A First Hand Look at Life in an Old Growth Tree Sit in Southern Tasmania
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Activists Silenced by Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act File Lawsuit
by: Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report Animal rights activists filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to challenge the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), a law they say has violated their First Amendment rights and allows the government to label peaceful protesters as […]
New Tree Sit in Tasmania
Check out the blog theObserverTree to get real time updates and offer support. by CRAIG HOGGETT / The Mercury [On December 14, the Tasmanian forest defense group] Still Wild Still Threatened…set up a 60m-high tree sit-in at the TN044B logging coupe near […]
No War but the Eco-Class War!
Everglades Earth First! joins Occupy Palm Beach in March on Worth Avenue tomorrow Palm Beach Island’s Worth Avenue is home to some of the world’s most repulsive rich and elite. The following text is from a flyer that participants in the general […]
Genetically modified moths called crop aid
cross posted from UPI A British company says genetically modified moths it has developed could be used to reduce the population of the vegetable-eating insects. Oxitec says its modified male diamondback moths, carrying a lethal gene, could be released into the countryside, […]
Here it goes! Retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
Russian research team astonished after finding ‘fountains’ of methane bubbling to surface by Steve Connor cross posted from the Independent Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling […]
Treesitter Denied Witnesses in PreTrial Hearing
by Squirrel, crossposted from RAMPS I was immensely disheartened to hear the magistrate’s flat-out denial of my lawyer’s request that our witnesses be allowed to testify on my behalf. During the past few weeks, I had been strengthened and moved by the […]
Massive Indonesian offensive displaces thousands of West Papuans in Paniai as helicopters attack and raze villages
cross posted from Intercontinental Cry Thousands of people have reportedly fled in terror from a large area in Paniai, West Papua as a massive combined Police and military offensive attacked villages on December 13, attempting to break armed resistance from pro-independence guerrillas. […]
Activists protest against Devada power plant in India
HYDERABAD – The 1,040 MW Hinduja Thermal Power Plant coming up at Devada village in the coastal district of Visakhapatnam has run into trouble again, with locals and activists staging mass protests against the mega project on grounds of environmental pollution and […]
Bulgaria and the Fight Against Genetically Modified Food
Genetically modified animal feed without GMO labeling is being sold on the Bulgarian market, according to reports of the Public Environmental Center for Sustainable Development/ PECSD/ in Varna and environmental NGO ‘Za Zemiata’ (For the Earth). A team of experts conducted the […]