Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands » Fighting to stop tar sands infrastructure in the Great Lakes region. Don’t call me an environmentalist. Our Generation's Quiet Awakening must be Green and Red. En français: The creative, courageous and inspiring Quebec student movement will today weave its way through Montreal's Earth Day rally, mixing red and green, merging demands for a freeze on tuition with respect for the earth and those most impacted by climate change.
Let the meeting not remain accidental, but deepen and flourish. Our country has always been divided by solitudes of nation, religion, and language, but no two solitudes are as important to overcome today as this: the fight against an unjust economy and the fight against climate change. It has never been more urgent to make the connection. The old mentality may have told us to fight our battles separately: Let environmentalists deal with the environment; let workers and students deal with the economy. This must be our generation's quiet awakening. Deer beats the S**T out of a hunter!!! Haha - Deer 1 / Hunter 0.
Monkeys Devise a Tool to Break Out of Zoo in Brazil. © vincentraal It is said that the ability to use tools is an important commonality shared between humans and non-human primates -- likewise, so it seems, is the desire to be free.
In the early hours of the morning yesterday, a group of eight capuchin monkeys made a remarkably clever escape from a zoo in Brazil. Much to the surprise of staffers at the small facility, the daring monkeys appear to have used a stone tool to break the locks of their enclosure before fleeing into the surrounding forest. Of the eight monkey to escape the facility in the Brazilian state of Paraná, officials have only managed to capture four so far. Zoo coordinator Gladis Dalamina told Globo that fruit-lined cage traps were successful in capturing three of the monkeys in the hours after the break out. "It was a surprise because this isn't the jungle here, and to have [a monkey] enter my establishment," said the restaurant owner.
"Their job is to run. Dismantling Empire with Derrick Jensen. Aussies occupy drill rig to protest coal mining « Earth First! Newswire. Monday, February 6th, 2012 One Australian activist has been released pending summons for ‘interfering with a motor vehicle’ today after stopping drilling in Bacchus Marsh.
Paul Connor locked himself to the top of Mantle Mining’s 8.5 metre-tall drill rig while hanging a banner that read ‘No New Coal Bacchus Marsh’. Another campaigner, local mother Natasha Mills, also locked herself to the drill rig at ground level, surrounded by a support crew of 15 other Quit Coal activists who occupied the drill site to stage a ‘picnic’, which featured produce from local farms. ‘We are eating locally grown food to illustrate what is at stake here’ said Mills, who is currently 7 and a half months pregnant with her second child. ‘This project will destroy prime agricultural land, all for the sake of a quick buck and the burning of brown coal, one of the most environmentally harmful practices possible. Quit Coal will see about that. Quebecers hear the call and rise up for the environment. Among the participants were 40 Innu women from Sept-Iles who had walked 800km to protest the Plan Nord, Quebec's plan to open up the North and the province's last virgin ecosystems to major industrial development and mining.
(Credit: 22Avril.org) By Karel Mayrand, Director General David Suzuki Foundation Quebec. Montreal held the largest environmental demonstration in the history of Canada this past Sunday. At 2pm, bells rang in 1200 churches across the province. In downtown Montreal, people gathered and you could not see the end of this massive human wave. We were 250 000 strong when I went on stage to speak to the crowd. Sign up for our newsletter Their response was like thunder. Buses came from 50 different cities throughout Quebec. You can read our demands in the declaration that is hosted on DSF's website, and signed by over 50,000 people. DSF along with Equiterre, Greenpeace, AQLPA, Earth Day Quebec and many other groups were the organizers for the event. Protest Barrick : Index. Sea Shepherd. Deep Green Resistance. This post has been reviewed by the Vancouver Media Co-op editorial committee.
STORY about SolidarityEnvironmentDirect Action posted on May 5, 2012 by Zoe Blunt Words as tactical weapons by Zoe Blunt →Vancouver Island Deep Green Resistance Also posted by Zoe Blunt: Originally published by Canadian Dimension. I first heard about Deep Green Resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacation-home subdivision at a Vancouver Island wilderness park. Deep Green Resistance (DGR) made me a better strategist. “This book is about fighting back. Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, opens the discussion with an analysis of why “traditional” environmental action is self-defeating. The DGR philosophy was born from failure. “This suggests our work is a failure,” Jensen concludes. If we keep to this course, as Keith points out, the outcome is extinction: the death of species, of people, and the planet itself.
“Don’t be afraid to be radical,” Keith advises in a recent interview.