From Compassion Over Killing: Compassion Over Killing (COK) is releasing an undercover video today that reveals shocking abuses inside Cal-Cruz Hatcheries, a chicken and duck hatchery in Santa Cruz, California. While employed at the facility for nearly a month in 2009, a […]
Continue readingRising Tide Action, 150 Police Officers Suppress Ohio Protest, plus International News
Northern Rockies Rising Tide, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the National Wildlife Federation, the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club, UM Climate Action Now, and the No Shipments Network will be hosting A Walk Through the Tar Sands today to protest the Montana […]
Continue readingExclusive Interview with Farm Sanctuary
The EF! Newswire was able to conduct a brief interview with Gene Baur, President, and Susie Coston, National Shelter Director, of Farm Sanctuary. We talked about the mission of Farm Sanctuary, the case of Conklin Dairy Farm and about factory farms in […]
Continue readingA Reeling World Gasps for Breath
Through murky lens of what might turn out to be the most catastrophic oil spill ever, the world’s usual violence becomes intensified. How are we to deal with these times? Protests against BP are still ongoing after a difficult weekend Police were […]
Continue readingNews from the GMO Front
Russian scientists have proven that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are harmful to mammals in a recent announcement to kick off the Days of Defence against Environmental Hazards Using lab animals to prove that science is evil (oh! the humanity!), the scientists discovered […]
Continue readingHands Across the Sands
Although we disagree with their stance on legislative change via tax incentives, we have to admit that this is still pretty cool. People are planning a Hands Across the Sands event in 20 states for June 26th. The following is from their […]
Continue readingThe Great Climate Game, and more news from around the world
A 500 person-strong protest in New Orleans against BP on Sunday as efforts for a “top-kill junk shot” (which sounds like another term for a heroin overdose) failed miserably. As if you already didn’t know that Australia was a political quagmire of […]
Continue readingALF Monthly Report: A Busy Month Indeed
The month of May included an outstanding 41 actions around the world in furtherance of animal liberation. Among the most brazen of these actions were * 5 bombings in Mexico of fast food chains, vivisection supporters and eco-destructive banks * 214 hens […]
Continue readingMassive Resistance Movement Ignored in Japan, US Military Presence to Increase
In spite of a huge resistance movement, the Prime Minister of Japan has decided to maintain a marine corps base in Okinawa called Futenma. On May 17, a huge protest took place where 17,000 protesters joined hands and circled Futenma. On April […]
Continue readingBP’s OTHER Spill this Week
by Greg Palast for Buzzflash.com Friday, May 28 2010 With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska pipeline operation. A hundred thousand […]
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