Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazonian lowlands are calling for the government to drop plans to auction 21 leases near the Peruvian border for oil drilling. After a two-day meeting on February 7 and 8, the leaders delivered a statement to the Ministry […]
From theprecarious.com Rangers employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs rode in on horse back and four wheelers, armed with portable corals and livestock trailers, to take horses and calves from Dineh tribal elders living on Black Mesa, last week. Residents of […]
The EF! Journal received love and appreciation from behind the bars, deep in the belly of the US injustice system. Two members of the incarcerated MOVE 9, who are still imprisoned for their efforts towards black liberation in the seventies, wrote to […]
Athens in flames… again The news tells us that the riots are about austerity measures. But here at the Earth First! Newswire, we suspect there’s something more to it. Having gotten to spend some time in Greece last year, we think that […]
Contact Occupy the Machine: occupythemachine@riseup.net 406-748-6347 On February 11th, 2012, Premadasi Amada and Dillon Thomson will begin a speaking tour of at least eight cities to promote Occupy the Machine and build ties with various communities affected by extraction industries. The OTM […]
Check out “Big Greenwashing 101” a new feature article from the EF! Newswire on the Sierra Club’s shady affiliations in light of recently revealed Chesapeake Energy gas company scandal. From the article: “John Muir must be rolling over in his grave… The […]
About a week ago, we published a report based on a story by the Daily Mail that had been spreading around the internet about Monsanto pulling out of the UK. It turned out that the story had been recycled from 2003, and […]
Cross Posted from True Activist Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry […]
Cross Posted from PDX ADL [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/36583531 w=400&h=711] Oregon Cattlemen’s Association Board Meeting Take Over and Disruption from PDX ADL on Vimeo. Corvallis, OR – On Friday, February 10,th, activists from both Seattle and Portland Animal Defense League and Cascadia Earth First! […]
By x carolina Now it’s back to the streets, or rather the mountain highways of Oaxaca for the Triqui comrades expelled under fire from the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala on September 27, 2010. After 15 days of frustrating, deceitful negotiations, […]