[UPDATE: Steve has requested that contact to the prison stop. Thanks, Steve Murphy support crew] Hunger Strike Day 1 – I will begin refusing tomorrow morning and will probably be put in the hole at some point but I refuse to be […]

t is with great sorrow that we mourn the passing today of Julia “Judy” Bonds, Executive Director of Coal River Mountain Watch. Judy was more than a co-worker, friend, and mentor: she became family. Click here for more. At a rally in […]

Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show that the Japanese government viewed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a serious threat to its illegal whaling, and urged the United States to crack down on the group. Click here for more. Also, the Associated […]

Construction on a hydroelectric power plant in Turkey’s Black Sea region was temporarily halted a few hour’s shy of the new year following a nearly month-long protest by area residents. Click here for more.

Militant ecowarriors are planning to intensify protests this month against France’s new anti-traveler laws. “We have chosen to live in a yurt in order to educate our children in a spirit of sharing and freedom,” said Solange Chabert, a yurtist from the […]

1,000 protesters clashed with police at the Israel-Palestine “security fence,” with protesters insisting that this was “the fence’s last day.” click here for more. This comes three days after the sentencing of Anarchists Against the Wall cofounder, Yonatan Pollak, to three months […]

Animal liberation defendant Scott DeMuth’s pre-sentencing hearing, which had been scheduled for December 29 after getting postponed once already, got canceled today because of bureaucratic issues in the court system. His actual sentencing is now scheduled for January 14th in Iowa. Click […]

“Greenpeace welcomes the Fisheries Agency of Japan’s decision to discipline its officials who had been receiving free whale meat from the whaling operating company. However, FAJ only punished 5 officials while the corruption in the whaling program is much bigger and institutionalized. […]

Authorities announced arrests in an assault on Konstantin Fetisov, who campaigned against construction of a highway through Khimki, a Moscow suburb. Click here for more. In other news, several utilities companies in Florida are suing the EPA for increasing water standards. The […]

According to Censored News, Wikileaks has revealed US spying on Mapuche activists and other indigenous peoples in South America. “The most disturbing aspect of the US State Department cables on Indigenous Peoples is the haughtiness and white privilege that bleeds through the […]