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• Australia: Move to Evict Anti-Mining Protesters Blocked

  

  Moves by police and the Rural Fire Service to remove protesters from two mining areas in state forests stymied Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Lebanon: Blockade Against Landfill in Naameh

  

  Ayyash is one of the 100-some activists who resumed their blockade of the road leading to the Naameh landfill Tuesday night Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Shaken By “Frackquakes,” Texans Demand Halt On Wastewater Injection Wells

  

  There have been more than 30 small earthquakes in and around the north Texas town of Azle in the last three months. The residents there think it’s because of... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Activists Force Phil Fontaine Off University Stage

  

  Fontaine, a former Assembly of First Nations chief, accepted a job with TransCanada Pipeline, a natural gas and oil pipeline developer in December Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Anti-Highway Protester Faces Eight Year Sentence

  

  Will Parrish is charged with 16 misdemeanors (14 counts of “unlawful entry” and two of “resisting arrest”) Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• US Government Submits Sentencing Brief for Rebecca Rubin

  

  Today, the United States government submitted its sentencing brief in regards to “Operation Backfire” defendant Rebecca Rubin. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Breaking: Two Activists in Maine Arrested for Blocking Entrance to TD Bank in...

  

  Two members of the group “Maine Trans and/or Women’s Action Team” locked themselves to the front doors of the TD Bank branch at 481 Congress Street, blocking th... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Missoula Woman Arrested as Part of Megaloads Protest

  A 71-year-old woman was arrested early Wednesday morning for disorderly conduct at a protest against the megaloads passage. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Elsipogtog Blockaders Begin West Coast Tour in Vancouver

  

  “Once they destroy our territories and these resource companies are gone, we will be the ones left with destroyed land and poisoned water.” Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• TX and OK Residents Prepare as KXL South Begins Hazardous Materials Transport

  

  from Tar Sands BlockadeThe highly anticipated startup of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has not deterred impacted residents from beginning a new chapter in... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• England: Convictions Quashed for 29 Anti-coal Activists Based on Underhanded...

  

  Protesters boarded a freight train carrying coal to the Drax plant near Selby in North Yorkshire in June 2008. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Germany: Hunting Towers Vandalized, Knocked Over, Destroyed by Fire, and Blown t...

  

  from Bite BackThe following is a summary of recent incidents in Germany reported on the Anti-Hunting Blog (animal rights activists may not be responsible for al... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Oil Starts Flowing Through the Keystone XL Pipeline’s Southern Leg Today

  

  Because the southern portion only runs from Oklahoma to the Texas Gulf Coast, thus crossing no international boundaries, it did not require approval from the... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• ‘The Land is Not for Sale’: First Nations Resist Site C Dam

  

  "I will continue to come up here to support Treaty 8, if that means I have to come up here and live in in a camp, attend the barricades, I will for as long as i... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Breaking: Mongolian Environmental Activists Sentenced to 21 Years Each

  

  They are charged with “terrorism” for an armed protest in front of the Parliament building on September 16 2013. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Russia Cracks Down on Green Activism Ahead of Sochi Olympics

  

  Russian courts sentence Evgeny Vitishko, a critic of the Sochi Olympics construction projects, to three yearsby Alice Speri / Al JazeeraConstruction waste in th... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• ACAB: Manchester Police Break Anti-Fracker’s Eye Socket

  

  "What the fuck is going on? I have not assaulted anyone! Was it really necessary the kick the legs out from under a disabled person?" Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Register Now for 2014 Mountain Justice Spring Break, March 9-16 in Northern...

  

  Here we are again at the outset of the grand adventure known as Mountain Justice Spring Break in West Virginia, where issues of extreme energy extraction and... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Alberta Doctors Reluctant to Treat Patients Who Draw Connection Between Tar Sand...

  

  by Andy Rowell / EcoWatchCourt hearings begin today in Alberta over regulation of industry accountability of emissions from tar sands plants. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Cascadia Forest Defenders Called “Terrorists” by Oregon Lawmaker

  

  “The fact that you have, and I will call them terrorists, going out and stopping a public process and timber operations, I think it should be a crime.” Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT