This is a tremendous, awesome video from Will Potter of Green is the New Red. Potter is an expert on the FBI and its growing obsession with labeling activists (in … [Read full article]
Tag: environmental activists
Spy Police Prey on Young Women
Idealistic Love Intelligent women can be naรฏve. Intelligent, idealistic women believe in love. Women and men alike change when they feel pheromones shift. In attraction, a young woman shifts consciously … [Read full article]
Activism Roundup (7 Stories)
7 more good activism stories of the week we haven’t covered yet:
Finland Going After Animal Activists for Undercover Factory Farm Videos
Animal rights and environmental activists are increasingly being targeted by governments as terrorists (or “eco-terrorists”) as award-winning independent journalist and author Will Potter repeatedly shows. One of his recent posts on his site Green is the New Red was on animal activists in Finland being prosecuted for undercovering filming of factory farms. The story:
Sea Shepherd Headed into Libya Now
A Sea Shepherd Conservation Society boat full of environment activists, the Steve Irwin, is headed towards Libyan waters today, perhaps arriving as early as later tonight.
One More Environmental Activist in Brazil Murdered
Following up on the murder of a world-renowned Brazilian rain forest activist and his wife that I wrote about last week, it turns out another environmental activist in the rain forests of Brazil was shot and killed on Friday.
Rainforest Activist and Wife Murdered in Brazil
If you haven’t seen this news, it’s pretty disturbing. A rainforest activist in Brazil (Josรฉ Clรกudio Ribeiro da Silva) who had been working to protect rainforests from logging was shot and killed this week, as well as his wife. This, ironically, happened just a few hours before Brazil horrible new legislation that will increase deforestation in the area.
Sentencing Activists to Community Service is Hilarious
While I’ve noticed this phenomenon quite a few times before, yesterday’s sentencing of three Earth First! activists in Maine reminded me of the amazing backwards-notion that forcing activists into community … [Read full article]
Two Mexican Social Activists Found Tortured, Murdered
The bodies of two well-known social activists were found Guerrero, Mexico showing clear signs of torture. [social_buttons] Raul Lucas and Manuel Ponce were captured on February 13th by three people … [Read full article]
How You Can Buy Part of Greenpeace's Heathrow Plot
We covered the exciting news earlier that Greenpeace has purchased a $30,000 plot of land in the middle of the area that had been earmarked to become a third runway … [Read full article]
Greenpeace Blocks Palm Oil Ships to Highlight Deforestation
Three tankers containing crude palm oil were halted by Greenpeace when they attempted to leave an Indonesian port for China and Europe. Activists wanted to highlight the rapidly expanding palm … [Read full article]