The Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers started on Saturday and runs through this coming Saturday, March 23rd. Although there’s never a bad time to interrupt “business as usual” for corporate criminals, this week is an especially good time! Following is a longer, more detailed call to action, along with resources for selecting [...]

From the Deep Green Resistance Newswire: We’re up against a lot. With hundreds of species going extinct every day, with the oceans being vacuumed of life, with the last vestiges of wild forests being felled or burned and the heart of the planet being torn up to poison the air, civilization is driving Earth towards [...]

From EF! Newswire Tar Sands Blockade has been working to amplify the voices of communities who will be most impacted by tar sands exploitation; Indigenous peoples and lands at the point of extraction and Latin@ and African American communities in the Gulf Coast where the tar sands will be refined and shipped to overseas markets [...]

The Media Coop has published a piece highlighting the great power of the Canada’s indigenous people in general, and the Idle No More protests in particular, to economically cripple the country by focusing on its infrastructure. Some highlights: News reports are ablaze with reports of looming Indigenous blockades and economic disruption. As the Idle No [...]

The New York Times and Washington Post have featured stories recently on how global warming is already causing the US infrastructure system to crumble. That sounds like an opportunity to us! Higher temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events such as storms, floods and wildfires are wreaking havoc on infrastructure constructed for the cooler, more [...]

From The Dominion: Hemispheric Resistance to Canadian Mining Day of Action organizers speak out about repression, connections, solidarity by Sandra Cuffe VANCOUVER—From Canada to Argentina, preparations are well underway for the Continental Day of Action Against Canadian Mega Resource Extraction on August 1. Dozens of organizations have signed a call for the day of protest [...]

Travel Centers of America, commonly called TA, and Shell are working on a deal to have TA sell Liquified Natural Gas at their truck stops.  If the agreement is reached, they expect to have LNG fuel lanes open in 2013. The idea behind offering LNG at its stations stems from the spike in diesel fuel [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: “At about 11:30 pm on … May 20, a dozen activists from Occupy Spokane and Wild Idaho Rising Tide converged in Spokane, Washington, to protest megaloads of oversized equipment bound for Alberta tar sands operations from the Port of Pasco. “ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil has been using Highway 395, Interstate 90, and [...]

Gross huh? Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are needed now more than ever. These infrequently talked about elements are necessary for almost every piece of new technology to function—from smart phones and smart bombs to computers and wind turbines. Luckily for those of us who want a living planet, Rare Earths are just that: rare. While [...]

Global industrial demand for lead is expected to exceed supply by 150,000 metric tons next year, with no known potential for any new mines outside China, according to an article on Bloomberg.com. That shortage is equivalent to six months of production from all US lead mines combined. The shortfall is being caused by surging demand, [...]