Earlier this year, the Quechua People in the Peruvian state of Cusco, launched an ambitious plan to send 1,500 varieties of Potato to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle. It was first time Indigenous Peoples ever contributed to the […]
Continue readingFracking Crisis! Toxic Barrels Found in Creek, Drinking Water–Fracking Fluid Retention Pond Also Leaking in Arkansas
By Anita Tucker Arkansas News Bureau Nearly two dozen 55-gallon barrels with labels indicating they contain chemicals used in the natural gas well fracturing process have been pulled from Choctaw Creek near the Van Buren County community in Arkansas. Clinton Mayor Roger […]
Continue readingHydrofracking in Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, Challenged
Reported by: KARK 4 News A federal lawsuit has been filed in Little Rock to prevent gas drilling under Greers Ferry Lake in north central Arkansas and in the Ozark National Forest in northwest Arkansas. Those bringing the suit against […]
Continue readingSecret FBI Documents Reveal Attack on Activists
From the Committee to Stop FBI Repression Statement (May 18, 2011) “FBI agents, who raided the home of Mick Kelly and Linden Gawboy, took with them thousands of pages of documents and books, along with computers, cell phones and a passport. By […]
Continue readingCharges dropped on two treesitters fighting Scripps Biotech
Two others prepare for trial By Everglades Earth First! Palm Beach Gardens, Florida— Four activists with Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) attended a court hearing today, related to the treesits in an ongoing campaign to stop the expansion of Scripps Biotech facilities into […]
Continue readingFirst Nation Tour brings truth to France on Tar Sands Development
A small delegation of First Nations members toured Strasbourg and Paris, France this week to meet with investors, French government and EU government with a specific message, “Canada is a developed country with “high” human rights standards yet the tar sands development […]
Continue readingMarch on Blair Mountain to stop MTR Coal Mining, June 5-11, 2011
By Rising Tide North America Dear Friends– If it was easy, they wouldn’t call it a “struggle.” In 1921, 15,000 miners took up arms against the coal industry’s gun thugs and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent […]
Continue readingGrangemouth Biomass Protesters ‘Block Port’
Four people have been arrested in a protest against a proposed biomass power station at Grangemouth docks. Twenty protesters from Action Against Agrofuels blocked both the access roads to the port, but police said South Shore Road had now been reopened. The […]
Continue readingReview: A Look at Technological Slavery-the collected writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski
Click here to read the full .pdf text with images from Vol II. of the 30th Anniversary of the Earth First! Journal Click here if you can’t open .pdf to read the full text only version by Panagiotis Evangelos Nasios Tsolkas Many […]
Continue readingMy Water’s On Fire Tonight
See the two videos below. The second one is an actual demonstration of faucet water catching fire due to hydrofracking. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4&feature=player_embedded#at=132] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZ4LQSonXA]
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