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Monsanto GMO research lab burned in France

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 11/07/2015 - 23:08

On the 28th of October, Reuters reported that a Monsanto "research" facility in France was heavily damaged by a fire police believe was almost certainly set. The blaze began in two places at once, smelled of gasoline. The lab specialized in corn researh, almost certainly concerning genetically-modified crops. Although no communique claiming credit has emerged from any group, this sounds like Monsanto has run into a new version of the French Resistance.

Environment/Food/Health

Keystone XL opponents celebrate victory over tar sands pipeline

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/07/2015 - 21:07

On the 6th of November, President Obama formally rejected TransCanada's permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to cross the US-Canada border. After 7 years of struggle, the resistance is catching fire, and pipeline after pipeline is being rejected. With other pipelines in Canada also being stopped and oil prices plunging, tar sands projects are being cancelled and investment funds for "unconventional oil" are drying up. Protest WORKS, and on the evening of Nov 6 activists gathered in front of the White House to celebrate victory in what has been a long and difficult battle.

Environment/Food/Health

The victory celebration on front of the White House on the evening after the Keystone XL permit was formally rejected.

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Banners at Skanska construction site redecorated over vivisection lab

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 13:46

Sometime over the Halloween weekend (also known as Earth Night), animal rights activsts redecorated banners on the fence of a Skanska construction site in DC. They added a reminder that Skanska is also building an underground animal testing/torture lab for the University of Wisconsin.

Animal Rights

"Bees" swarm hardware stores for removal of bee-killing pesticides

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 17:03

On the 4th of November, activists from multipe groups "swarmed" into an Ace and a True Value hardware store asking that both chains stop selling neo-nicotinoid pesticides. Some were dressed as bees and one of them was a beekeeper and wore beekeeping gear. They delivered letters and petitions to both stores concerning the neo-nicotinoid pesticides and plants containing them, both of which have been implicated in colony collapse disorder and the massive die-offs of honeybees

Video highlights of the Ace action

Environment/Food/Health

Meeting with the manager of an Ave hardware store in DC

"Bees" swarm Ace against neo-nicotinoids

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