Police 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 […]

Ecoprisoner 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 […]

Support 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 […]

False 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 […]

EF!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 […]

Ecoprisoner on Hunger Strike

[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 […]

Remembering Judy Bonds; International Protests

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 […]

Japan Urged US to Crush Sea Shepherd, plus Fracking Updates

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 […]

Turkish Protesters Halt Hydroelectric Dam

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.

French Ecowarriors and their Yurts

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 […]