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 […]
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Croatan Earth First! is hosting a direct action training camp this fall Oct 20-21st at a local veggie farm near Pittsboro, NC. There will be tent camping available for the weekend, and people are free to come and go. Plan to stay […]
Continue readingAnti-fracking Blockade in Moshannon State Forest
Posted by Marcellus Earth First! Tree-Sitters Halt Hydrofracking Operations Activists from Marcellus Earth First! have erected a slash pile blockade and two tree sits blocking an access road to an EQT hydro-fracking site in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield County, PA., halting […]
Continue readingA Free State against Fracking?
Consider yourself invited to join the eviction resistance at Pennsylvania fracking site A week into the resident-led occupation of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, PA, the following message has been circulated by the fine folks with Occupy Well Street. Basically, […]
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 readingFracking: ACT 13, The Worst Is Coming
Article by Steven Rosenfeld, from Alternet.org Pennsylvania, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed and where the U.S. coal, oil and nuclear industries began, has adopted what may be the most anti-democratic, anti-environmental law in the country, giving gas […]
Continue readingVan Eck Launches ‘Fracking’ Energy Exchange Traded Fund
Van Eck Global, a New York-based money management firm with $35 million in assets from dirty energy, today launched an energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on companies that look for and produce “unconventional” sources of oil and gas, such as oil […]
Continue reading“Don’t Frack with Cackalack!” Three Croatan Earth First!ers arrested
Exercpt from a June 15, 2011 press release by Croatan Earth First!: Raleigh, NC – On Tuesday night, over twenty-five people showed their opposition to hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling in North Carolina outside of the legislative building before heading inside for […]
Continue readingVideo Round-up of Rising Tide’s Week of Action Against Extraction
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