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]
Continue readingRadio Report: Florida has no reporting requirements for controversial pesticide methyl iodide
Click here to listen to the radio report by Kelly Benjamin Methyl iodide is a controversial pesticide that has been approved for use in agricultural fields in Florida and California despite vocal opposition linking it to cancer and other ailments. Today is […]
Continue readingFirst Nations group protests tarsands pipeline proposal
cross posted from CBCNews About 40 people marched through downtown Calgary Wednesday to protest a proposed pipeline project that would carry oilsands crude to the west coast. Calgary-based Enbridge wants to build two pipelines from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C., stretching 1,170 kilometres. […]
Continue readingObama Vows to Increase Oil Production in US: Drill Baby Drill
by the Earth First! Journal Collective Heads up Gulf coasters and Alaskans, Obama wants more of what is killing you and the ecosystems that would sustain you. In his weekly radio address this week, President Obama announced he will set into motions […]
Continue readingAnother Worker dies at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
By Mandie Sami, wires A worker at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has died. It brings the total number of deaths at the complex to three since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck in March. The man, aged in his 60s, […]
Continue readingArmy Corp. Deliberatly Floods Rural Louisiana to save New Orleans, Oil Refineries & Chemical Plants
A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily populated areas downstream. The water spit out slowly at first, then began gushing like […]
Continue readingTake Back the Land: Direct action for the Earth should start at home…
Preferably a liberated home. By Panagioti Tsolkas, Earth First! Journal While Earth First! is most commonly associated with the direct action to defend of the wild from corporations and governments, the fight to liberate urban land (often from those same corporations and […]
Continue readingJune 18th – A Call To Action Against Canada’s Tar Sands
Canada’s dirty Tar Sands are destroying forests, poisoning our atmosphere and threatening community health. Meanwhile US corporations ship their products using transportation fueled by this destruction. On June 18th, people around the world will participate in the largest day of action ever […]
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