Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
By Dahr Jamail 18 Apr., 2012. Al Jazeera New Orleans, LA - “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at...
View ArticleLow levels of Fukushima cesium found in West Coast tuna
Reposted from CNN Scientists hope to test new samples of Pacific bluefin tuna after low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off...
View ArticleThe Entire Oil And Gas Industry Is Watching A Tiny Town In Wyoming
By Rob Wile of Business Insider: Most scientists have long maintained it was highly unlikely that chemicals pumped into the ground for fracking gas could move all the way up through bedrock and into...
View ArticleThere’s no such thing as a natural disaster – Neil Smith
Written in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Neil Smith argues ‘natural disasters’ are in every aspect social disasters, reflecting contours of class and race. Originally posted at...
View ArticleTar Sands Blockade Calls For Solidarity Actions November 19th
Our message is simple: climate catastrophe is social injustice manifest and nothing less than a slow but sure genocide of the have-nots perpetrated by those with extraordinary privilege. The only way...
View Article‘Major spill’ after Exxon pipe ruptures in US
From Al Jazeera: An Exxon Mobil crude oil pipeline ruptured near the town of Mayflower in the US state of Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of oil, the company said. Exxon shut the 50-centimetre...
View ArticleActivists claim Arkansas oil spill diverted into wetland
By By Stephen C. Webster of The Raw Story: Activists with the group Tar Sands Blockade published new videos on Sunday showing oil from the Arkansas pipeline rupture purportedly diverted from a...
View ArticleDaniel McGowan Forbidden From Publishing Articles Without Permission
By Nick Pinto of The Village Voice: After more than seven years, the stack of dehumanizing and seemingly unconstitutional interactions between Daniel McGowan and the American prison system is now...
View ArticleWhat BP doesn’t want you to know about the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill
BP mounted a cover-up that concealed the full extent of its crimes from public view. This cover-up prevented the media and therefore the public from knowing — and above all, seeing — just how much oil...
View ArticleConstruction of Keystone XL pump station shut down in Oklahoma.
From Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance: Early this morning, eight individuals blocked construction of a pump station for TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Seminole...
View ArticleClimate change on pace to occur 10 times faster than any change recorded in...
By BJORN CAREY of Standford News: Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field report...
View ArticleMilitary-Industrial Complex A-Okay As U.S. Shutdown Enters Fourth Day
By Frank Robins SEATTLE, OCCUPIED DUWAMISH TERRITORY — October 4, 2013 “Government Shutdown” — the words are blocked across every paper in the country this week. It sounds like a good idea — and...
View ArticleTake Your Pipeline and Shove It: Rising Tide Protesters Build Pipeline...
By Jim Fromm SEATTLE, OCCUPIED DUWAMISH TERRITORY — October 30, 2013 Rising Tide Seattle, South Sound Rising Tide, and No Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance members assembled a 35-foot-long pipeline in...
View ArticleThe Rise and Co-optation of Microcosm Publishing
By Jim Fromm SEATTLE, OCCUPIED DUWAMISH TERRITORY – November 15, 2013 Microcosm Publishing, a self-described “radical publishing house,” is distributing books through sweatshop apparel dealer Urban...
View ArticleWinter’s Barricades: The Fight Against Fracking and Tar Sands
By Jim Fromm SEATTLE, OCCUPIED DUWAMISH TERRITORY – December 17, 2013 This week, people have been blockading oil industry equipment from Oregon to Alberta. Near Haig Lake in northern Alberta, the...
View ArticleAs oil train burns, 2,300 residents of Casselton, N.D., told to flee
By DAVID SHAFFER of the Star Tribune: Officials on Monday night were calling for the evacuation of the entire town of Casselton, N.D., after a BNSF grain train derailed and crashed into a crude oil...
View ArticleChemicals Found In Water At Fracking Sites Linked To Infertility, Cancer
BY KILEY KROH of Think Progress: An analysis of water samples from hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ sites found the presence of hormone-disrupting chemicals, according to a new study published...
View ArticleMETROPOLIS Screening and Online
Black Coffee Co-op is hosting a screening of Metropolis (2012) on Sunday March 2nd, at 7 pm, as part of the irregular Cascadia Film Night. Metropolis is “an anti-commercial, a negative production, a...
View ArticleWashington State DNR Allowed Clearcuts On Unstable Oso Slope
By Brendan Kiley at The Stranger via CascadiaWatch.org Two days after the Hazel slope in Oso turned into what one rescue worker described as “a blender” of mud and trees hurtling downhill, a Snohomish...
View ArticleMARCH POINT Free Screening at Cascadia Film Night
Cascadia Watch is hosting a free screening of March Point on Sunday April 6th, at 8 pm, as part of our irregular Cascadia Film Night. Cody, Nick and Travis, three teens from the Swinomish Indian Tribe,...
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