O.R.C.

Well, Tre Arrow’s trial date has been moved from May 6th to July 8th, and Eric McDavid’s sentencing is currently scheduled for May 8th. Turns out that Greenpeace openly condemned the green scare prisoners. The US has closed most of the west coast to salmon fishing, and someone, most likely an angry fisher, shot six caged sea lions at Bonneville Dam, where they had been trapped to keep them from eating their natural prey, salmon. Portland animal rights activists responded with a demonstration. Oregon’s Liquefied Natural Gas projects creep forward, met by resistance at every turn. Bark, a non-profit in Portland, has announced that they will hike the length of where an LNG pipeline will cut through the Mt. Hood National Forest, June 8th-15th, and they are inviting the public along for a portion of it. The North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) released an interesting strategy piece about the ecological crisis facing us and how to begin to confront it. Eco-prisoner Jeff Luers has been moved to a minimum security prison awaiting his release and has released a dispatch on the event and his feelings about it. A private commission of former governors and the like in Kansas announced that yes, factory farming is really messed up, surprising no one. As a result of a livestock drug, asian vultures are expected to be extinct in 10 years. The Kuwait Ministry of Defense has decided that it is a good idea to ship 6,700 tons of sand contaminated by depleted uranium from Kuwait to a dump in Idaho, and have hired MKM Engineers, Inc of Stafford, Texas to do it. A British company, VANE minerals group, is expected to start mining the grand canyon for uranium (which, by the way, is far from green). The new US/Mexico border fence is apparently impeding the migration of jaguars. Wild buffalo continue to be killed despite Montana’s governors statements that they wouldn’t; in fact, the meat is being sold to local food banks for 42c a pound. Indigenous activists in Canada are walking 1850km to draw attention to the destruction of the earth, while Bush is beating the war drums on drilling the artic refuge once again. Turns out that all this third-world starvation (caused by speculation), is good for business: Monsanto, Mosiac Company, Cargill, and other food/fertilizer mega-corporations are reporting record earnings. The world’s largest lake, in Siberia, is warming up right quick, while global warming is reducing the ocean’s oxygen (oh, and the dead zones are growing). Norway shot its first whale of the season, while Cheney procrastinates protecting the North Atlantic right whale. Washington state might get a new wilderness area, if Bush will sign on. And last but not least of the week’s news, a bridge-construction site in South-west England was struck by the ELF and ALF.