Likhts’amisyu Spring Construction Camp
Press Release/ Likhts’amisyu
APRIL 28, 2019 – MAY 18, 2019
The Likhts’amisyu Clan, one of the five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, will soon be asserting their sovereignty by creating a new, permanent land reclamation on their territory. In doing so, they are requesting support with their upcoming Spring Construction Camp, scheduled to begin on April 28th, 2019.
USFS Withdraws Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision
by Blue Mountains Diversity Project
Dear Friends and Supporters,
In an unexpected development, the US Forest Service announced on March 14th, 2019 that they have withdrawn the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision. The objections by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, other environmental protection organizations, and Tribes were essentially upheld by the USFS’s withdrawal of their Forest Plan…
Two Endangered Mexican Wolves Undergoing Testing to Determine if They’re Behind Cow Deaths
by Susan Montoya Bryan / Silver City Sun News
ALBUQUERQUE – Two endangered Mexican wolves have been removed from the wild and are undergoing testing to determine if they’re behind a string of livestock deaths in southwestern New Mexico, marking the latest wrinkle in the strained effort to return the predators to the American Southwest.
The two young female wolves were recently captured in an…
Worldwide, Over A Million Students Left School Friday to Demand Action on Climate Change
Sandra Laville, Matthew Taylor and Daniel Hurst / The Guardian
Students make their voices heard in Wellington, New Zealand. Image: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
From Australia to America, children put down their books on Friday to march for change in the first global climate strike.
The event was embraced in the developing nations of India and Uganda and in the Philippines and Nepal – countries…
Despite Risks, Canada’s Tar Sands Industry Is Betting Big on Oil Trains
By Justin Mikulka / DeSmog Blog
Last year, Canada exported a record amount of tar sands oil to the U.S., despite low oil prices leading to major losses once again for the struggling tar sands industry. That achievement required a big bump in hauling oil by rail, with those daily volumes in late 2018 more than double the previous record in 2014 during the first oil-by-rail boom.
Canada’s oil…
Second International Call to Action for Gidimt’en, the Wet’suwet’en & Indigenous Peoples
submitted to Earth First! Newswire
On March 16th, 2019, we are calling on allies to step up for a second International Day of Action in solidarity with Gidimt’en Checkpoint, Wet’suwet’en Frontlines, and all Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island. Among the battles on Wet’suwet’en territories, there have been: violent, militarized raids, destruction of personal property, continued harassment &…
Judge upholds Line 5 tunnel law despite ‘constitutional defect’
Oil pipeline operator Enbridge moves under the Mackinac Bridge on their way to inspect their controversial Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Using an autonomous underwater vehicle and a roving underwater vehicle over several days, the entire five-mile-long pipeline, which rests on supports along the bottom of Lake Michigan, will have been covered by both sonar and…
BC Oil and Gas Comission Issues Misleading Statement on Unist’ot’en Archaeological Findings
On March 8, 2019, The BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) released a bulletin responding to the “archaeological complaint” Unist’ot’en made upon finding several ancient stone tool artifacts on Unist’ot’en territory on the site of the proposed Coastal GasLink (CGL) Camp 9A. The BCOGC’s bulletin contains information that is misleading and unsubstantiated.
Statement of Western Watersheds Project on National Wolf Delisting Proposed Rule
by Western Watersheds ProjectThe gray wolf has begun to recover in the northern Rockies, but most western states have vast tracts of suitable habitat and no wolves. The absence of wolves represents a gaping hole in the web of life, and the return of wolves is key to restoring natural balance and natural processes that benefit countless other native species. It is obvious that the livestock…
Scaling Our Climate Resistance Tour: Strategies and Stories from the German Climate Justice Movement
From Rising Tide North America/IGD
from IGD
Rising Tide North America is launching a tour to bring stories and strategies from the global struggle against climate change to those of us in North America.We all know that policy doesn’t get people free. Social change happens when people lead. Not corporations, not politicians… actual people.
But, as climate justice activists and organizers,how do…
Buy A Sweet Handmade Patch and Support the Earth First! Journal
The Earth First! Journal crew is hard at work on our upcoming Spring issue, but we still need money to print it! You can help us out, and look cool while doing it, by buying our new and super limited edition handmade 10″ x 10″ patches featuring a cop car being overtaken by vines, made by one of the Journaleditors. It is available in two styles: light yellow with…
by Mike Gaworecki / Mongabay
Some 24,000 hectares (59,305 acres) of Amazon rainforest lost tree cover within the Kayapó Indigenous Territory from October to December 2017 due to fires, while the nearby Xikrin Indigenous Territory lost roughly 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) over the same period. Photo courtesy of IBAMA.
Recent research finds that Amazonian trees in fragmented forest landscapes…
Tribes Push Back on FDA Decision to Lift Ban on Genetically Engineered Salmon
by Native News Online Staff / Native News OnlineTribes, Consumer Groups & Environmental Groups Decry FDA Decision
WASHINGTON — The Quinault Indian Nation, Feed Seven Generations, the Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth today decried the FDA’s decision to lift the 2016 import alert that banned genetically engineered salmon from entering the U.S.
“The FDA’s unilateral…
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project Benefit Announcement
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Please come to our annual benefit at Cider Riot at 807 NE Couch St. in Portland on this Saturday, March 16th from 7:00 to 10:30 p.m..
Karen Coulter, BMBP’s Director, will give a slide presentation of highlights from our 2018 field season and talk about looming major threats to Eastern Oregon forests. We’ll have music by guitarist Erik Overson and DJ Sasha Coulter. …
