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 […]
Continue reading‘Black Flags and Windmills’ a new film about Common Ground, New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina
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Continue readingMemo Shows Prison Mail Screened by a “Counter-Terrorism Unit”
Article by Peter Young, resposted from the site Voice of the Voiceless Read the memo here The memo appears to have been inserted accidentally into an envelope for a rejected letter to Earth Liberation Front prisoner Joyanna Zacher when it was returned […]
Continue readingMother bear chooses suicide over slavery
[Find out about the opposition to Chinese Bear Bile farms here] The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself. The bears were […]
Continue readingWeekend Round-Up of Disaster and Disorder
Oil leak in North Sea confirmed by Shell Oil giant Shell was accused of being secretive on Friday over an oil leak from one of its platforms in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. Shell publicly reported the spill on […]
Continue readingSupport Earth First! music
This Spring, the Earth First! 30th Anniversary CD was released along with thetwo-volume anniversary edition of the Journal. The CD includes new and re-released tracks from amazing artists of folk, punk, hip-hop, metal, and more, including: Casey Neill, Peg Millett, Blackbird Raum, […]
Continue reading“Green is the new Rage”: Walter Bond set for sentancing in Utah on ALF actions
From SupportWalter.org: Walter Bond is an imprisoned Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist who in the Summer of 2010 was arrested for the “ALF Lonewolf” arsons of the Sheepskin Factory in Denver, Colorado, the Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City, Utah and […]
Continue readingAn Open Letter to the People of the Faeroe Islands
From the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Commentary by Captain Paul Watson, August 11, 2011—The Faeroese government and media have claimed that they are an open society and that debate and dialogue are valued and welcome in the Faeroe Islands. Towards that […]
Continue readingFracking debate heating up in New Zealand
Heated debate over fracking, the mining process which could be used to extract gas in western Southland, is raging in the gas heartland of Taranaki. A protest group, Climate Justice Taranaki, has called for a ban or moratorium on the practice, which […]
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