Boreal Boycotts are Back, and more

Less than five months after some logging companies and large environmental groups declared a truce to the “war in the woods” a remote Ontario First Nation is calling for renewed boycotts against Weyerhaeuser Corporation, one of North America’s largest lumber producers. In […]

Urgent: Navy Training Threatens Marine Sanctuary

The Navy has proposed changes to its Northwest Training Range Complex off the northwest coast of the US, such as increasing use of sonar and explosives along crucial whale migration routes and, astoundingly, in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. This article […]

Animal Liberation: 20,000 Mink Freed in Sweden, Sabotage in Turkey

Animals liberated in Sweden Anonymous “During the night of October 4 all 20,000 mink were released from a fur farm outside Skillingaryd. Although most Swedes are against fur farming, there are currently 1.4 million animals trapped in cages. This is contrary to […]

Protest in NYC Against Torture of US Activist, 500 Others in Belgium

No Borders Camp in Brussels, Belgium— (Photos here) There was a protest in NYC: Belgian Consulate against the police brutality and torture of activists perpetrated against last Friday’s No Borders’ Camp in Belgium. During the No Border Camp, “a convergence of struggles […]

Greenpeace Direct Action and more

About 60 Greenpeace activists have blockaded part of the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels to protest the widespread use of nuclear technology. They came with four samples of radioactive waste collected at public places near reprocessing facilities in Britain and France and […]

Anti-GMO Petition Gets Over a Million Signiatures, plus more

Greenpeace and Avaaz announced today that their online petition to “freeze” Genetically Modified (GM) crop cultivation in the European Union (EU) has reached one million signatures. Under the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, the EU is obliged to consider a petition garnering over one […]