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It’s been a long time coming, but Comet Pan-STARRS will be visible in the northern hemisphere just after twilight beginning Thursday (March 7). Discovered in June 2011 by the University of Hawaii’s Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS, the comet has been dazzling sky-watchers in the southern hemisphere for weeks. It joins Comet ...

‘Robin Banks’ Outlaw, Enric Duran, on Integral Revolution – Infoshop News

Enric Duran, the ‘robin hood’ who took out nearly half a million euros in bank loans and donated it to revolutionary social movements, is now declared an outlaw, and on the run. Still he is very actively promoting the integral coop and a new initiative to support outlawed activists like himself. He argues in an [...]

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Two Anarchist Grand Jury Resisters are Free: Judge Cites “Strength of Their Convictions” – Infoshop News

For the past five months Matt Duran and Katherine “KteeO” Olejnik have been in jail for refusing to talk about their friends or about their political beliefs. They were never accused of any crime; they took a principled stand against a federal grand jury targeting anarchists. During that time, one of the other grand jury [...]

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The Exploitation of “Outsider Art”: Miroslav Tichy – Infoshop News

The first appearance of Miroslav Tichý in the world of art – if one excepts the infrequent exhibitions of his paintings in Czechoslovakia when he was young (of which Milan Chlumsky speaks in his essay) – was in 1989, under the auspices of Roman Buxbaum, a Czech psychiatrist based in Zurich who had discovered Tichý’s [...]

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Austerity Triggers Novel Protests in Portugal – ABC News

A Portuguese revolutionary song from 40 years ago is haunting the bailed-out country’s government. Anti-austerity protesters are hounding senior officials by loudly singing at public events a celebrated tune from the 1974 Carnation Revolution. They have managed to silence some of their targets, including the prime minister when he was trying to give a speech [...]

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Internal Memo: National Guard Can Share Drone Surveillance With Law Enforcement – US News & World Report

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Data collected by the Army National Guard’s unmanned aerial drones in American skies could be passed along to other government agencies, as long as it is “unintentionally and incidentally collected,” according to internal documents acquired earlier this week. The “Proper Use Memorandum,” acquired by MuckRock, an organization dedicated to making government documents public, and shared [...]

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Police spy unravels decade of deception – National News | TVNZ

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A former police spy has lifted the lid on his decade of deception under the codename Muldoon. The details of Rob Gilchrist’s double life infiltrating protest groups and leading trade unions are contained in a draft claim for more than $500,000 from police for lost income, for humiliation, distress, and loss of reputation. He claims [...]

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The New Abolitionists: Global warming is the great moral crisis of our time – News Features

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I want to say a word for radicalism — for the role of the radical in building a movement to confront climate change, the most urgent crisis human beings have ever faced. I want to start with two scenes, and two speakers, who embody the imperatives, and the limitations, of the moment in which we [...]

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Rise of the Drones

Over the past three years, American unmanned aerial vehicles—or drones—have killed hundreds of people, both suspected terrorists and civilians, in Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. During that time, they’ve proved to be useful for situations where using ground soldier or manned planes is deemed too risky. Now, drones come in all different shapes and sizes [...]

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TorrentFreak’s Top File-Sharing News Articles of 2012

The year is almost over so we’re going to spend its final few hours looking back at the biggest news events in the file-sharing world during 2012. Which TorrentFreak articles were read the most, which received the most comments, and what were the biggest file-sharing news stories of the year?

Source: TorrentFreak’s Top File-Sharing News Articles of 2012

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Pumpkin pie and tofurky in the trees, hot damn!

Photos from a Humboldt tree sit Trinidad, California- Community supporters brought tofurky, potatoes, and pumpkin pie to the tree sitters on Green Diamond property in Trinidad. The tree sit is on the trail to Strawberry Rock and has been occupied for a…

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Update From Cascadia Forest Defenders

Hello friends, the first batch of folks arrested at the state capitol building occupation this last summer went through sentencing yesterday. They got over $1000 in fines, 60 hours of community service, and 18 months probation. The other crew is facing…

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Court rules peace activists can sue the U.S. military for infiltration

Cross Posted from the National Lawyers Guild In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a Guild lawyer’s challenge to military spying on peace activists can proceed. The ruling marks the first time a court has affirmed people’s ability to sue the military for violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights. “This [...]

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California Releases First-ever Fracking Regulations

by Paul Rodgers / Mercury News Wading into one of the hottest environmental debates in the nation, California on Tuesday released its first-ever regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the increasingly common — and controversial — practice of freeing oil and gas from rock formations by injecting chemicals under high pressure into the ground. The [...]

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300 protest Tnuva, call for CEO’s resignation

Cross Posted from Jerusalem Post By SHARON UDASIN PHOTO: COURTESY OF ‘TNUVA CRUELTY’ About 300 animal rights activists gathered in Tel Aviv on Monday – International Animal Rights Day – to protest abuse that has allegedly gone on in Tnuva’s Adom-Adom brand slaughterhouse in Beit She’an. The protest follows a criminal investigation launched this weekend against [...]

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Getting the Shell Out of BC

ForestEthics Advocacy’s Karen Tam Wu shares the exciting news that coalbed methane drilling has been banned from British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters. Thanks to the local communities and 100,000 ForestEthics supporters who helped ‘Get the Shell out!’

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Mont. land board approves Keystone pipeline lease

Reblogged from Climate Connections: Note: Kudos to you, Gov. Schweitzer, for selling out the public to not one, but two of the meanest, nastiest pipeline evildoers- Transcanada and Enbridge.  –The GJEP Team December 17 2012.  Source: Associated Press Photo: Victor Ady, The Billings Gazette HELENA — Montana on Monday approved easements to let the Keystone [...]

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Remembering Avalon on Winter Solstice

Environmental and social justice activist, ELF warrior and political prisoner William C. Rodgers (known to friends as “Avalon”) died on December 21, 2005. A casualty of the Green Scare, he committed suicide in jail, citing the following reason: “To my friends and supporters to help them make sense of all these events that have happened [...]

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