From Deutsche Welle Protesters blocked major roads in Serbia on Sunday and demanded the government cancel plans to build a lithium mine in the west of the country. The main north-south highway that passes through the capital, Belgrade, was targeted by environmental protection […]
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Mountain Valley Pipeline Protester Blockades Access To Work Site
by: Appalachians Against Pipelines / It’s Going Down Just before 6 A.M. Tuesday morning, a Mountain Valley Pipeline protester locked themself to the inside of a broken down vehicle outside of Pembroke, VA, blocking access to a pipeline construction site. The vehicle’s […]
Continue readingVancouver Island, BC: Gate Locked as RCMP Ramps up to Attack Growing Logging Blockades
from: It’s Going Down In so-called British Columbia, a campaign to stop the logging of old-growth forests has been building, with a network of active blockades forming a direct line of resistance to logging. According to the Fairy Creek Blockade on Instagram: […]
Continue readingNov 18: Two Water Protectors Lock Down to Enbridge Line 3 Excavators, Blocking Active Construction
by Ginew Collective / Rising Tide North America Two Inlets, MN – This morning, two water protectors locked their bodies through the treads of excavators working on a pump station for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, as dozens of others rallied […]
Continue readingCanada: Permanent Protest Camp Established Near Trans Mountain Work Site in Kamloops
Secwépemc protesters have settled in for the long haul in a bid to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from being completed in Kamloops.
Continue readingWashington: The Fight for the Wild Is on at Chameleon Blockade
by Chameleon Blockade October 8, 2020, The Capitol State Forest, WA: Early Wednesday afternoon just as the fog melted off, a convoy of trucks from at least four different law enforcement agencies parked on a logging road for an unannounced raid on […]
Continue readingCanada: Autonomous Action Against Logging on So-Called Vancouver Island
by some anarchists September 14, 2020, unceded Pacheedaht Territory: On a coast choked in smoke from fires burning a vast swath of this dying planet, up road TR11A on the north side of Edinburgh Mountain on so-called Vancouver Island, we felled seven […]
Continue readingWashington: Forest Defenders Launch Blockade to Stop Logging of the ‘Chameleon’ Timber Sale
Forest Defenders today have launched a blockade to prevent the clear-cut logging of a 100-year-old forest west of Olympia on the traditional territory of the Chehalis people.
Continue readingBreaking: 2nd Fairy Creek Blockade Established
by BC Blackout August 17, 2020 — Grassroots forest defenders from across Vancouver Island have successfully prevented Teal Jones Group from blasting logging roads into the unlogged headwaters of the Fairy Creek watershed for the past week. On Monday August 10th, a […]
Continue readingWet’suwet’en Block Trains in Solidarity with Six Nations
from Warrior Publications [Editor’s Note: The people of Six Nations are Haudenosaunee (also referred to as Iroquois), not Mohawk.] August 8, 2020 (Anonymous Communique) Last night, a group of Wet’suwet’en barricaded and set fire to the train tracks trespassing on our territory […]
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