by Joseph Kirschke If there were any doubts about the fierceness of the debate over Indonesia’s palm oil controversy, they were silenced effectively outside the Jakarta’s House of Parliament on December 21. Ten protestors joined 18 of their fellow migrants and activists […]
by: Queena Kim, Truthout The Occupy movement is known internationally for protesting the inequalities of the global financial system, so much so that in four short months, “Occupy” has essentially become a brand known the world over. But now there’s an effort […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]