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 […]
Continue readingPrisoner 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 […]
Continue readingFrench 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 […]
Continue readingLaw 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 […]
Continue readingConservative “Call to Arms” Changed to “Rally”
Acting WV Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, who once shot his rifle into the air saying he would “take aim” at Obama, had initially advocated a “call to arms” in favor of “Friends of Coal” and against EPA regulation of mountaintop removal. As […]
Continue readingJohn 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 […]
Continue readingNatural 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 […]
Continue readingGreenpeace Activists Scale Bridge in Israel
Greenpeace went to great heights yesterday to express opposition to plans for a new coal-burning power plant in Israel. Five Greenpeace activists scaled the cables of the Chords Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem and hung a huge banner (44 square meters) […]
Continue readingSouth Africa Slaughting Baboons
At least 1,914 baboons had been ‘removed’ by a controversial ‘trap and shoot’ method by FSC Certified plantation companies during the past two years. Timber companies want them dead, because they scratch the bark of pine trees, damaging profits. Most of the […]
Continue readingYellowstone Traps Buffalo, Begins Testing
Since Tuesday, January 4, Yellowstone National Park has captured sixty-nine wild buffalo. Various family groups – some that never even left the park – have been forced into the Stephens Creek bison trap inside Yellowstone National Park. The government began testing them […]
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