by Jon Cohen Resurrecting a heated debate that began in 1987, a petition has led the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to announce that it has initiated a review of whether it should “uplist” the status of captive chimpanzees from “threatened” […]
Arcata, CA—Next week, Sept 20, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), Mike Mease and co-author of Deep Green Resistance, Derrick Jensen, will speak at “Bring Back the Buffalo,” an event which also include music by native artists and an open discussion lead […]
Burning Books opened its doors last week, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. Leslie Pickering is a co-owner of the space, along with two others. He is also a former spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front who appears […]
A Miami police officer arrested animal rights activist Arnold Christopher Lagergren, 41 outside the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo, Florida on Saturday. The off-duty officer detained Lagergren at gunpoint after phone calls to police accused the man of taking pictures of […]
by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] Thanks to a reel operator in a Scandinavian theater who kindly filmed the Rise of the […]
Ali Alishah is a Tasmanian forest activist who is spending his second week in custody after standing up for what is right in Tasmania What is not right in Tasmania is the proposed pulp mill, the continued logging of old growth and […]
Watch the documentary free here through October 6. “How did two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention? Better This World follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) […]
Our online fundraiser through Kickstarter (which has 22 days left) is sort of tricky. If we reach our stated goal of 2,000 dollars we get the money. If we don’t reach 2,000 we don’t get anything. Yikes! We aren’t good at this […]
Kainai Nation, Southern Alberta—Members of the Blood Tribe; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Lois Frank, and Jill Crop Earred Wolf were arrested September 9, 2011 and charged with trespass in their own community on Blood Tribe land by tribal law enforcement and RCMP, after parking […]
Article by Peter Young, reposted from Voice of the Voiceless Animal Liberation Front cuts away fencing, release elk from farm On the night of August 29th, the Animal Liberation Front raided the Damascus Elk Farm (23255 SE Highway 212) in Clackamas, Oregon. […]