Activists with Maine Earth First! stood in protest alongside Friends of Lincoln Lakes this morning in opposition to the “Rollins Wind Project”, an industrial wind project that will clearcut over 1,000 acres of ridge-line above the 13 Lincoln Lakes, erect 40 giant […]
Continue readingGerman Protesters Sabotage Train Tracks, Set Police Car Aflame
After peaceful protests involving tens of thousands of people against a train carrying nuclear waste in the Northern German city of Dannenberg, activists decided to blockade the train tracks. After this attempt failed, another group of activists allegedly tried to sabotage the […]
Continue readingDispatches from Terzigno — EF! Italy
Photo: Ciro De Luca/Reuters There have been mounting clashes between protesters and police in an area of Italy close to Mount Vesuvius. On Wednesday, November 3, protesters burnt a garbage truck and blockaded the entrance to the new garbage dump that has […]
Continue readingHundreds Protest Gas Drilling Across World, Blockade Against New Zealand Coal
Yesterday hundreds of people convened in downtown Pittsburgh to protest the development of “fracking,” a new and untested method of natural gas extraction that is threatening to take over Pennsylvania and neighboring states. Fracking has been shown to pollute water supplies, cause […]
Continue readingBlack Crosses Demonstrate Dangers of Coal
As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Kentucky for a “a pattern of violations,” concerned residents and activists constructed symbolic black crosses in front […]
Continue readingGrand Jury Resister Sentenced to Prison Time, more
From Voice of the Voiceless Today, Jordan Halliday was sentenced in federal court to 10 months in prison for his refusal to answer questions during a grand jury investigating ALF mink releases in Utah. In other news, the Fur Farm Intelligence Project […]
Continue readingItalian Political Prisoner Update
Coalizione Contro le Nocività on 15 April 2010, in Swizerland, Costantino, Silvia and Billy were arrested by federal police with the charge of prepare an attack with explosive against an under-construction IBM research centre on nano- and bio-technologies near Zurich. Costantino and […]
Continue readingZombie Ducks, Exposing Gold Mining in Ghana, Anti-Mining Protests in New Zealand, etc.
“One day before Halloween, environmentalists dressed up in their ghoulish best for a serious cause – they wore costumes of dead waterfowl to show their distain over the latest tailings pond tragedy in northern Alberta.” Read more here According to the UK’s […]
Continue readingMontana Protest: Latest in Movement to Stop Oil Shipments
Yesterday, a group of protesters gathered outside an Exxon station in Missoula to fight dependence upon fossil fuels. (Click here for more.) Rising Tide is among several organizations (see related story) seeking to halt the shipment of hundreds of pieces of equipment […]
Continue readingIndigenous Blockade of Major River Ends in Peru, New info on I-69, more
About 4,000 indigenous people ended their blockade of the Marañon river of the Peruvian Amazon today after meeting with representatives of the regional government and the company they are protesting against, Argentina’s Pluspetrol. After an oil spill in June, the Peruvian government […]
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