by Chris Schaino / Unicorn Riot Washington, DC – Today the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by Energy Transfer, the energy giant behind the highly contested Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This means that the existing federal court […]
Continue reading‘We get to breathe’: Chicagoans celebrate as city blocks metal shredder
by Taylor Moore / The Guardian A year after a hunger strike brought national attention to a potentially toxic metal shredder in a majority Latino neighborhood in Chicago, the city has announced it will not issue the final permit necessary for the […]
Continue readingA Small Spark Against Enedis
from attaque In the early morning of January 22, rue du Général Bizot in Paris, a van of Enedis, subsidiary of the nuclear empire EDF, was set on fire. This small action may seem derisory compared to such a big industrial group, […]
Continue readingMexican Forces Evict Indigenous Activists Who Took Over Water Bottling Plant
by Tamara Pearson / Truthout Around 300 Mexican National Guards and state security forces violently evicted Indigenous environmental activists from their community center in Puebla this week, on the morning of February 15. The community center had been a foreign-owned water bottling […]
Continue readingI Believe That We Will Win: Two Perspectives on Defend the Atlanta Forest
from Defend the Atlanta Forest They say Atlanta is a city in a forest. What happens when cops, developers, and Hollywood team up to decimate some of the very woods the city claims to treasure? In the last year, a widespread and […]
Continue readingCoastal Gaslink workers ‘shaken’ following violent attack at Morice River drill site
from CKPG Today BRITISH COLUMBIA— Mounties in Houston, B.C. are investigating a violent incident that left Coastal Gaslink (CGL) workers “shaken.” It happened shortly after midnight this morning (Feb.17) on the Marten Forest Service Road. “It was reported approximately 20 people, some […]
Continue readingIndigenous Binnizá Defend Their Communal Lands Against Industrial Park in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
From It’s Going Down Below we publish two translated communiques from the Indigenous Binnizá community of Puente Madera, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, who are engaged in a struggle in defense of their communal lands against the construction of an industrial […]
Continue readingTrapped in the Floods: With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces
by Alleen Brown / The Intercept THE FLOODING IN Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was underwater. At the Cross City Correctional […]
Continue reading“Huge Win for [some] Gray Wolves” as US Court Restores Endangered Species Act Protections
by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams While celebrating a U.S. judge’s Thursday decision to restore federal protections that the Trump administration had stripped from the gray wolf, wildlife advocates and experts also demanded action to save wolves that won’t be protected by the legal triumph. Calling the […]
Continue readingNew Disruptive Action in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Targeting Royal Bank of Canada Branches (Again)
from MTL Counter-Info On the night of February 6th, 2022 in Montreal (Tio’Tia:Ke), non-Indigenous allies demonstrated their solidarity with the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. The instigators of this action are responding to a call by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to #ShutdownCanada […]
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