[EF! Newswire Editor’s Note: By using the link below, you can send a personalized letter to some bureaucrats about protecting mature forests and send a few tweets around about it… Then you should go out and build a treesit in every 80+ […]
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Long Walk to Freedom
Day 18 from the East Texas Tar Sands Blockade I’m laying down in an open field in East Texas, staring upwards and reflecting. Small groups of stars peek out from the increasingly puffy clouds, signaling morning rain. My nostrils fill with slight […]
Continue readingLove and Rebellion in the East Texas Woods
I’m writing to ya’ll from a safe space nearby the Tar Sands Blockade in rural east Texas. Early this week, heeding the call of friends and comrades already on site, we assembled a crew of Earth First!ers from the Northeast US and […]
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 readingAn Invitation from Cascadia
Cascadia is a vast area of wilderness that includes Oregon, Washington and stretches north through British Columbia, Canada. The Cascadia Forest Defenders and Cascadia Earth First! of Oregon are dedicated to protecting the dense forests of giant trees, cold rushing waters and thriving […]
Continue readingCoal River Mountain Treesit Updates
UPDATES! 8/2/2011: After being a participant for 14 days on the still-active treesit at Coal River Mountain, WV, Becks Kolins descended the tulip poplar and was immediately apprehended. In their own words, Becks writes “I am not doing this because I am […]
Continue readingCascadia Forest Defenders Action Camp starts next week in Oregon
Activists are invited to to support direct action in defenseof a beloved, ancient coastal rainforest, the Elliott State Forest. Under the watchful mismanagement of the Oregon Department of Forestry,timber barons are actively razing this rare, 93,000 acre cathedral of previously untouched wilderness. […]
Continue readingAgent Orange Being Used to Clear the Amazon
Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War — and now it’s being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers in Brazil […]
Continue readingPolice arrest Forest Defenders in Tasmania, Solidarity Actions in Melbourne & Bunbury Australia
The Earth First Journal! stands in solidarity with the actions taking place in Tasmania and Australia against the destruction of the wild! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvlwnEgxSoI&feature=player_embedded] About 20 protesters from the Huon Valley Environment Centre were involved in the demonstration at the Ta Ann office […]
Continue readingTasmania: Enviros Scramble to Defend Ancient Forests
FOREST protest groups have slammed the axing of a moratorium due to start today that would have halted all logging in Tasmania’s high-conservation-value forests. The Still Wild Still Threatened organisation and the Huon Valley Environment Centre held demonstrations outside the Executive Building […]
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