Check out the Earth First! News, available as a PDF

CLICK HERE for a new PDF of the Beltane 2011 edition of Earth First! News, available to be downloaded and reprinted freely. This newsletter is shorter than others, as it is excerpted from the quarterly full-size EF! Journal which is on the […]

Your last chance to bid on the Unabomber’s underwear?

By Panagioti Tsolkas, editorial collective member of the Earth First! Journal In a twisted irony, US Marshals opened an online auction of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s personal belongings last month, turning the items used for his letter bombing campaign and backwoods survival into […]

Canada omits reports of tarsands pollution from UN report

The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United […]

Germany to close all nuclear plants by 2022

By Judy Dempsey and Jack Ewing of NYTimes   BERLIN — The German government on Monday announced plans to shut all of the nation’s nuclear power plants within the next 11 years, a sharp reversal for Chancellor Angela Merkel after the Japanese […]

Not only is your cell phone an effective tracking device…

According to an Associated Press article today, A respected international panel of scientists says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT and gasoline engine exhaust.  The classification was issued Tuesday in Lyon, France, by […]

Peru: 10,000 Aymaras Protesting Transnational Mining Company

cross-posted from Intercontinentalcry.org [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmMQ_0hWEQs]For the past three weeks, more than 10,000 Indigenous People, mostly Aymaras, have been protesting against the oncoming Santa Ana silver mine in southeastern Peru near the border with Bolivia. The Indigenous people are concerned that pollution from the […]

Indigenous Protests Erupt in Peru

by BBC World News Thousands of angry indigenous protesters have taken over the city centre of Puno in south-eastern Peru. Looters have taken advantage of the unrest and ransacked offices and shops as the police retreated. Cars and buildings were torched on […]

El Salvadoran Government & Social Movements Say No to Monsanto

By Carlos Martinez, Cross-posted from Alternet On the morning of Friday, May 6th President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador’s left-wing FMLN party, arrived at the La Maroma agricultural cooperative in the department of Usulután for a potentially historic meeting with hundreds of small family […]

Anti-logging activist Jose Ribeiro murdered

An Amazon environmental activist and his wife were killed late on Monday and the crime is being investigated as a possible assassination to silence the outspoken forest defender, according to police. José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, also known by his nickname of […]