This morning, the Tar Sands Blockade and Rising Tide North Texas put out a call for actions to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline being built from Cushing, OK to Texas’ Gulf Coast. This summer, environmental activists from across the country will be converging in Texas to participate in […]
Continue readingA Threatened Snail in the Path of Rosemont Copper Mine
By Samantha Bare / Cronkite News WASHINGTON – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it will begin a yearlong review to determine whether the Sonoran talussnail is threatened, specifically by the proposed Rosemont Copper mine. The action is in […]
Continue readingGreenland Suddenly Thaws
Cross Posted by the Washington Post Nearly all of Greenland’s massive ice sheet suddenly started melting a bit this month, a freak event that surprised scientists. Even Greenland’s coldest and highest place, Summit station, showed melting. Ice core records show that last […]
Continue readingVideo: Keystone Pipeline is a Toxic Frat-Boy D-Bag, and He’s Back
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Continue readingPunk Rock’s Convoluted Political History
(or how I learned to stop being a wastoid and threw a benefit show for the Earth First! Journal) By Matt Preira / Miami New Times Punk rock’s political history is pretty convoluted. But by most accounts, the fast-hard-and-loud aesthetic came into […]
Continue readingFund Created for Fallen Forest Defender
Ethan Ethan Wyatt Braden was passionate about protecting the Cascade Forests. To honor his memory and fight for this cause, a new fund has been created in his name. All proceeds will be donated to the organizations he was directly working with […]
Continue readingNew Lawsuit Exposes Rift in Coal Exports Plan
By SASHA / Earth First! Journal Portland Field Office Last week, a rupture occurred with the coal industry world that shocked activists. Rio Tinto, an Australian company, which owns the US-based subsidiary Cloud Peak Energy, a 50:50 partner in the Decker Mine […]
Continue readingMountain Mobilization Kicks Off Summer of Solidarity with a Challenge to Strip-Mining
by Wren Awry Originally posted in Waging Nonviolence. Listening to the talk in Washington is depressing these days for those concerned about the future of our planet. Democrats join Republicans in trying to roll back environmental regulation, any discussion of climate legislation […]
Continue readingGettin’ Busy in the Coal Fields of Scotland!
Holy shite! Things have been going off in Scotland’s Douglas Valley. Starting July 11, folks with the Coal Action Scotland crew occupied Scottish Coal’s new opencast mine site, Glentaggart East, for Take Back the Land! – a week of action against the […]
Continue readingEarth First! Land Project: Call for Proposals
As you may have heard about at the 2012 Organizer’s Conference in Utah or seen featured in the Beltane issue of the EF! Journal, eco-prisoner Marie Mason submitted a proposal to the movement for an Earth First! Land Project. Earlier this month, […]
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