Wolf hunting, which was allowed last year in Sweden, will be temporarily halted following a threat of legal action from the European Union. According to Swedish Environmental Minister Andreas Carlgren, the government has decided to put a stop to its licensed wolf […]
Continue readingFrom the Producers of Napalm and Agent Orange comes a new GE Food Product
By the Earth First! Journal Collective Dow Chemical, the conglomerate known for plutonium leaks at its nuclear facility in Colorado, the chemicals napalm and Agent Orange, cancer-causing breast implants and the Bhopal disaster, is now setting its sights on the genetically engineered […]
Continue reading68 arrests at protest against Keystone XL/tar sands oil pipeline
Source LiveLeak.com Aug 20 was the first day of two weeks of every day civil disobedience in front of the White House, demanding that the President block the permits for the Keystone XL oil pipeline project. This project would extend to the […]
Continue readingIncendiary attack on two vans of the energy multinational GDF Suez in Madrid (Spain)
from liberacion total, translated by war on society: Communique: Tonight two vans belonging to the energy multinational “GDF SUEZ” were set on fire in the neighborhood of San Juan Bautista. The techno-industrial system has been imposed on our lives in a brutal […]
Continue readingIs Local Law Enforcement Tracking Your Cell Phone?
Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced launching a massive coordinated information-seeking campaign. 34 ACLU affiliates are filing over 375 requests in 31 states across the country with local law enforcement agencies large and small that seek to uncover […]
Continue readingMore bomb attacks against nanotechnology in Mexico
The same group who took credit for anti-technology bombing in April, which news sources in Mexico reported exploding at Universidad Politécnica in Valle de Mexico, has claimed more attacks. According to Time Magazine, “An anti-technology group… was responsible for a package bomb […]
Continue readingBolivians march against development plan
Reposted from Al Jazeera [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiYvwzPc-E&] Bolivian indigenous activists have started a long protest march from the Amazon plains to the country’s capital in against a government plan to build a 306km highway through a national park in indigenous territory. Bolivian President Evo […]
Continue readingWild Horse Round Ups, Prison Labor and the Border
In a new trend that connects the taming of the wild, the prison complex and the militarization of the borderlands between the US and Mexico, wild mustangs brutally rounded up throughout the Southwest are being sold to prisons in Nevada and Colorado. […]
Continue readingOpposition to bear farms in China
by Earth First! Journal Earlier this week, we re-posted a story on the suicide of a bear in captivity at a Chinese bile farm. We got several comments on the story, including one from the group Animals Asia, who has been a […]
Continue readingEmergency order is sought to halt wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana
As Idaho and Montana prepare to open a major hunting season on a newly recovered wolf population, a coalition of groups went to court over the weekend to ask for an emergency injunction to stop the hunt. “Beginning in less than three […]
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