October 12 (the 517th anniversary of Columbus’ landing in the Western Hemisphere) marked the first day of the Global “Minga”/Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples, called by the IV Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples Abya Yala. Rallies, protests and other actions are being carried out around the world in response to the [...]

Fourteen people were arrested on June 18 in a protest meant to launch a week of action against mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Four people climbed a 150-foot dragline at a mine site near Twilight, WV, and unfurled a banner reading, “Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining”. Another 9 entered the mine site to unfurl [...]

Following is a list of some upcoming (North American) protests in solidarity with the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, who are facing murderous repression in a two-month mobilization against laws that would open their territories to increased exploitation.
For a list of protests outside the American continent, see here. Remember that June 11 is the [...]

A couple of us recently did an interview with Healing the Earth radio, out of Guelph, Ontario. The interview is available for listening or download at:
Healing the Earth
Rabble.ca
We talked about the Root Force analysis and strategy, how infrastructure projects are interconnected, how to oppose infrastruture in the climate of  “economic stimulus,” and more. Check it [...]

The Root Force Target Database is back online! Want to take action against infrastructure but don’t have a project to fight locally? This resource is for you!
The database currently contains information on companies involved in the expansion of I-69, I-10 and I-95, and we’re told that more information will be added in the coming weeks. There are [...]

A new hourlong documentary has come out on resistance to Goldcorp’s San Martin open-pit gold mine in Honduras’ Siria Valley: “No Todo Lo Que Brilla Es Oro: Una Historia de Explotación y Resistencia” (”All That Glitters Is Not Gold: A Story of Exploitation and Resistance”).
The first mine to be developed under Honduras’ controversial new mining [...]

Protest Reportback: On October 23, Chicago residents picketed against I-69 at the meeting of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. According to the action report, “This annual convention brings together hundreds of major players in the infrastructure business, people who specialize in forcing overpriced megaprojects on unwilling communities. This year, a [...]

The busy workerbees of the Beehive Design Collective may be swarming your way this fall!
On tour with giant, portable murals, the Bees aim to draw the connections between colonial history and present day struggles against corporate globalization, violence, and racism. These images are beautiful and fantastic teaching tools — and better yet, the focus of [...]

The 2nd Annual West Coast Convergence for Climate Action has announced plans to target the expansion of the I-5 Columbia River Crossing (a Corridor of the Future project) as part of its “Day of Action.” If you’re going to be in Portland, you should drop by!
When: 1 pm on Monday August 4th, 2008.
What: The 2nd [...]

With groundbreaking on construction of I-69, the NAFTA Superhighway, scheduled to begin this week, both resistance to the highway and repression of activists are escalating. And don’t forget: July 28 is a national day of mobilization against I-69!
In response to a June 25 lockdown at a Gohmann Asphalt facility in Haubstadt, IN, the company has [...]