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Call For Submissions!

from Earth First! Newswire

The Earth First! Journal needs your submissions! The Summer/Litha 2019 issue is being printed now, and we will be getting started on our Fall/Mabon issue soon. The submission deadline for this issue is August 1st.

We want this upcoming issue to focus on the ways that radical environmentalists can strategically address climate change without giving into the rhetoric of…

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The Rondy Directions Are Here!

The Rondy Directions Are Here!

sent to Earth First! Newswire

DIRECTIONS:

This year’s Rendezvous will take place in the western Uinta Mountains, on occupied Ute land, in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, east of Kamas, Utah. Nearest large town is Heber City. Nearest city is Salt Lake City. Site is at: 40.546472, -111.005306.

Here is a google map pin.

We will be 45 minutes from the nearest town with any amenities so…

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Presses Anti-Indigenous Agenda; Resistance Surges

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Presses Anti-Indigenous Agenda; Resistance Surges

by Sue Branford / Mongabay

A nighttime indigenous protest against the Bolsonaro government in Brasilia in May, 2019. Image by Karla Mendes / Mongabay.

As President Jair Bolsonaro tries to steamroll his indigenous and environmental policies into law, more than 340 international and Brazilian NGOs are urging the European Union to show its disapproval by pulling out of a nearly complete landmark…

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Headwaters Activists Join Youth to Protect Rainbow Ridge

Headwaters Activists Join Youth to Protect Rainbow Ridge

by Save the Mattole Ancient Forest / It’s Going Down

Action report from continued resistance to logging in the ancient Mattole forest in Northern California.

Rio Dell, Humboldt County, CA–An intergenerational road blockade disrupted work at Monument Gate early this morning, blocking access to the contentious active logging plans on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole River watershed. Three elder…

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Mountain Valley Pipeline Fighter Locks Themself to Excavator in Summers County

Mountain Valley Pipeline Fighter Locks Themself to Excavator in Summers County

by Appalachians Against Pipelines / Earth First! Newswire

Photo by Appalachians Against Pipelines.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

[Summers County, WV] — At 6 A.M. Wednesday morning, a pipeline fighter locked themself to a piece of equipment at a Mountain Valley Pipeline site, preventing construction. The anonymous protester climbed atop an excavator and locked themself to it. Banners at the site read…

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An Update on the 2019 Summer Rendezvous in So-Called Utah!

An Update on the 2019 Summer Rendezvous in So-Called Utah!

from RRR Organizers

Join us in occupied Ute land, in the Uinta Mountains of northeast Utah, this July 3 – 10 for the Earth First! Rendezvous. There will be (very cold) swimming! There will be rad workshops, trainings, and presentations–e.g., direct action, Indigenous land defense, resisting borders, grassroots media, climate change and wildfire ecology, dismantling patriarchy, basic camping and…

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Australia's Controversial Adani Coal Mine Gets Final Government Approval

Australia’s Controversial Adani Coal Mine Gets Final Government Approval

by Graham Readfearn / DeSmog Blog

Melbourne, Australia, School Strike for Climate rally. Credit: Stop Adani, CC BY 2.0

The Adani Carmichael coal mine — one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects in Australia’s history — has been handed its final environmental approval.

Based in Queensland, the Indian-owned mine has been beset by controversy after gaining its first set of approvals back in…

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How Indigenous Leadership is Protecting Communities from Climate Disasters

How Indigenous Leadership is Protecting Communities from Climate Disasters

by Jocelyn Stacey / Intercontinental Cry

Smoke plumes from wildfires rise above the Tsilhqot’in territory in central British Columbia in 2017. Tsilhqot’in National Government, Author provided

“The fires were never a threat to us. It was the state that was the threat.”

In two short sentences Chief Joe Alphonse, Tribal Chair of the Tsilhqot’in National Government, conveyed to a House of Commons…

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Chinese Cyber Police List Fighting "Animal Rights Extremism" as Major Priority

Chinese Cyber Police List Fighting “Animal Rights Extremism” as Major Priority

by Liu Caiyu/North American Animal Liberation Press Office

A cyber police force in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province listed fighting extremism as its foremost mission to purify cyberspace, which has sparked wide discussions online on Tuesday.

Extreme organizations use so-called justice to influence the public and unite those with radical views when they are in need, aiming to deliberately…

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Dozens Demonstrate in Ecuador Against US Military Using Galápagos Islands

Dozens Demonstrate in Ecuador Against US Military Using Galápagos Islands

By Dan Collyns/The Guardian

View of two beaches on Bartolome Island in the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador

The Galápagos Islands are at the centre of a political row in Ecuador after the government agreed to allow US anti-narcotics planes to use an airstrip on the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Dozens of people demonstrated outside the main government office in…

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Arctic Permafrost Melting 70 Years Sooner Than Expected, Study Finds

Arctic Permafrost Melting 70 Years Sooner Than Expected, Study Finds

By Jan Wesner Childs / Weather

Melting permafrost, shown here near a research site in Arctic Canada, creates an irregular landscape dotted by lakes, holes and mounds. (Louise Farquharson)

At a Glance

Permafrost is any land that is frozen solid for two or more years at a time.

Melting permafrost changes the terrain.

It can wreak havoc on both wildlife and human habitats.

Scientists studying…

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Prison Abolitionists from Across the Country Block FDOT Vehicles to Draw Connections Between Money Bail and Slavery

Prison Abolitionists from Across the Country Block FDOT Vehicles to Draw Connections Between Money Bail and Slavery

submitted to Earth First! Newswire

Gainesville, FL — A demonstration began early this morning at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) offices, located at 5007 NE 39th Ave, disrupting the activity of Department of Corrections (FDOC) which has a contract to lease out prisoners as unpaid slaves to do road work for the State.   This protest comes at the close of a weekend-long gathering…

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Mattole Forest Defenders Erect Monopod to Block Access Road in PrMattole Forest Defenders Erect Monopod to Block Access Road, Several People Arrested

Mattole Forest Defenders Erect Monopod to Block Access Road in PrMattole Forest Defenders Erect Monopod to Block Access Road, Several People Arrested

Monopod Blocking the Road

Submitted to EF! Journal

Petrolia, CA (June 17th)—In the predawn darkness this morning, a 40 ft. “mono-pod” blockade structure was erected in the road at the main access gate to controversial logging plans in the Mattole River watershed, and several people on the ground were arrested. Twenty people were on site to protest logging by Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC) in the…

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Office Demonstration Disrupts Humboldt Redwood Co. Offices to Demand Safety for Treesitter

Office Demonstration Disrupts Humboldt Redwood Co. Offices to Demand Safety for Treesitter

  Forest defenders report on continuing actions to defend the ancient Mattole forest. Recently, the Humboldt Redwood Company has attempted to forcefully remove a tree sitter. For updates, check Blockade Babes.  

Scotia, CA— At 2 P.M. Thursday, June 13, a dozen protestors engaged in an office demonstration in Scotia to establish communication directly with Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC)…

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Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky

Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky

from Fight Toxic Prisons / It’s Going Down

A report from Fight Toxic Prisons on the recent victory to block the construction of a prison in Kentucky.

Washington, DC — In response to a federal lawsuit filed by Green Justice attorneys, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it withdrew its intent to construct a new $510 million federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, the most expensive…