From The Independent (UK) In a remote corner of Jakarta’s Ragunan Zoo, a Malayan sun bear is pacing back and forth, shaking its head in an agitated manner. There is no shade or shelter in the tiny, dilapidated enclosure – just a […]
Continue readingWashington/Idaho Megaload Resistance
At about 11:30 pm on Sunday night, May 20, a dozen activists from Occupy Spokane and Wild Idaho Rising Tide converged in Spokane, Washington, to protest megaloads of oversized equipment bound for Alberta tar sands operations from the Port of Pasco. ExxonMobil/Imperial […]
Continue readingNorth Carolina Pledges Action Against Fracking
On May 19th, roughly 200 people gathered in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, to participate in a colorful march organized by Croatan Earth First! on Occupy Well Street’s Day of Action Against Extraction. Protesters marched through downtown with giant puppets, emulating […]
Continue readingEntrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 is “a pre-planned narrative”
Cross Posted from the Indypendent The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who are now charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. While […]
Continue readingALEC Attacking Wind Next
Cross Posted from The League of Conservation Voters The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an organization that writes voting-ready state legislation to hand to overextended politicians, giving them the chance to get bills passed quickly and efficiently. Sounds like a friendly […]
Continue readingForest Service Awards One of Largest-ever Timber Contracts to Agency Insiders
by the Center for Biological Diversity FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— The U.S. Forest Service awarded one of the largest-ever tree-cutting contracts in the history of the national forest system today to a timber company represented by a retired Forest Service official. While he was […]
Continue readingRapid Climate Changes Turn Minn.’s North Woods into a Moose Graveyard
by Daniel Cusick, E&E reporter ALONG THE GUNFLINT TRAIL, Minn. — If moose disappear from the boreal forest of northern Minnesota, as some biologists predict, they will not exit with a thunderous crash. Climate extinctions come quietly, even when they involve 1,000-pound […]
Continue readingOccupy Well Street [OWS Stands in Solidarity Fighting Extraction]
New York, NY- May 12- Occupy Wall Street partnered with Occupy Well Street, a regional, direct action oriented anti-fracking group, and other city and regional environmental groups to voice resistance to the Spectra Energy Natural Gas Pipeline and the issues associated with […]
Continue readingHowls of Reprisal: Wolves Return to the Frontlines
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2dQjnz8734&feature=related] Until their reintroduction in the 1990s wolves were all but wiped out in the Northern Rocky Mountains. No wolves had been spotted in Eastern Oregon since 1946, and further west, the last sighting of a wolf in California was in 1924. […]
Continue readingSuit Filed Against Expansion of Navajo Coal Mine Polluting Four Corners Region
by the Center for Biological Diversity After decades of coal pollution from the 2040-megawatt Four Corners Power Plant and BHP Billiton’s 13,000-acre Navajo Coal Mine that supplies it, Navajo and conservation groups filed suit against the federal government late Tuesday for improperly […]
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