The code name “Geronimo”, used during the US navy seals special operation that resulted in the reported death of Usama bin Laden, references the 19th-century Chiracahua Apache who spent his life fighting the encroachment of the states of Mexico and the US. […]
There were two reports this week of the FBI / police in Florida seeking informants to provide intelligence on the local animal rights movement. From Voice of the Voiceless. Law enforcement exposed offering to pay informants in Florida There were two reports […]
After a controversial election in 2009, Rene Varela of Ocean Embassy dolphin traffickers, who was featured in the Canadian documentary Dolphin Dealer, became mayor in the city of Lake Worth, Florida (the new home to the Earth First! Journal). According to an […]
cross posted from the First Perspective The U.S. has been keeping regular intelligence on potential security threats in Canada, including the activities of unnamed First Nations groups, according to two cables sent by the U.S. embassy in Ottawa and obtained by APTN […]
cross posted from the Towanda Daily Review A bill to open the way for natural gas drilling on the grounds of 14-state-owned universities and other unexplored state-owned land cleared a first hurdle Tuesday in a Senate committee. The vote by the Environmental […]
cross posted from KTUU.com The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that BP’s Alaska unit will pay $25 million in civil penalties to settle a federal lawsuit over 2006 crude oil spills from its North Slope pipelines. Under the settlement, which also involves […]
With Usama Bin Laden dead the authorities can again refocus their energy on quelling the domestic “eco-terrorist” movement in the United States leaving us at the Earth First! Journal just that much more paranoid that our Facebook page is being monitored! And […]
The Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the State Department of Environmental Conservation seeking to declare hydrofracking in state forests contrary to the state Constitution and related environmental laws. Among those lands is the vast Stewart State […]
Bangor, Maine—Today, all trespassing charges were dropped against Maine Earth First! activists Jessica Dowling, John Waters, Leonard Murphy, Donald Smith and James Freeman. The five were arrested in November after they blocked construction vehicles at the Rollins industrial wind energy project. Charges […]