The Klamath Justice Coalition (”a group of Klamath Basin community activists dedicated to the restoration of the Klamath River and the removal of PacifiCorp’s lower four Klamath River dams”) has called for the first national day of action against PacifiCorp power company on Sep. 18. A Klamath Justice Coalition march and rally will be held [...]

On Friday, August 22nd, the Peruvian legislature voted 66-28 to repeal two laws that would have opened up vast tracts of indigenous land in the Amazon to oil and gas exploration, mining, logging and other destructive “development.”
An estimated 12,000 indigenous protesters from 65 tribes had seized energy installations, marched and clashed with police in protest [...]

Thousands of Peruvian indigenous protesters have agreed to temporarily lift their blockades of oil, gas and hydroelectric infrastructure after Congress agreed to hold a vote on repealing a law that would make it easier for energy, mining and other corporate interests to purchase indigenous land.
The blockades were initiated at a time when Peru is already [...]

Reposted from Infoshop.org:
On the night of Thursday 14th August, in Berlin, we made 7 attacks on Deutsche Bank, Commerz Bank, Allianz AG and Dresdener Bank. The locks to the banks and the card-readers were glued and ‘no to UK Coal’ was spraypainted. Deutsche Bank is the single biggest European investor in agrofuels in Latin America [...]

The Peruvian government declared a state of emergency (martial law) today in three provinces affected by ongoing indigenous occupations and blockades of energy infrastructure. The government has banned public gatherings and free movement within the northern province of Amazonas and the southern provinces of Loreto and Cuzco, where hundreds of indigenous protesters have seized and [...]

Peru’s state-run oil company Petroperu was forced to shut down a major oil pipeline in the country’s north on Thursday, August 14, due to an ongoing occupation by indigenous protesters angered over new laws encouraging more infrastructure development in the Amazon.
The 500-person protest began on August 11, coinciding with the occupation of a gas field, [...]

The government of the Crow Tribe has signed a 50-year deal with Australian-American Energy Co. to build and operate a plant to convert coal into liquid fuel. The plant would be supplied by new coal mines on the Crow reservation in Montana.
The quadrupling of oil prices in the last decade has suddenly made coal-to-liquid (CTL) [...]

In coordinated protests that began on Saturday, August 9, indigenous Peruvians have blockaded and shut down energy infrastructure in both the north and south of the large country.
In the southern Amazonian province of Cusco, hundreds of indigenous protesters occupied Lot 56 of the controversial Camisea gas field, forcing the company to cease extraction there. Argentine [...]

Brazil’s environment minister has granted a license for the San Antonio Dam along the Madeira River in the Amazon basin. San Antionio is one of two dams planned for the river. The rights to build it have already been auctioned off to a group led by Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht, and construction is expected to be [...]

An anti-climate-change march through the streets of Richmond, VA concluded today with a lockdown at the Bank of America building.
Police presence in Richmond was heavy at the end of the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action. Nonetheless, 50 protesters took part in an unpermitted march through the streets of the city, punctuated by rallies at the [...]