By Marcia Moore and John Finnerty The Daily Item NEW COLUMBIA — Amanda Friend and her family were forced from their home late Thursday after a toxic acid-spewing Halliburton truck hauling 4,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid pulled into a neighboring convenience […]
Continue readingBlockade Showdown Against Fracking Pipeline in Manhattan
by Shannon Ayala [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon5ZlCxPxo] Activists gathered yesterday at a sanitation pier near the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan where Spectra Energy has begun construction on a natural gas pipeline (which partially picks up gas in the Marcellus Shale area where […]
Continue readingThink Globally, Act Selfishly:
How Utilitarian Environmentalism Can Backfire by Brandon Keim / Wired.com In short, telling people how much money carpooling will save them won’t convince them to recycle, but telling them how transcendent carpooling is because it will save the planet will. Earnest, well-meaning […]
Continue readingAugust 31st: National Day of Action for the Cleveland 4!
On Friday, August 31st, join your comrades around the country in raising legal support funds for the Cleveland 4, who were entrapped by the FBI and face up to life in prison because of their politics and association with the Occupy movement. […]
Continue readingWill new anti-protest laws in Puerto Rico benefit the Energy Empire?
compiled by panagioti, Earth First! Journal collective Last week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s police chief and justice secretary, saying the island’s new penal code violates the constitutional right to freedom of expression. The lawsuit came a week after […]
Continue readingShaleshock Shuts Down Shumberger Fracking Site
Our friends at Shaleshock posted this update to Don’t Frack With Us At around 11am, August 11th, over 150 people arrived to block the main truck entrance in and out to the Schumberger Facility, a huge service facility for the fracking industry […]
Continue readingMontanans Prepare to Harness Direct Action in Coal Fight
Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence by Nick Engelfried Compiled by Bee On Sunday, people from across Montana, and the larger area affected by coal export projects, will start converging in the state capitol of Helena. They’re coming for what will likely be the […]
Continue readingGet off the Internet…
We’ll meet you in the streets! It ain’t just the weather heatin’ up. Eco-action camps, radical gathering and activist mobilizations are going off this month all across the globe. So get out your calendar, dust off your hitch-hiking thumb, or train maps.. […]
Continue readingTel Aviv University Researcher Says Plants Can See, Smell, Feel, and Taste
from Phys.org In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, Director of TAU’s Manna Center for Plant Biosciences, says that the discovery of similarities between plants and humans is […]
Continue readingEF! News, Litha 2012, Copy and Destroy!
Hey, all you wily Earth First!ers with a knack for photocopy machines (using them, that is—not smashing them.) Here’s a PDF of the latest edition of the EF! News. Including: recent dispatches from the eco-wars, an updated directory of environmental action groups, […]
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