Posted in Actions, Globalization, Mining on Oct 19th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Actions, Calls To Action, Mining on Oct 15th, 2009
More actions from the Minga (Global Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples):
Phoenix, AZ — The week was kicked off with a protest at Arizona State University against the recognition of “Columbus Day,” along with education about the true (genocidal) nature of Columbus. The rest of the week consists of a media initiative [...]
Posted in Actions, Announcements, Calls To Action, Dams, Energy, Globalization, Mining on Oct 12th, 2009
October 12 (the 517th anniversary of Columbus’ landing in the Western Hemisphere) marked the first day of the Global “Minga”/Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples, called by the IV Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples Abya Yala. Rallies, protests and other actions are being carried out around the world in response to the [...]
The Earth Liberation front has claimed responsibility for vandalizing the Chapel Hill, North Carolina home of Steve Jones, a board member of Bank of America.
Bank of America is a major funder of mountaintop removal coal mining, in spite of its December announcement that it would “phase out” funding many such projects.
In a communique reported by [...]
Posted in Actions, Transportation on Jul 16th, 2009
From Erie Times-News:
“Pennsylvania State Police in Corry are looking for the person who tried to sabotage a railroad line.
“The incident was discovered Thursday when a train operator noticed that joint bars connecting sections of rail had been disassembled on the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad line about one-half mile east of Route 89 in [...]
Between 40 and 50 protesters from Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide descended on an Oregon Home Depot recently demanding that the company take action to protect Patagonia’s Wild Rivers. The protesters moved around store displays around and hoisted a banner reading, “Dam the Home Depot, Save Chile’s Rivers.”
Home Depot is under pressure from International [...]
Boston Rising Tide activists dropped a 25-foot banner from the city’s Environmental Protection Agency on June 29, reading, “Mountain Top Removal Kills Communities: EPA No New Permits. MountainJustice.org.”
There are more than 150 permits pending for new mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.
Thirty-one people were arrested at a civil disobedience action against mountaintop removal coal mining on June 23, including actress Daryl Hannah and climate scientist James Hansen. The protesters had blocked traffic outside a West Virginia coal plant after plans to enter were thwarted by a large gathering of pro-coal counter-demonstrators. One counter-demonstrator attacked one of [...]
A group of Mayan Mam villagers torched the equipment of a company attempting to set up a mine on their land without permission on June 12. Exploradora de Guatemala, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Goldcorp, had been pressuring 20 families in the San Miguel Ixztahuacan municipality to sell their land, but the villagers had [...]
Posted in Actions, Dams, Energy, Globalization, Mining on Jun 22nd, 2009
Protesters from London Climate Action blockaded the entrance to the Peruvian Embassy in London on June 19, demanding the right to deliver a letter of protest calling for oil and gas companies in the Amazon to suspend their operations until the government agrees to peaceful negotiations with local representatives; for an independent and impartial inquiry [...]