At about 11:30 pm on Sunday night, 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 […]
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Protestors at Michigan’s Fracking Auction
LANSING – An auction of state-owned oil and gas rights on 109,000 acres across lower Michigan, including Oakland County, was briefly disrupted this morning by anti-drilling demonstrators. One protester, who stood up as bids were being taken and began to talk […]
Continue readingClimate Activists Disrupt UK Energy Summit
cross posted from IndyMedia UK On May 3rd, hundreds of protesters from climate and anti-cuts groups across the country teamed up to block the UK Energy Summit in the City of London. [1] They descended on the conference venue at 11.45 am, […]
Continue reading100 Groups Ask EPA to End Wildlife Poisoning From Lead Hunting Ammunition
Lead Kills Millions of Birds, Including Eagles, Condors, and Hurts Human Health WASHINGTON- One hundred organizations in 35 states today formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate toxic lead in hunting ammunition to protect public health and prevent the widespread poisoning […]
Continue readingFive Lakota Arrested for Forming Blockade on Pine Ridge Reservation
Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges. PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION – Five Lakota were arrested Monday evening in Wanblee, South Dakota when they formed a blockade to halt a convoy of trucks going through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At issue was […]
Continue readingActivists Detained Over Reef Protest
Police detained several environmental activists after they painted a sign on the side of a coal ship in Gladstone Harbour in central Queensland, Australia, saying the Great Barrier Reef is in danger. About a dozen Anti-Coal activists led by Greenpeace staged a […]
Continue readingNo Coal Eugene Banner Drop
(EUGENE, Ore.) – Yesterday at approximately 1:36 PM members of No Coal Eugene dropped a banner reading “STOP THE COAL TRAIN” from the parking garage on 10th and Oak in Eugene, Oregon. This action was done in solidarity with Rocky Mountain Powershift […]
Continue readingMalaysian Indigenous Communities Demand Referendum on Mega-Dams
cross posted from Environment News Service. MIRI, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 19, 2012 (ENS) – Malaysian communities are asking the government to stop all 12 planned mega-dam projects in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and to hold a referendum […]
Continue readingOccupy the Machine: Activists Vow to Stop the 1% with Civil Disobedience Not Seen Since the Civil Rights Movement
Contact Occupy the Machine: occupythemachine@riseup.net 406-748-6347 On February 11th, 2012, Premadasi Amada and Dillon Thomson will begin a speaking tour of at least eight cities to promote Occupy the Machine and build ties with various communities affected by extraction industries. The OTM […]
Continue readingBreaking: Idaho Residents Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Megaloads Bound for Alberta
Cross-Posted from itsgettinghotinhere.org They spill, they drill and we fight back with the only currency we have—our bodies, our minds and a fighting spirit. Hundreds have been arrested sitting in at the White House this week and Alberta’s Indigenous communities have been […]
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