Saturday, December 14, 2013

Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition

The FBI is watching our EarthFirst! peeps. Click title for link to the PBCEC blog. From the most recent post regarding genetically engineered "forests":
The college administration as well as the FBI field office in Miami refused to comment on the incident, citing security protocols. But a Palm Beach State College student who had helped organize the event confirmed that Russell [Palm Beach State College provost, Dr. Bernadette Russell] had indeed called the students out of the classroom and relayed the warning.
“Basically, she just said that the FBI had contacted to her in the morning because of the GE tree presentation and because some of the organizers were from Earth First!,” Lily de la Espriella, a 20-year-old environmental studies major, told me. She said the provost told her that she should check with the administration before organizing such events in the future. “I’ve helped organize other Earth First! events on campus before, but this is the first time I was asked to seek special permission,” De la Espriella says.
And here is where EarthFirst! aligns itself with the Animal Liberation Front. They are almost a third of the way to their $30,000 fundraising goal, according to the "thermometer" in the upper right hand corner of their website.