“Greetings. I have been here since Friday working in Montana’s capital city, Helena, with the Coal Export Action team comprised of folks from Montana as well as from around the country and our movements. We’ve been rocking it. To say the least. […]
Continue readingTeribe Tribe of Costa Rica Fights for Indigenous Autonomy, End to Hydroelectric Projects
by Jaime Lopez Pablo Sibar, a grassroots leader from the Teribe native tribe of Costa Rica celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9th with a protest before the National Assembly. He has been doing so over the […]
Continue readingEnbridge CEO Says Revolutionary Environmental Groups Have Taken Control of Pipeline Debate
by Karen Kleiss, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON – Environmental groups opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline have seized control of the public debate, Enbridge Inc. CEO Patrick Daniel told a radio audience Monday. “Everything that we say sounds defensive and self-interested, and on […]
Continue readingChemical Cloud from Halliburton Frack Fluid Truck Threatens New Columbia Community
By Marcia Moore and John Finnerty The Daily Item NEW COLUMBIA — Amanda Friend and her family were forced from their home late Thursday after a toxic acid-spewing Halliburton truck hauling 4,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid pulled into a neighboring convenience […]
Continue readingBlockade Showdown Against Fracking Pipeline in Manhattan
by Shannon Ayala [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon5ZlCxPxo] Activists gathered yesterday at a sanitation pier near the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan where Spectra Energy has begun construction on a natural gas pipeline (which partially picks up gas in the Marcellus Shale area where […]
Continue readingThink Globally, Act Selfishly:
How Utilitarian Environmentalism Can Backfire by Brandon Keim / Wired.com In short, telling people how much money carpooling will save them won’t convince them to recycle, but telling them how transcendent carpooling is because it will save the planet will. Earnest, well-meaning […]
Continue readingAugust 31st: National Day of Action for the Cleveland 4!
On Friday, August 31st, join your comrades around the country in raising legal support funds for the Cleveland 4, who were entrapped by the FBI and face up to life in prison because of their politics and association with the Occupy movement. […]
Continue readingWill new anti-protest laws in Puerto Rico benefit the Energy Empire?
compiled by panagioti, Earth First! Journal collective Last week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s police chief and justice secretary, saying the island’s new penal code violates the constitutional right to freedom of expression. The lawsuit came a week after […]
Continue readingShaleshock Shuts Down Shumberger Fracking Site
Our friends at Shaleshock posted this update to Don’t Frack With Us At around 11am, August 11th, over 150 people arrived to block the main truck entrance in and out to the Schumberger Facility, a huge service facility for the fracking industry […]
Continue readingMontanans Prepare to Harness Direct Action in Coal Fight
Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence by Nick Engelfried Compiled by Bee On Sunday, people from across Montana, and the larger area affected by coal export projects, will start converging in the state capitol of Helena. They’re coming for what will likely be the […]
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