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Stumptown Earth First! Action Camp, July 19th to 23rd! 
On Mt. Hood, logging proceeds apace. And "apace" means devastation. It means the death of watersheds, ecosystems. It means economic and ecological disaster. Learn how to stop it. The action camp will run from Thursday, July 19th, to Monday, July 23rd....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 6:45am PDT
Anti-Nuclear Activist Corbin Harney Passed Away Corbin Harney, Western Shonshone spiritual leader and anti-nuclear activist passed away on July 10th following a long battle with cancer. He will be deeply missed by many. Corbin calls upon people to never give up and continue on with their struggle against nuclear weapons proliferation by the U.S. military....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 3:13pm PDT
The Revolution Starts Under the Sink Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : When it comes to accepting global warming and being eco-friendly, there’s a generation gap, notes NAM contributor Asya Pikovsky, whose family hails from the Ukraine. Eco-friendliness is second nature to the young. Pikovsky is an intern for New America Media and a student at Bowdoin College....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 10:52am PDT
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action! Saturday, July 7, 2007 :
Syndicated Content From Portland...
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 5:07pm PDT
June 28, 2007 Prison Dispatch from Jeffrey Free Luers 
Dear Friends,
Jeff has written a new dispatch which, among other things, discusses the status of his appeal and his post-prison possibilities. Please read below and share with others....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 12:05pm PDT
Don Fitz: When Building Green Ain't So Green Thursday, July 5, 2007 :Look at the web site for the next green builder you see on TV or in the daily paper. Does the site show plans for a home with trees and no parking garage? Or, is it another house plan that tells you how many cars the garage will hold and says nothing about trees? Many green architects and builders are doing their best to create environmentally friendly homes....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:35am PDT
New Rule Would Lower the Bar Again on Killing Endangered Wolves in Northern Rockies 
BOISE, Id. – A new draft rule from the Bush Administration would once again diminish protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and threaten endangered wolf recovery efforts in the northern Rockies. The new rule would significantly broaden the circumstances under which wolves can be killed allowing the states to kill more than half of the approximately 1,300 wolves in the region today prior to their delisting. The new rule is ardently opposed by wildlife conservation group...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 6:47pm PDT
UK: Two Arrested at Cambridge GM potato picnic 
Syndicated Content From UK Indymedia...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:35am PDT
7/6: Radio Program about International Permaculture Conference 8 & 9 Radio Interview about IPC8 & 9,Live on Friday July 6, 2007, 9am-10am PST, also streaming live at www.kcsb.org, Santa Barbara California USA (International Permaculture Conference & Convergence)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 6:56pm PDT
Join the world's biggest party with MoveOn and Ella Baker Center! The Ella Baker Center is thrilled to team up with MoveOn.org, Campaign for America's
Future, and the League of Conservation Voters to co-sponsor Party for the Planet --
a chance for you to have fun with friends and neighbors while discussing the best
ways to solve the climate crisis....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 6:41pm PDT
St. Clair / Frank: Obama's Nuclear Ambitions Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :It is fast becoming one of the most important issues of the 2008 presidential campaign. Oil prices are expected to rise to even higher levels as the United States dependence on foreign crude is becoming increasingly unstable. And the perceived threat of global warming is making even the most skeptical of politicians nervous....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 1:34pm PDT
Toxic Workplaces: Bush’s Labor Dept. Ordered to Release Info Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : The Bush Administration's Department of Labor has been ordered by a federal court in New Jersey to release the results of years of workplace sampling for toxic substances, including the cancer-causing metal beryllium. The order came from U.S. District Judge Mary Cooper in a ruling last week on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Adam Finkel, who served as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) chief regulator and as a regional administrato...
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 11:42pm PDT
Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground Saturday, June 30, 2007 : WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) – In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilisations had coped with soil erosion....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 6:03pm PDT
Nearly Two Years After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Fighting Environmental Neglect, Privatization Friday, June 29, 2007 :
Twenty two months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf region of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, residents are still fighting to save their communities. We speak with Monique Harden, co-director of the New Orleans-based Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, and organizer of a caravan of Katrina activists to the U.S. Social Forum this week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:01am PDT
Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions Thursday, June 28, 2007 :Christine Todd Whitman, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, told a Congressional panel on Monday that she stood by the claims that she made shortly after that the attack that the area’s “air was safe to breathe.”...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 10:32pm PDT
White Whale forces Military Retreat in US-Australian War Games 
Migaloo, the white humpback whale, is forcing the USA and Australian military forces to reconsider using the Great Barrier reef for war games. The USA and Australian Defence forces have faced down a civil disobedience peace campaign against their Talisman Sabre War Games, from June 19 to July 2, at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 9:43am PDT
NYC Residents & Workers Accuse Whitman & Bush Administration of Covering Up Dangers of Toxic Air After 9/11 Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :
On Monday, two busloads of Ground Zero workers and residents traveled to Washington to hear Christine Todd Whitman's testimony. We hear from two members of the group Beyond Ground Zero, environmental attorney Joel Kupferman and Democracy Now co-host Juan Gonzalez who attended Monday's hearing....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:34am PDT
Socially Disadvantaged Farmers United to Change U.S. Food and Farm Policy 
2007 U.S. Food and Farm Policy can help California Black Farmers achieve basic access and equal opportunity. Nationwide there is a current of activity to mandate equal opportunity for socially disadvantaged farmers from California to Maine. Unique artificial barriers to equal access create the current U.S. Farm Bill policy that restricts minority participation with tax payer supported USDA administrative allocation. Minority farmers whom are primarily socially disadvantaged in most areas o...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 10:12pm PDT
Skating against traffic through the streets of Manhattan 
Skateboarding's Critical Mass (Sort of)
1200 skateboarders celebrated Go Skateboarding Day last week.
By Alex Nathanson
The past Thursday, June 21, 1200 skateboarders came out to celebrate and promote skateboarding....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:34pm PDT
No Love for Golddiggers 
From the uselessness of the final
product to the dramatic environmental and social impacts of its excavation,
modern-day gold mining serves as an
absurd illustration of the dangers and
complexity of our global economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:55pm PDT
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