Thirty-one people were arrested at a civil disobedience action against mountaintop removal coal mining on June 23, including actress Daryl Hannah and climate scientist James Hansen. The protesters had blocked traffic outside a West Virginia coal plant after plans to enter were thwarted by a large gathering of pro-coal counter-demonstrators. One counter-demonstrator attacked one of [...]

Anti-mining organizer Marcelo Rivera has been missing since June 18, community members in San Isidro, El Salvador have reported. Rivera is a leader of the movement against a Pacific Rim gold mine near his community, representative of the community organization Amigos De San Isidro Cabañas and member of the community’s Board of Directors for the [...]

A group of Mayan Mam villagers torched the equipment of a company attempting to set up a mine on their land without permission on June 12. Exploradora de Guatemala, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Goldcorp, had been pressuring 20 families in the San Miguel Ixztahuacan municipality to sell their land, but the villagers had [...]

Protesters from London Climate Action blockaded the entrance to the Peruvian Embassy in London on June 19, demanding the right to deliver a letter of protest calling for oil and gas companies in the Amazon to suspend their operations until the government agrees to peaceful negotiations with local representatives; for an independent and impartial inquiry [...]

Activists from Rainforest Action Network and Forest Ethics gathered on June 19 to protest the Canadian-American Business Council’s forum on energy and environment in Washington DC. About thirty protesters held signs outside, while two dressed up as industry representatives and snuck into the meeting. During the keynote address, the protesters unfurled banners blasting the Canadian [...]

Giving the lie to its earlier claims that it was impossible to repeal the contested decrees that sparked 70 days of protests and blockades throughout the country’s Amazon region, the Peruvian government rescinded two of those laws on June 18th.
The protests started after President Alan Garcia passed 10 laws by presidential decree that would open [...]

Fourteen people were arrested on June 18 in a protest meant to launch a week of action against mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Four people climbed a 150-foot dragline at a mine site near Twilight, WV, and unfurled a banner reading, “Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining”. Another 9 entered the mine site to unfurl [...]

Attracting less attention in light of the full-fledged  uprising that has consumed Peru’s Amazon region for 70 days, a mine blockade is ongoing in the country’s highlands. On June 10th, miners launched roadblocks at the Buenaventura mining company’s Orcopampa gold mine in Peru, in protest of poor labor conditions and the mine’s impact on local [...]

June 15th-19th
Rising Tide North America is calling for a week of action starting Monday June 15th to show solidarity with the indigenous tribes resisting Peru’s attempt to open their lands to the oil, gas, and logging industries.
Last week over 85 people were killed by Peruvian police while protesting the governments plans revoke protections for traditional [...]

Following is a list of some upcoming (North American) protests in solidarity with the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, who are facing murderous repression in a two-month mobilization against laws that would open their territories to increased exploitation.
For a list of protests outside the American continent, see here. Remember that June 11 is the [...]