A couple of news stories, one old and one newer, highlighting how vulnerable the system is due to its dependence on complex infrastructure:
Saboteurs Knock Out Telecom: Saboteurs knocked out land lines, cell phones, Internet, ATMs, credit card readers for police, banks, businesses and residents in three California counties on April 10, merely by cutting 8 [...]

Two Indiana residents (Hugh Farrell and Gina “Tiga” Wertz) were arrested on April 24 on misdemeanor and felony charges of intimidation, improper use of property, and corrupt business influence in the campaign against the I-69 “NAFTA Superhighway”. These charges are based on the premise that any activity designed to get companies to cease from environmentally [...]

We’ve added a new section to the “Organizing Resources” portion of our web site (under “get involved”) that we will be slowly building up over time: articles relating to infrastructure issues in general, but not to any project in particular. This first (and only, so far) article is one we wrote for the most recent [...]

From an anonymous communiqué:
On January 20th, Tucson’s chapter of HAND (Hooligans Attack at Night, Duh!) paid a visit to Si Schorr’s house. We wanted to give him a special going away party.
January 15th marked the last day of Si’s role as Chairman of the Arizona State Transportation Board, but not his last chance to profit [...]

The Mexican government is making a renewed push to exploit and destroy the land and people of Chiapas as the reborn Plan Puebla Panama (PPP, now renamed the “Mesoamerica Initiative”) pushes forward in Chiapas:
• Mexican Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel has announced plans for oil drilling in Chiapas, with private companies invited to invest as early [...]

In two recent actions, Rising Tide North America and allies targeted the coal and nuclear energy industries.
On October 31, Halloween, Rising Tide activists in Asheville, NC and Boston, MA conducted zombie marches against coal financing at branches of Bank of America and Citibank, two of the country’s biggest coal financiers. Sounds like a nice, light-hearted [...]

Well, the election season is over — now it’s time to get ready for the challenges of organizing against the system in a political climate dominated by Democrats.
Of course, we know that no election will ever lead to a significant change in the system that is enslaving and killing all life on this planet. Already, [...]

In an action specifically designed to attack the system through its infrastructure, saboteurs targeted the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway in Ontario on October 13, according to an anonymous communiqué posted at Infoshop.org:
“In an attempt to cause a shitload of economic damage to the infrastructure of the CP rail main-line, we cut down two telephone poles [...]

Oil and natural gas production off the US Gulf Coast remain at less than 50 percent following hurricanes Gustav and Ike, leading to shortages of both gasoline and diesel throughout the Southeast. Lines at gas stations have been reported in the Asheville, NC area, and the Flying J truck stop chain has imposed diesel rationing.
This [...]

An article in the New York Times highlights a whole new problem with supposedly clean energy sources like wind and solar: using them for power generation on a large scale will require the construction of massive new electrical transmission infrastructure.
Before we get into it, let’s just note a few of the other problems with these [...]