http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc ...for the trees have no swords Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:22:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, some local news. It sounds like the fine folk of The Pitchfork Rebellion are coming to Portland to try and draw attention to the horrendous WOPR (no, not that WOPR, but the Western Oregon Plan Revision: a complete trashing of environmental protections that apply to the BLM and their ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/anti-wopr-rally-in-portland-july-27th-noon-to-five-pioneer-square/ Albert “Ali” Kazemian, of NJ, is a dedicated animal rights activist who works with the group BEAR. Despite two previous convictions (for interfering with black bear hunting and interfering with black bear trapping), he poured urine on the bait of bear live-traps to prevent bears from entering them. A home-owner ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/activist-receives-30-day-sentence-for-interfering-with-bear-traps/ We certainly don't want to come off as biased towards arson as a tactic, but these things are certainly some of the most news-worthy. On the night of the 4th of July, while American's celebrated aimlessly with fireworks, the Swedish ALF (called "Djurens Befrielsefront") lit fire to a slaughterhouse in ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/swedish-alf-burns-wildlife-slaughterhouse-before-it-opens/ Eco-defendant Briana Waters is now legally a terrorist, having received the terrorist enhancement at her sentencing. She was sentenced to six years in prison and three years on probation. Her sentencing went ahead on June 19th despite new evidence that undermine the legitimacy of Ms. Kolar’s testimony against her. But ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/lessons-learned-from-briana-waters-sentencing/ the primary editor of this website is off adventuring for the next month or so, thus the sporadic updates. expect intermittent reports from various roving agents of ORC, and more regular service in, let's guess July. http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/off-traveling-my-apologies/ 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 ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/sunday-to-sunday-3-427-54-2008/ As many of our readers are aware, there is a woman named Marie Mason who is currently under house arrest in Michigan (separated from her family and friends in Ohio), awaiting trial for an ELF action that took place in the midwest almost a decade ago. Her visitors are being ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/volunteer-to-help-eco-prisoner-marie-mason/ Well, Canada has refused to call polar bears “endangered”, while more evidence emerges about how screwed they are by climate change, and it looks like artic ice is melting even faster than expected. The magic global-warming quick-fix atmospheric sulphur-injection plan has will probably make everything worse by furthering ozone depletion, ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/sunday-to-sunday-2-april-20-27-2008/ There’ve been a few internet-things related to the whole FBI provocateur “Anna” being in Elle Magazine thing (see our previous post). First of all, the rest of the article is now online, including all pages.Secondly, it appears that someone has begun to detourn the magazine, claiming (with stickers, the pdf ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/the-strange-case-of-anna-revisited/ On Earth Day, the “Greenwash Guerrillas” pied neo-liberal, capitalist Thomas Friedman. [video footage]. Friedman was speaking at Brown University for Earth Day, where he went on about “market solutions” to global warming, when two pie-throwings ascended the stage and threw green whipped-cream pies at him. They then tossed leaflets explaining ... http://www.tangledwilderness.org/orc/2008/greenwash-guerillas-pie-pro-war-thomas-friedman/