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• Secwepmcw Warrior Women Occupy Mount Polley!!

  

  Today on the 3rd day of our Sacred Fire and the 16th day after the disaster, we were blessed by the welcoming of the sun and by a deer visiting us at our camp Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Don’t Come to New York for the Peoples Climate March… Come to Grow the...

  

  This is a call to resist the temptation of spending long nights trolling the internet... With a month to go, now is the time to start figuring out meaningful... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Three Protesters Arrested at Bridgewater Corporate HQ

  

  Protestors chained their feet together and glued their hands together Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Mapuche: Defining ‘Forests’ Matters for Indigenous People

  

  “if plantations are accepted as forests, then [the will replace] natural forests with monocultures.” Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Undercover Police Infiltrators Will Not Face Sex Charges

  

  Police in the UK given impunity to spy on activist groups Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Blockades, Banner Drops, and Protests Rock England During Anti-Fracking Week of...

  

  “We will continue for as long as we can to defeat this, because we want to protect our countryside" Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Daniel McGowan, Environmental Activist Jailed For HuffPost Blog, Files Lawsuit...

  

  Daniel McGowan may have been the first person thrown in solitary confinement for writing a HuffPost blog. Now he'll be the first person to sue the Bureau of... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Mink Released from Quebec Fur Farm

  

  Wildlife officials say hundreds and possibly more than 1,000 mink are on the loose from a St-Hyacinthe-area fur farm after an intruder broke in and opened cages. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Emerging Solar Power Plants Scorch Birds in Mid-air

  

  Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Chesapeake Earth First! Stops Business As Usual at America’s Natural Gas Alliance

  

  “The proposed Cove Point project would be destructive to the entire region" Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Green Devil: Tony Abbott is An Environmental Nightmare

  

  Hiking through the Tasmanian wilderness feels like a scene out of Jurassic Park Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Oklahoma Gets Hit With 20 Earthquakes In One Day

  

  “No documented cases of induced seismicity have ever come close to the current earthquake rates or the area over which the earthquakes are occurring Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• 8,000 Gallons of Oil Spill Into Ohio River From Duke Energy Coal Plant

  

  Drinking water intake from the river had been closed down Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Protesters Occupy Blackpool Office Leased by Cuadrilla

  

  “They broke in, so as far as we are concerned it’s an illegal occupation." Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Head On Train Collision in Arkansas

  

  Two Union Pacific Railroad train crew members have died and two others were hurt when two freight trains collided head-on in northeast Arkansas Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Oil Spills Into Ohio River From Duke Energy Coal Plant

  

  Duke Energy’s W.C. Beckjord Station outside Cincinnati dumped approximately 8,000 gallons of oil into the river Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Sept. 19-21: Fall Campout in the Book Cliffs

  

  We’re holding this gathering because we realize we have much to learn from other regional movements. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Twenty Percent of Africa’s Elephants Killed in Three Years

  

  Around 100,000 elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory on the African continent in just three years, according to a new paper. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Israeli Ship Blocked from Unloading in Oakland for Four Straight Days

  

  Activists have not allowed a vessel from Israel’s largest shipping company to unload in the Oakland Port for four consecutive mornings. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Countdown to the Really Really Free Festival!

  

  The first fliers are finished announcing the ten-year anniversary of Carrboro’s Really Really Free Market this coming October 4! Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 ENVIRONMENT