Homeless Till Green Farm For Shelter

BOSTON — It seems like an unlikely spot for farming, but Boston Harbor’s Long Island farm — the city’s only certified organic farm — is producing another bumper crop.
NewsCenter 5’s David Brown reported that the 2 ½-acre farm produces 25,000 to 30,000 pounds of produce each year.

Japanese Whalers Using Humpbacks To Blackmail the International Whaling Commission

By: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
July 4, 2008 - “Let us kill the Piked and Fin whales or the Humpbacks will die,” is the message from Joji Morishita of the Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research.
Once again the Japanese whalers are threatening to slaughter Humpbacks unless they get permission to slaughter a thousand Piked whales and fifty [...]

Brucellosis focus shifts from bison to elk

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals.
But the crosshairs are shifting to a new target, elk, as the disease infects cattle in [...]

Utility Headquarters Overtaken by Earth First! No More Business as Usual

(An Earth First! action that can bring out 100 people? It brings tears to my eyes to know it’s still possible.)
Columbus, OH — At 11:30am Monday morning, about 100 Earth First! activists occupied the headquarters of American Municipal Power, an electric utility that provides statewide service to member communities.
As part of an ongoing series of [...]

Olympia: City Councilman’s Business Shitbombed

-from infoshop news
Dear Jeff Kingsbury and other really bad people,
On the night of June 6th, a bunch of us kids traveled to the port-a-potty behind the Salvation Army. We filled 5 light bulbs with shit, carried them over to Jeff Kingsbury’s Capital Playhouse, and covered his marquee in human feces.
We felt it was appropriate to [...]

Man rips head from Hitler wax figure

(Oh hell yeah! The museum wouldn’t listen to public concerns, and the public took direct action. That’s how it works.)
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin’s Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.
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Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old [...]

Coal-Fired Powerplant Protesters Face Jail Time

By MICHAEL MARTZ TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
First came the cause.
Now come the consequences.
Twelve political activists could face time in jail for their parts in a protest that blockaded the entrance to Dominion Resources’ corporate headquarters in downtown Richmond on Monday.
However, they may be spared from repaying the city for police, fire and rescue costs in responding [...]

Seal hunt protesters urge EU ban

BRUSSELS (AFP) — Hundreds of anti-seal hunt demonstrators held a protest outside European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, demanding that the 27-nation bloc impose a total ban on seal products from Canada and elsewhere.
The protest outside the European Commission and European Council buildings in central Brussels, was held on the day France assumed the [...]

Fighting the NAFTA Super-Highway

Steven Higgs / Counterpunch
The day after John McCain flew to Canada to glorify the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 73-year-old Rosie Edwards repeatedly laughed about her flood-ravaged home in Martinsville, Ind.
“I’ve cried all I can cry,” the grandmother of 55 grand and great-grandchildren said on June 21 in her moldy, now-gutted home of six [...]

Indiana: Updates from I-69 campaign: 15 Lock Down, 1 Arrested, Semi’s Tires Slashed

-from Infoshop News
HAUBSTADT - Local authorities took an I-69 protester into custody after about 15 protesters blocked the entrance of highway contractor Gohmann Asphalt’s Haubstadt yard, locking themselves to some equipment.