“There is no such thing as socially and environmentally sustainable mining!” Today in Espoo, Finland, a meeting of bureaucrats and industrialists entitled Conference on Socially and Environmentally Responsible Mining was disrupted by the group Hyökyaalto (Tidal wave). The following statement was released today: […]
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Ohio Resisdents Blockade Radioactive Fracking Waste Well
Protesters block entrance to Ginsburg Well, a fracking disposal waste site, in Athens County, Ohio On November 19th, a group of Athens County residents wearing hazmat style suits, respirators, and carrying large placards emblazoned with skulls, blockaded the front gate of the […]
Continue readingRural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD – Europe’s Largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation
October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France. [source][/source] Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah! Here […]
Continue readingTwo arrests in home demo against Primate Products in Florida
Last week, on October 28, two Smash HLS activists were arrested during a home demo protest. They need to raise funds for legal fees to fight the bogus charges. Smash HLS is a grassroots activist group aimed at shutting down Primate Products. […]
Continue readingUpdates from Michigan Fracking Protest
Prosecutor caves to pressure and drops the felony charges. Everyone is now out without bail! [Read original story about their action here] 15 people left the Mineral Rights Auction protest at the Lansing Center yesterday and headed to the office of Stuart […]
Continue reading5 Charged with Felonies in Michigan Fracking Protest, Bail Needed
Today, October 24, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Michigan held another Mineral Rights Auction. The DNR is currently auctioning off 196,000 acres of land in Michigan. This auction is one of the first steps toward Horizontal Hydrolic Fracturing in Michigan. […]
Continue reading14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa
Fourteen activists including groundWork‘s Bobby Peek, Earthlife’s Makoma Lekalakala and Greenpeace Africa‘s Melita Steele have been arrested while protesting at the Eskom megawatt park. Today, three campaigning organizations joined forces to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under “new management.” Activists confronted […]
Continue readingCroatan Earth First! Locks Down Against Fracking
Seven members of Croatan Earth First! and participants from our Piedmont Direct Action Camp locked together today, barricading the front of North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) building in downtown Raleigh. Providing physical, active resistance against fracking in North […]
Continue readingEarth First! Journalist popped at Tar Sands Blockade
[Yeah, that’s right. We EF! Journalistas occasionally escape the doldrums of office life and get out to the woods to raise some hell. The following is a first hand account, re-posted from TarSandsBlockade.org] One Blockader’s Story (Day 25) Monday’s early morning hike […]
Continue readingLong Walk to Freedom
Day 18 from the East Texas Tar Sands Blockade I’m laying down in an open field in East Texas, staring upwards and reflecting. Small groups of stars peek out from the increasingly puffy clouds, signaling morning rain. My nostrils fill with slight […]
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