Affiliates and Allies
Looking to get involved with an anti-infrastructure group near you? Check out the following groups, or start one of your own!
Root Force Affiliate Groups
In addition to fighting infrastructure expansion, Root Force affiliate groups actively work to spread the analysis that global trade infrastructure is a weak point of the system. Interested in starting an affiliate group? Find out more!
Arizona
Tucson Root Force
Tucson, AZ
tucson.rootforce
riseup (dot) net
Colorado
Earth First! Durango
earthfirstdurango
riseup (dot) net
Root Force Durango
rootforcedurango
riseup (dot) net
Rising Tide Durango
risingtidedurango
riseup (dot) net
Durango, CO
Projects Include: No Village at Wolf Creek! Save Horse Gulch! Save Ewing Mesa! No New Highway! No Wildcat Mine in La Plata Canyon! No Desert Rock Power Plant! Save the HD Mountains!
No Fracking! No New Oil & Gas! No New Coal Mining! No New Uranium Mining/Milling!
Oregon
Cascadia Root Force
Portland, OR
stoppppnow
riseup (dot) net
Projects Include: Liquified Natural Gas, I-5 Columbia River Crossing, SPP, Plan Mexico
Other Groups Fighting Infrastructure
British Columbia
Stop the Pave
Projects include: Gateway mega-highway project
Unist’ot’en Anti-Pipelines Resistance Camp
Projects include: Pipelines and mines in Wet’suwet’en territory
Colorado
High Country Earth First!
highcountryearthfirst
riseup (dot) net
Projects Include: I-70 expansion
District of Columbia
Potomac Earth First!
potomacearthfirst
gmail (dot) com
Projects Include: Inter-County Connector (ICC)
Indiana
Roadblock Earth First!
roadblockef
yahoo (dot) com
Projects Include: I-69
Other
Damocracy: An international coalition of groups, including Root Force, striving to debunk the myth of dams as clean energy. While large dam projects worldwide are promoted as sources of renewable energy, in reality they cause irreversible damage to nature, people and cultures around the world.
The Art of Dismantling: The Art of Dismantling (chris
autonomousmusic(dot)org) is a collective that helps form alliances between artists and activists, and provides educational workshops (including direct action trainings).
International Rivers Network: International Rivers works to protect rivers and rights, and promote real solutions for meeting water, energy and flood management needs. This site has lots of good anti-dam information and resources.
MiningWatch Canada: MiningWatch Canada (info
miningwatch(dot)ca) addresses the urgent need for a co-ordinated public interest response to the threats to public health, water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat and community interests posed by irresponsible mineral policies and practices in Canada and around the world. In addition to advocating for change on the policy level, MiningWatch also supports communities affected by mining.
Rising Tide North America: Rising Tide is an international network born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored “solutions” to climate change will not save us. Rising Tide North America’s strategy is based on a no-compromise approach of stopping the extraction of more fossil fuels and preventing the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Undangon ang Mina (Anti-Corporate Power Project): This Davao, Philippines-based infoshop campaigns against mining and works in solidarity with resisting communities. Contact them at sumpaki_sa_katalagman
riseup (dot) net.