From Common Dreams: Over 20 anti-Keystone protesters were arrested Monday morning for blockading the doors to a Chicago federal building as part of newly launched call to action that declares “if you don’t act, I will.” The demonstration was the first action organized by the group No KXL who are launching a civil disobedience campaign [...]

A Different Way to Protect our Land, Air, Water and Climate from Tar Sands Expansion The tar sands are growing out of control, destroying the climate for all Canadians and poisoning the water of everyone living downstream. On July 5th and 6th, people will come together from coast to coast to join First Nations and [...]

Two stories from the Amazon rainforest: • A pipeline rupture spilled 11,480 barrels of oil into Ecuador’s River Coca in May. That oil has now traveled downstream into the Peruvian region of Loreto, and is on track to enter Brazil any day. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has apologized “for the problems we have caused.” Do [...]

From Rising Tide North America: his July, many of the members of Rising Tide-affiliated, anti-extraction, and climate justice groups around the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will converge in beautiful Utah to train, discuss, strategize, and develop the structure, dynamics and capacity of the Rising Tide network. Rising Tide is an international, all-volunteer, grassroots network of [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: Tar Sands Re-route Coming to a Wetlands Near You by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! Newswire Back in 2011, when Gulf Coast residents were still reeling from the BP oil spill disaster, a pipeline company, Plains Southcap, LLC received a quiet approval to build a 45-mile pipeline in Montgomery Co. Alabama. [...]

from United First Nations: Environmentalists across the country rejoiced at the news that the BC government formally opposed the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. But reading the 99-page submission, it becomes clear that the door for the controversial oil sands pipeline remains wide open. I’ve just read the BC government’s May 31 written submission to the Joint Review Panel (JRP) established [...]

From Common Dreams: InsideClimate News’ Lisa Song reports on Monday that the Calgary-based energy giant is putting together plans for 5,000-mile pipeline network that would bring tar sands crude to the U.S., but, unlike TransCanada’s Keystone XL, Enbridge’s project has thus far escaped the same kind of debate. The company’s piecemeal approach—the expansion would include [...]

In what will hopefully be a major setback for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, intended to transport tar sands from the mines in Alberta to the country’s west coast for export, the province of British Columbia officially rejected the pipeline, saying that Enbridge has no real plan for dealing with potentially catastrophic spills on land or [...]

From Counterpunch: In April, a grassroots movement led by Lakota grandmothers toured the country to build support for a formal complaint of genocide against the United States government and its constituent states. Though temporarily overturned, the recent conviction of Efrain Rios Montt for genocide against indigenous Guatemalans should give US officials, particularly members of the [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: The date for the Action Camp is set!!! Get a pen and paper (or smart phone) JULY 10, 2013 until JULY 14th, 2013. You will not want to miss out on this year’s camp as we are expecting much much much more people than ever!!! Please go to the Victoria [...]