On May 10th 2012 animal liberation prisoner Victor VanOrden was released from prison after a successful parole hearing. He and his wife Kellie (who was living in Iowa waiting for him to be released) have found their way back to Maryland where […]
Continue readingRiot Cops, Bulldozers Evict Occupy the Farm
In perhaps the strangest and yet somehow most symbolic moment in the history of the rural part of the Occupy movement, riot police aided the bulldozing of an occupied farm in Albany, CA, by chasing down an activist with a watering can. […]
Continue readingRare-Earth Mining Rises Again in United States
By Danielle Vinton / Wired.com The fight over the minerals that run the electronic world entered a new phase in March when the United States, the European Union and Japan collectively filed a case against China, accusing the rare-earth powerhouse of violating […]
Continue readingConstruction Begins on San Francisco Peaks; Controversy Far From Over
By Anne Minard / Indian Country News The Arizona Snowbowl ski area, near Flagstaff, began construction this week on the infrastructure to deliver treated wastewater for snowmaking on its slopes. Meanwhile, the controversial plan to make snow on the San Francisco Peaks […]
Continue readingAnti-Loggers Held Back by Officials
Forestry Administration officials reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from travelling to Koh Kong town yesterday on their way to the site where prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot last month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in a convoy […]
Continue readingCall to Action for Supporters of the Earth First! Journal
The Earth First! Journal collective has just received a challenge that is also a wonderful opportunity – a donor has volunteered to match dollar-for-dollar HALF of the costs raised by other contributors to fund the upcoming Beltane (spring) issue, if we receive […]
Continue readingBanner Drop in Cascadia
Cross Posted from ForestDefenseNow A member of the Cascadia Forest Defenders climbed the flagpole in front of the State Capitol, demanding that Governor Kitzhaber and the State Land Board decouple public school funding from state forest management. The activist hung a large […]
Continue readingHundreds shutdown intersection in front of Bank of America to protest coal and foreclosures. 5 arrested
Hundreds of people converged in Charlotte, NC on May 9 to protest Bank of America’s (BoA) annual shareholders meeting. Activists from Appalachia fighting mountaintop removal coal mining joined forces with housing rights activists, unions, immigrant rights groups, and the Occupy movement to […]
Continue readingLawsuit Challenges Old-growth Logging Near Grand Canyon
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a 25,000-acre timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest near Grand Canyon’s north rim. Approved in January, this is the U.S. Forest Service’s fifth attempt to sell old-growth trees […]
Continue readingStand with Pine Ridge Against Genocide in White Clay
A Day of Action against White Clay, NE White Clay, Nebraska is an unincorporated village with a population of 14 people in northwest Nebraska. The town sits on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota (also […]
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