Cross Posted from Workers World Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a hero-in-the-struggle who […]
Continue readingStephen Harper’s Endless Campaign for Mining Profits
Cross Posted from The Tee By Yves Engler [Editor’s note: This is the second of two pieces drawn, with permission, from Chapter 2 of The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy by Yves Engler, newly published. The first part is here. Engler’s next author’s event is […]
Continue readingWhite House march revives Keystone XL protest movement
Cross Posted from The Guardian Environmental activists protest against the Keystone XL pipeline on 18 November 2012. Photograph: 350.org Hundreds of people who say they worry oil that would be carried theKeystone XL pipeline will accelerate climate change marched around the White House on Sunday, hoping […]
Continue readingBREAKING: 40 People Stop Keystone XL Construction: Four Lock to Machinery, Nacogdoches Student and Two Others Launch a New Tree Blockade
Cross Posted from Tar Sands Blockade November 19, 2012 UPDATE: 2:00 pm – From coast to coast, solidarity against the Keystone XL In Burlington, Vermont, and Fairfax, California, activists displayed banners decrying Keystone XL’s role in the ongoing climate crisis. “As communities […]
Continue readingAnti-KXL Solidarity Action Targets Deutsche Bank on Palm Beach Island
Four arrested as concerned Florida residents demonstrate opposition to investments in Transcanada/ Keystone XL Pipeline See corporate media coverage from Palm Beach Daily News here. West Palm Beach, FL – Monday, November 19, 2012 – Dozens of protesters with Everglades Earth First! […]
Continue readingNAACP Study “Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People”
By: Jenée Desmond-Harris (The Root) — It’s not news that coal-fired plants cause pollution, and it’s not surprising that it’s low-income people and people of color who tend to live closest to them. But “Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People,” a new […]
Continue readingRallies, public gatherings banned in Ayun
Cross Posted from Pakistan Observer Chitral—The district administration of Chitral has imposed section 144 in Ayun valley banning all types of rallies and public gatherings following protests by the local people against cutting of trees in their area. The police have registered FIR against […]
Continue readingCross-border solidarity against Turkey’s power plant plans near Bulgaria
Cross Posted from FOCUS Sofia. More than 200 people have gathered at the seacoast in the Bulgarian village of Rezovo, joining a cross-border protest and voicing disagreement with Turkey’s building a thermal power plant (TPP) a few kilometers away from the border with […]
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 readingClimate Change Resistance Solidarity Action
Since spring 2010, frontline Northwest activists have been resisting tar sands transportation projects and associated police states in our communities and on our roads, through six court cases, a dozen arrests, and over 50 direct actions. Residents of Moscow and Lewiston, Idaho, […]
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