Jacoby Creek Tree Sitter Journal by EF!Humboldt ~ September 29th, 2010 tree-sit Jacoby creek Day One (Aug 23rd) * Big moon, clear skies for the first time in over a month. Solo except for Alex in another tree up the hill. Green […]
Greenpeace activists Hope Kaye, right, and Lisa Ramsden rappel to unfurl a banner on the site of Coal Ash hearings at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky September 28, 2010. Highlighting the need for federal standards to protect public health from hazardous […]
Divers from the European conservation organisation The Black Fish have last night cut the nets of six holding pens in Taiji, Japan, that were holding dolphins caught during a dolphin drive hunt a few days earlier. During this hunt a number of […]
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss – By Arthur Smilios, Sparrow Media Contributor If, in fact, there is anyone left who still believes that Barack Obama is a progressive, I offer this past Friday’s raids on peace activists in […]
Climate scientist, James “Handsome Devil” Hanson, gets arrested along with 100 other protesters who refused to disperse from the sidewalk in front of the White House Larry ‘Git Along’ Gibson, a longtime opponent of mountaintop removal, is among about 100 people arrested […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1-fwWH0914&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3] About 100 arrested in DC mountaintop mining rally By FREDERIC J. FROMMER (AP) – 2 hours ago WASHINGTON — Around 100 people have been arrested outside the White House while protesting against mountaintop removal mining. The protesters were arrested Monday after […]
Renowned climate scientist James Hansen was just arrested at a protest in front of the White House. We’ll keep you updated with posts all day. Chesapeake Climate Action Network is present at Appalachia Rising along with thousands of individuals and groups like […]
Thousands march in DC today to call on Obama Administration to end mountaintop removal coal mining video from the march: http://www.twitvid.com/player/8Z9V9 Reverend Billy & choir are currently singing outside PNC bank lobby: “PNC, bring back the mountains!” while about ten mountain justice […]
Marie Mason Transferred to New Prison in Carswell, Texas (near Fort Worth) by Kenneth Miller and Erik Davis {based on original story by FW Miller for the Defiant Spirit} Fellow Worker Marie Mason, a long-time member of the Industrial Workers of the […]
Liz Butler Campaign Director, 1Sky from the Huffington Post Two years ago this month, I flew in a helicopter over Appalachian coal country in Kentucky. After we landed and I drove off, I cried. I was in Kentucky because the amazing group […]