Week of Action to Protest Trial of Bidder 70

In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher disrupted an oil and gas auction to allay further climate change. By registering as a bidder, Tim drove up prices on many parcels and eventually won over a million dollars worth of oil leases before federal agents […]

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Mustangs Subject to Helicopter Stampede

Instead of taking up Mrs. Pickens on her offer to construct holding facilities for the horses on two ranches she has purchased within and adjacent to the Antelope Complex, the BLM HAS ALREADY BEGUN subjecting these mustangs — including heavily pregnant mares […]

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No Compromise on the High Sease

Dispatch from Sea Shepherd: “This is Day 54 of Operation No Compromise and Day 25 since Sea Shepherd Conservation Society intercepted the Japanese whaling fleet. We are about halfway through the campaign, with approximately another 54 days to go until the Antarctic […]

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Prisoner Support Request

Fran Thompson is a prisoner in Missouri who has been sentenced to life. Before going to prison, Fran was a dedicated animal rights and environmental activist. After a man who was stalking her threatened to kill her and then broke into her […]

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French Group Claims Responsibility for Major Arson

A French Animal Liberation group has claimed responsibility for an arson that burned out two floors of a vivisection corporation’s administrative building. The communique they released reads: “One night, our team of 6, 2 lookouts, 4 actors, placed 2 incendiary devices (gas […]

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Law Suit Filed Against Pesticides

The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America today filed the most comprehensive legal action ever brought under the Endangered Species Act to protect imperiled species from pesticides, suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to consult […]

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John Ross Dies at Age 72

Author of numerous acclaimed books about the history of political resistance, John Ross, died in Mexico. His recent work, Zapatistas! follows the ecological and economic struggles of indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico with humor and a verve for revolution. His work will […]

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Natural Gas Explosion, Protests in Pennsylvania

On the eve of a massive gas explosion in northern Philadelphia, about 200 individuals affiliated with Gas Truth of Pennsylvania and the Luzerne County-based Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, including a sizeable contingent from Northeast Pennsylvania, chanted slogans and blew whistles throughout the […]

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