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• How the NSA Kept Us From Knowing About a Previous, Illegal Domestic Spy Program...

  

  From Green Is The New RedThe National Security Agency is engaged in an extensive monitoring of real-time and stored communications of Americans as part of an... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• ALF Launches “Fur Farm Raiding Season” With the Final Nail #4

  

  “Complete Guide to Destroying the Fur Industry” contains fur farm list, how-to guide on raiding fur farmsfrom the North American Animal Liberation Press... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Video Tour of Gezi Gardens Land Liberation in San Francisco

  [Video ends at 3:48. Extra footage starts at 4:15] Read our previous article about Gezi Gardens, San Francisco Activists Liberate Park in Solidarity with Turkis... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Horrific Extent of Police Brutality in Turkey

  

  by Belgin Tan / Hurriyet Daily Newsendthelie.comWhat you will read below is extremely disturbing. It is the firsthand impressions of a Boğaziçi... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Mi’kmaq, Maliseet Continue Anti-Fracking Protests in New Brunswick

  

  By Tim Fontaine / APTN National NewsIt was another day of protest in New Brunswick as Mi’kmaq, Maliseet and their supporters voiced their opposition to shale ga... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Indigenous Peruvians Protest State Oil Company Taking Over Their Land

  

  David Hill / The Guardian Members of the Achuar indigenous people in the northern Peruvian Amazon have been protesting against Peru’s state oil company’s plans... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Wolves, Obama and the Hunter S. Thompsonian Apocalypse You Smelled Coming

  

  By Eldridge Hambone / Earth First! NewsToday the Obama Administration yanked Endangered Species Act protections from wolves in the lower 48. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Taking a Monkey Wrench to Climate Change

  

  Renegade naturalist Doug Peacock on saving ourselves from a bleak futureby Elizabeth Miller / Boulder Weekly While the grizzlies near his Montana home hibernate... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Sometimes a Wild God

  

  The poem “Sometimes a Wild God” by Coyopa, which was printed in the Lughnasadh 2012 issue of the Earth First! Journal, speaks to the terror, beauty and... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• West Texas Oilfield Town Has Run Out of Water

  

  by Kate Galbraith / The Texas Tribunephoto by Jennifer WhitneyBarnhart, a small community in West Texas, has run out of water. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Luddites and Lockdowns: A Podcast from CrimethInc

  

  by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective Industrial civilization got you down? Download the third episode of The Ex-Worker, our twice-monthly podcast of... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• I Speak for The, Um, Glow in the Dark Bioengineered Trees?

  

  Biotech runs amuck. AgainPeter DaSilva for The New York Timesby Jim HightowerWhen asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzz... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Facebook Billionaire’s Lavish Wedding Put Redwoods, Threatened Species at Risk

  

  Sean Parker ordered to pay $2.5 million in settlement over unpermitted wedding site.Alexandra and Sean Parke tie the knot in a lavish $10 million affair. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• “Tree Lobsters” Escape Extinction Under a Single Bush

  

  Ball’s Pyramidby the Center for Biological DiversityIn 1918 a British cargo vessel ran aground on Lord Howe Island, 300 miles east of Australia. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Over 400,000 Seabirds Killed by Gillnets Each Year

  

  from American Bird ConservancyNorthern Gannets are one of the birds that are killed in large numbers by gillnets. Photo by Alan Wilson.(Washington, D.C. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tar Sands Re-route Coming to a Wetlands Near You

  

  by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! NewswireSweet Home Alabama wetlands are poised to be toxified by tar sands. But single train line also provides an interesting... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Pesters Pickle Patriarch

  

  by Deep Water Earth First!Donald Swanson, pickle-patriarch of Ravenna MI, owner and decision maker of Swanson Trust, has unfortunately signed a lease with... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Left Forum, Solidarity March for Jeremy Hammond and Gerald Koch

  

  from The Sparrow ProjectNew York, NY – As Friday night’s plenary at the Left Forum at NYC’s Pace University comes to a close activists will gather outside at... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Creates Water Scarcity Issues in Michigan

  

  by Friends of the Au Gres-Rifle Watershed / EcoWatchWesterman gas/oil well, Kalkaska County, MI. Photo courtesy of Respect My Planet. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• There Are Alternatives to Destroying the Future; We Just Aren’t Taking Them

  

  So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT