Ecological Defense

"Money can pass through your hands like water but the land is forever" "What are we going to leave for our children if we don't stand up and fight? This is a fight for survival!"

How can we get through the mounting crises, ecological and economic, in a time of political conflict and confusion? We believe we provide solid, unique answers, based on reaction so far to these articles:

Good News for Mother Earth and You: When Our Division Is Over
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/799/1/
"...you may be convinced we have already sealed our fate and that humans may well go extinct possibly in a matter of decades, tracking the worst potential climate chaos. So why bother to hang around and breathe out your carbon dioxide?"

The Challenge of Unity Amidst Economic Crisis and the End of Growth
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/798/1/

Monday 20 June 2011
by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher is surrounded by supporters carrying sings bearing the number 70, DeChristopher's bidder's number during a 2008 lease auction, outside the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City, February 28, 2011. DeChristopher, charged with fraudulently buying federal oil and gas leases at an auction here in 2008, took the witness stand at his criminal trial on Wednesday and told the jury he had acted spontaneously, with no clear plan or intent to harm. (Photo: Djamila Grossman / The New York Times)

Yet another anti-mining activist has been murdered in El Salvador.
Canadian civil society organizations are calling for a full investigation
into the murder of Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, the fourth such death in
two years that local organizations believe are linked to the presence of
Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in the department of Cabañas.

On June 2nd, Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a thirty-year old linguistics
student at the Technological University in San Salvador, was hanging
posters in the city of Ilobasco, in the department of Cabañas as part of a
campaign against mining and Pacific Rim. The Cabañas Environmental
Committee reported that the local mayor ordered municipal police to remove
the banners and intimidate the activists hanging them. The next day, Juan

Leaked documents show how three large British companies have been paying private security firm to monitor activists

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011

Protesters at Ratcliffe-on Soar power station, operated by E.ON, which says it has hired security firms to gather information on climate activists. Photograph: Tom Pilston
Three large energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists, the Guardian can reveal.

The energy giant E.ON, Britain's second-biggest coal producer Scottish Resources Group and Scottish Power, one of the UK's largest electricity-generators, have been paying for the services of a private security firm that has been secretly monitoring activists.

Join the Beehive Collective for a visual workshop on "The True Cost of Coal"

When: Wednesday, November 10th from 4-6pm
Where: The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 3

Using a gigantic, portable mural teeming with intricate images of plants and
animals, the Bees will walk participants through the connections between

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2010
Contact: olympia@risingtidenorthamerica.org
Olympia, WA – On October 25, activists from Olympia Rising Tide hung two banners at the Evergreen State College in opposition to a proposed biomass gasification facility. Olympia Rising Tide opposes biomass because it is a false solution to climate change and would lead to a massive resurgence of clear-cut logging in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere.

Photo via NOLA

This was on treehugger. -Rick

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/river-dead-fish-clogs-mississipp...

Don't miss the Buffalo Field Campaign's visit to Oly.  Learn about volunteering for this effort to defend these amazing creatures. 

Traditions Fair Trade
300 5th Avenue SW

For more info:
Deane deane@efn.org

RAN is taking on Mountaintop removals funding sources! -R Check it out:

http://act.ran.org/action/ubsbankvictory

Trans & Womyn's Action Camp July 7-12th, 2010 is a week long action camp in the forests of Oregon designed to be inclusive of trans, womyn & genderqueer folk. TWAC is a gathering of eco-activists, who are also working to bring down patriarchy. As a safe(r) space, we aim to
create an empowering environment where gender-minority activists will be able to share skills, stories, and experiences.

Last year we offered over 50 workshops on subjects such as strategic campaigning, direct action, DIY reproductive health, herbal self-care, anti-oppression, the green scare, underground publishing and more!

This is from Center for Biological Diversity.  -Rick

Even as the
BP spill gushes millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the
agency tasked with overseeing offshore drilling is continuing to exempt
dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Since the
BP oil-rig explosion on April 20, an investigation has revealed that the
U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service has approved

Please check out this video! What's going on in Alberta's northern Boreal forests is an on going disaster not entirely unlike whats going on in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://vimeo.com/6597349