by Annalee Newitz / IO9.com A mechanic who worked at General Electric in New York spent the past several years perfecting a deadly, truck-mounted radiation weapon. According to the FBI, he tried to sell it to Jews at a nearby synagogue in his area, whom he figured could hand it over to Israel. Failing...
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by Earth First! News In a recent interview about his role in the new sci-fi horror film “The Purge,” in which violent crime is decriminalized for 12 hours every year by the U.S. government in order to release social tensions, actor Ethan Hawke discussed what crimes he secretly fantasizes about, free of legal repercussions....
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by Winona LaDuke / Common Dreams This past week in New Brunswick, the Canadian military came out to protect oil companies. In this case, seismic testing for potential natural gas reserves by Southwestern Energy Company (SWN), a Texas based company working in the province. It’s an image of extreme energy, and perhaps the times....
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by Carl Pope / Huffington Post The protest sweeping Turkey began with trees — specifically, the last remaining downtown green space in this ancient capital, a park in Taksim Square. Protestors began gathering peacefully to try to stop government plans to replace the trees with a shopping mall. Disturbingly, the government and police overreacted...
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by Rabb!t / Earth First! Newswire The Indonesian rainforest is in an unbalanced tug-o-war between corporations and the wild, and the government’s problem – solution/problem – solution/problem dance of reactionary politics is spiraling out of control. In Indonesia, you have one of the most biologically diverse forests on the planet (ranking third in the...
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From Crimethinc. In the latest installment of our bimonthly podcast, we discuss the current US prison system and its roots in the state itself, before turning our attention to movements for the abolition and/or destruction of prisons. Our special guests include a comrade from supermax lock up and Midwest Pages to Prisoners Zine Distro....
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Beijing, China, June 2013—Representatives from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and traditional Tibetan medicine (TTM) industry met last week in Beijing to discuss how they can help further protect species with a high medicinal value and to...
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from Earth First! Newswire The first issue of the Animal Liberation Front-inspired comic book, Liberator, hits shelves today. Check it out for pages of awesome animal fury against cruel anthropocentrists. Liberator #1 is about two activists – one who puts her freedom on the line by committing civil disobedience, and...
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Even if it annoys you, can you try not to be a prick about it? by Panagioti / Earth First! Newswire With twenty-two people arrested yesterday morning after a sit-in at the State Department’s Chicago office, it seems environmental civil disobedience may have officially moved from fringe to center. If what Credo says is...
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by Schuyler Keenan Durham With the sunny Spring day bringing out the radiant colors of blooming flower petals, individuals began to congregate at stone picnic benches on a Monday afternoon in Eugene. Jinx (“no personal pronoun preferred”) trades sips from a 22-ounce bottle of Hammerhead Ale. After tipping back the head of short, dirty-blonde...
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The Japanese Industrialization of Ocean Destruction
Commentary by Gary Stokes, Director, Sea Shepherd Hong Kong
Sanriku Kakou Corporation harvests sharks on an industrial scalePhoto: Kim McCoy / Sea ShepherdClick to enlargeRecently Japan announced tha...
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by John Ahni Schertow / Intercontinental Cry The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (LTLT) celebrated the deed signing of the Hall Mountain Tract in Macon County back to tribal ownership on May 31. Hall Mountain, a 108 acre tract of land, is the viewshed of...
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