In this issue of the ALARM includes a report on a Native Forest Network (NFN) activist’s arrest for protesting the destruction of roadless areas by the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho; a report of environmental devastation resulting from international initiatives such as toxic waste trade in Somalia; local news of a golf course threatening to expand into sacred Mohawk burial grounds; and a report on the economic development standoff of the Paugeesukq Nation and the state of Connecticut. Fiery Virus continues the argument against biotechnology from the previous issue. Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann present a thorough investigation of the situation in James and Hudson Bay, Northern Quebec, where people fight against Hydro-Quebec.

In Earth First! 27, no. 6 activists report on defending wilderness in Iceland, Brazil’s movement of landless workers, the 2007 Wild Earth gathering, monkeywrenching caterpillars, reclaiming land rights in Canada, and new biofuel made out of forest biomass.

Earth First! Journal 31, no. 4 features “An EF!ers Guide to Citizen Monitoring of Water Pollution Discharge Permits,” as well as essays on GPS tracking, border policy, and “Canopy Occupation Against Coal.”

A two-year chronicle documenting the real price of gold in a village in Peru’s Andean mountains, following a mercury spill by one of the world’s largest gold producers.