Opposition 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 […]

Memo 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 […]

Mother 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 […]

Weekend 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 […]

Support 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, […]

An 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 […]

Fracking 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 […]