Activists Begin Sustained Hunger Strike, Demand That Valero Divest from Keystone XL Pipeline HOUSTON, TX – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 8:00AM –-Longtime Gulf Coast activists Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Jr. have locked their necks to oil tanker trucks destined for Valero’s […]
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Anti-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 readingTar Sands Blockade Calls For Solidarity Actions November 19th
Alright, eco-warriors, consider yourselves on notice. Tar Sands Blockade is stepping our game up, and we’re calling on you to do the same. We’ll be throwing down in a big way next Monday, November 19th, somewhere near Nacogdoches, Texas, the heart of […]
Continue readingObama’s real birth certificate found in Earth First! Journal office…
Yeah, that’s right, we caught Donald Trump snooping around in our stuff, again. He claims he found the certificate hiding under Uncle Ted’s crusty ol’ tighty-whitees that we won in the government auction last year, but never got around to framing on […]
Continue readingIncreased Action in Texas, Slowing the Keystone Pipeline
While Transcanada strongly believes that there is “overwhelming support” to build this disasterous pipeline, the Earth First! Newswire is committed to keeping the international community of readers and eco-warriors posted on all of the amazing resistance that is helping prevent Alberta Tar […]
Continue readingWhen Big Oil Attacks
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOucQBLNOa4&feature=player_embedded] Tuesday afternoon in East Texas, after police brutally tortured two protesters locked to a backhoe and workers resumed destruction of the forest, members of the Tar Sands Blockade, determined not to be deterred by violence, moved in to try and stop […]
Continue readingTexas Tar Sands Blockade Continues Despite Police Torture
Despite summer being over, things continue to heat up in Texas for the Tar Sands Blockade as we enter day 3 of the tree-sit. On Monday, 8 people took to the trees to defend the land from clear-cutting that would allow for […]
Continue readingPeople Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Tree Village
DATELINE WINNSBORO, TX — This morning two Texas-born Tar Sands Blockaders have locked themselves to a critical piece of equipment for TransCanada’s Keystone XL construction in order to protect a massive tree village in the direct path of the toxic tar sands […]
Continue readingTar Sands Video Compilation
The following seven videos are about the Alberta Tar Sands and Keystone KL pipeline, currently in construction in Texas. Tar sands development can be minimized by blocking development of pipelines, such as Keystone XL, that carry the sludge of this incredibly polluting […]
Continue readingBREAKING: Blockade Stops Construction of Keystone XL
Cross Posted from TarSandsBlockade.org **UPDATE 12:40PM – Our first action in Oklahoma! TransCanada is starting construction at the beginning of the Keystone XL route in Cushing, Oklahoma. Tar Sands Blockade organizers are there with a clear message, that while this project has started, we will not […]
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