Posted in Actions, Energy, Transportation on Oct 15th, 2012
From Intercontinental Cry: LUMMI INDIAN RESERVATION, BELLINGHAM, Wash.—A fleet of boats piloted by Native and non-Native fishers gathered today in the waters off Xwe’chi’eXen (Cherry Point, Wash.) to stand with the Lummi Nation in opposition to the proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal at Xwe’chi’eXen. “We have to say ‘no’ to the coal terminal project,” said [...]
From Mongabay.com: Construction on Brazil’s megadam, Belo Monte, has been halted again as around 150 demonstrators, most of them from nearby indigenous tribes, have occupied the main construction site at Pimental. Over a hundred indigenous people joined local fishermen who had been protesting the dam for 24 days straight. Indigenous people and local fishermen say [...]
Posted in Actions, Calls To Action, Energy, Pipelines, Repression and Prisoners on Oct 14th, 2012
A second treesit has been set up at the site of the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas; both sits are ongoing. In other news (courtesy of Earth First! Newswire): • The tar sands blockade has successfully delayed construction of the pipeline for two days by locking themselves to construction machinery and shutting down the construction [...]
On October 1, an activist with Tar Sands Blockade “stopped the destruction of a small family farm in East Texas by locking himself in front of oncoming Keystone XL clearing equipment.” He was arrested and has since been released. Read more.
Posted in Actions, Energy, Pipelines, Repression and Prisoners on Oct 2nd, 2012
The showdown between Tar Sands Blockade and TransCanada continues in the Texas woods. In the past few days, two Tar Sands Blockade activists locked themselves to construction machinery to defend the tree village blockade. Both were arrested by police using brutal pain compliance techniques — but not before construction had been halted for another day. [...]
Posted in Actions, Calls To Action, Energy, Pipelines on Sep 24th, 2012
The ongoing Tar Sands Blockade campaign has launched an 8-person treesit in the planned path of the under-construction Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. “Construction cannot proceed until tree-sitters descend and TransCanada clear-cuts through hundreds of trees to make way for the toxic tar sands pipeline,” Tar Sands Blockade announced. The treesitters have announced their intention [...]
Posted in Actions, Energy, Mining, Repression and Prisoners on Sep 23rd, 2012
Despite government promises of reforms in the way natural resource concessions are handled, another anti-mines protester has been killed in Peru. This marks the 19th person killed in a natural resource-related conflict since President Ollanta Humala took office in July 2011. Clashes between police and protesters broke out in the Ancash region on Wednesday Sep. [...]
From International Rivers: On Wednesday [Sep. 19], a group of about 50 fishermen prevented a ferry from transporting machines and workers to a coffer dam being built for the Belo Monte Dam Complex, setting up a protest camp on one of the main islands of the Xingu River near the construction site. After assembling, the [...]
Posted in Actions, Mining, Repression and Prisoners on Sep 23rd, 2012
On September 17 and 18, community members from Mataquescuintla, Jalapa and San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa, Guatemala protested against the ongoing development of a mining project in their communities. In response to the first of these protests, provocateurs attacked both police and community members with stones. In response to a peaceful blockade outside the [...]
Tar Sands Blockade protesters have locked themselves to a wood chipper and skidder being used to clear-cut trees near Winnsboro, TX to make way for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This is the fourth action to date in the Tar Sands Blockade campaign. The Tar Sands Blockade campaign is active and ongoing. Calls to [...]