A message from Wild Idaho Rising Tide: During the 2012 Idaho legislative session, a majority of our state senators and representatives succumbed to the mercenary ambitions of the oil and natural gas industry and passed state laws and regulations allowing hydraulic fracturing […]
Continue readingWho Bombed Judi Bari?
Who Bombed Judi Bari? documentary presents the unsolved mystery of the 1990 car bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, chronicles the FBI’s refusal to investigate the car bombing of these two Redwood activists, its arrest of victims; and a 1st amendment […]
Continue readingSupport Needed for Arizona-based Activist Center
Since the 60’s there have been an array of spaces created to provide resources to communities — from soup kitchens to free schools to community gardens — sharing food and alternative education platforms have long been apart of our formula for social […]
Continue readingPolice Kill Anti-Nuke Protester in India, Resistance Continues to Grow
Despite the killing of an anti-nuclear protester by police on Monday, hundreds of protesters forming a human chain stood in sea waters today, for the second day in a row, demanding a halt to preparations for fuel loading into the reactor of […]
Continue readingProtesters Blockade Monsanto Seed Facility in California
By Lisa Baertlein and Carey Gillam, Reuters Opponents of genetically engineered foods blocked shipments and deliveries yesterday at Monsanto Co’s vegetable seed company that developed a new genetically modified sweet corn that will hit stores this fall. The protesters, who want to […]
Continue readingFor Farms in the West, Oil Wells Are Thirsty Rivals
By JACK HEALY / New York Times GREELEY, Colo. — A new race for water is rippling through the drought-scorched heartland, pitting farmers against oil and gas interests, driven by new drilling techniques that use powerful streams of water, sand and chemicals […]
Continue readingUpdate: The Law of Mother Earth
Update by Russ McSpadden Alas, the wild and wet dream of an ecotopia in Bolivia is but lies on paper and another example of the emptiness of beautiful intentions applied to government rhetoric. The poetry and land-based traditions written into law have […]
Continue readingStanford University Researchers in the Pocket of Big Biotech
Scientists Tied to Tobacco Industry Propaganda, and Funding from Monsanto, Turn Attention to Organic Food From the Cornucopia Institute: Cornucopia, Wisconsin – A recent study by Stanford University researchers made international headlines when it claimed that organic foods are no more safe or nutritious […]
Continue readingWe Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
By Brian Merchant / Motherboard What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and […]
Continue readingWave of protests “sink” super trawlers off the coast of Tasmania
What started as a ripple of concern over the pending arrival of a super trawler to be based in Devonport, Tasmania, soon became “a wave of outrage,” according to an article today in the Mercury. Tasmanian fishermen started the murmur of discontent […]
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