Bummer Reports of Pro-Industry “Protest” Around the World As the Earth shows ever-increasing, irrefutable signs of overlapping global crises in biodiversity loss, climate change and human cancer rates, the work-vs-ecology debate continues to distract good people around the world and fuel the […]
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Canaries in the Mineshaft – Miner Strikes Worldwide, Art, and the Environment
Punk art surrealist Winston Smith, who named himself after the indelible protagonist of Orwell’s 1984, was once quoted (referring to a popular idiom), “You could say that artists are the canaries in the mineshaft. We see things before others do. We set […]
Continue readingProtesters in Greece Clash with Police Over Gold Mine, Again
Hundreds of protesters have battled riot police for hours over plans for a gold mine in northern Greece’s Halkidiki peninsula. Police fired tear gas to fend off protesters who had gathered in the Skouries area of Halkidiki, northern Greece, on Sunday to […]
Continue readingGreek Protests against Vancouver’s Eldorado Gold
Government push to bring in new mines as solution to economic woes rejected by residents by Dawn Paley As people in Greece fight austerity in the streets, top officials are pushing open pit mining as a way out of the country’s economic […]
Continue readingBurning Their Fortress to the Ground
Athens in flames… again The news tells us that the riots are about austerity measures. But here at the Earth First! Newswire, we suspect there’s something more to it. Having gotten to spend some time in Greece last year, we think that […]
Continue readingIf Deep Green Resistance & the Occupy movement merged…
Reflections from Greece By panagioti, Earth First! Journal editorial collective [read this article in Spanish here] The recent “open letter” from Deep Green Resistance to participants of the Occupy movement may have come across as vague to those unfamiliar with the recent […]
Continue readingGreek revolutionaries stand trial for attacks on state and corporate targets
Hearing slated to begin amidst general strike in Athens [Update: Trial postponed to October 24 due to strike] Today, October 5th, has been set as the day that the trial of Epanastatikos Agonas (Revolutionary Struggle) will take place in the court room […]
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