Long 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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Swedish Forest Occupation Declares Temporary Victory

Cross Posted from Eye on the Arctic and Ecological Internet Environmental activists have been celebrating a victory on Gotland Island, off the coast of southeast Sweden, as tree felling machinery remained idle on Saturday evening. “It was a smart and brave decision,” field […]

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Gateway Project Faces Major Obstacles Ahead

Below is an article published in a mainstream newspaper called the Globe and Mail about the apparent demise of the much maligned Gateway pipeline, proposed to carry Tar Sands oil from Alberta Canada all the way to the Pacific coast, slashing through […]

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Rally to Shut Down Injection Wells at Ohio Courthouse

Appalachia Resist! announces an Action Camp, November 2-4 in Athens county [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SrSPY5aWU?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Today, over 80 people gathered outside the Athens County Courthouse to show support for the legal case of Madeline ffitch, and to demand that the Hazel Ginsberg Injection Well […]

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