Cross Posted from TarSandsBlockade.org **UPDATE 12:40PM – Our first action in Oklahoma! TransCanada is starting construction at the beginning of the Keystone XL route in Cushing, Oklahoma. Tar Sands Blockade organizers are there with a clear message, that while this project has started, we will not […]
Cross Posted from Common Dreams A victory came to activists in Brazil on Tuesday when a federal judge halted construction on the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon, saying that the indigenous peoples had not been consulted. The impacts of the […]
Fur Farmers Release Guide to Prepare for ALF Raid Season The Fur Commission website is full of information for fur farmers of America, including classic definitions like this one, that assure the farmers that they are protected by the US Government: ECOTERRORISM: ”The […]
Trapwire, the total-surveillance system, promises to make your life far more creepy, exposed and boring than any science fiction dystopia. See the video below about Wikileaks newly release information about what Trapwire will mean to you: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJIEbk3J_0&w=420&h=315]
“Greetings. I have been here since Friday working in Montana’s capital city, Helena, with the Coal Export Action team comprised of folks from Montana as well as from around the country and our movements. We’ve been rocking it. To say the least. […]
by Jaime Lopez Pablo Sibar, a grassroots leader from the Teribe native tribe of Costa Rica celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9th with a protest before the National Assembly. He has been doing so over the […]
by Karen Kleiss, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON – Environmental groups opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline have seized control of the public debate, Enbridge Inc. CEO Patrick Daniel told a radio audience Monday. “Everything that we say sounds defensive and self-interested, and on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]