Two activists with the animal rights group “Negotiation Is Over” (NIO) have been arrested at a protest in Florida. One of them, NIO founder Camille Marino was arrested on an out of state warrant, and is awaiting extradition to Michigan. In Michigan, […]
Continue readingOccupy Koch Town Coming This Weekend
Cross Posted from Kansas City Star By Hurst Laviana, The Wichita Eagle Activists from across the country will gather this weekend in Wichita to attend a series of “Occupy Koch Town” events that will focus on energy, environmental and climate policies. […]
Continue readingAnti-Development Protest Gets Heated in Armenia
By Karlen Aslanian, from Azatutyun Police used force on Friday against more than a dozen environmental activists who were camped in a public park in downtown Yerevan to protest against the construction of several shops there. The Yerevan municipality authorized the construction […]
Continue readingJapanese Whalers Are Denied Protection Request Against Sea Shepherd
Japanese whalers asked a US federal court in Seattle to make the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society stop harassing them during their whale hunt in the Southern Ocean. Based out of Friday Harbor, Washington, Sea Shepherd and its lawyers argued the Japanese had […]
Continue readingVan Eck Launches ‘Fracking’ Energy Exchange Traded Fund
Van Eck Global, a New York-based money management firm with $35 million in assets from dirty energy, today launched an energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on companies that look for and produce “unconventional” sources of oil and gas, such as oil […]
Continue readingCorporate Power vs. Animal Rights
*Cross Posted from Mickey Z at Infoshop News* “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them—exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and […]
Continue readingStrip Coal Mines Resurfacing in Nova Scotia
Almost six years after Nova Scotia imposed a moratorium on 13 surface coal mining projects in Cape Breton, the province is about to release a report that can reopen operations. Next month, the ministers of environment and natural resources will be handed […]
Continue readingGreenpeace Blockades Duke Energy HQ
Cross Posted from Charlotte Observer Six Greenpeace protesters were arrested after unfurling a sign in front of the Duke Energy building Wednesday morning, protesting the company’s recently-approved rate hikes. The protesters ascended 20-foot-tall tripods and hung a banner between them that read […]
Continue readingVenezuelans Blockade Streets, Burn Tires After Oil Spill
Cross Posted from ABC News Hundreds of protesters blocked streets and burned tires in eastern Venezuela on Wednesday to demand clean water after a recent oil spill polluted rivers and streams that supply local storage tanks. “We have not had water […]
Continue readingProtests Planned as Counterinsurgency Prevails in Penn
A group of mainstream enviros are protesting a State Senator in Pennsylvania for helping to pass zoning ordinances that forbid regulation of natural gas drilling. In a press release, the Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Penn Environment, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and Conservation […]
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