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• Seattle FBI Now Targeting Climate Activists

  

  Cross Posted from Seattle Anti-RepressionIn the past 48 hours at least six Seattle climate activists have been approached by agents of the Federal Bureau of... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

  

  Leslie James Pickering, former press officer for North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office pictured aboveBy Ron Nixon / New York TimesLeslie James... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• CHP Removes Willits Bypass Protester from Tower

  

  CHP officers prepare to remove Will Parrish, 31, of Ukiah from a wick-drain tower on Monday.Steve Eberhard, Willits News via Redwood Nation Earth First By Lori... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Union Workers Walk Off Disputed McDonald’s Development

  

  By Aisha Dow / SMHUnion workers have walked off the site of the planned Tecoma McDonald’s at the centre of protests from residents opposed to the fast-food... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• China Now Handing Down Death Penalty to Worst Polluters

  

  By RP Siegel / Triple PunditGiven our heavily business-friendly Congress, who believes that the best thing they can do for Americans is to cut taxes and reduce... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Third of Conifers Under Threat of Extinction, Study Says

  

  Cross Posted from Planet ArkA third of the world’s conifers, the biggest and longest-lived organisms on the planet, are at risk of extinction, with logging and... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Independence Day: Frontline Group SAFE Appeals for Support and Action

  

  By Jeff Biggers / Huffington PostThe fracking rush in the heartland may have been unleashed by ill-conceived regulatory measures last month, but frontline... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance

  

  Cross Posted from Wired /By Moxie MarlinspikeSuddenly, it feels like 2000 again. Back then, surveillance programs like Carnivore, Echelon, and Total... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Emergency Funding Request for Youth Healing Walk/ Unist’ot’en Camp Delegation

  

  The grassroots indigenous environmental group Aamjiwnaang + Sarnia Against Pipelines, along with allies from Rising Tide Toronto and Grand River Indigenous... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say

  

  Photo: effschuler/FlickrBy David Kravets / WiredFor the first time, encryption is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Farmers Unite With Hydro-Fracking Activists

  

  By Adam McGibbon, www.newint.orgAs the G8 Summit began in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, a group of farmers drove 60 tractors in a ‘go-slow’, bringing a... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oil Trains and Terminals Could Be Coming to the Northwest

  

  By John Upton / Grist Pacific Northwesterners worried by three planned new coal export hubs along their shorelines have something new to fear. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• When Drones Guard the Pipeline: Militarizing Fossil Fuels in the East

  

  By Winona LaDuke / Indian Country TodaySomeone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Idle No More Hosts Flash Mob During Canada Day Celebrations in Saskatoon

  

  Photograph by: Michelle Berg , The StarPhoenix Cross Posted from The Star Phoenix Canada Day revellers at Diefenbaker Park got an unexpected dose of indigenous... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Worldwide Rally Staged Vs Coal

  

  Cross Posted from Eco-Business Filipinos with the rest of the world are standing up and taking bold steps to pressure their governments to switch from coal or... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• NSA Leaks and Computer Security

  

  From AshevilleFM.org This week’s episode features two conversations. The first is with Micah Lee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the NSA leaks and... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group!

  

  Cross Posted from Political BlindspotA report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Locals Risk Their Lives Fighting Mining in Mexico

  

  Emilio Godoy / IPS“They brutally repressed us. The mining company buys off people’s consciences, it divides the community, but we’ll keep fighting it. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Send Books to Grand Jury Resistor Jerry Koch!

  

  Cross Posted from AK BlogAs of the time of writing this, anarchist grand jury resistor Jerry Koch has been incarcerated for more than a month and ten days,... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Arizona Jaguar Versus Copper Mine

  

  Douglas Cobb / GuardianlvA jaguar has been seen in five different locations in Arizona a total of seven times, and it has been photographed three of the times.... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT