RI: Former Spectra Pipeline Inspectors Allege Safety Issues with Project
by Steve Ahlquist / RI Future Two safety inspectors who worked on Spectra Energy’s proposed methane gas pipeline that will cut through Burrillville, RI, say the company cut corners when it came to...
View ArticleSierra Leone Villagers Sue Mining Company In London High Court
by Lisa O’Carroll / The Guardian An iron ore firm once listed in London is being sued in a multimillion pound lawsuit over evictions and alleged violent treatment of workers and villagers living near...
View Article“Wretched of the Earth” Bloc at UK March: Darkening the White Heart of the...
By Joshua Virasami and Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert / New Int At London’s climate march, the ‘Wretched of the Earth’ bloc, representing communities of colour on the frontlines of climate change, were...
View ArticleResistance to the Nicaraguan Canal: An Interview with López, Environmental...
by Toni Martínez / La Marea translated by Earth First! Journal [An] environmental lawyer named Mónica López, remembers the best moments of the 15-M. She gives her time and energy resisting the...
View ArticleIndigenous Rights on Chopping Block of UN COP21 Paris Climate Accord
by Suzanne Dhaliwal / Indigenous Environmental Network On Friday December 4th, Indigenous Peoples from around the globe demonstrated inside the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC/COP21)...
View ArticleHere’s How One Activist Convinced the FBI to Leave Him Alone
by Will Potter / Green is the New Red Newly released FBI documents confirm what some activist groups have argued for years: when FBI agents come knocking, the best response is to shut the door and call...
View ArticleEarth First! Newswire 2015-12-12 15:25:50
from Act for Freedom Now Issue 6 of Fenrir, an eco-anarchist paper in support of prisoners and direct action, with updates on the anarchist and animal liberation struggle all over the world, is out. 84...
View ArticleThe Cat is Out of the Bag: Shutting Down Pipelines Is Way Easier Than Anyone...
received anonymously / Earth First! Newswire After a years-long, hard-fought campaign against Line 9, which employed a diversity of tactics, from lobbying to legal battles to direct action, Line 9...
View ArticleGrey not Green: Technocratic Climate Agreement and Police State Terror
Police confront Indigenous protest at COP21 / Indigenous Environmental Network by Alexander Reid Ross / Earth First! Newswire World leaders congratulated one another with the help of some professional...
View ArticleGMO Chestnuts? Ho Ho No!
from GJEP In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts turn to roasting chestnuts, a handful of scientists are working to genetically engineer the iconic American chestnut tree which they hope to...
View ArticleUruguay: No Compromise! Shut the Zoo Down!
from Cierra El Zoo translated by Earth First! Journal After 1pm [on December 16th] a banner was dropped from the Mayor’s balcony calling for resistance to close the Villa Dolores Zoo [literally meaning...
View ArticleMonkeywrenching the Misogynists in our Movements: A historical exploration of...
by Kiera Loki Anderson / Earth First! Newswire “History Isn’t Over”-from the CFA’s sit at Eagle Creek, c. 1999. There has been some attention paid within Earth First! circles about how to challenge...
View ArticleGold Mining in Mexico: Death, Violence, and Corruption While Canadian Firm...
from Bajo Palabra translated by Earth First! Journal The mining complex named “Los Filos-Bermejal” belonging to the Canadian company Gold Corp and in operation since 2007, directly and indirectly...
View ArticleThe Climate Movement is Dead: A Reportback from COP21
by Ducky Slowcode / Medium It Takes Roots and Indigenous Environmental Network staged a performance and speak-out on 12/10/15 in front of the Peace Wall and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, demanding the...
View ArticleAmerindians in Guyana Leery of Emerging Oil Economy
by Neil Anthony Giardino / Inter Continental Cry This September Lenox Shuman and fellow Arawak Amerindians marched to the Prime Minister’s office in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, wearing war paint and...
View ArticleEcuador: Update on Rights of Nature Case Against Palm Oil Companies
from Indigenous Environmental Network Preparing the land for planting oil palms result in indiscriminate destruction of rainforests (Photograph by Hazlewood on July 12, 2007). Over the years, since...
View ArticleClimate Activists Can Learn a Lot From Black Lives Matter
by Kate Aronoff / Waging Nonviolence Yesterday afternoon, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty told a cramped room of reporters that no officers would be tried for the killing of Tamir Rice. The...
View ArticleMexico, January 29-30: Anti-Mining Gathering to Strengthen Resistance
from Conflictos Mineros translated by Earth First! Journal Read more at http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/9300 Oaxaca: January 29 & 30 in the community of Cerro de las Huertas, Ejutla de Crespo,...
View ArticleTransCanada Suing the US under NAFTA for Scrapping Keystone XL
A depot used to store pipes for Transcanada Corp’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline is seen in Gascoyne, North Dakota in this November 14, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen) by Todd Tucker /...
View ArticleTaiwan Bans GMOs from School Lunches
from Natural News Even as the fascist, corrupt U.S. government and its regulators (FDA and USDA) actively conspire with the biotech industry to poison Americans with genetically modified foods, Taiwan...
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