On Tuesday October 7, more than 150 protesters targeted Bank of America and Citi, two of the most powerful remaining banks in the United States, for their financing of coal, their contribution to the current financial crisis and their role in a recent wave of Boston evictions. After a rally and march from Bank of [...]

Kuntur Transportadora de Gas has signed an agreement with the Peruivan government to build a new pipeline to transport gas from the controversial Camisea field to the south of the country. Construction of the 700-mile pipeline is due to begin in 2010 and be complete by 2013. Kuntur is a subsidiary of New York-based Conduit [...]

On September 2, a group of anarchists blockaded transport infrastructure in Guelph, Ontario, in solidarity with Six Nations resisters and to strike a blow against the system. The action was spurred by the Sep. 1 arrests of indigenous Six Nations protesters opposing a development project on their land. The Guelph actions saw burning tires and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]