Cross Posted From Huffington Post An elephant in Zimbabwe reportedly trampled a poacher who was attempting to kill the wild animal. Solomon Manjoro, a suspected poacher, was trampled to death by an elephant in Charara National Park in Gatshe-Gatshe, Kariba, according to the state-run Zimbabwe newspaper The Sunday Mail. Manjoro and his friend Noluck...
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Cross Posted From CommonDreams Steering a lobster boat called the Henry David T., two climate activists on Wednesday attempted to blockade a shipment of West Virginia coal from arriving at Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, New England’s largest coal-fired power plant. The coal freighter, the Energy Entreprise, is believed to be carrying coal...
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by Emily Frost and Hannah Waters, Cross Posted from Smithsonian The chemistry of the ocean is changing. Most climate change discussion focuses on the warmth of the air, but around one-quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere dissolves into the ocean. Dissolved carbon dioxide makes seawater more acidic—a process called ocean...
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Cross Posted from RFERL By Tom Balmforth and Svetlana Pavlova Ten activists were savagely beaten by private security guards this week, with three of them hospitalized, as confrontation ramped up over contentious plans to mine nickel in Russia’s southern Voronezh Oblast. It was the latest confrontation in a local grassroots struggle that has united ecological activists and...
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Cross Posted from PeoplesWorld Students and concerned citizens from a variety of organizations includingUtah Tar Sands Resistance, Mormons for Environmental Stewardship Alliance, Fossil Free U and the Revolutionary Students Union held a protest at a conference of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy at the University of Utah here. The institute promotes use of tar sands,...
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Cross Posted from Deep Green Resistance Newswire By Alex Budd / Deep Green Resistance Cascadia Wherever there has been oppression, there has been resistance. Despite the narratives that are drilled and forced into our heads—narratives of the exceptionality and futility of resistance—the history of civilization is chalk full of individuals, groups, movements that stood...
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Cross Posted from ABCLocal7 Early Monday evening, farm activists rushed back onto a plot of land owned by the University of California, where a few of them were arrested earlier in the day. It’s happening at the “Gill Tract” in Albany. The occupiers moved in over the weekend and began planting crops. A leader...
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Cross Posted from KTVU University of California, Berkeley police arrested four people Monday morning and a plow turned under crops planted in protest at a makeshift farm encampment set up on university property. Activists had occupied a tract of farmland — located near the corner of Marin and San Pablo avenues, part of a...
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Cross Posted from Peaceful Uprising Peaceful Uprising, Utah Tar Sands Resistance and Deep Green Resistance Great Basin May 7 stormed the Unconventional Fuels Conference in Salt Lake City, piercing fossil fuel lies by speaking truth to power. The Conference was put on by the University of Utah’s Institute for Dirty and Dangerous Energy, otherwise...
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From Support Dane Rossman So, hopefully Dane won’t get mad that we told y’all but it is his birthday next Sunday. Yes, on 5/19 Dane will be turning 26. Since we have no idea when he will be transferred into Canadian custody you can send birthday wishes to Florence, AZ. CADC Dane Rossman #88252308...
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Cross Posted from Socialist Organizer By Jim Hays In recent months, Peabody Coal Co. has been the subject of large militant protests by both environmentalists and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Union. Peabody, the world’s largest and most prosperous coal energy company, has its world headquarters in a shining big skyscraper in...
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by Scott Learn, Cross Posted from OregonLive Terminal developer Kinder Morgan on Wednesday dropped its proposal to export coal to Asia from a Columbia River port near Clatskanie. The company’s decision means three of the six coal export terminals originally proposed in Oregon and Washington have gone by the wayside. It also significantly reduces...
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