Yesterday evening the Earth First! Journal released the 30th Anniversary issue onto an unsuspecting public. Raging through the streets, the anniversary issue—soon to be known as the last pre-industrial collapse issue of the Journal; also known as “yup, that’s the one that […]
Continue readingEF!ers Battle Nazis in the Streets of Phoenix
An anti-Fascist rally in Phoenix drew several Earth First!ers, including members of the Earth First! Journal editorial collective, who joined in solidarity their anarchists, brown berets and other anti-fascist allies in resisting the ideals of environmental racism and genocide practiced by the […]
Continue readingMore Protests Against Fracking in PA, MEND Kidnaps 7 Oil Service Workers in Nigeria
Dozens of protesters lined Route 54 to express dissent against Gastem USA’s plans to “frack” at a Cherry Valley site, off Irish Hollow Road. click here for more. A gunboat kidnapped several oil service workers yesterday. A statement purporting to be from […]
Continue readingPrisoner Support Updates: Kevin Olliff, Steve Murphy
After being sentenced to 3 years for “stalking” (participating in home demonstrations against animal torturers), Kevin Olliff was released on time served. Keep up with his case online here. Prisoner Steve Murphy, accused of attempted arson in the name of the Earth […]
Continue readingRadical Earth First! movement relocating its national journal’s headquarters from Arizona to Lake Worth
From the Palm Beach Post “In case you ain’t already heard, the lawless troglodytes of South Florida’s Earth First! community are the rootinist, tootinist swamp anarchists this side of the Brazilian Pantanal,” says an Earth First! blog post about the move. “We […]
Continue readingGenesee Valley EF! Protest Fracking
A dozen or so members of Genesee Valley Earth First gathered shortly after noon alongside Cobbs Hill reservoir in southeast Rochester to protest what they see as the environmental risks of the controversial natural-gas extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. […]
Continue readingInsult to Injury in Eco-Reporter, Activist Beatings
Oleg Kashin, a reporter who wrote articles about the destruction of the Khimki forest, was methodically beaten nearly to death by two unknown assailants, and is now in intensive care. Meanwhile, editor, Mikhail Beketov, who is now confined to a wheelchair after […]
Continue readingNational Coverage of EF! Protest in Maine
From the Associated Press: “The Lincoln Police Department began making arrests Monday morning when a handful of the several dozen protesters refused to leave an access route where they were blocking trucks headed to the construction site. Lincoln Fire Chief Phillip Dawson […]
Continue readingNetwork of Spies Revealed as Green Scare Continues
Pennseylvania Homeland Security Internal e-mails from the Homeland Security office reveal a determined effort to recruit local people receiving its intelligence bulletins — municipal police chiefs, county sheriffs, local emergency management personnel — into its network of citizen spies… One bulletin warns […]
Continue readingRising Tide 10th Anniversary
It’s been ten years since a group of activists from across Europe came together at the UN COP 6 climate talks in the Hague to form the Rising Tide coalition for Climate Justice: a group that recognised, even in 2001, mainstream climate […]
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