A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years ago to emphasize its opposition to a planned expansion by Kinder Morgan. Wilderness Committee (WC) will hold a demonstration on Saturday, Aug. 27 […]
Continue readingBanner Drops in New Orleans for Bidder 70
cross-posted from New Orleans Indymedia Two banners were dropped during the AM rush hour off the Ponchatrain Expressway in the CBD in New Orleans, LA. Banners read “This Land is Our Land Bidder 70” and “Defend Your Coast.” banner-4474.jpg, image/jpeg, 1000×667This […]
Continue readingNew Orleans!! Fight corporate greed! March to the Marriott! August 5
Stand up, and fight back in New Orleans! ALEC is hosting their annual summit at the Marriott in New Orleans from August 1-6th. We will meet them there to let them know they can’t pull the strings from the behind the curtain […]
Continue readingSeminole Tribe of Florida fights FPL proposal; Sierra Club beats rock mine in the Everglades
By Earth First! Journal In a recent legal challenge to Hendry County’s approval of re-zoning land for a newly proposed FPL power plant in primary panther habitat, attorneys with the Seminole Tribe of Florida demanded a Writ of Certiorari quashing the County […]
Continue readingHow World Wildlife Federation works with the logging companies
WWF is accused of letting timber companies use its logo while they were razing rainforests, such as this one in Borneo. Photograph: Frans Lanting/Corbis Excerpts from recent Guardian articles The WWF‘s flagship Global forest and trade network (Gftn), […]
Continue readingTim DeChristopher to appeal conviction
But in the meantime, keep sending letters. Packages are not allowed, only letters in regular envelopes addressed to the following: Tim DeChristopher #2011 – 06916 c/o Davis County Correctional Facility PO Box 130 Farmington, UT 84025 Keep […]
Continue readingBillboard banner drop opposes clear cutting and log exportation in Oregon
Eugene, Oregon—Early Monday morning a banner was dropped on a billboard just before the Goshen/99 exit on I-5 reading “Logging Exports? More Clearcuts?! Hell No!” It was suspected to be the work of the group known as Cascadia Forest Defenders or Cascadia […]
Continue readingOccupation of Oregon Department of Forestry office
Action in protest of clear cutting plans By Earth First! Journal collective Mollala, OR—As a culmination of the annual Trans and Women’s Action Camp (TWAC), activists occupied the regional Oregon Department of Forestry office. Three members of the camp locked themselves together […]
Continue reading“Quit Coal” Activist Training Camp
September 2nd – 5th in Sandusky, Ohio While the camp is primarily geared to activists fighting the coal industry, it is also open to anyone who wants to add more responsible direct action skills and ideas to their activist toolkit. This is […]
Continue readingScott DeMuth Freed
cross posted from infoshop.org We’re excited to let you all know that Scott was released earlier today and is on a bus heading back home to Minneapolis! His prison sentence is now complete and he’s excited to be coming home. While he […]
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