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 [...]

A documentary is in production tracing the struggle by indigenous Amazonians in Peru to defend their land against infrastructure and other industrial megaprojects, told through the lens of indigenous leader Alberto Pizango:
“Against the backdrop of global recession and climate crisis, When Two Worlds Collide traces the heroic journey of a young indigenous leader. Forced into [...]

Check out reportbacks from the Global Week of Action for Climate Justice (which ran concurrently with the Third Global Minga/Global Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples).

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 [...]

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 Beehive Collective has released its long-anticipated poster “The True Cost of Coal,” about mountaintop removal coal mining:
Experience the full poster and read the narrative here, and find behind-the-scenes studio shots in the collective’s Sketchbook and coal campaign blog.
The collective will soon be touring the country to display and distribute the poster and related materials [...]

On July 6, following the annual Earth First! Round River Rendezvous, about 50 protesters blockaded the access to a mega-wind project in the Maine North Woods, while others locked themselves to a truck carrying a massive turbine blade to the site.
The construction site was shut down for the entire morning, and the truck was blocked [...]

On July 6, the Palomar Pipeline project submitted a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) withdrawing its application due to the project being on indefinite delay.
This good news was a direct result of the bankruptcy announcement of NorthernStar, and its ensuing cancellation of the planned Bradwood liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.
This leaves the [...]

On July 14, two protesters locked themselves to a highwall miner at the Bee Tree strip mine on Coal River Mountain, near the Brushy Fork Sludge Impoundment.
Four people were arrested, and three of them remain in jail.

Following our last La Parota post on June 29, when Mexican media reported that the project was postponed until 2018, things were looking good for the indigenous and campesino peoples defending the Papagayo River from destruction and their own communities from dislocation. On September 13, the Mexican government indicated that the project had been canceled, [...]