A Different Way to Protect our Land, Air, Water and Climate from Tar Sands Expansion The tar sands are growing out of control, destroying the climate for all Canadians and poisoning the water of everyone living downstream. On July 5th and 6th, people will come together from coast to coast to join First Nations and [...]

From Rising Tide North America: his July, many of the members of Rising Tide-affiliated, anti-extraction, and climate justice groups around the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will converge in beautiful Utah to train, discuss, strategize, and develop the structure, dynamics and capacity of the Rising Tide network. Rising Tide is an international, all-volunteer, grassroots network of [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: The date for the Action Camp is set!!! Get a pen and paper (or smart phone) JULY 10, 2013 until JULY 14th, 2013. You will not want to miss out on this year’s camp as we are expecting much much much more people than ever!!! Please go to the Victoria [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: SINCE 1974, Public Law 93-531 (the relocation law) has forcefully relocated tens of thousands of  Dineh (Navajo) and several hundred Hopi people from their ancestral homeland in Arizona.  Generations have been impacted by the loss of grazing areas and the intentional break up of this community. This is the largest relocation of Indigenous people in this country [...]

Fearless Summer has called for a week of action against the fossil fuel and extreme energy industries June 24-29. Visit the site for more info, to  register your action or to find out about planned actions. Also, check out their action calendar for the entire summer.

Damocracy the movie has been released, chronicling the struggles of communities a world apart to defend their rivers from monster dams masquerading as “clean” energy: the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in Brazil and the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River in Turkey. Watch it here. The 34-minute documentary is an excellent primer [...]

Damocracy is a short documentary that exposes the myth of dams as ‘green’ energy through two examples from Amazonia and Mesopotamia. Film maker Todd Southgate travels from the deepest corners of the vast Amazon rainforest in Brazil to the mountains and plains of fertile upper Mesopotamia in south east Turkey. He meets academics, lawyers, campaigners and local [...]

From Mountain Justice: Join Mountain Justice this May 19th – 27th for our 9th Mountain Justice Summer Action Training Camp, near Damascus, VA. Mountain Justice has grown from a fast burning brush fire that helped push Mountaintop Removal to national awareness into a critical support network at the base of a growing, national anti-extractive industry [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: A new organization has sprung up to fight the Tar Sands from Oklahoma. They are protect-waterwayscalled Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance and they are entering the fight with a bang! Keep checking their website for details and updates. … Monday, February 4th: Early this morning, Norman, Oklahoma resident Elizabeth Leja locked [...]

On January 25, activists agreed to settle a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) filed against them by Transcanada, the company constructing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Texas and Oklahoma. The company agreed to drop its demand for millions of dollars in restitution for lost work days in exchange for an agreement that [...]