By Gina-Marie Cheeseman A lawsuit was filed against Frito-Lay a few weeks ago in federal court for marketing snacks as natural that contain genetically modified, or GMO ingredients. The lawsuit, filed by the law firm Milberg LLP, has one plaintiff, Julie Gengo […]
Continue readingBP Oil Spill: Prosecutors Reportedly Preparing Criminal Charges
Federal prosecutors are preparing the first criminal charges against BP in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst of its kind in U.S. history, the Wall Street Journal reports. The charges, reportedly to be revealed early next year, center […]
Continue readingMassive Oil Spill Off Nigerian Coast
By Gina-Marie Cheeseman Royal Dutch Shell announced on December 21, 2011 that about 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked into the Atlantic Ocean from the Bonga Deep Offshore Oil Fields. Shell operates the oil field, located about 120 kilometers southwest of the […]
Continue readingOrginal Animal Liberation Front Communique From 1986 Raid
Read the Original Typed Communique from 1986 Oregon ALF Raid by Peter Young Recently I had the good fortune of getting access to a rare ALF document retrieved from the University of Oregon’s internal files. Someone had found the original typed communique […]
Continue readingOgoni Establish Their Own Environmental Protection Agency
from Intercontinental Cry The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), an Ogoni-based non-governmental, non-political organization for the Ogoni people of South-Eastern Nigeria, have announced the creation of a new Environmental Protection Agency to make sure that oil companies operating in […]
Continue readingIndigenous Groups Confront Taiwan Goverment over Land/Resource Theft
By Ho Meng-kuei and Hanna Liu, Focus Taiwan Aboriginal groups gathered in Taipei Wednesday to call for President Ma Ying-jeou to talk about indigenous policies with Taiwan’s aboriginal communities in an effort to improve their human rights. Omi Wilang, secretary-general of the […]
Continue readingIf It Ain’t Broke, Break It, A Message for the Earth First! Journal
Winter Solstice 2011 Dear Eco-Warrior, Hopefully by now you’ve had a chance to see the Mabon issue of the Earth First! Journal. As you read this, Earth First!ers are hard at work plotting against mountaintop removal mining, tar sands infrastructure, GE crops, […]
Continue readingFuel crisis looms as vandals cut off power to pipeline
By Zeddy Sambu Business Daily [note from a perceptive blogger about the author’s terminology: because the power-lines were sabotaged for financial gain on the black market, the term vandals is used. But had these actions been carried out to fight for a healthier […]
Continue readingOccupy Indonesia: Anti-mine Protesters Burn Government Buildings, Banks, Two Protesters Killed
Two protesters have been killed and 10 others injured during a raucous protest over a planned goldmine, co-owned by an Australian company, in eastern Indonesia. The victims were among nearly 1000 people in Lambu village in West Nusatenggara province trying to stop […]
Continue readingFirst bear killed in Nevada hunt was taken illegally
By Scott Sonner A gun safety instructor who bagged the first bear killed in Nevada’ first-ever bear hunting season admitted on Monday he did so illegally with the help of bait. Timothy Kawelmacher, 55, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully […]
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