Archive for the 'Actions' Category

Check out reportbacks from the Global Week of Action for Climate Justice (which ran concurrently with the Third Global Minga/Global Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples).

On July 29, the day that controversial Arizona anti-migrant law SB 1070 (which would require police to check the papers of anyone they “reasonably” suspect to be undocumented) was due to take effect, protesters blockaded the I-19 highway in Tucson, Arizona (more photos available here):
“A blockade of tires covered in tar and broken glass were [...]

On July 6, following the annual Earth First! Round River Rendezvous, about 50 protesters blockaded the access to a mega-wind project in the Maine North Woods, while others locked themselves to a truck carrying a massive turbine blade to the site.
The construction site was shut down for the entire morning, and the truck was blocked [...]

Lockdown At WV Strip Mine

On July 14, two protesters locked themselves to a highwall miner at the Bee Tree strip mine on Coal River Mountain, near the Brushy Fork Sludge Impoundment.
Four people were arrested, and three of them remain in jail.

On June 5, protesters across Peru commemorated the anniversary of the government’s massacre last year of peaceful indigenous protesters who had blockaded a road in opposition to laws opening the Amazon up for large-scale resource exploitation. The official death toll was 33 (10 indigenous people plus 23 police officers later killed in retaliation), but [...]

From a May 21 press release by International Rivers:
“A group of Kayapo indigenous people led by Chief Megaron Txukarramãe have been blockading the Xingu River crossing of the BR-80 – a major Amazon highway in Mato Grosso State – since April 23 in protest of the government’s plans to build the massive Belo Monte Dam. [...]

We just received this press release concerning the ongoing occupation of the US Border Patrol Headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in protest of border militarization. This action draws attention to the way border militarization perpetuates the colonialism of indigenous lands and cultures.
Border militarization is one of the more obvious examples of how the system uses violence [...]

It’s been a dramatic several weeks in the fight to stop the proposed Belo Monte dam along the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, and support for indigenous resisters is needed now.
If built, the 11,000-megawatt Belo Monte hydroelectric dam would be the second-largest dam in Brazil and the third-largest in the world. It would divert [...]

From IntercontinentalCry.org:

“With the Global People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth set to begin in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a group of Indigenous people have occupied the offices of a mining firm in the southeastern province of Potosi near the Chilean border.
“The occupation began several days ago, on April 12, with roughly [...]

A Few More Actions

A few more actions from the Minga:
Another anti-mines banner, this one reading  “No New Mines on Apache Land! Ya Basta!” was hung in Tucson, AZ on October 16 (this time from the  “Snake Bridge” over Broadway Boulevard). It was in opposition to the proposed mine in Superior, Arizona on sacred Apache land.
Also in Tucson, activists [...]

Next »