From GatewaySucks.org:
People’s Assembly and Mass Direct Action! Help Build the Movement for
Climate Justice: Tue. Dec. 7 & Sat. Dec. 11
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of
Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April 2010 brought together social movements from all over the world to forge a powerful new movement for Climate Justice.
Heads [...]
Posted in Calls To Action on Oct 5th, 2010
There are at least three atlases online where you can find actions already scheduled for the October 12 Minga, including those related to the Climate Day of Action. Here is one for the Minga, and here is another one for climate actions. Another climate action atlas is here. The pages for the climate atlases include directions [...]
Following the success of the first two Mingas (Global Mobilizations in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples), American indigenous and social movements and their allies around the world have called a third mobilization for October 12, 2010.
“We the peoples and our territories are one entity,” the 2009 declaration read. “[We resolve] to reject all [...]
Posted in Calls To Action, Transportation on Oct 4th, 2010
From one of our allied contact groups, a call to direct action for those of you in the Vancouver, BC area. The action involves physically undoing the beginnings of freeway construction and redirecting that material toward the community. We’ve signed on as sponsors of this action:
This year as part of the 350.org 10/10/10 Global Work [...]
Police and some members of the military attempted to stage a coup in Ecuador on Thursday, September 30. Resistance by social movements and the majority of the military appears to have foiled the attempt for now, but the situation remains tense and the threat of a right-wing power grab remains.
For a good overview of a [...]
The Appalachia Rising anti–mountaintop removal convergence will take place in Washington, DC between September 25 and 27. It follows a long history of social action for a just and sustainable Appalachia, coming directly out of the work of organizations in coalfield states. It unites coalfield residents and organizations with national allies from all walks of [...]
Posted in Calls To Action, Energy, Mining on Jun 17th, 2010
Groups in five European cities have called for an International “Stop the Tar Sands!” Day on July 17:
“The tar sands of Alberta, Canada, are one of the world’s largest and dirtiest energy projects. Even though European oil companies and banks are financing this climate crime, the tar sands are relatively unknown in Europe. It is [...]
Posted in Actions, Calls To Action, Dams on Apr 23rd, 2010
It’s been a dramatic several weeks in the fight to stop the proposed Belo Monte dam along the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, and support for indigenous resisters is needed now.
If built, the 11,000-megawatt Belo Monte hydroelectric dam would be the second-largest dam in Brazil and the third-largest in the world. It would divert [...]
On April 3, three self-identified federal employees entered the town of Temacapulin, in central Mexico, and issued death threats against residents and outsiders who have been organizing in opposition to the planned El Zapotillo dam. For two years, residents of Temacapulin and neighboring towns have been fighting construction of the dam, which would flood their [...]
Posted in Calls To Action, Mining on Apr 15th, 2010
Flier available here. FMI, www.StopLatMining.info.
Let’s bury the 2010 Lat-Am Mining Congress in Miami!
PROTEST: April 29, 3pm in Coral Gables at the Westin Colonnade, 180 Aragon Ave.
Representatives of a variety of ore-mining multinational companies, international development banks, other investors and ministers of mining who week to promote and expand this devastating industry will be meeting in [...]