Environmental activists who planned to shut down a coal-fired power station near Nottingham were spared jail today after a judge declared they acted with “the highest possible motives”. Handing down sentences to 18 activists ranging from 18 months’ conditional discharge to 90 […]
Continue readingSea Shepherd’s 11 Days of Conflict in the Antarctic, New Zealand Calls for Calm
Activists from the Sea Shepherd boat using burning flares and a smoke bomb failed to penetrate the defences of a Japanese harpoon ship. The two sides have been engaged in a conflict for 11 days, ever since the Sea Shepherd vessels Steve […]
Continue readingBuffalo Captured in Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park and Montana Department of Livestock officials captured twenty-three of America’s last wild bison earlier this week at the Stephens Creek bison trap, located inside Yellowstone National Park. The buffalo captured will be held for an unknown time period until […]
Continue readingMining Corporation to Sue Peru
Doe Run, a corporation whose smelter has decimated the ecosystem surrounding La Oroya, Peru (one of the top 10 most polluted places on Earth), has recently announced intentions to sue Peru for failing to live up to terms of a recently signed […]
Continue readingPolitical Prisons Revealed
The documents obtained by Public Intelligence are raw intelligence reports from Federal Bureau of Prisons analysts detailing the intimate surveillance of each inmates communications during the reporting period. Each report summarizes a particular detainees communications of interest, describing in great detail the […]
Continue readingPolice Accidentally Release Counter-Protest Manual
After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests. The documents have […]
Continue readingEcoprisoner Jonathan Paul Released
Jonathan Paul has been released from prison and is on his way back to Oregon where he will be required to spend some time at a halfway house before returning to his wife and animal children. One more of the non-cooperating heroes […]
Continue readingSupport the Rising Tide 7
On September 26, 2010, Rising Tide Newcastle staged a complete shut down of the world’s biggest coal port in Newcastle, New South Wales. As a result of the action, the remaining seven defendants are being pursued for $525,000 in “victim’s compensation” for […]
Continue readingFalse Solutions Keep the Oil Flowing
As the offshore oil wells rev up in anticipation of a green light from the US government to reconvene operations, the energy company, Denbury, finishes up a 320 mile “Green” pipeline, set to pipe liquefied carbon dioxide captured during industrial refining all […]
Continue readingEF!ers sue Martin sheriff for arrests at FPL protest
A group of environmental activists from Everglades Earth First! arrested in 2009 while protesting at the Barley Barber Swamp in Martin County are suing Sheriff Robert Crowder and three sheriff’s officials for money damages after the protesters were charged with trespassing but […]
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