by Lee Allen / Indian Country Today The annual weeklong San Carlos Apache Mount Graham Sacred Run—up from the Arizona desert reservation to the spirit people living on a mountain top more than 100 miles away—has entered its third decade. As he […]
Continue readingStatement from Tim DeChristopher Regarding Decision on Appeal
Cross Posted from Peaceful Uprising “After nearly four years in the criminal justice system and 14 months in prison, I have decided not to continue my appeal through the federal court system. I greatly appreciate the pro bono efforts of Ron Yengich, Liz Hunt […]
Continue reading30-Day Canoe Flotilla Against Mining in the North Woods Begins
Set to culminate in a march and rally in St. Paul, Minnesota October 22 Now entering its second week, the Precious Waters Flotilla is a 30-day canoe trip from the Polymet Mine Site to the St. Paul Capitol to raise awareness about […]
Continue readingForget Columbus Day: Decolonize the New World 2012!
West Coast Anti-Colonial, Anti-Capitalist Convergence calls for Day of Action Against All North American Embassies On October 5th, 2012 we are calling for a global day of action against the Mexican, US, and Canadian consulates and embassies worldwide. We are not recommending […]
Continue readingWhen Big Oil Attacks
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOucQBLNOa4&feature=player_embedded] Tuesday afternoon in East Texas, after police brutally tortured two protesters locked to a backhoe and workers resumed destruction of the forest, members of the Tar Sands Blockade, determined not to be deterred by violence, moved in to try and stop […]
Continue readingThe Earth First! Death Cult? It does have a nice ring to it!
Did you ever stop to consider that the wild and hairy anarchists of the Earth First! Movement are really just a bunch of death cult Illuminati in cahoots with big government, Time magazine, the Shriners and um, aliens and lizard people and shit? […]
Continue readingMore Jobs on a Dead Planet?
Bummer Reports of Pro-Industry “Protest” Around the World As the Earth shows ever-increasing, irrefutable signs of overlapping global crises in biodiversity loss, climate change and human cancer rates, the work-vs-ecology debate continues to distract good people around the world and fuel the […]
Continue readingTexas Tar Sands Blockade Continues Despite Police Torture
Despite summer being over, things continue to heat up in Texas for the Tar Sands Blockade as we enter day 3 of the tree-sit. On Monday, 8 people took to the trees to defend the land from clear-cutting that would allow for […]
Continue readingCommunity defeats giant cement company in Mexico
CEMEX cannot burn more waste in the state of Hidalgo In a statement released yesterday by GAIA, the Huichapan community, in the central México’s state of Hidalgo, has achieved a historic victory, after 6 months of protests and legal actions that drove […]
Continue readingPeople Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Tree Village
DATELINE WINNSBORO, TX — This morning two Texas-born Tar Sands Blockaders have locked themselves to a critical piece of equipment for TransCanada’s Keystone XL construction in order to protect a massive tree village in the direct path of the toxic tar sands […]
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