(reposted from infoshop.org) The Bulldozers have arrived! Clearing has begun in preparation for the construction of I-69, the NAFTA superhighway, in Southern Indiana. Under contracts totaling more than $25.3 million from the Indiana Department of Transportation, Gohmann Asphalt and Construction of Clarksville, Indiana has demolished homes and trees along the first 1.77 miles of the [...]
Posted in Calls To Action, Energy, Mining on Apr 15th, 2008
The Dine’ (Navajo) of Black Mesa (AZ) continue to resist forced relocation and hold back the coal companies that want to strip mine their land. The consistent rain and snow this past winter have been hard on many of the families living on Black Mesa, especially the elders. But the desert thrives on water; there [...]
Posted in Actions, Analysis, Mining on Apr 15th, 2008
The following article from Upside Down World is a good example of how even “leftist” governments impose devastating infrastructure projects by force, for the benefit of an export-import-oriented global economy. It’s all one system. Protesters Target Canada’s Iamgold in Ecuador by Teresa Velasquez Tuesday, 08 April 2008 Residents from the southern Ecuadorian province of Azuay [...]
A protest against the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor was held at the Texas state capitol in Austin on April 5. According to Texans United for Reform and Freedom (TURF), “thousands” attended. The Trans-Texas corridor is part of a massive plan to reduce freight traffic (and thereby increase trade with Mexico) with 4,000 miles of new and [...]
Posted in Dams, Energy on Apr 15th, 2008
The Bonneville Power Administration is paying four Indian tribes a total of $900 million to boost fish populations in the US Pacific Northwest, in exchange for an end to those tribes’ calls for dam removal and their support for federal fish management plans. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation (OR), the Confederated Tribes [...]
Posted in Dams, Energy, La Parota on Apr 15th, 2008
A good article about the struggle against La Parota dam has been published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While emphasizing and giving due credit to campesino resistance, the article also suggests, interestingly, that part of the reason the Mexican government has refrained from using military force is fear that the Zapatista (EZLN) and the Popular Revolutionary [...]
Posted in Energy on Apr 15th, 2008
Two different utilities have filed applications with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build new nuclear reactors in Georgia and South Carolina. Southern Nuclear Operating Co said it filed an application is seeking a a combined construction and operating license to build two new reactors at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia. SCANA [...]
PRESS: Photos, Full Press Release In honor of Fossil Fools Day, Tucson activists hung a banner condemning two proposed highways from each side of the city’s iconic “Snake Bridge.” “With so little time to shift our way of life away from its dependence on fossil fuels, building new roads is not just foolish — it’s [...]
Posted in Actions, Energy, Mining on Apr 2nd, 2008
The international Fossil Fools Day of action saw actions across the world targeting fossil fuel infrastructure! Highlights in the Americas include: <—Stumptown Earth First! performed a four-story banner hang off of the Burnside Bridge in downtown Portland, OR. The banner reads “No New Pipelines” with a no LNG logo directly in the middle. The Liquefied [...]
Posted in Analysis, Web Site on Apr 2nd, 2008
Visit our Fact Sheet page and take a look at articles on how infrastructure relates to issues including labor, migration, the environment, indigenous sovereignty, global warming, latin american solidarity, imperialism and free trade. Also includes a Root Force Strategy primer for progressives and an article on what the system is and why it should be [...]