- Athens Polytechnic University in Greece has shut down the servers which host Athens Indymedia and two anarchist radio stations. Protests and solidarity actions have been called for this week. Indiana University students, in ending a protest occupation, extended warm wishes to the shuttered Greek autonomous media projects.
- Former Green Scare cooperating witness Chelsea Gerlach has been released to a halfway house. Gerlach informed on former comrades and even her then-boyfriend in hopes for a reduced sentence when she and other saboteurs who destroyed property in Earth Liberation Front operations were prosecuted.
- Puget Sound Anarchists has two great articles from 1977, featured in Vancouver, B.C. anarchist journal Open Road, which cover grand jury resistance.
- A 9-year-old girl in Oregon City was accidentally shot and killed by her mother’s boyfriend on Sunday.
- A Guantanamo detainee from Yemen talks about the hunger strike at the indefinite detention camp and the pain and indignity of being force-fed.
- Bombings across Iraq today killed 37 people and wounded hundreds more, ahead of municipal elections.
- A transgender woman in Idaho is banned from a grocery store after customers complained that she used the women’s room.
- Study confirms that the long-term unemployed have a much more difficult job being considered for jobs than those who have shorter terms between jobs.
- Montana and Wyoming Native American tribal leaders agree to support a campaign to sustain wild, migratory herds of buffalo.
- An interview with Anarchopanda, a man in a panda costume who has become a fixture at protests in Montreal, as the city enacts more and more restrictive laws to quell protests.
The EF! Newswire description of the MT-WY Tribal Leaders Council is incorrect: the MTWYTLC wrote their own resolution, it is not specifically to “support of a campaign”, but directly to support viable populations of wild buffalo and to end their harassment, slaughter and disrespect.
Posted by Buffalo Field Campaign | April 15, 2013, 9:54 am