 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
2011 Earth First! Winter Organizers' Conference and Rendezvous
In February, the Earth First! movement will again converge
in south Florida! This year it will be held in Fisheating Creek, in Glades
County, from Feb 9-14, 2011.
The weekend will include workshops, activist networking, music, Outlaws
of Florida Folk night, and more. One of the most beautiful places in all
of Florida, Fisheating Creek is the last free flowing waterway which meets
Lake Okeechobee. It is some of the last habitat to the panther, and is now
threatened by roads, development, mining, industrial agriculture, corruption
and greed. Come help us fight for it!
CLICK HERE for information about Directions to the event, Rideshare, and a listing of Workshops.
No
Train is Unstoppable
June 3rd Benefit Concert for Hugh & Tiga
Listen to great live music, drink vegan root beer floats, AND raise money for some awesome activists? Only EEF! Could have put yor three favorite activities into one night. This June 3rd, come to the Little Owl, EEF!'s favorite Lake Worth dive bar, with $5-7 in hand for the show (and a little more for beverages) and listen to the talents of:
Jordan Darling
Just Jill
Vive Le Vox
Tiny Teeth
The Random Notes of Decay
Money raised goes to Roadblock EF!'s legal fund, used to liberate Hugh & Tiga from jail in April & May.
FPL Shareholder Meeting
FPL Group, Inc. will provide a live webcast of its 2009 Annual Meeting
of Shareholders, which begins at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, May 22, 2009.
Viewers can access the webcast on FPL Group's
Website, by clicking the link provided on the home page. The slides
accompanying the webcast will be posted beginning at 10 a.m. and may be
accessed by clicking on the link on the home page. A replay of the FPL Group
annual meeting will be available on the website through the first week of
June 2009.
Everglades Uprising 2009 Winter Action Camp!
January 2009 - Thanks to everyone who came and helped out at this great camp! It was a lot of fun and a great success! Special thanks to Iris Wall and family for allowing us to camp at the High Horse Ranch.
Rally in Defense of the Everglades
September 20th, 2008- Around 70 South Floridians stood up in defense
of our dying ecosystem and made our voices heard. We met at Stormwater Treatment
Area 1 East in Western Palm Beach County, a fancy name for a recreation
of nature's natural wetland filtration system. About a dozen of the ralliers
had arrived by bicycle, after an energetic 18 mile group ride. After a rousing
rally, we marched to the entrance of FPL's West County Energy Center construction
site inside the Palm Beach Aggregates rock mine, a spot which contains two
of the greatest threats to the Everglades ecosystem.
Click here for a photo montage of the rally.
A Weekend Standing up for The Loxahatchee
July 11-13, 2008 - As the Gulfstream
Natural Gas pipeline extension neared completion despite legal challenges,
and construction on the West
County Energy Center chugged ahead despite a federal lawsuit and the
on-the-job death of a construction worker, EEF! kept the pressure on FPL
to halt these destructive projects.
We camped out on highly visible, public
land along Southern Blvd carrying the message that both projects should
be immediately halted and all permits & certification revoked.
We launched canoes and kayaks on public waterways
to monitor and document the progress of the pipeline, since our government
agencies did not seem to be doing an adequate job. Remember, it was
EEF! that helped identify unmarked gopher tortoise sites in peril and pointed
out several permit violations, NOT the agencies assigned to the
job.
We took advantage of our location to visit the nearby the recently opened Stormwater Treatment Area 1, where Governor Charlie Crist came in June to announce plans for reviving Everglades restoration efforts - even though just a few miles up the road, the nation's largest fossil fuel power plant was being constructed smack in the middle of CERP projects!