Cross Posted from Al Jazeera A cluster of 12 men from the Xikrin tribe chant in their native language while marching together, arms interlocked, stomping their feet against the dry red dirt. They say this is their call of resistance from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]