Cross-Posted from Peruvian Times A state of emergency has been declared in three provinces in the Andean department of Cajamarca, located in northern Peru, following the deaths of four people during protests against the multi-billion dollar Conga gold project. Peru’s Executive branch […]
Continue readingUS succeeds with shameful backdoor deal to empty whaling ban
Cross Posted from GreenVegans.org Japan and all IWC member nations who want to see the commercial whaling ban lifted are rejoicing tonight. Describing the non-aboriginal whaling conducted by the Bequians of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) as fitting within the definition […]
Continue readingThe Paraguayan Coup
How agribusiness, landowning and media elite, and the U.S. are paving a way for regional destabilization by Francesca Fiorentini July 4, 2012, Buenos Aires It has been nearly two weeks since the parliament of Paraguay orchestrated an institutional coup that removed President […]
Continue readingLove in the Time of the Apocalypse
Review by Russ McSpadden For the avid apocalyptic fiction readers out there… Gregory Blecha (the father of a really dear friend and fellow Earth First!er who I’ve spent some time in lock-downs and even jail with) has published a terrifyingly funny novel […]
Continue readingThis Summer Is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’
By AP / SETH BORENSTEIN (WASHINGTON) — If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. […]
Continue readingUS Coast Guard Creates ‘Protest-free Zone’ in Alaska Oil Drilling Zone
from PressTV.com The United States Coast Guard will establish and enforce “a 500-meter safety zone” around the Shell Oil Company’s drilling vessel Noble Discoverer as it drills exploratory offshore wells in the sensitive Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska beginning this […]
Continue readingWe Were Wrong on Peak Oil. There’s Enough to Fry Us All
A boom in oil production has made a mockery of our predictions. Good news for capitalists – but a disaster for humanity by George Monbiot / UK Guardian The facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years […]
Continue readingReWilding the West
Remembering a Tucson Radical by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] Most of the heroes of the Wild West, the rootin’ tootin’ movie […]
Continue readingPalm Oil Industry Burning Indonesian Orangutans into Extinction to Build Plantations
By Oliver Milman / The Guardian The world’s densest population of orangutans is set to be “extinguished” by a massive new wave of fires that is clearing large tracts of a peat swamp forest in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, conservationists have […]
Continue readingWhat Would A Real Transition To A Sustainable Society Look Like?
By Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Climate scientists are clear that modern human societies are changing the atmosphere of the planet, mainly by clearing forests, grasslands, wetlands, and other natural ecosystems for the purposes of development and logging and by burning […]
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