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• Moss Point Moves to Stop “Negligent” Pipeline

  

  Gators gettin’ ready for some fight backBy Vivian Austin, GulfliveThe Moss Point Board of Aldermen agreed to allow attorney Amy St. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Rebecca Rubin Has Been Moved

  

  From Prison BooksPlease send Rebecca Rubin a letter or note of encouragement, being transferred can be quite jarring. (Remember not to write to her about her... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• We Need Your Support to Mail Out the Earth First! Journal

  

  by EF!J CollectiveAll you lovers of print media know we have been playing hard to get lately, leaving you longing for our touch, as it offers an escape from... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• India Bans Captive Dolphin Shows as ‘Morally Unacceptable’

  

  Cross Posted from ENSIndia’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment anywhere in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Frackalypse Now: Fossil Fuel Industry’s Psychological Warfare Scandal

  By Brendan Demelle / DeSmog BlogDeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Wild & Queer Ecologies

  

  by Russ McSpadden / from the 30th Anniversary Edition of the Earth First! Journal, Vol. I, 2010Wilderness, the biodiversity of life that exists where sexual... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BREAKING: Anti-Treesitting Bill Struck Down in Oregon!

  

  Cross Posted from Friends of Oregons Forests Hey Friends, It is official HB 2595, the bill further criminalizing dissent on state forest land is dead and gone,... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Starvation? Pshhh. There’s an App for That

  

  by Rabb!t / EF! NewswireGood news! Anjan Contractor, Senior Mechanical Engineer at Systems and Materials Research Corporation (SMRC), has a plan to save humanit... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Stop GE Trees at Tree Biotech 2013

  

  Cross Posted from Tree Biotech 2013Join Earth First!, Global Justice Ecology Project and the Campaign to STOP GE Trees for a week of resistance to genetically... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Emergency Peoples’ Relief Taking Place in OK

  

  In case you didn’t know, a tornado touched down in Oklahoma, killing at least 51 people (20 children among them). We can’t control the weather, we can try to... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• BREAKING: Occupy the Pipeline Disrupts NYC Gala

  

  Cross Posted from OccupythePipelineBREAKING! OtP took to the high seas today to interrupt the New York League of Conservation Voters’ Spring Gala, which was... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Nation’s Largest Uranium Mine Planned for N.M.

  

  Michael Hartranft / Albuquerque JournalIt’s been more than a dozen years since the last uranium ore was mined in New Mexico, but a Canada-based company and a... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Farmer Suicides Soar in India

  

  By P Sainath, CounterpunchSuicide rates among Indian farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Coalition of Immokalee Workers Targets Wendy’s in Fair Food Campaign to Improve...

  Cross Posted from Democracy NowClick here for full videoHundreds of farm workers and their supporters are in New York City ahead of Wendy’s shareholder meeting... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oxford University Student Union Votes to Oppose Shell Investment

  

  By Adam Vaughan, The GuardianOxford University’s Shell Geoscience Laboratory is funded with £5.9m from the oil company. Students and alumni of Oxford... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Dissent Or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used t...

  

  Cross Posted from PRWatchDBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today released the results of a year-long investigation: “Dissent or Terror: How the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Activists Fume at Tree Felling, Golfing Association

  

  Cross Posted from Times of IndiaDozens of locals from Golconda protested the axing of 81 trees in Naya Qila, demanding the arrest of the guilty persons and... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Forest Deal ‘Greenmails’ the Green Groups

  

  By Bob Brown, ABCThe Swift Parrot is flying towards extinction. Yet the forest ‘peace deal’ signed between loggers and theWilderness Society, Australian... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Laws Would Make Environmental Protest Terrorism

  

  By Will Poter, Vice Most people have heard of tree-sitting—a tactic environmentalists use to prevent old-growth trees from being cut down and whole forests... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Disney Attempts to Own Title of Indigenous Mexican Tradition

  

  by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! NewsDia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday with roots in indigenous Aztec traditions that honors the dead with elaborate... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT