAN’S whaling fleet has ended its annual Antarctic hunt after landing 30 per cent of its planned catch of more than 900 whales. Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano yesterday blamed bad weather and “sabotage” by the Sea Shepherd environmental protest flotilla for the […]

Bulgarians Protest Nuclear Power Ahead of Fukushima Anniversary

Members of several environmental organizations gathered in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia for a silent protest to mark the upcoming first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The environmentalists gathered in front of the country’s Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, stating that nucleart […]