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Protesters Lockdown at PacifiCorp, Demanding Energy Justice Protesters have locked down in front of the Pacific Power building at NE 9th and Multnomah to demand that the company shut down the four dams it operates on the Klamath river. At noon today three protesters blockaded the main entrance to PacifiCorp's headquarters (NE 7th and Multnomah). The protesters were joined by a rally of several dozen supporters, many of whom wore hazmat suits painted with fake blood to draw attention to the poisonous conditions on the Klamath River....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2007 7:02am PDT
Asheville Activists Need Help! 
Police violently arrested five people at a nonviolent direct action at the regional Bank of America headquarters in downtown Asheville. The action was the culmination to the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action. See http://asheville.indymedia.org/ for press releases and photos....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 4:58pm PDT
Coos Bay, OR; Community Action Against LNG Terminal! Community action meeting 8/25 to prepare for a public hearing in Coos Bay, OR on 8/28. Speak out to prevent an ecological disaster from entering coastal Oregon's Coos Bay in the form of a supercooled liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal and pipeline with hundreds of miles of linear clearcuts across Oregon's mountains.....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 1:46pm PDT
China Chided, U.S. Conducts Business As Usual Originally From New America Media
Friday, August 10, 2007 : China has been in the news lately for its contaminated exports, but the U.S. is also producing products that contain hazardous chemicals, reports NAM writer, Donal Brown. Brow is a former journalism teacher. The recent flurry of news reports over the Chinese exports of contaminated consumer products raises the specter of dangerous U.S. products long marketed in the U.S. and around the world....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 7:07am PDT
Oregon: Another NEW Natural Gas Pipeline Proposed As Houston-based energy developers try to convince rural Oregon and Washington to accept LNG development, we are now learning that NW Natural and Transcanada are the real players in this ill-advised scheme. The companies announced their intention to build the Palomar Gas Transmission Project, which will extend from Madras through Molalla to Bradwood in the Lower Columbia River....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 6:51am PDT
Comunicado de La Otra Hidalgo ante construcción de aeropuerto en el Valle de Tizayuca 
Detrás del proyecto del aeropuerto hay un engaño. Una historia de despojo, exclusión y mentiras, que por si fuera poco, redundará un irreversible deterioro ecológico para la zona. ¿Quién le preguntó a Zapotlán si quería un aeropuerto? Al contrario, la gente fue engañada y presionada para que vendiera la tierra...
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 5:10am PDT
WE WON! BIG victory for green-collar jobs... at least for now. It passed! For the first time in history, Congress approved legislation that will
address both the climate crisis and the poverty crisis by passing the Green Jobs Act
of 2007 on Saturday....
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 12:25pm PDT
Abstentionism Wins by a Landslide Across Oaxaca 
Contrary to the expectations and preoccupations of many, election day here in Oaxaca City was pretty much uneventful. So much so, that most voters opted to miss out on “the big event” itself…the act of voting.
Although the preliminary results are still being tallied, it’s already apparent that the big winner in today’s legislative elections is “none of the above”. At just after midnight local time, the State Electoral Institute showed that 75% of the electorate chose not to vote today. [No...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2007 5:16pm PDT
Dirty Justice: Tennessee Towns and Toxic Water Originally From New America Media
Friday, August 3, 2007 : It would be optimistic to think that the growing awareness about the Holt case in Tennessee will mandate the necessary intervention and reform of factors that lead to environmental racism. Still, as a significant marker of disparity in treatment among communities, it is a telling commentary....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 10:35am PDT
Brazil, Paraná: Syngenta's GMO alert! The farm is located in the band of ecological protection of the National Park of Iguaçu. "In case that it begins again to be used as field of tests toward research with GMOS, it will demonstrate that the Swiss company really wants to make, at Paraná, what it would never make in the Swiss city of Basel, headquarters of the company" affirmed Silveira....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 2:38pm PDT
BFC Update from the Field - 08/02/07 * Update from the Field
* Letter from Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer
* ACTION: Contact Governor Brian Schweitzer
* Buffalo in the News
* Last Words...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 9:45pm PDT
Call to Action: No War No Warming, Oct. 21-23 From Iraq to New Orleans
Take Action for Justice, Peace and Clean Energy...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 5:56pm PDT
Brazil, Paraná: Syngenta's GMO alert! The farm is located in the band of ecological protection of the National Park of Iguaçu. "In case that it begins again to be used as field of tests toward research with GMOS, it will demonstrate that the Swiss company really wants to make, at Paraná, what it would never make in the Swiss city of Basel, headquarters of the company" affirmed Silveira....
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 11:42am PDT
Second Quarter Reporting: What will Barrick hide from their shareholders this time? 
August 2 marks the publishing date of Barrick Gold's second quarter results. With profits down by 14 percent, the Pascua Lama project delayed, and Norway's pension fund considering pulling their investment on ethical grounds, things aren't looking good for this gold mining giant. But, are any of these developments a big surprise? There are many shareholders who might think so, but that is only because Barrick has been systematically hiding vital information from them through glaring omissions...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 3:15am PDT
The Bottled Water Lie: As Soft Drink Giants Admits Product is Tap Water, New Scrutiny of Economic and Environmental Costs Wednesday, August 1, 2007 :
The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission – its best-selling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Pepsi has agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International (CAI) which has been leading an increasingly successful campaign against bottled water.
We look at the economic and environmental costs of the bottled water industry with
CAI’s Gigi Kellett and fr...
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2007 7:55am PDT
7/26 Letter from Daniel McGowan 
I'm pretty convinced at this point, nearly 20 months after my arrest, that I am incredibly lucky to have the best support network I have ever seen, the aptly named Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan. No offense is meant to any other defendant (or prisoner) support group, but I've only experienced the love and support of my crew. That intense support - moral, legal, financial and otherwise - has made all the difference to me and it's why I write today with acceptance of my current situation ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 2:19pm PDT
Sea Shepherd to intercept/block Planktos ship Paul Watson has recently stated that the Sea Shepherd society opposes the plan by the Planktos group to experimentally enrich a region of the subtropical open-ocean with iron in order to enhance phytoplankton growth, which could theoretically bring capture carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They claim that the ecosystem impacts are unexplored and that this is not legitimately planned by the global community....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2007 3:47pm PDT
Support the “Bookin’ for Daniel” Marathon Run This Sunday! This Sunday, a supporter of eco-defense prisoner Daniel McGowan will run a full marathon – 26 miles and 385 yards – in order to raise funds for Daniel’s educational fund....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2007 1:48am PDT
The Nuclear Weapons Lab Bombing Range 
Massive Radioactive Explosions are routinely conducted at Site 300...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2007 2:59pm PDT
Forest Service Logs, Then Burns Ancient Forest In 2005 protestors at the Sten timber sale near Eugene had both live ammunition and hunting arrows shot at them. This year the Forest Service set a "prescribed burn" at the site of the protest and killed most of the remaining trees....
Posted: Sun, Jul 22, 2007 10:42pm PDT
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