908 Environmentalists Have Been Murdered in Brazil, Many Elsewhere As Well (tags)
Chico Mendes, Santos Rodrigues, Ohio nun Dorothy Stang are some of the nearly 1000 environmentalists murdered in Brazil by cattle ranchers, loggers, and other financial interests.
Grassroots to Aveda: ’Safe Fracking’ Won’t Fly: You can’t Put Lipstick on a Pig (tags)
On July 19, environmentalists rallied at Aveda stores to challenge the corporation’s support of Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY), an Albany-tied organization that has taken an increasingly prominent role in the widely disparaged industrial practice of fracking. Activists drew attention to EANY’s support for regulated fracking (or ‘safe fracking’, as the industry has called it). EANY’s Washington, D.C.-based parent organization, the National Wildlife Federation, also came in for some bruising criticism for their support of this polluting practice.
The Green Scare Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words ‘terrorism.’ How new laws are equating environmentalists with Al Qaeda ~ By DEAN KUIPERS ~
BTL:Environmentalists Consider the Dangers... (tags)
...Opportunities Under Another 4 Years of Bush ~ Interview with Lois Gibbs, environmental justice activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
The Man from Vermont is Not Green (He's Not Even a Liberal) (tags)
"Dean's attempts to run for president as an environmentalist is nothing but a fraud," Smith told Wild Matters. "He's destroyed the Agency of Natural Resources, he's refused to meet with environmentalists while constantly meeting with the development community, and he's made the permitting process one, big dysfunctional joke."
Loggers Try to Demonize Environmental Groups as 'Terrorists' (tags)
Last month, industry lobbyists, led by Boise Cascade, wrote to the Internal Revenue Service arguing that groups such as RAN had violated the terms of their tax-exempt status because they engaged in civil disobedience.
** Opinion: Energy and Environment: Offense Instead of Defense (tags)
This piece makes the case for an offensive strategy on energy issues, instead the environmental movement's current defensive reactive approach.
Environmentalists Against Gore Speak Out (tags)
After eight years of environmental betrayals, largely buried in the corporate press, grassroots environmetal leaders cry, "Enough!"