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• Hungry Workers on Strike Halve World’s Platinum Production

  Food has been scarce since her husband joined 80,000 workers on strike with South Africa’s main mineworkers’ union, AMCU. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• “Fight for Your Rights!” Norway’s Indigenous Sami People Encourage Sarawak Dam...

  

  The Alta Dam faced strong opposition in the late 1970s and 1980s by the indigenous people of the Sami. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Michigan Wolf Hunting Advocates Turn in 370,000 Signatures, Hope Legislature Wil...

  

  Hunting groups seeking to preserve a wolf season in Michigan have turned in petitions for legislation that could undermine two opposition proposals set to appea... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Greenpeace Blocks Two Major Oil Rigs to “Save the Arctic”

  

  In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs destined for offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Bolivia’s Conamaq Indigenous Movement: “We Will Not Sell Ourselves to Any...

  

  Bolivia’s Conamaq indigenous movement is currently a major grassroots critic of the policies of the Evo Morales government and its Movement Toward Socialism... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• “Documentary” Presents Distorted View of Wolves

  

  These ravenous creatures, we are told, have decimated their natural, wild prey—elk, deer, moose—and now must turn to livestock and even humans themselves. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• BREAKING: Climate Justice Activists Blockade Vermont Gas Headquarters, Drop...

  

  Sara Mehalick, a resident of Plainfield, Vermont, has locked her neck to the main entrance of the building, effectively blockading the doors shut. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Womack: “That’s Just the Way Things Are Done.”

  

  "we would rather be arrested at a protest than pretend like we are part of this rigged process" Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Marcos Announces New Identity as Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

  

  by Isaín Mandujano / Dorset Chiapas SolidarityThis morning at a press conference Subcomandante Marcos announced that as of today he no longer exists as such... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Sexual Assault in the Bakken Shale “Man Camps”

  

  Drug abuse, sexual assault, and violence from the Bakken Shale Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Stop Crude-by-Rail at Kinder Morgan’s Rail Facility in Richmond, CA

  

  from IndyBayIf the Government Won’t, the People Will….. STOP CRUDE OIL BY RAIL SHIPMENTS TO RICHMOND! Stop pollution of our communities and our... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Post Traumatic Stress After Prison

  

  Prison is a very dark and depressing place with a culture of its own, and it can really get into your psyche. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Last Call for Submissions for Next Earth First! Journal Issue

  

  The Earth First! Journal strives to represent a diverse collection of voices from the radical environmental movement. We can't do it without you! Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Depressed Goat Reunited with Donkey Best Friend After Six-Day Hunger Strike

  A depressed goat went on hunger strike for six days and refused to go outside until he was reunited with his best friend a donkey. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Monsanto: the Toxic Face of Globalization

  

  smashing Monsanto entails a transformation of the modern relationship between people and food. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Disposal of Fracking Waste Water Begins at Lafarge Cement Plant in Brookfield

  

  Lafarge Cement in Brookfield has begun processing waste water that originated in the waste ponds of two exploratory gas wells fracked 6 years ago in Kennetcook. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Athabasca Glacier Melting at ‘Astonishing’ Rate of More Than Five Metres a Year

  

  What's believed to be the most-visited glacier in North America is losing more than five metres of ice every year and is in danger of completely disappearing... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Controversial Bear Hunt Reinstated in Ontario

  

  After 15 years, Ontario's spring bear hunt is on again, on an experimental basis. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• PA Governor Executive Order Allows Fracking in State Parks

  

  Against campaign promises to protect national parks from drilling Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Residents Speak Out Against Copper Drilling in Washington

  

  Canadian mining firm wants to mine copper in Washington Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 ENVIRONMENT