An anti-climate-change march through the streets of Richmond, VA concluded today with a lockdown at the Bank of America building.
Police presence in Richmond was heavy at the end of the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action. Nonetheless, 50 protesters took part in an unpermitted march through the streets of the city, punctuated by rallies at the [...]
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Twenty- five activists occupied the welcome center of the North Anna nuclear power plant in Louisa, VA on Thursday, August 7. The power plant is operated by Dominion Energy, which has previously been targeted with direct action for its plans to build both new coal and nuclear electric plants.
The protesters occupied the visitor center for [...]
Northwest Actions Against I-5, LNG
Posted in Actions, Corridors of the Future, Energy, Transportation on Aug 8th, 2008
On August 4, activists from the Northwest Convergence for Climate Action took action to target climate criminals in the Portland, OR area.
The action began with a march along the Portland Waterfront, including street theater that featured agents from the “Oil Enforcement Agency” (which first appeared in a July protest) giving out tickets to mock cars [...]
Anti-I-69 Actions in DC
Posted in Actions, Corridors of the Future, Globalization, Transportation on Jul 31st, 2008
A coalition of 150 protesters from Potomac Earth First!, Students for a Democratic Society-DC and Roadblock Earth First! danced in the streets and stormed the offices of profiteers and supporters of I-69, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) in Washington, DC on Monday, July 28.
Calling their protest “Funk [...]
As previously promised, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta attacked two Shell oil pipelines on July 28, as a way of rebutting charges that it had taken government money in order to leave such infrastructure alone.
“In keeping with our pledge to resume pipeline attacks within the next 30 days, detonation engineers backed [...]
Latin American Resistance Updates
Posted in Actions, Dams, Energy, Globalization, Mining on Jul 31st, 2008
July 8: Ten Ecuadorians were arrested while protesting plans for the private Hidrotambo hydroelectric dam along the Dulcepamba river in Chillanes canton, Bolivar province. The arrests came after a six-month land occupation in opposition to the dam. (Got any more info on this? Let us know! This came only from a brief mention in a [...]
I-69 Solidarity Window Smashing
Posted in Actions, Corridors of the Future, Transportation on Jul 29th, 2008
From a communiqué posted to Infoshop.org:
“In the pre-dawn hours of July 27th, some enraged Hoosiers threw rocks through the window of Chase Bank in downtown Bloomington, Indiana. This action is in solidarity with all those resisting Interstate 69, the NAFTA superhighway being built between Canada and Mexico. This small bit of sabotage comes one day [...]
Activists from Greenpeace shut off a tailings pond sludge pipe at an Alberta Tar Sands operation on Thursday, July 24, locking down to the valve pipe and deploying several banners calling for an end to tar sands mining. Eleven people were arrested.
The protest took place at the Aurora North Tar Sands facility north of Fort [...]
Truck Burned Over Vancouver Olympics Highway
Posted in Actions, Dams, Energy, Mining, Transportation on Jul 23rd, 2008
A truck belonging to the construction company Peter Kiewit Sons’ was torched on Tuesday, July 22 in response to the company’s involvement in widening the Sea to Sky Highway in unceded Coast Salish territory (illegally occupied by the Canadian government as “British Columbia”).
The highway is being expanded to accommodate increased traffic for the 2010 Winter [...]
15 Still In Jail After New I-69 Lockdown
Posted in Actions, Analysis, Calls To Action, Corridors of the Future, Transportation on Jul 15th, 2008
As the clock ticks down toward the groundbreaking for the I-69 NAFTA Superhighway, protesters have once again taken direct action to shut down the Gohmann Asphalt facility in Haubstadt, IN! This is the same yard where a lockdown took place on June 25, leading the company to file a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) [...]