“In the waning hours of Sunday May 18th, dedicated community members in resistance to I-69 set up a defensive encampment high in the trees above the farmland that INDOT [the Indiana Department of Transportation] and [Indiana Governor] Mitch Daniels consider the future site of the NAFTA Superhighway.” Police immediately arrived to harass the treesitters and [...]

Help create a Loxahatchee Free State and fight energy infrastructure in south Florida! “This Summer, you’re invited to join Everglades Earth First! in launching a sustained campaign of direct action to defend the ecologically rich South Florida Everglades. Since 2006, Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) has been involved in challenging a massive gas-fired power plant proposed [...]

There is now a ride board for folks to coordinate rides and supplies to Southern Indiana to help stop I-69. This ride will also be used to coordinate supplies coming to Indiana.  You do not have to register or login to use this message board, but if you post something without registering, please remember to [...]

On Thursday May 8, a coalition of indigenous, environmental and community groups in the Panamanian province of Chiriquí blocked both lanes of the Panamerican Highway in protest of open-pit mining and dams. Of particular concern to locals are plans for dams along the Garcés, Gariché, Chiriquí Viejo and Escarria rivers, but the protesters were overtly [...]

International Rivers Network has launched a campaign to pressure Home Depot over its involvement with a wood products company spearheading plans for new dams in Chilean Patagonia: “Why Home Depot? Home Depot is the largest US customer of CMPC, the wood products company owned by the Matte Group conglomerate leading the controversial dam plans for [...]

Resistance to the construction of I-69 kicked off with a weekend of resistance from April 18-22. Road opponents held an unpermitted march (more photos) on April 19 and many people calling in for the April 22 phone jam action reported receiving busy signals. On the same day, banners were hung from freeway overpasses opposing the [...]

(reposted from infoshop.org) The Bulldozers have arrived! Clearing has begun in preparation for the construction of I-69, the NAFTA superhighway, in Southern Indiana. Under contracts totaling more than $25.3 million from the Indiana Department of Transportation, Gohmann Asphalt and Construction of Clarksville, Indiana has demolished homes and trees along the first 1.77 miles of the [...]

The Dine’ (Navajo) of Black Mesa (AZ) continue to resist forced relocation and hold back the coal companies that want to strip mine their land. The consistent rain and snow this past winter have been hard on many of the families living on Black Mesa, especially the elders. But the desert thrives on water; there [...]

The Missouri Department of Transportation is hosting a series of public meetings to “share information” about its plans for a study on the environmental impacts of building truck-only lanes for I-70, as per the state’s Corridors of the Future grant. The meetings are in “open house” format, so people can arrive and leave at any [...]

Only two weeks until Fossil Fools Day! Pull a prank that packs a punch! That’s right, Fossil Fools Day is coming quick but you still have plenty of time to plan an action. April 1st is promising to be a momentous day as communities around the world come together to take direct action against the [...]