Earlier in the week a post appeared on the Earth First! Newswire announcing the start of our one month online funding drive. The Earth First! Journal collective, that group of lovable editorial anarchists, is in need of funds to keep the Earth […]
reported by activists in Ukraine (photo from 057.ua): “In the night of August 28th, 3 wheeled loaders were torched in Gorky Park (Kharkov, Ukraine). According to the chief engineer of Gorky Park, Oleg Grinenko, the loaders had just started their work in […]
Earlier this month, participants in the Midwest Rising conference in St. Luis followed up their gathering with a four day tour of direct action and civil disobedience, culminating in a 200-person protest outside of Peabody Coal’s headquarters that blocked traffic. Among other […]
Send Willow a letter in jail today. She received a 10-day sentence for blocking construction of TransCanada’s industrial wind turbines in endangered lynx habitat on the Boundary Mountains, starting August 25, so notes mailed in the next 24 hours from the US […]
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who has argued for the dissolution of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said this weekend that she is open to oil and gas drilling in the Everglades. Bachmann commented that all options, and ecosystems, should be made […]
By the Earth First! Journal Collective On August 25, dozens of intervenors, from the cattle industry to trophy hunters, filed three notices appealing a US district judge’s decision in favor of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2008 listing of polar bears […]
Cross Posted from The Spokesman Review by Mike Prager Three more protesters were arrested early Saturday in Coeur d’Alene as a megaload shipment of oil excavation equipment passed through the Lake City. Law enforcement officers confirmed that the arrests were made by […]
Cross Posted from The Telegraph By Rowena Mason Authorities in Alaska have launched an official investigation, as polar bears are listed as threatened with extinction under the US Endangered Species Act and cannot be hunted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. […]
Broome, Australia—Woodside tried to bring heavy machinery to the site of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub at James Price Point in the early hours of Friday morning, August 25. About 50 protesters blocked the convoy of equipment under police escort heading […]