10:00am: “We are occupying the Oregon State Capitol in Salem to end widespread clear cutting in state forests! We are currently locked down in the offices of Secretary of State Kate Brown and Treasurer Ted Wheeler, climbers are back on the flag […]
Continue reading‘Fracking’ — A Protest Song
Download ‘Fracking’ – A Protest Song free! ‘Fracking’ is a song written in opposition to the industrial extraction of fossil-fuel shale gas by hydraulic fracturing, and aims to increase awareness of the many dangers that fracking presents. The protest song has a […]
Continue readingPhotographs of Biodiversity and Extinction
by the EF! Journal Collective Joel Sartore is a photographer, educator and chronicler of the extinction crisis. Three of his recent collections describe, through vivid images, what we are losing, at a rate of 100 species every day. These are visual reminders […]
Continue readingThe new Earth First! Journal is OUT… Almost
Notes about the Beltane 2012 edition, and other updates from your broke but loyal EF!J collective The season of Eostar faded into Beltane, and now Beltane has faded into Litha, leaving many of you wondering how the Summer Solstice passed without ever […]
Continue readingDeadly Violence Against Environmentalists On The Rise Worldwide
by Scott Parkin “We all stand before history.“ —Ken Saro-Wiwa, executed for environmental advocacy, Nigeria, Nov. 10, 1995. What the hell is going on out there? I know a lot people targeted by our federal government and corporate private security for […]
Continue readingFracking In California’s Monterey Shale
Controversial gas- and oil-drilling method is under increasing scrutiny in the state of California By Christine G.K. LaPado Dave Garcia recalled the first time he showed the widely acclaimed 2010 documentary film Gasland—which looks at the effects of natural-gas drilling in the […]
Continue readingGuatemalan Anti-Mining Activist Survives Assassination Attempt
Cross posted from MinesandCommunities.org In a serious incident last week, unidentified assailants shot at Ms. Yolanda “Yoli” Oquely Veliz, a Guatemalan anti-mining activist from San Jose del Golfo. She was campaigning against the activities of Canadian company, Radius Gold, and is currently […]
Continue readingUN Environmental Summit opens in Rio de Janeiro
UN Meets with protests and People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice Leaders from around the globe gathered Wednesday to open three days of talks at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, where a sober, unambitious mood prevailed as negotiators produced […]
Continue readingFilm on: The cycle of Tasmania’s forest destruction
With Markets For Change, The Last Stand, JATAN Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, and The ObserverTree, Huon Valley Environment Centre has released this film that shows the cycle of destruction in Tasmania’s forests, this is still happening today. This footage was recently […]
Continue readingWhose Hands are Dirty with Nigerian Oil?
Leaked Embassy cables reveal Western complicity A new timeline launched by oil watchdog Platform suggests that the role of British and US governments in the Niger Delta conflict links them to Nigerian military groups through oil giants like Shell and Chevron. The timeline, based on over […]
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