By Susan Phillips, NPR Discord over how to best protect the environment from impacts of natural gas drilling has led to a coalition of grassroots environmental groups shunning the Environmental Defense Fund. The groups plan to hold a conference call on Wednesday to “send a message…disapproving of willingness to be coopted by industry interests on the...
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By Sockeye As media outlets around the country lambasted the City of Portland, Oregon, for tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theory mongering, a grassroots people’s campaign slowly and steadily advanced to victory over fluoride. News sources from the Daily Kos to Slate.com and even the Wall Street Journal weighed in on “medical science versus paranoia,” chortling...
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By Vivian Austin, Gulflive The Moss Point Board of Aldermen agreed to allow attorney Amy St. Pe to examine its contract with Plains South Cap to determine if the city can stop the sale of city-owned property the company needs for its pipeline from Eight Mile, Ala., to Chevron USA. The move came after...
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From Prison Books Please send Rebecca Rubin a letter or note of encouragement, being transferred can be quite jarring. (Remember not to write to her about her case at all because she is pre-trial.)Rebecca is accused of being a member of the Earth Liberation Front. She is facing charges of arson and conspiracy for...
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by EF!J Collective All you lovers of print media know we have been playing hard to get lately, leaving you longing for our touch, as it offers an escape from the cesspool of online media burning your retinas… Rest assured, we are ready to once again feel the caress of your filthy hands, as...
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Cross Posted from ENS India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment anywhere in the country. In a policy statement released Friday, the ministry advised state governments to reject any proposal to establish a dolphinarium “by any person / persons, organizations, government agencies, private...
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By Brendan Demelle / DeSmog Blog DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Making its debut today in honor of Gasland 2, Frackalypse Now features the details of the gas industry’s psychological warfare scandal. As we originally reported on...
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by Russ McSpadden / from the 30th Anniversary Edition of the Earth First! Journal, Vol. I, 2010 Wilderness, the biodiversity of life that exists where sexual creativity and adventure flourish, is pan-sexual, poly-gendered, orgiastic and playful. The sun engages the soil with titillating light, radiation, chemical explosion and the magnetism of its flaring body...
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Cross Posted from Friends of Oregons Forests Hey Friends, It is official HB 2595, the bill further criminalizing dissent on state forest land is dead and gone, for this year at least. HB 2596 is moving along, but at least that is one down. Congratulations Cascadia Forestdefenders Cascadia EarthFirst Portland Rising Tide and others, this is great news. Now,...
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Cross Posted from Tree Biotech 2013 Join Earth First!, Global Justice Ecology Project and the Campaign to STOP GE Trees for a week of resistance to genetically engineered trees. From May 26-June 1, the International Tree Biotechnology 2013 Conference is taking place in Asheville, NC. This conference is a gathering of many of the...
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In case you didn’t know, a tornado touched down in Oklahoma, killing at least 51 people (20 children among them). We can’t control the weather, we can try to stop climate change before it gets worse, and we can definitely help build solidarity networks to respond to emergency situations. FEMA is too busy picking...
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Cross Posted from OccupythePipeline BREAKING! OtP took to the high seas today to interrupt the New York League of Conservation Voters’ Spring Gala, which was funded by the hydro fracking industry and thrown in honor of Michael Bloomberg. The New York League of Conservation Voters is hosting a Spring Gala tonight, May 20, 2013, honoring...
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