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.rootforceriseup (dot) net

Colorado

Earth First! Durango
earthfirstdurangoriseup (dot) net

Root Force Durango
rootforcedurangoriseup (dot) net

Rising Tide Durango
risingtidedurangoriseup (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
stoppppnowriseup (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!
highcountryearthfirstriseup (dot) net

Projects Include: I-70 expansion

District of Columbia

Potomac Earth First!
potomacearthfirstgmail (dot) com

Projects Include: Inter-County Connector (ICC)

Indiana

Roadblock Earth First!
roadblockefyahoo (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 (chrisautonomousmusic(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 (infominingwatch(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_katalagmanriseup (dot) net.