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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]