7 Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Daring Demo

7 Greenpeace activists were arrested Monday afternoon for boarding an offshore drilling support ship and painting Anti-Offshore Drilling slogans and symbols. They were all released this morning on bail. Click here for more photos.

Judi Bari Commemorated in Fine Style

[slideshow] Two events took place in the Bay Area in California to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney and attacks on Earth First! by the FBI. On May 23, a packed house at La Pena Cultural […]

News Roundup 5/23

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 […]

Big Northern Greenwash: Who Speaks for the Trees?

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 […]

Cascadia Summer 2010!

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 […]

News Roundup 5/20

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 […]

WV Blockaders: Bail ’em out!

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 […]

NYC activists to RAN: “Wake Up! Quit Compromising!”

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 […]