Pacific Rim and other corporations in El Salvador have been destroying the land and polluting the environment for decades with impunity, first through martial law and then through the invisible hand of trade agreements. On May 27, the Committee in Solidarity with […]
Hey y’all. It’s been a big day in the enviro news world. Despite recent tumult, the EF!J Collective is on tryin’ to stay on top of everything. The UK EF! Action Update was released today! Don’t miss it! (OH, and a little […]
Six activists locked down inside the border patrol’s lobby here in Tucson, and they all were cited and released. Just walked away, and felt damn good about it. They won the local news cycle, sending racist cops a strong message. But they […]
So a new management deal has been signed for Canada’s Boreal Forest. It’s being hailed as the largest forest deal in the history of the world. You can see the map above: orange will be ‘protected’, gray areas will not. The fragmentation […]
Republished from the CFD site. This looks like an attractive option for those who can’t or won’t make it out to the east coast Rondy. It’ll hopefully spawn a long campaign that folks can plug into all summer. ATTENTION FOREST DEFENDERS: Join […]
Greenpeace UK made BP a new flag. The coolest part is, they’re still taking suggestions for other new BP flags. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzc5wUigEC8] The Oil Spill is now leaking between 76,000 and 104,000 barrels per day. That’s a pretty wide range of guessing, but […]
So our friends at Climate Ground Zero in WV have been busy. First they disrupted the Massey Energy shareholder’s meeting. They blockaded the entrance to Massey’s regional HQ with a tripod. Photos below the fold. Now two mountain defenders are in jail […]
We got this in our inbox last night. Should’ve published it sooner, now NYC Indymedia beat us to it by a few hours. It’s still an awesome story! More people should be holding Big Green groups accountable for the steaming crock that […]
We received this in our inbox and thought it was worth publishing. Particularly interesting is the $3+ billion incentive for the timber industry to discredit Judi. If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, make sure to check out the JB commemoration […]
This conflict has been brewing for over a year now. It involves widening the US 101 between thousand-plus year-old redwoods in southern Humboldt County to facilitate the movement of big trucks. Here’s the project’s official page, for updates etc. We got this […]