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• FEMA Plans Clear-Cutting 85,000 Berkeley and Oakland Trees

  

  Photo credit: Corin Royal DrummondBy Randy Shaw, California Progress ReportThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is moving to chop down 22,000 trees... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Resistance Ecology Conference Disavows DGR

  

  The Resistance Ecology conference has released a statement formally denouncing and disavowing DGR, making it clear that representatives of DGR will not be... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Gathering: June 3 – 9 Honoring the Resistance at Big Mountain / Black Mesa

  

  Cross Posted from Rocket Hub and Black Mesa Indigenous SupportSINCE 1974, Public Law 93-531 (the relocation law) has forcefully relocated tens of thousands of... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Anti-Nukes Protest in Taiwan Draws 10,000

  

  Cross Posted from xinhuanetAbout 10,000 people took to the street in Taipei on Sunday to protest against further development of nuclear power on the island. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Catching Fire to the Reign

  

  or, Why I think the second Hunger Games film will be a spark that reduces the US Empire to ashes, and in general, why we need to manifest a subversive... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Protest Brewing Over Planned Mining in Naxalite “Liberated Zone”

  

  Cross Posted from The HinduSuklal Baldir Topo, a Tribal of Jhajawandi village in Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli district, is a concerned man these days. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Taking Steps Towards Trans Allyship

  

  By HollisMany conversations have emerged in the wake of the DGR incidents at the Law and Disorder Conference. We have stood by as the DGR leaders have... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Anti-oppression Policy and Addendum to Statement on DGR Transphobia

  Earth First! Journal CollectiveWe would like to offer up the Earth First! Journal editorial collective’s anti-oppression policy below. Its a working and living... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Sovereign Nations Walk Out of Meeting With U.S. State Department Unanimously...

  

  Cross Posted from Huffington PostThe State Department, still with “egg on its face” from its statement that Keystone XL would have little impact on climate... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Alabama City Destroying Ancient Indian Mound for Sam’s Club

  

  from Facing SouthCity leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Bulgarians Rise Against Romania Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Permit

  

  Cross Posted from Novinite Bulgarians in the northeastern city of Dobrich are going to stage a new wave of protest rallies against the use of the hydraulic... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Japanese Nuke Protestors Start Hunger Strike

  

  Cross Posted from JapanTimes Opponents of nuclear power started a hunger strike Thursday to press the government to drop a lawsuit demanding they remove their... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Watch Bank Robbers Get Away

  

  from Earth First! NewsYou’ve got to admit it, you’ve always wanted to rob a bank right? Its not just about the money either, its also about fucking over a bank... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oil Companies Offices Raided by European Commission

  

  By Matt Tabibi, Rolling StoneWe’re going to get into this more at a later date, but there was some interesting late-breaking news yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Michegan Politicians Vote to Designate Wolves as Game

  

  by Jim Bloch / the VoiceThe Michigan State Representatives and Senators from the area [of the Upper Peninsula] all voted to legalize the hunting of wolves in... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• No Room for Dissenting Opinions: Statement from a Former Member of Deep Green...

  

  cross-posted from FacebookI am an ex-member of Deep Green Resistance. The entire chapter of DGR that I was a part of left in the spring of last year, largely... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• ‘People of Corn’ Protest GMO Strain in Mexico

  

  by Lauren Villagran / Christian Science MonitorMexico has 59 strains of native corn. While the country has some GMO corn as well, activists are concerned about... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Saudi Arabia Says Hackers Sabotage Government Websites

  

  from ReutersRIYADH – Several government websites in Saudi Arabia were sabotaged in a series of heavy cyber attacks from abroad in recent days, disabling them... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Indigenous Resistance Grows Strong in Keystone XL Battle

  

  By Crysbel Tejada and Betsy Catlin  / Waging Nonviolence (CC BY-SA)On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• First Nations Plan Day of Action to Reclaim Original Name of Mount Douglas: PKOLS

  from Intercontinental CryVictoria, BC and Coast Salish Territory, BC — WEC’KINEM (Eric Pelkey), a hereditary chief of the Tsawout First Nation, with support fro... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT