Scientists studying grey wolves in Yellowstone national park have developed a method to predict how animals will respond to climate change. The discoveries gleaned from the study, published on Thursday in Science, could eventually help scientists discover which animals are more resilient […]
Continue readingBREAKING NEWS: Indigenous Elders & Supporters Occupy ALEC Member Salt River Project Headquarters
TEMPE, AZ — Indigenous Dine’ (Navajo) and O’odham elders and supporters are taking direct action by occupying Salt River Project (SRP) headquarters today at 10am. This action is occurring while the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) holds their “States & Nation Policy […]
Continue readingBurma Activists Hold Day of Action Against SHWE Pipeline
Compiled from shwae.org Community members and international supporters have made a stand against the Shwe Gas Project because of the negative impacts it has imposed on local communities and the missed opportunity for development for Burma. Around the country, our allies have […]
Continue readingProtesters Attacked by Police with Pepper Spray, Seven Arrested During Shutdown ALEC Action in Phoenix, AZ
Dozens of protesters were attacked by police with pepper spray and seven people have been arrested so far in a day of action against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). On November 30, starting at 8 am hundreds marched and converged on […]
Continue reading“The leading passion of my life has been… hatred of modern civilization”
Check out another great EF! Newswire review, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, by EP Thompson, PM Press, re-released 2011. Morris was a Romantic poet and famous designer of chintzes, wallpapers, and furniture. But was he an anti-civ primitivist? Herein lies the importance […]
Continue readingBolivia and the Law of Mother Earth
Update Alas, the wild and wet dream of an ecotopia in Bolivia is but lies on paper and another example of the emptiness of beautiful intentions applied to government rhetoric. The article below was written in the salad days of Evo’s hope […]
Continue readingOil Spill in South Platte River
by Anthony Swift, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Colorado officials fear that vast amounts of petroleum have been leaking into the South Platte River from a broken pipeline at a refinery operated by tar sands producer Suncor. It is not yet clear […]
Continue readingO’odham Pepper Sprayed in Phoenix ALEC Protest
David Ortega, Tohono O’odham native elder, suffered a stroke after being pepper sprayed by police and is now at the hospital. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona— Tohono O’odham David Ortega, veteran and elder, suffered a stroke today after being pepper sprayed by police at the […]
Continue readingNew Earth First! Journal Hits the News Stands!
The newest issue of the Earth First! Journal is out and chocked full of radical analysis, campaign updates, fiction, poetry, and art. Below are a few of the articles available here in pdf format to read online. (click the image above to […]
Continue readingArrests as anti-tar sands protesters blockade DfT
Cross posted from Edie.net Police swooped on a group of protesters who attempted to blockade the offices of Government building. The protesters blocked the door of the Department for Transport (DfT) building in central London this morning (November 28). Activists from campaigning […]
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