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Finally! DoNotJunkMail.com
Send a message out loud and clear that we liked Do Not Call and Do Not Junk Mail is next. 100 Million Trees cut per year for unwanted junk mail is unacceptable!...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 4:59pm PDT
Natural Building and Deep Ecology Training in Tennessee
The Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow, a non-profit organization, will host its 3rd annual Natural Building Workshop June 18th-27th. Learn how to build a natural, affordable, long-lasting, beautiful home with materials from the land....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 12:49pm PDT
The Destructive Agrarian Reform Policies of the World Bank
Examines the effects of World Bank land reform policies on farmers in several developing countries including India, Thailand, Mexico, Columbia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Also provides an overview of various social movements responding to World Bank programs....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:07pm PDT
Bush's timber czar chased out of Oregon!
The meeting of the Society of American Foresters
ended last week with special guest Mark
Rey fleeing the conference and protesters temporarily
blocking his escape. Rey was the top timber industry lobbyist in the US
before becoming the top of Bush II's public
lands timber program.
Two days prior to his arrival a tour by industry leaders of the Biscuit
timber sale - the largest logging proposal in US history - was forced to
turn back due to unexpected
road condi...
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 11:56pm PDT
Latest Dispatch from Jeff "Free" Luers
OK. Well, I’ve been less frequent with these than I originally intended. I’m not gonna make any promises but I’m going to try and fix that....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 1:07pm PDT
ACTION IS LARGEST LISTING EFFORT IN HISTORY OF THE ESA
A coalition of prominent scientists, artists and environmentalists filed 1,000 pages of legal documents with the Bush administration today, requesting that it cease delaying Endangered Species Act protection for 225 of the nation's most imperiled plants and animals....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 8:34pm PDT
WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION
GLOBAL ACTION DAY
CICLONUDISTA (WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION)
SATURDAY JUNE 19, 2004
NAKED BEFORE THE TRAFFIC! JUSTICE ON THE STREETS!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 6:04am PDT
Students and Labor Unions Rally for RAN (video/mpeg 4.6MB)
Elementary Students Ask Logging Giant To Stop Destroying Old Growth Forests
Seattle-area Labor Unions Pass Resolutions Supporting “Weyerhaeuser 9”...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 10:53pm PDT
MOBILIZE IN SOLIDARITY WITH TRE ARROW
Fraser Corrections Center is withholding food from political prisoner Tre Arrow, following his historic 45 day fast. This time it's Tre, but it could just as easily be any of us. WE MUST DEMAND JUSTICE!! Friends & supporters will launch a massive phone and fax campaign Monday demanding an end to these human rights violations....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 6:38pm PDT
HEALTH ADVOCATES ASSAULTED, STONED BY DOE RUN WORKERS
Peruvian health advocates targeted by big polluter....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:05am PDT
Activists Say to World Bank & UN--NO GE TREES
International Activists Denounce Genetically Engineered Trees, World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund and Call on U.N. to Reverse Pro-GE Trees Decision...
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2004 12:07am PDT
Tre Arrow Update
There was an immigration hearing there Wednesday, which was essentialy adjourned until this Monday, April 25th, at 10am. 16th floor of the Federal building on the corner of Georgia and Hamilton - it is unclear at this time whether it will be public or private....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:12am PDT
Hydrogen HUMvee Highway 2 martial law
Arnold's recent visit 2 UC Davis heralded his hydrogen highway HUMvee plan 4 CA. The water needed 4 the hydrogen fuel cells no doubt diverted from the local rivers?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 8:44pm PDT
Banned Terms: An Interview with Depleted Uranium Expert Dr. Asaf Durakovic
An exclusive interview with Dr. Asaf Durakovic, one of the world's leading experts on depleted uranium, how Japan now faces the DU danger in Iraq, the continuing threats on his life, and the "conspiracy of silence" the world over surrounding DU....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:08am PDT
Second man sentenced for damaging SUVs, other vandalism (repost)
relates to benefit screening this Friday 4/16/04 for Jeffrey "Free" Luers...
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 5:54pm PDT
Bioregional Conference and Skills Training!
ACT FOR THE EARTH: a bioregional ecology conference and skills training
April 30 - May 2 at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 12:30pm PDT
ELF! gets sent to Prison for 3.5 years for SUV Vandalism
Aaron L. Linas, who was 17 at the time of the vandalism spree, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy charges, and was sentenced Monday....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:19pm PDT
Open Letter to Maxxam Exec. Neighbors
While forest defenders battle Pacific Lumber in the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, Dirty South Earth First! has taken the battle to the executive homes of PL's Houston-based parent company, Maxxam Corporation. In addition to numerous home demonstrations, the following letter was recently sent to the neighbors of these executives....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 10:11pm PDT
Increased Arctic Sea Ice melt points to drier North American West Coast
The issue bigger than terrorism: climate change is on the agenda and will affect every person and country. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are a primary cause of global warming which is a major driving force for climate change. And conservative politicians like George Bush (USA) and John Howard (Australia) have their heads in the sand in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 12:06am PDT