Cross posted from BBC News Brazilian riot police have stormed an illegal settlement of landless workers in Sao Paulo state to reclaim the land for its private owners. Several cars were set alight as residents tried to defend their homes in the […]
Continue readingUndercover Officers Had Children with the Activists They were Surveilling
by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis / The Guardian Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both […]
Continue readingActivist Begins Prison Sentence for Refusing to Name Names and For Quoting Dave Chappelle
By Will Potter / GreenIsTheNewRed.org Utah animal rights activist Jordan Halliday has begun a 10-month prison sentence for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about his political beliefs and political associations. It is believed to be the first time in […]
Continue readingObama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline, Leaves Door Open to New Application
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuag05wlKg]The Obama administration today formally rejected a bid by Canadian energy company TransCanada to build a $7 billion oil pipeline linking the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The Keystone XL project, which was estimated to create […]
Continue readingLoggers ‘burned Amazon tribe girl alive’ to force tribe to leave forest
By Raf Sanchez / The Telegraph Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land, reports claimed on Tuesday […]
Continue readingAction Alert from the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project
Wolves and lynx threatened by the “Deep” timber sale in Central Oregon The Paulina Ranger District of Ochoco National Forest is planning to revive the “Deep” timber sale already defeated by us in court as the “Jackson’ sale, with very few changes […]
Continue readingCanadian environmentalists block logging operations for one week and running
Environmentalists in Alberta, Canada have been blocking logging operations in the Castle Wilderness Area for over a week despite below freezing temperatures. On January 11 several dozen environmentalists, including local residents, set up tents on the access road for the logging operations. […]
Continue readingEgyptians demand environmental rights in the revolution
cross posted from Egypt Independent The leading slogan of Egypt’s revolution has been “Bread, Freedom and Human Dignity,” reflecting the deterioration of Egyptians’ quality of life throughout Mubarak’s thirty-year reign. Consequently, an array of human rights issues have featured among the demands […]
Continue readingThe Earth First! Journal Needs Your Help
Hey All, We are very close to printing our Brigid / Winter issue of the Earth First! Journal. We currently need another $1000 bucks to make this happen. Please help out by donating a bit of what you can. To donate got […]
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