From the Center for Biological Diversity The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Wyoming has passed legislation and an amendment to its wolf-management plan that will meet federal approval and trigger removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves […]
Continue readingBeetles suspected in burning down two Canadian sawmills
[EF! Newswire note: Seems fishy that industrial logging, climate change and corporate greed is not to blame for destroying its own mills and killing its own employees… In any case, there’s two less mills in the world. For now, we say bravo […]
Continue readingCelebrating May Day with the Rossport Solidarity Camp
May Day! Day of Solidarity & work weekend 4-7 May Anyone feel like heading over to Ireland next week? Along with plans for actions against Shell, the weekend includes a talk by an Earth First! Journal editor who will be visiting overseas. […]
Continue readingEugene Po-Po Pick On Little Kids, Then Mace Moms
While CFD is out in the woods occupying the Goose timber sale, their friends in town are busy Occupying trees as well. It seems like the local media mostly didn’t notice, so Eugene Occupy the Trees had a small march. It was […]
Continue readingMexican indigenous community holds 14 police after killings
Inhabitants of an indigenous community in western Mexico detained 14 police officers and a local official after eight of their neighbors were killed by illegal loggers. Thursday’s detention was the latest flare-up of tension between the community in Cheran, Michoacan state, illegal […]
Continue readingProtesters occupy UC Berkeley-owned farm in Albany
Members of Occupy Cal, along with other Occupy protesters from the Bay Area, marched from Berkeley to a UC Berkeley-owned farm in Albany on Sunday afternoon with plans to set up an Earth Day encampment. After listening to speakers from various Occupy […]
Continue readingCan you tell real biotech nightmares from Hunger Games fiction?
A month ago, we here at the Earth First! Newswire exposed our nerdiness by publishing what some have called a hyperbolic claim that the Hunger Games trilogy could bring the eco-revolution. Well, we’re following up on that by re-posting a great quiz […]
Continue readingEnbridge Oil Spill Whistle-Blower Trial Updates
July 2010, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude spilled into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. This is the largest inland spill in US History. A fired cleanup worker with a dark past claims he was ordered to cover up oil to […]
Continue readingNew Zealand ‘Aotearoa is Not For Sale’ hikoi begins today
A two-week long hikoi protesting against asset sales, privatisation, overseas land sales and the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will begin today in Cape Reinga. The ‘Aotearoa is Not For Sale’ hikoi aims to reach Wellington on Friday, May 4, after stopping in […]
Continue readingALEC is feeling the heat
Cross posted from politicususa.com Last Tuesday, ALEC’s Director of External Relations, Caitlyn Korb, spoke at a Heritage Foundation “Bloggers Briefing” and begged conservative bloggers for assistance in promoting a “very aggressive campaign to really spread the word about what we actually do,” […]
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