by Joaqlin Estus / Indian Country Today Two Alaska Native corporations are working to develop what would be one of the world’s largest gold mines while some of their shareholders oppose it and more than a dozen area tribes have joined in […]
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Resistance To “Cop City” In Atlanta Heats Up As Construction Is Halted, Trees Occupied
from It’s Going Down On Tuesday, January 18th, tree-cutting was reported on social media in the Atlanta Forest, an area of highly contested green-space where both a movie studio and the local police are attempting to clear-cut trees to build expanded studio lots and a state of […]
Continue readingCall to Action: Protect Thacker Pass/Peehee mu’huh from Lithium Mining
posted on June 15, 2021 for more information, visit www.protectthackerpass.org Fort McDermitt, Nevada – As soon as July 29, 2021, Lithium Nevada Corporation (LNC) plans to begin removing cultural sites, artifacts, and possibly human remains belonging to the ancestors of the Paiute and […]
Continue readingNo Whistling In The Atlanta Forest: A Communique
from Anarchist News This is a story about a couple of queers who gathered last night to reject destruction in the name of profit and power and to destroy the machinery of the nefarious polities that have defiled the Atlanta Forest. We […]
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 readingThe Return of the War in the Woods?
by BC Blackout The following was received anonymously: March 17, 2021 — From deep in the coastal rainforest, to the streets of the colonial capital of so-called British Columbia, to the front page of the Globe & Mail, something is stirring. After […]
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.
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