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Chevron's inHumane Energy Cartoons are fun! http://www.markfiore.com...
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 6:04pm PDT
Portland Considered Most Bicycle-Friendly City in North America Tuesday, April 15, 2008 :For many, Portland is a haven of green-friendly urban planning. It recently topped Popular Science's list of the Greenest Cities in the United States. A big part of that is bikes -- Portland is widely considered the most bicycle-friendly city in North America, so much so that bikes are on display throughout the Portland airport. Worldwide, it's seen as only second to Amsterdam. We speak with two local Portland transportation activists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 7:56am PDT
Black Ops on Green Groups: Private Security Firm Run by Fmr. Secret Service Officers Spied on Environmental Orgs for Corporate Clients Monday, April 14, 2008 :A private security firm spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and several other environmental organizations, from the late 1990s until at least the year 2000, according a new investigation by Mother Jones magazine. The security firm was run by former Secret Service officers who infiltrated environmental groups, collected their phone records and confidential internal documents, and even went through their trash. The information was then passed on to public relation...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 7:56am PDT
Sea Shepherd Ship Farley Mowat Has Been Illegally Stormed and the Crew Assaulted 
At 0700 Hours (PST) and 0800 Hours Atlantic time the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat was attacked by officers from two Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers the Des Groseilliers and the Sir Wifred Grenfell.
Photo of Canadian Coast Guard Ramming Farley Mowat on 3-30-08....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 9:43am PDT
Groups Condemn Biofuels as "False Solution" Groups Condemn Biofuels as "False Solution" During Brazil's President Lula Tour of the Netherlands and Czech Republic...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 6:52pm PDT
Karyn Strickler: Lost in the Fumes: the Sierra Club Sells Out to Clorox Wednesday, April 9, 2008 :In 2004 I was recruited by grassroots activists to run, as a reform candidate, for a spot on the national Sierra Club Board of Directors. At the time, I believed that election was going to be a battle of the old guard versus the reformers. I thought then that the old guard wanted to maintain power for power's sake and perpetuate the status quo....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 8:28am PDT
PeaceTalks: Buffalo Field Campaign Update; Over 1,400 Yellowstone Wild Buffalo Slaughtered (audio/mpeg 12.1MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Stephany Seay, media coordinator for the Buffalo Field Campaign about the continuing slaughter of wild buffalo by the National Park Service, the Montana Dept. of Livestock and other state agencies in the Yellowstone area....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 1:13pm PDT
5 Days Left to Stop the Bombs! We are here to tell the DOE and the federal government that we don't want to spend more money on new nuclear weapons or the current popular term WMD or weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 5:11pm PDT
Four Activists Shut Down Bank of America for Fossil Fools Day Action [See other Fossil Fools Day actions nation-wide at US Indymedia: indymedia.us/en/2008/04/30851.shtml]
On Tuesday April 1, at about 8:40am, four activists took direct action against the Bank of America in Copley Square, Boston, by locking themselves to the front door to protest the banks funding of coal power in the US. The action was done with support from Rising Tide North America, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Energy Action Coalition....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 10:38am PDT
Resist the NAFTA Superhighway! Call to Action For Longtermers Its been a three weeks since clearing officially began for the NAFTA
Superhighway, I-69. Trees have been felled in the first two miles (out of 142) of the route, and three out of the four homes (out of 400) which had already been seized by the Department of Transportation were demolished this week. Security is posted around the clearing sites, reflecting the state's fear of the wrath of local communities threatened by the road....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 11:23am PDT
Jeffrey "Free" Luers March 23, 2008 Prison Dispatch It is Easter Sunday, a rather strange celebration to me, after all it's just another stolen pagan holiday. Yet, I am celebrating the return of spring; the stirring of new beginnings, new life, new hope, another chance. Spring is like a bright, beautiful sunrise after a long night. It brings a smile to my face and joy to my heart. It is a time for planting seeds and hoping they will take root and grow....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 10:57pm PDT
Listen Up Northwest (audio/mpeg 26.8MB) Listen Up Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washingon, Idaho, Montana and Oregon....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 8:41am PDT
Who says Treesitting doesn't work? We won! Spooner and Nanning Creek are saved!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 3:26pm PDT
Decade of Dedication to Kids Health & the Environment Robina Suwol Founder & Executive Director of California Safe Schools & Los Angeles Unified School District Honored...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 2:31pm PDT
Press Release: (TSX:GBU) Dead and Buried: Gabriel's EIA (Canadian mining company wishes to destroy 1800 years old town Rosia Montana to open a cyanide open-pit gold mine. Government is complicit.)...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 2:14pm PDT
Women Protest Bison Slaughter Inside Yellowstone 
TWO WOMEN PROTEST BISON SLAUGHTER IN YELLOWSTONE PARK
Mammoth Visitor's Center Temporarily Closed...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 6:41pm PDT
Friends of Brad Will Release Secret Documents of Proposed US/Mexican Military Aid 
Murdered Journalist Network Denounces Military Reward for Impunity
The international network demanding accountability for the murder of US journalist Brad Will released secret documents detailing proposed military support for Mexican security forces implicated in murder, torture and continuing arbitrary detentions.
“Finally we were able to obtain these documents, which even Members of Congress have yet to see. We hope that by releasing them to the public we will be able to better make o...
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 9:17pm PDT
Anti-Epileptics, Sex Hormones, Mood Stabilizers, Antibiotics Among Array of Pharmaceuticals in U.S. Water Supply Monday, March 24, 2008 :Anti-epileptics were found in the drinking water of Southern California, a sex hormone was found in San Francisco's water, three medications and an antibiotic were found in the water supply of Tuscon, Arizona and a mood stabilizer was found in the water of New Jersey. And that's just to name a few. An exhaustive, five-month investigation by Associated Press has found the drinking water in at least 24 major American cities across the country contains trace amounts of a ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:11am PDT
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming Friday, March 21, 2008 :Dr. James Hansen is widely regarded as the leading climate change scientist in the country. For the past 25 years he has headed NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Just over a year ago, Dr. Hansen went public with a charge that made headlines around the world - that the Bush administration had been trying to silence his warnings about the urgent need to address climate change. Dr. Hansen joins us in our firehouse studio. His story is detailed in a new book by a...
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 8:55am PDT
Revolution of the small: The uselessness of global action; the need for local action Revolution of the small: The uselessness of global action; the need for local action (here in Bozeman, MT) - In a world of so many people, where the few represent the many, how do each of us find our voice? Is it in participating in big processes, or is it tied to our immediate experience? This essay argues for small community action tied directly to our immediate experience as the only means for making global changes. In Bozeman, Mont., for the author personally, it means being part of a gra...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2008 12:38am PDT
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