[EF! Newswire note: the politics behind this story are tricky. We suggest reading more background on recent mining struggles to get a clearer picture of the context in which these protests have occurred.] Peruvian protests against government plans to regulate small-scale mining […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ben Kessler, a student at the University of North Texas and an environmental activist, was more than a little surprised that an FBI agent questioned his philosophy professor and acquaintances about his whereabouts and his sign-waving activities aimed at influencing local gas […]
Well folks, Here we are again, beggin’ you to support the Earth First! movement by keeping the EF! Journal office alive and well. We’ve gotten plenty of comments telling us that the last issue we released (yes, the one that looks like […]
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 […]