By Katuah Earth First! Click here to listen to the interview: Anne Petermann, of the Global Justice Ecology Project, joins The Final Straw Radio show for an informative interview on the threats posed by Genetically Engineered Trees getting released into the U.S. as the USDA considers allowing Arborgen to plant millions of acres of...
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Cross Posted From Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance Follow this developing story at GPTSR’s website Wewoka Oklahoma-Monday, May 13th, 7 am Early this morning Bob Waldrop, 60, fourth generation Oklahoman and prominent Oklahoma City community member walked onto an active construction site for the Keystone XL pipeline in Seminole County and locked himself to...
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by Christopher Curtis, Cross Posted from Montreal Gazette A group of South Shore mayors are reeling after the Parti Québécois government announced its decision Friday to give back 300 hectares of land to the Kahnawake Mohawks. The farmland was appropriated in 2006 during construction of the Highway 30 project and will be ceded back...
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By Earth Movement The Indignados are gathering again in Spain for today’s 12M rally. Thousands of people are “Taking the Square,” partying, and generally creating/fueling opposition to the false governments of Left and Right. The Socialist government under Zapatero has extracted more social wage, the global financial austerity package that he has embraced is...
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by Jane Lee and Gabriel Wildau, Cross Posted from Reuters Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the Songjiang district of the city, gathering at an intersection near the site of a Carrefour hypermarket, chanting and holding signs saying “No factory here, we love Songjiang.” Many wore matching t-shirts...
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Earth First! News If you haven’t read the book “Assata: An Autobiography” then you’ve missed out on one of the most important books of all time. Through years of incarceration awaiting a “fair” trial in a racist nation in the 1970s, Assata was eventually convicted of murdering a cop and sent to a maximum...
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by Vincze Miklos / Io9.com Our planet is covered in pockmarks so deep that they can be seen from space. Some were caused by asteroid strikes, but most are the result of human meddling. Here are some of the most incredible examples of the scarred Earth. Mir or Mirny Mine, Yakutia, Russia This open...
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Cross Posted from Columbia River Keeper Citizen across the Northwest can breathe easier today. Caving under the pressure of overwhelming public opposition, Kinder Morgan announced its decision to walk away from plans for a massive coal export terminal near Clatskanie, Oregon along the Columbia River. The announcement is sending shockwaves across the Northwest, where coal export companies...
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From the Cascadia Field Office of the Earth First! Journal As part of the over-all land grab taking place for national resources in the US, the supposedly “green” Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon has joined with others to call for increased logging in national forests. Since rising to the head of the Energy and...
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In which we discuss the possibility of autonomous AI class warfare, mullets as resistance, Big Brother iPhones, the Kaczynski-bot and other shit of great and creepy importance. by Russ McSpadden / Carbon-based humanoid correspondent for the King Ludd & John Connor Institutbe of Anti-Technology [The text of this work is free to share and...
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Cross Posted from Sea Shepherd Off the back of Sea Shepherd’s most successful campaign to date, Operation Zero Tolerance that saved 932 whales, Sea Shepherd launches Operation Relentless. Like last season’s campaign, Operation Relentless will be managed and led by Sea Shepherd Australia with campaign leaders Bob Brown and Jeff Hansen. It will...
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Cross Posted from BBC News An elderly Catholic nun and two peace activists have been convicted for damage they caused while breaking into a US nuclear defense site. Sister Megan Rice, 83, Michael Walli, 64, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 56, admitted to cuttin...
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