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 [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce is holding a public hearing and accepting public comments about a proposed toll road controversial toll road which would run through San Onofre State Beach parallel to I-5, to relieve congestion on that Corridor of the Future highway.
Permission for the plan was recently denied by the California Coastal Commission at [...]

According to a communiqué, a Maryille, IL office of Bernardin, Lochmueller, & Associates (BLA, the company responsible for planning the entire route of I-69) was sabotaged on the morning of June 30:
This morning, the owners of [BLA] in Maryville, Illinois were popping aspirins to deal with their headaches. Maybe the underlings enjoyed the day off. [...]

Due to the recent upsurge in anti-infrastructure actions and related news (just take a look at the last few weeks’ worth of posts, below!), we are shifting to a less regular posting schedule. Rather than compiling stories and posting them once per week, we will now be posting news as we learn about it. Check [...]

There are three different US Convergences for Climate Action this year:
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action: July 28 – August 4, Eugene, OR
Southeast Convergence for Climate Action: August 5-11, Louisa County, VA (near Richmond)
Northeast Climate Confluence: July 27 – August 3, High Falls, NY
The climate convergences are gathering places for people of all ages and [...]

The 15th Protecting Mother Earth Conference, sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network, will take place July 17-20 in Western Shoshone territory. For more information and to sign up, click here.