It was 7:00 am, the last day of the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s annual convention in Philadelphia, when a group of 40 or so people gathered to meet the gas industry face to face. “We just wanted to see what they had to […]
Continue readingGet Your Ass Out to Texas and Fight the Tar Sands Pipeline!
[The following is an excerpt from a letter to friends, family and allies written by a scout working with a group of Earth First! folks in the woods of east Texas. They are calling on you to join them ASAP in a […]
Continue readingTar Sands Blockade begins 8-person tree sit
Re-posted from Tar Sands Blockade Eight people climbed 80 feet into trees in the path of Keystone XL construction, and pledged not to come down until the pipeline is stopped for good. Construction cannot proceed until tree-sitters descend and TransCanada clear-cuts through […]
Continue readingRiots Shut down iPhone Factory in China
[EF! News note: We view this story as part of the ongoing crisis of industrial society that is unraveling in China. Riots like this don’t happen over fist fights. They are part of the global response to a civilization based on wage-slavery, […]
Continue readingNew Trailer for Occupied Cascadia
[UPDATED: Check out this newer trailer] The trailer for ‘Occupied Cascadia’ film examining the severity of our cultural & environmental crisis. It aims to explore the concept of bioregionalism as well as a deeper inquiry into what is actually needed for humanity […]
Continue readingEnergy Industry Crackdown, Global Protest Frackdown
Yesterday, while Shell announced suing Greenpeace International in an attempt to have the organization banned from protest within 500 meters of any Shell property in the Netherlands, New York activist Susan Walker was sentenced to 15 days in jail after she refused […]
Continue readingArctic “death spiral” leaves climate scientists shocked and worried
by Barry Saxifrage / The Vancouver Observer A “radical shift” is plunging the Arctic Ocean towards an ice-free state for the first time in millions of years. One of the world’s foremost ice experts, Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, calls it […]
Continue readingActivists Crash Sustainable Forestry Initiative conference
“Wisconsin Doesn’t Want SFI’s Greenwash” By Adam Gaya, Forest Ethics Every September, the so-called Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) holds an annual conference. Every year for the last three years, ForestEthics and local activists have been there to confront one of the most […]
Continue readingYoung Persons Called to Grand Jury for Owning Books
by Tom, Sound and the Noise Just a few weeks ago, an FBI task force raided a home in Portland, Oregon very early in the morning. They broke down the front door with a battering ram and threw in a stun grenade, which […]
Continue readingThree Blockaders Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery
UPDATE: 11:30AM – Five arrests made at Keystone XL construction site outside Winnsboro, Texas. Three brave blockaders locked to tree clear-cutting machinery delayed operations at the site for the morning. Join us in celebrating our latest crew of brave blockaders: Doug is […]
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