A number of actions have taken place recently against the NAFTA Superhighway I-69, a Corridor of the Future:
June 23; Kalamazoo, MI: Protesters bearing drums and whistles paraded through the offices of DLZ Corporation, an engineering firm involved in I-69 construction and planning.
June 24; Hicksville, NY: An office of HNTB at 40 Commerce Pl. was found [...]
Posted in Actions, Energy on Jul 3rd, 2008
Activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! and Mountain Justice Summer blockaded the Richmond, VA headquarters of Dominion Energy on the morning of June 30. An all-woman team locked down in the street in front of the building, while another woman hung in the street suspended from a bridge.
The action came in response to the VIrginia [...]
The anti-I-69 treesit in Indiana has been evicted, and Roadblock EF! has called for people to contact state officials and construction company employees in response. Read about the eviction, various solidarity actions and ways to help at the Roadblock EF! website.
Read reports of other actions here, here and here.
Remember that there are lots of ways [...]
Masked protesters invaded an I-69 Project Office in Bloomington on June 11, reportedly chalking both the inside and outside of the office and shattering the glass pane of an entry door. Roadblock Earth First! responded to the incident by saying, “We’d like to thank these anonymous folks who threw down against I-69 from the bottom [...]
Posted in Actions, Energy on Jun 19th, 2008
In one of its most audacious attacks yet, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked an offshore oil rig for the first time, forcing Shell to shut down the entire oil field and causing a 10% reduction in Nigeria’s oil output.
Before the attack, Nigeria’s output was already 20% below normal following [...]
Posted in Actions, Mining, News on Jun 19th, 2008
A weeklong uprising in Peru’s Moquegua region has placed strain on copper supplies worldwide.
The unrest began as a small protest over how little in the way of mining profits was being used to help residents of the region, but quickly swelled to 20,000 people blocking major highways and railways, including a border crossing into Chile. [...]
Posted in Actions, Energy on Jun 3rd, 2008
On May 25, activists with Asheville Rising Tide broke ground on a new 800 Mw clean energy power plant in Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers front yard in Charlotte, NC. The power plant will tap into a previously unexplored energy source known as hot air which has been found in large concentrations at Roger’s residence, [...]
The fight against the I-69 NAFTA Superhighway is still heating up!
On the night of Monday, May 19, the River City Animal Defense League protested at the houses of two men involved in the construction of I-69. The first protest targeted the house of a Gohmann Asphalt and Construction contractor Michael J Gohmann, at 7305 Smith [...]
Posted in Actions, Energy on May 28th, 2008
While hundreds of protesters rallied outside the annual shareholders meeting of NW Natural in protest of the company’s plans for new liquified natural gas (LNG) pipelines, a handful of Stumptown Earth First!ers snuck into the meeting and disrupted it with stink bombs.
“This action is just the beginning of what’s in store for this LNG proposal,” [...]
Posted in Actions, Dams, Energy on May 28th, 2008
On May 20, day 2 of the Xingu Encounter of indigenous people and allies opposing new dams on the Xingu River, a representative of the Brazilian electric company Electrobras was rushed by a machete-wielding group of indigenous women and men angry at his disregard for their concerns.
Eletrobras representative, Paulo Fernando Vieira Souto Rezende spoke of [...]