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100th Anniversary of Rachel Carson: Remembering the Woman Who Helped Launch the Environmental Movement This week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson - the marine biologist and author credited for launching the modern environmental movement. We take a look at her life and legacy....
Posted: Thu, May 31, 2007 2:32pm PDT
Montana to slaughter 300 bison, including nursing calves 
The Montana Department of Livestock plans to trap and send to the slaughter house this week 300 wild bison, including nursing calves and their mothers....
Posted: Wed, May 30, 2007 10:51am PDT
Urgent- Your Help Needed Now re: Farm Bill House to Consider Language THIS THURSDAY, MAY 24TH to Deny State’s Rights to Protect Citizens from Risky Foods...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 11:27pm PDT
Author Paul Hawken on “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming” Environmentalist Paul Hawken has come out with a new book, “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.” Hawken is a best-selling author and one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate environmental reform.
“The earth is not dying - it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses,” -- the music and words of Utah Phillips. That’s one of the quotes environmentalist Paul Hawken uses in his new b...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 7:41am PDT
Feds To Continue Politically Motivated Prosecution of Eco-Saboteurs Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken gave the government the green light to attempt to brand 10 environmental and animal rights activists as terrorists, though they caused no injury to human life. Pursuant to Judge Aiken’s opinion that a “federal crime of terrorism does not require a substantial risk of injury,” the government will likely seek harsher prison sentences under the terrorism enhancement provision of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Judge Aiken has retained dis...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 12:02pm PDT
The Unanimous Opinion. 
At the 6th Hemispheric Meeting in Havana, when the discussion turned to the subject of production of biofuels from foodstuffs, which are constantly getting more expensive, the huge majority voiced their opposition with indignation......
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 11:48am PDT
George Monbiot: "If We Don’t Deal With Climate Change We Condemn Hundreds of Millions of People to Death" The British journalist and environmentalist discusses his new book "Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning." George Monbiot says global warming is "the great moral issue of the 21st century."...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 7:55am PDT
Anti Biodiesel Activism in Argentina This weekend activists carried out a series of actions in opposition to the International Biofuels Congress in Buenos Aires, in which Al Gore was the keynote speaker. Comunity resistance against the imposition of Agrofuels transnational industry on Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil is growin....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 1:27pm PDT
April Was Third Warmest Ever Yesterday NOAA reported that the global mean
temperature for April ranked as the 3rd warmest
in recorded history. This is in the trend for the
past 11 years.
March was the fifth warmest on record.
Dec. to Feb. was the warmest on record.
2006 was the warmest year on record.
2005 tied for the warmest year on record.
10 of the 11 warmest years on record have
occurred since 1995....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 8:38am PDT
Resistance and the recent BFC arrests outside Yellowstone In response against those who think that the proper thing for the Buffalo Field Campaign who were arrested last week should plead guilty......
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 7:52am PDT
May 8th, 2007 Prison Dispatch from Jeffrey Free Luers 
Hello my friends. I apologize for my absence lately. The last few months have been hectic and busy for me, as Im sure you can imagine. My appeal was decided in my favor. I have been working to get the lowest sentence possible. And while I cant comment on that at this time, I can report some new developments.
In the last couple of weeks, Judge Velure, my trial and sentencing judge, has announced his intention to retire July 1st. Velure, who has made no secret of his dislike for me, will n...
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 12:36pm PDT
Update from the Field 5/11/07 - Buffalo Field Campaign 
* BFC Volunteers Wrongfully Arrested
* Update from the Field
* Celebrate Mother's Day & Wild Buffalo Calving Season!
* FWP Holds Bison Hunt Meetings
* Hand-crafted Father's Day Cards Available!
* Last Words...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 5:41pm PDT
Day of Solidarity with Jeffrey Free Luers - Eugene, Oregon event 
Dear Friends,
With the June 9th, 2007 Day of Solidarity with Jeffrey Free Luers now only one month away, we wanted to update you on the event planned for Eugene, Oregon. If you are in another city and want to organize an event, please let us know ASAP and we will help you publicize it. Event suggestions include rallies, demonstrations and critical mass bike rides highlighting the connection between Jeff's case, global warming, and political repression. (It ties in nicely with the June 8th ...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 4:47pm PDT
PHILIPPINES : Election death toll climbs past 100 With just days before May 14, the number of lives lost in election-related violence has breached 100. Camp Crame, the Philippine National Police headquarters, reported that 102 people have been killed and 105 wounded since the election period began on January 14. Camp Crame also said a total of 147 election related violent incidents or ERVIs have been reported....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 10:35am PDT
Police Bloody & Arrest Field Workers Filming Bison Haze on Public Lands 
WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA. Two members of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) were arrested today Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) and U.S. Forest Service law enforcement. One BFC volunteer was taken to the hospital due to injuries caused during arrest....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 10:09pm PDT
Gro Harlem Brundtland on the Challenges to Curb Global Warming Nearly 1,000 diplomats from around the world are meeting in Bonn, Germany this week to draft a new global treaty to control greenhouse gases to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. We speak with former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland -- one of three prominent international figures named special UN envoy on climate change. She is former Director-General of the World Health Organization....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 7:30pm PDT
GMO News From Around the Globe 
GMOs are Going Down: watch the evidence mount and knowledge spread....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 3:53pm PDT
Global Day of Action Against Japan's Waste Colonialism in Asia 
In Manila, international civil society and environmental groups joined in a day of action against Japanese "waste colonialism" in Asia. Activists gathered at the Embassy of Japan, and launched a postcard campaign to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Groups further urged Asian government to ratify the Basel Convention's Ban Amendment, which prohibits export of hazardous wastes from developed to devloping countries....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 9:54am PDT
Two articles about Rod Coronado Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words ‘terrorism.’ How new laws are equating environmentalists with Al Qaeda....
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 1:09pm PDT
To Chavez, Lula, Requião and Carlos Rovira. If were not enough all those local threats we mentioned here on the Amazon and other forests of Earth, it weighs on them and on we all this hiper-threat that is global heating....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 7:02am PDT
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