Recent Book Reviews by Marius Mason
from Free Marius Mason / Between the Bars “Harbor Seals in Glacier Bay,” a recent artwork by Marius. A great way to connect with Marius – read the books he’s been reading and write him your thoughts....
View ArticleThe Final Straw: Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons
from The Final Straw Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on May 9th, 2016, through May 15th, then podcasting at radio4all.net. Also airing this week on KOWA-LPFM...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Register Shows More Than a Third of Australia Earmarked for Coal...
by Michael Slezak / The Guardian More than a third of Australia’s landmass is earmarked for coal or gas, according to a new analysis and interactive map commissioned by the community group Lock the...
View ArticleAtacama Desert, Chile: Autonomy and Sabotage Against Mega-Mining
from El Sol Ácrata N°31 (Abril, 2016) translated by Earth First! Journal For a couple of months now, the communities of Chiu Chiu and Calama have been fighting against the approval of the RT Sulfuros...
View ArticleItaly: “The Beaches Recite Memento Mori Ecocide”
from Black Shuck (see bottom of post for details) translation and notes by Earth First! Journal [Originally titled “Turnout (funeral): Of the referendum and environmental disasters” in reference to the...
View ArticleMexico: Victory for Júba Waijín Indigenous Community Against Mining
from Desinformémonos translated by Earth First! Journal The community of Júba Waijín, in the Guerrero mountains, have claimed victory! They blocked two mining corporations from their land, halting...
View ArticleChile: On the Catastrophe of the Salmon Farms and Maritime Devastation
from Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu An anarchist critique and propaganda unto the deranged machinery of death “Ecosystems will mutate rapidly and radically thanks to human...
View ArticleMapuche Resistance Group, Weichan Auka Mapu, Claims more than 30 Sabotage...
from Warrior Publications Mapuche Resistance Group, Weichan Auka Mapu, Claims more than 30 Sabotage Attacks by Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu, May 19, 2016. The group “Weichan Auka...
View ArticleWorld Wildlife Fund Partners with Logging Company
from Survival International WWF-funded ecoguards have evicted Baka tribespeople from their forest home, and been complicit in serious human rights abuse. © Survival International A French logging...
View ArticleWho are the Niger Delta Avengers? Deep Sea Divers, Sophisticated Explosives,...
Niger Delta Avengers Blow up Main Chevron Escravos Pipeline In Delta / photo from African Free Press from Earth First! Newswire Oil production has been cut by 40 percent, and is now at a 22-year low in...
View ArticleIndonesia: 10 Years Since Natural Gas Drilling Disaster Started Mud Floods
by Stan Cox & Paul Cox / Counterpunch A satellite image of the Lusi mud volcano and the buried city of Sidoarjo in March 2007. The image covers approximately 1200 by 600 meters. Credit: Lapindo...
View ArticleGreece: Taking Responsibility for Attack on Mall, January 2013
from Act for Freedom It was more than expected that the choice of that specific target would give plenty of “food” for slander on the State’s side. Did the terrorists want victims? Was their aim to...
View ArticleThe Struggle of the Mapuche in Chile and Why Churches Have Been Burned
from Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu “The Government uses police to protect cows,” says the spokesperson of the 10 Mapuche detainees and wife of an ex-member of the CAM. On March...
View ArticleDR Congo: Construction of World’s Largest Dam Could Begin Within Months
from The Guardian [EF! J editors’ note: We are interested in finding information about folks resisting this project but haven’t found any yet. Please share if you do.] The first phase, Inga 3, is being...
View ArticleStorm of Sedition: Wild Rage and Noise Against Civilization
In the 1980s and 90s, punk bands helped to radicalize a generation of young people and spread anarchist ideas across the world. In the current period, few punk bands seem to be picking up the torch in...
View ArticleNE: Judge Denies Crow Butte Uranium Mine Renewal License
from Native Sun News Crow Butte, seen from the south, has historical and cultural significance for tribal opponents of uranium mining at the landmark in northeastern Nebraska.COURTESY/Panhandle Trails...
View ArticleBillions of Cicadas Start East Coast Invasion
from Modern Farmer [EF! J editors’ note: After approximately six weeks it is expected they’ll burrow underground, surviving off moisture from tree roots, for another 17 years.] Periodical cicadas...
View ArticleCrude Oil Train Derails in Columbia River Gorge, OR
by Associated Press in Hood Oregon / The Guardian An aerial view provided by the Washington State Department of Ecology shows scattered and burned oil tank cars near Mosier, Oregon. Photograph: AP...
View ArticleAnalysis of US Refineries: A “Bhopal Waiting to Happen”
by Larry Buhl / DeSmog Blog Still of ABC7 Eyewitness News coverage of the ExxonMobil Torrance oil refinery blast On the morning of February 18, 2015, the ExxonMobil oil refinery in Torrance, California...
View ArticlePeru: Chancayanos Vow Resistance to Port’s Construction
from Conflictos Mineros translated by Earth First! Journal On Thursday, May 26, President Ollanta Humala placed the first stone on the Chancay mega-port’s foundation, a first step towards the solid,...
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