Marius Mason Transferred to Federal Prison in Connecticut
by Karen Pickett / submitted to Earth First! Newswire
Marius Mason is an anarchist and an environmental and animal rights prisoner serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of sabotage carried out in defense of the planet.
After nearly 10 years at the federal prison in Ft. Worth, Texas, longtime “Greenscare” defendant, trans prisoner and Earth First!er Marius Mason has finally been…
New Forest Occupation Announced in Germany!
from https://eppenbergerwald.noblogs.org/
Submitted to EF! Journal (translated from German)
The Eppenberg Forest is occupied!
Since Feb 15, 2019, we – activists from the Hambach Forest – have been occupying the Eppenberg Forest. An area of 40 acres is supposed to be cut down for an industrial area despite the fact that there are industrial areas nearby that have large, unsold parts.
We can’t…
Marius Mason Transferred to Federal Prison in Connecticut
By KP After nearly 10 years at the federal prison in Ft. Worth, Texas, longtime“Greenscare” defendant, trans prisoner and Earth First!er Marius Mason has finally been transferred to a facility closer to family and friends. As of the week of March 25, Marius is now at FCI Danbury in Connecticut. He had requested this move, but it was not clear if that request would be granted until he was…
Mutual Aid Group Reports from Pine Ridge As Flooding Crisis Grows
by Fort Collins Mutual Aid Network / It’s Going Down
Ahumanitarian crisis is unfolding in so-called South Dakota across Native communitiesin the wake of massive climate change fueled flooding. Blizzards and heavy rains have flooded homes and cut off access to roads along with knocking out power to the area. Many have noted that the State has been slow to respond in comparison to other areas hit…
What’s Known About the Murder of a Social Leader in Northern Brazil
Dilma Ferreira Silva (right) and the then president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff / Handout/MAB
By Daniel Giovanez/Peoples’ Dispatch
A triple homicide last week in northern Brazil took the life of a regional coordinator of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), her husband, and a friend.
Dilma Ferreira Silva, 47, who was affected by the Tucuruí hydro power plant and was an MAB coordinator…
David Bernhardt Sued for Gutting Sage Grouse Plans
BOISE, Ida. ― Four conservation groups sued Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Idaho federal court today over their recent decisions to gut protections for greater sage grouse across millions of acres of public land in the West. A copy of the lawsuit is available here. The groups are Western Watersheds Project, Center for Biological Diversity,…
Water Protectors Protest at Enbridge Drill Site on Mississippi River
Water Protectors protested and stopped construction of an Enbridge drilling site on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River, which is on the Line 3 pipeline route. From Stop Line 3.
from It’s Going Down
(Ball Bluff, MN) On March 22nd, members of the Ginew Collective supported by Northfield Against Line 3 exposed an Enbridge drilling worksite on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River on the…
Marking 200 Day of Active Resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline
by Appalachians Against Pipelines / It’s Going Down
A message from Philip who is involved in one of the tree sits outside of Elliston, VA, which is actively blocking the Mountain Valley Pipeline, (MVP). The statement marks 200 day of active resistance to the pipeline.These sits have now been up for an incredible 200 days.
In those 200 days the Tarpington Municipal Library has expanded from a…
The “wanted” poster for Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, displayed during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19, 2008.
Photo: FBIby Alleen Brown / The Intercept
Joe Dibee’s 12 years on the lam came to an end last August, when Cuban authorities detained the 50-year-old environmental activist during a layover in Havana and turned him over to the United States.
More than a decade earlier, police…
Report Shows Banks Vastly Increased Financing Fossil Fuels Across the Globe
From Native News Online
from Native News Online
On Wednesday, the Indigenous Environmental Network released the Bank on Climate Change Report, in partnership with Rainforest Action Network, Banktrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change International, and Honor the Earth.
The report, endorsed by over 150 organizations around the world, reveals that 33 global banks have provided almost $2 trillion to fossil…
US Judge Halts Hundreds of Drilling Projects in Climate Change Ruling
by Cassidy Randall / The Guardian
Drilling has been halted on more than 300,000 acres of public land in Wyoming. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP
In the first significant check on the Trump administration’s “energy-first” agenda, a US judge has temporarily halted hundreds of drilling projects for failing to take climate change into account.
Drilling had been stalled on more than 300,000 acres of…
Cyclone Idai Shows the Deadly Reality of Climate Change in Africa
by Landry Ninteretse / The Guardian
The flooded streets of Buzi, central Mozambique, after the passage of Cyclone Idai, 20 March 2019. Photograph: Adrien Barbier/AFP/Getty Images
As Africa climate week unfurls in Ghana, the countries of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe count the costs of Cyclone Idai, which ripped through villages and towns, taking hundreds of lives and leaving a trail of…
Recent Study Highlights importance of Intact Forests in Fight Against Climate Change
Taran Volckhausen / Mongabay
Forest fires and fragmentation in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett Butler.
- A recent study suggests global forests are absorbing more carbon dioxide as atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations increase — but that they still can’t keep up with runaway CO2 emissions.
- The study finds that tropical forests, where growth is more robust, are more effective per given…
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…
