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• Interview with a Fugitive: Captain Paul Watson

  

  Watson’s fugitive days may have ended, but this fight is far from over. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Train Carrying Crude Oil Derails on Philadelphia Bridge

  from ABC Local The Coast Guard says a train carrying crude oil has derailed on a bridge over a river in Philadelphia.Local police contacted the Coast Guard at... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Animal Liberation Activist Kevin Olliff Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison

  

  The only allegation against him was possessing tools the prosecution claimed were intended to be used to “burglarize” a fox farm. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Letter from Eco-Anarchist Prisoner Marco Camenish About His Hunger Strike...

  

  [T]his is my contribution to the struggle of resistance and to the struggle for total liberation all over the world inside and outside prison, against... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Federal Judge Allows Wolves To Be Killed So Hunters Can Take Elk

  

  A federal judge denied conservationist efforts to stop the trapping and killing of two wolf packs in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Goldcorp Mining in Guatemala: Water Deprivation and Militarized Expansion

  

  On January 14, 2014, Guatemalan President, and former general Otto Perez Molina, ordered troops to the Mayan municipality of Sipakapa, department of San... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Spain: Anti-Gentrification Riots in Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza; Temporary...

  

  On January 10, riots began in the city of Burgos, Spain, when police attacked a protest against the gentrification of the working class neighborhood Gamonal. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Remembering MLK the “Terrorist”

  

  Those “who conscientiously believe that it is their duty to peacefully protest” through civil disobedience could be labeled terrorists. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY

• French MEP José Bové Leads Balcombe Anti-Fracking Rally

  

  "You have to say to all candidates 'are you for or against fracking?'" Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Georgia: 1000 People Demonstrated to Save Vake Park in Tbilisi

  

  “Only one park is left in Tbilisi, in fact, and they are destroying it.” Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Hundreds Protest Over Dumping of ‘Toxic’ Silt in Bay

  

  More than 200 people defied driving rain to protest against the continued dumping of dredged material from the River Tamar in Whitsand Bay Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Following Neil Young’s Money

  

  "We can't choose to live without water," said Shannon Houle. "It's not a feasible choice." Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Oil Leak on Massive Pipeline Pushing Tar Sands Through the Great Lakes

  

  PHMSA is still allowing Enbridge to expand many pipelines along the Lakehead system Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• A Decade of Earth First! Action in the “Climate Movement”

  

  While EF! has never succumbed to the narrow fixation on counting carbon molecules as a strategy to save the planet, it has certainly played a role in shaping th... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Burma: Myeik Residents Protest Coal Plant Plans

  

  Power plant part of tourism land grab set to displace farmers, fisherfolks, indigenous Moken people, known as “sea gypsies” Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Lillooet First Nation Set Up Blockade to Protect Threatened Salmon Populations

  

  Members of a First Nation in Lillooet have set up a blockade near the Fraser River district to protest work they believe is destroying fish habitat on disputed... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Lillooet First Nation Blockade Construction in Defense of Cayoose Creek

  

  Cayoose Creek is used by coho, steelhead, chinook, pink, sockeye and bull trout Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Appalachia Rising

  

  One must stand up for themselves, their community, their consensus and yes, even their biodiversity. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• New Article from ALF Prisoner Walter Bond: “The Roots of Compassion”

  

  The goal to all our work, activism and compassion needs to be the shortest distance to Animal Liberation. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• JTTF-Affiliated OCPD Officers Attended Meeting with Focus on Pipeline Terror...

  

  A “memo” has come to his attention explaining that the Joint Terrorism Task Force, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, featured two OCPD officers as JTT... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT