Chinese paramilitary police crushed a five-day protest by up to 2,000 Chinese villagers who complained that they weren’t being paid enough to relocate for one of China’s largest hydroelectric power projects, according to local officials. The villagers set roadblocks, physically harassed officials […]
Continue readingIMF Resistance: Mobilization Against the World Bank, D.C. April 15-17th
Call to Action for the Spring 2011 IMF/World Bank Meetings! On April 16, 2000, twenty-thousand protesters besieged the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. In 2011 the IMF and World Bank are again meeting on April 16. Their previous schemes […]
Continue readingThe Terraba fight proposed hydro-electric dam in Costa Rica
Following several large protests, Costa Rica’s indigenous Terraba people have filed a lawsuit seeking to halt construction of a hydro-electric power station due to flood a large swath of their territory, officials said Wednesday. The power plant is the biggest such project […]
Continue readingAnother Evacuation as Smoke Rises from Another Japanese Nuke Plant, Japanese Protest
Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 […]
Continue readingNew Earth First! Music Comp plus Vol. II of the 30th Anniversary are available!
EF! 30th Anniversary CD, Still Wild!, has been released, along with Volume II of the Journal!! SPREAD THE WORD! In case you haven’t heard, we have just released the EF! 30th Anniversary CD! You can find out more details, including who’s on […]
Continue readingDiesel Spill In Maine, Rivers and Hatcheries Poisoned
At least 1,000 gallons of off-road diesel fuel leaked from a truck at Foss Construction Co. overnight Monday, sending fuel into the Middle River, the Pleasant River and through vital smelt spawning beds. “This is a mess,” Robert Shannon of the Department […]
Continue readingFarmers, environmentalists blockade coal seam gas pipeline in Australia
An environmental activist has been arrested at a human blockade protesting against the construction of a coal seam gas pipeline on Queensland’s Western Downs. Friends of the Earth campaigner Drew Hutton was arrested at 2.20pm (AEST) on Tuesday at the Tara Estate, […]
Continue readingFlorida Department of Environmental Protection turn blind eye to destruction of reefs… again.
Collusion, corruption, incompetence, complicity, ineptitude or just a party to outright fraud? Why will the Florida Department of Environmental Protection not enforce the permits they issue? Another beach “renourishment” project and more bogus data as the contractors circumvent project mandated environmental permit […]
Continue readingJapan on “Maximum Alert” as radiation increases, New stong earthquake increases fears
Japan’s prime minister says the country is on “maximum alert” over its nuclear crisis as radiation continues to seep out of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant and traces of plutonium have been found in the soil. Radiation has been detected in the […]
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