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• Earth First!…even Before Snowden

  

  Reposted from NC State’s TechnicianOnlineIshan Raval, Viewpoint Editor The Edward Snowden affair has become the event of our moment in history. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A New Epidose in the Chevron Vs Ecuador Saga

  

  Cross Posted from The Chevron Pit The Disturbing Story of the Secret Invoices of Max Gitter and Theodore KatzJust when you thought Judge Lewis A. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Blockades in Guangdong, Third Major Protest This Week

  

  Blockade via dumptruckCross Posted from Radio Free AsiaAuthorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have promised to halt production at two... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Remember Lac-Mégantic!

  

  By SashaThere are several port terminals projected for the Pacific Northwest, each hotly contested in their own right. The LNG Palomar Pipeline was shunted off... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tanks Move in Around Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe

  

  Brazil’s military has moved in to stop illegal logging around the land of Earth’s most threatened tribe. © Exército Brasileiro Cross Posted from Survival... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Victory in Northern Pennsylvania: Two Energy Companies Pulling Out

  

  Cross Posted from Ithaca JournalTwo energy companies are pulling out of northeastern Pennsylvania, where a three-year moratorium on gas drilling has infuriated... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Daniel McGowan Loses Lawsuit Against Bureau Of Prisons

  

  By Matt Sledge / Huffington PostA federal court has dismissed an environmental activist’s claims against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons over a restrictive prison... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Water Shortages Bring Protests in South Africa

  

  Cross Posted from IOLBloemfontein – A protest over water problems in Brandfort in the Free State ended behind closed doors on Tuesday. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Cargill Flouts Law to Secretly Build Land Bank in Colombia

  

  By Richard Smallteacher / CorpWatch BlogCargill, the world’s largest food company, has been secretly amassing land from small farmers in eastern Colombia,... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• British Climate Movement on the Upswing

  

  Cross Posted from Environment Blog — The Guardian The climate movement in the UK is preparing to “relaunch” in the spring of 2014. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Tree Sit in Tasmanian Old Growth

  

  By Rosemary Bolger / The ExaminerAnti-forestry activists have erected a tree sit to halt logging in Tasmania’s far south.Huon Valley Environment Centre’s Jenny... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Greenpeace Members Arrested After France Nuclear Break-in

  

  Cross Posted from CBCAround 30 Greenpeace activists were arrested on Monday after breaking into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France, saying they wante... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Anti-nuclear Power Protesters ‘Drop Dead’ on 700th Day of Kudankulam Stir

  

  Cross Posted from India TodayOn the 700th day of their protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), villagers of Idinthakarai in Tamil Nadu... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Midnight Confiscation of Drilling Equipment at New Brunswick Anti-Fracking...

  

  By Claire Stewart-Kanigan / rabble.caElsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick – ”We’ve taken it to the next level,” said Grand Elder Ray Robinson of last night’s... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 23 Arrests Cap Nuclear Abolition Week in Kansas City

  

  Cross Posted from Kansas City Star via InfoshopTwenty-three protesters were arrested Saturday morning at the new National Nuclear Security Administration plant... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• One Hundred Out Against Fracking in Colorado

  

  By Isabelle Chapman / Aspen Times “What about our future?” an 8-year-old member of Earth Guardians, an environmental youth group, asked into a megaphone Saturda... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Police Fire Water Cannons to Quell Protest as Baton-Wielding Shop Owners Threate...

  

  Cross Posted from Hurriyet Daily NewsPolice have fired water cannons and tear gas to the several thousand protesters gathered on Istanbul’s İstiklal... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Activists Form Human Pipeline on Flatbush Avenue to Protest Natural Gas Pipeline

  

  Cross Posted from News12Activists say they’re concerned wildlife would be impacted if something went wrong with the pipeline being built in Brooklyn. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• No Justice! No Peace! Getting Wild in the Streets

  

  The nation is in an uproar and the whole world is watching. Zimmerman, clearly the murderer of a black boy was acquitted, and we all watched it happen like a... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking, Climate Change Stressing U.S. Energy Infrastructure

  

  from Root ForcePower lines downed by Hurricane Sandy (Photo: Arlington County/cc/flickr)The combination of fracking and global warming-driven drought is... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT