Crude oil prices jumped to record levels above $117/barrel after indigenous Nigerian rebels attacked three oil pipelines and unknown persons fired a rocket at a Japanese oil tanker in the Middle East. Oil jumped above $116/barrel after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) announced its sabotage of an oil pipeline at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The UN special rapporteurs on Adequate Housing (Miloon Khotari) and Fundamental Liberties of Indigenous Peoples (Rodolfo Stavenhagen) have recommended that the Mexican Government suspend all work toward La Parota Dam, finding that the process to date has not respected human rights. Declaring that the government has attempted to impose the dam “by force,” the rapporteurs [...]

On March 14, the International Day of Action for Rivers, more than 600 protesters from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) and Via Campesina blockaded one of the two major transport railways of Vale, the world’s largest iron ore exporter and second-largest mining company. The action on the Minais Gerais line came in protest of Vale’s [...]

On Saturday March 15th, activists and community members protested the war in Iraq, environmental racism and global warming by blockading the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, CA. Protesters marched to one of the main gates of the refinery and up to 50 people locked themselves down. Bands played, and there was street theater and food. [...]

On March 8th, activists with Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) invaded a pig iron plant owned by Vale, the world’s largest iron ore exporter and second-largest mining company. Protesters sabotaged machinery and vandalized buildings in commemoration of International Women’s Day, according to statements by the company. The MST is best known for occupying unused land [...]

Activists in the UK are keeping the pressure on to stop a proposed runway expansion at Heathrow Airport. On February 25, four Greenpeace activists scaled a jet on a Heathrow runway and unfurled a banner reading “Climate Emergency – No Third Runway.” Two days later, another group of protesters scaled the roof of Parliament and [...]