By Julia Conley / Common Dreams This picture taken on February 3, 2020 shows storage tanks for contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture in Japan. (Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images) Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings…
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest EARLY MONDAY MORNING A HOME ASSOCIATED WITH DODD DRILLING, LLC WAS PAINTED WITH SLOGANS INCLUDING “DODD DRILLING STAY OUT”, “STOP COP CITY”, AND “DROP APD” TO THE DODD DRILLING JERK: LAST MONDAY, A BULLDOZER WITH YOUR LOGO FORCED ITS WAY INTO WEELAUNEE FOREST AND LEFT A 100-FT TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION IN ITS…
By Graeme Green / The Guardian [All words in brackets added by EF!N editor] Dam busters: a structure is removed on the Hučava River in Slovakia, June 2021. Photograph: Rob Kleinjans At least 239 barriers, including dams and weirs, were removed across 17 countries in Europe in 2021, in a record-breaking year for dam removals across the continent. Spain…
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest Employees arriving to work this morning at the Fridley office of Atlas Technical Consultants found a mess. Every window of the building had been smashed out, buckets of paint had been thrown inside the office, and the front was redecorated to read “FUCK COP CITY, DEFEND THE ATL FOREST.” This attack was carried…
By Onion / Earth First! Newswire A heroic bear, acting in self-defense, attacked and killed a member of the US army who had stolen their land for the purpose of military training. The 30-year-old soldier, and another who received minor injuries, were practicing murdering techniques at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (named after a mass-murderer who…
From It’s Going Down On May 2nd, in so-called Lincoln, Nebraska, the Niskithe Prayer Camp was established in opposition to the “Wilderness Crossing development project, which would significantly encroach on sacred Native American purification/sweat ceremonies and disrupt an existing pristine nature park.” According to Nebraska Public Media…
Sent to Earth First! Newswire BORDERLESS CALL: JOIN US IN THE HAMBACHER FOREST FOR A GATHERING FOR ANIMAL LIBERATION! In the factory farms and vivisection labs, our nonhuman comrades are already fighting back. The time is ripe – let’s share skills and perspectives on how to support their resistance! By “anti-speciesism” we don’t mean online…
From Anarchist Federation Received anonymously via email: “Liberation of 16 rainbow trouts 16 rainbow trouts obtained freedom on an April night. We were able to rescue them from their dirty pool where hundreds of them were surviving fattened to be eaten. We let them go in a river where they will finally be able to express their natural behaviors and…
From MTL Counter-info Late in the night, on May 4th, individuals acting in the spirit of vengeance visited the home of Michael Fortier on Chester Avenue. Mr. Fortier was a federal cabinet minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Today, he is the vice-chairman of capital markets at the Royal Bank of Canada. Tucked away in his big house in the Town…
From Animal Liberation Press Office Below are some selected news stories from the last 16 months; no claims by activists for any of these fires have been received as of yet by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. April 13, 2022: CONWAY, NH—Firefighters from several departments in Maine helped battle a massive fire that destroyed a butcher…
By Leyland Cecco / The Guardian In this image courtesy of Sophie Bonneville, a polar bear roams a field in Madeleine-Centre on 30 April. Photograph: Sophie Bonneville/AFP/Getty Images Canadian police have shot and killed a polar bear that wandered into a Quebec community hundreds of kilometres south of the species’ normal territory, in an incident…
By Damien Gayle / The Guardian Police address Just Stop Oil campaigners barricading the Cobham services on the M25 in Surrey on Thursday. Photograph: Just Stop Oil/PA Environmental activists have sabotaged petrol pumps at two motorway service stations, in what they described as a “significant escalation” in their campaign against fossil fuel distribution in…
From Stop Reeves Young On April 25th, activists with Stop Reeves Young (SRY) confirmed the news that Reeves Young, a major Atlanta construction contractor, is no longer working with the Atlanta Police Foundation on the Cop City development. This is a great victory for popular resistance to police militarization and environmental devastation. In only…
From Enough 14 Atlanta. Georgia. On April 21st, forest defenders overheard workers state that forest destruction and eviction is expected to begin on May 3. This is a CALL-TO-ACTION for eco-warriors worldwide to come help defend the forest from any further police intrusion and destruction! The kkkops would train here to militarize against those resisting…
From Anarchist Federation Two bank ATMs were vandalized and put out of commission in San Francisco in solidarity with land defenders in the Atlanta Forest and across occupied land. You can do it too! The week of so-called “Earth Day”, autonomous hooligans super-glued the card readers at two SF banks. This echoes anti-bank and anti-civ actions across…
From Anarchist Federation Belgorod. Russia. We received information that a cell tower in the Belomestnoe village in the Belgorod oblast was set on fire in the night of April 17-18, 2022. The action was planned and carried out by the BOAK-Slobozhanshchina group. Originally published by Anarchist Militants Telegram Channel. Translated by Riot Turtle with…
From North Shore Info Anonymous submission to North Shore This week across southern ontario and quebec, we’ve lost count on how many RBC branches were targeted (we estimate 10+) for disruption and attack. So-called toronto, hamilton, montreal… friends in places as small as orillia and as distant as nanaimo. These actions respond to a need to target…
By Steve Neavling / Detroit Metro Times A protester is camped high in a tree to protect a forested section of Ann Arbor from being cleared for a luxury homes project. A forest defender camped high in a tree Monday morning to protest a planned development of luxury homes in a forested section of Ann Arbor. The protester, who goes by the name Nuthatch…
From Act for Freedom Now A public works machine was discovered on fire this Sunday, March 27, on the site of the Lien (Intercommunal link for the northern bypass of Montpellier) in Grabels, near the Mas de Gentil. The crusher was completely destroyed by the flames. This is the second time in a few months that equipment used on this road development…
From Anarchist Federation Arrival of military equipment from Russia at the Brest-Yuzhny railway depot in January. On April 6, the Ministry of the Interior reported that security forces used live ammunition to arrest “saboteurs” along a rail track in late March. Three of them allegedly acted together and set fire to two relay cabinets near Osipovichi…
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Scientists engage in civil disobedience on the steps of the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, Spain on April 6, 2022. (Photo: Scientist Rebellion) More than 1,000 scientists across the globe chained themselves to the doors of oil-friendly banks, blocked bridges, and occupied the steps of government buildings on Wednesday…
From Abolition Media 30.03.2022: On Wednesday night, three lumber trucks were completely set on fire between Lumaco and Capitán Pastene, in the southwest of Malleco, in the Araucanía region. The events occurred when at around 22:00 hours, three lumber truck drivers were travelling along route 90P that connects Lumaco with Capitan Pastene, when they…
By Clea Skopeliti / The Guardian Members of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil protest at the Esso fuel terminal in Purfleet, Essex. Photograph: Martin Dalton/Rex/Shutterstock More than 100 people have been arrested as climate change protesters continued to block UK oil terminals as part of a campaign to disrupt the fossil fuel industry. Supporters…
From Act for Freedom Now! On the night of March 11, the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, we did a series of graffiti tags along the disused Bar-le-Duc / Ligny / Gondrecourt railroad, which is part of the CIGÉO nuclear burial project. In the ironically named village “Les Castors”, near Ligny-en-Barrois, we sabotaged…
Twin Cities Bank of America Attacked to Stop Cop City from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest January 31st, 2022 In solidarity with the 4 forest defenders arrested this week in the fight to #stopcopcity, autonomous vandals smashed the windows of Bank of America, one of the largest sponsors of the Atlanta Police Foundation. The building was also redecorated…