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audioDanny McGowan, Denied Bail, audio (audio/mpeg 5.8MB) by Peter Abelard
on Democracy Now .Org ... today 12/15/05 ... great reporting on Daniel & Police State file below is just about Danny's case...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 3:20pm PST
imageNew York Activist Faces Life in Prison; Feds Accuse Him of Eco-Terrorism
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by Democracy Now (reposted)
Daniel McGowan was one of six environmental activists arrested last week in a series of coordinated raids across four states. He is accused of setting a pair of arsons in Oregon in 2001 and is being held without bail....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:44am PST
audiowto and biodiversity: a brief interview with Simone Lovera from Friends of the Earth (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) by sakura saunders
Simone Lovera of Friends of the Earth International explains how the WTO effects biodiversity at the WTO ministerial in Hong Kong....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 9:19am PST
textAnother arrest and subpoena in FBI Eco witch hunt - Please write him a letter! by screcard (reposted from anon)
Former ALF prisoner Darren Thurston was arrested last Wednesday and is currently being held in an INS detention center in Tacoma. His extradition is based on his conviction for raiding a Lab in 1992. He was also subpoenaed to the Eugene grand jury for Feb. 16th, 2006 No word yet on how a subpoena can be served or enforced upon a Canadian citizen, but these are awfully strange times we are living in. Darren has been told, as most of the other recipients of the recent subpoenas, that he is a t...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 6:03pm PST
imageWhen Bison Grieve: Notes From Montana's Fair-Chase Hunt
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by K. Stachowski
Come along on field patrol with Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers as they document Montana's so-called "fair-chase" hunt. Yellowstone's wild bison -- America's last free-roaming herd -- are subjected to hazing, capture, quarantine, & slaughter when they leave the park, courtesy of Montana's Department of Livestock. Now, a three-month hunt is sandwiched into this line-up of persecution for an animal not even considered wildlife and offered no designated habitat by the state....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 4:16pm PST
textHow America Plotted to Stop Kyoto Deal by Andrew Buncombe The Independent UK
Large companies got us into the Global Warming, Climate Change mess and for ExxonMobil attempt to destroy Kyoto. We the people of the World need to send them our message Boycott their products and send them a message through their profits....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 5:39pm PST
textBrooklyn activist faces life in prison on 16-count arson indictment by repost from nyc.indymedia.org
Federal marshals arrested six environmental activists in a series of coordinated raids in four states yesterday, Dec. 8, in apparent response to a string of arsons in Oregon and Washington attributed to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), including simultaneous attacks in 2001 at the University of Washington's Urban Horticulture Center and the Jefferson Poplar Farms in Clatskanie, Oregon. Daniel McGowan, 31 was arrested in New York City....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 12:09pm PST
imageItaly: Venaus battle - People win back the valley
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by aliena
Italy - Venaus battle People win back the valley...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 10:50pm PST
textAction Alert: Flyer Syriana by Post Carbon Institute
We are mobilizing volunteers to distribute educational flyers to moviegoers before and after Syriana....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 9:45pm PST
textStudy finds hundreds of toxic chemicals in umbilical cords of newborns by wsws (reposted)
The umbilical cord is a baby’s lifeline, bringing nourishment from the mother and removing waste. The amniotic fluid bathes the growing embryo, and the umbilical cord brings the embryo oxygen, nutrients—and a startling array of toxic industrial chemicals, according to a recent study, “Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns.”...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:40am PST
videoClimate Justice March Video-Montreal (video/quicktime 7.1MB) by jessica guadalupe tovar
Indigenous and Youth of Color fight for Climate Justice! If the U.S won't Ratify Kyoto the People will!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 4:54pm PST
text Large Demos Globally Against Bush Admin's Climate Policy by D. Burbeck
In 32 countries around the world, thousands of protesters railed against the inaction of the US Government to curb it's fossil fuel polluting of the atmosphere....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 4:28pm PST
imageActivist gather for Climate Change Marches-We're all in this together
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by Elsie Flemings
The Arctic Inuit who are losing their ice caps and activists demanding urgent action on global warming were among thousands taking to the streets in cities around the world Saturday to raise awareness of climate change. The demonstrations coincided with the 10-day UN Climate Change Conference under way in Montreal to review and update the Kyoto Protocol, the global accord that binds the top 35 industrialized nations to lower greenhouse gas emissions....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 2:19pm PST
textSupport Grassroots Bioremediation in New Orleans by Reclaim the Commons
The Alliance for Community Trainers -- a new 501c3 organization facilitated by Starhawk, one of the founders of Reclaim the Commons in 2004 -- will help support efforts to clean up New Orleans using the natural methods of bioremediation: using bacteria, plants and fungi to break down toxins and restore the health of the soil...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 12:21pm PST
textRodent Trials Show Biotech is Squeaky Unclean by Counterpunch (repost)
A 3 million dollar, ten-year trial of genetic modification (GM) on field peas at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's national science research organization, was scrapped last week (November 18, 2005) when the GM pea caused inflammation in the lungs of mice it was fed to. (1)...
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 10:16am PST
textThe Great Bear Rainforest by William Thomas
YOUR help is needed to protect the world's largest intact temperate rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest, by sending the government of British Columbia, Canada, a fax through the website: www.savethegreatbear.org Below is a joint statement by the coastal indigenous native bands and environmental groups about the Great Bear Rainforest deal:...
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 1:52pm PST
textMontana Bison Hunt: Why This is News in Poland by K. Stachowski
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Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 9:30am PST
textFlexcar: Public Car Sharing in San Francisco in 2005 by kirsten anderberg
Flexcar is a car sharing program that started in Seattle, Wa., but it is quickly spreading across America. Flexcar is now in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and more. Flexcar members pay a small initial fee to join, then reserve cars online, for use as needed. People pay by the hour to use Flexcars, and the fees are all-inclusive, meaning that insurance, gas, maintenance, parking, etc. are all included in the hourly fee. The hourly fees range from approximately $7.50 - $9 an hour, depend...
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 8:11am PST
textCongress to vote on Massive Public Land Grab by Daniel Borgström & Virginia Browning
This privatizing scheme would lock huge amounts of public land into corporate hands and imperil national parks, monuments and other treasures...
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 12:03am PST
imageRadioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home
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by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner
The enduring vigorous stupidity of the U.S. military pretends that radiation is one of those things that if you can't see it, it can't hurt you. They are thoroughly delusional, of course. A National Academy of Sciences report released June 30, 2005, finds that there is no safe level of radiation. Any radiation is bad.......
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 11:29am PST
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