Dozens gathered in the Michigan state capitol today to protest the expansion of the Enbridge oil pipeline that cracked and leaked over 800,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River in Marshall, Michigan on July 25th, 2010 – “…the costliest inland oil […]
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Enbridge Oil Spill Whistle-Blower Trial Updates
July 2010, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude spilled into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. This is the largest inland spill in US History. A fired cleanup worker with a dark past claims he was ordered to cover up oil to […]
Continue readingFive Lakota Arrested for Forming Blockade on Pine Ridge Reservation
Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges. PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION – Five Lakota were arrested Monday evening in Wanblee, South Dakota when they formed a blockade to halt a convoy of trucks going through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At issue was […]
Continue readingOccuping the ‘Hot Zone’ of Tar Sands Refinery in Colorado
In an open letter, several organizations including Colorado American Indian Movement, Deep Green Resistance (DGR) Colorado, Front Range Rising Tide, 350.org, Occupy Denver and Boulder Food Rescue announce they coming together for a demonstration on Saturday, March 10th, with families from the […]
Continue readingEarth First! makes a mess of SITLA tar sands plans in Utah
Yesterday, February 20, the Earth First! 2012 Organizers Conference & Winter Rendezvous culminated in a rowdy demonstration outside the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) offices in downtown Salt Lake City. Earth First! activists staged their protest with local organizers from […]
Continue readingVan Eck Launches ‘Fracking’ Energy Exchange Traded Fund
Van Eck Global, a New York-based money management firm with $35 million in assets from dirty energy, today launched an energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on companies that look for and produce “unconventional” sources of oil and gas, such as oil […]
Continue reading143 arrested at August 29 tar sands protest in DC
Reposted from Indy Media DC click here to view the video August 29th was the 6th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and barely a day after the departure of Hurricane Irene from DC. Delayed by the storm […]
Continue readingKeystone XL Pipeline Protest set for site of 2007 Burnaby pipeline rupture
A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years ago to emphasize its opposition to a planned expansion by Kinder Morgan. Wilderness Committee (WC) will hold a demonstration on Saturday, Aug. 27 […]
Continue readingDirect Action All Summer Long!
Ecological resistance is on the rise across the US. Check out these and more events at the EF! Newswire calendar … August 4 — BP = Big Polluter, Direct Action Protest (New Orleans, LA) August 5 — Protest ALEC conference (Also in […]
Continue readingNEW VIDEO… Earth First! Dances on Governor’s Table in Tar Sands Protest
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vd4QC_rB4&w=640&h=390] HELENA, Montana—Check out this new short film from the Earth First! occupation of the Montana capitol against the Tar Sands and other industrial energy infrastructure in the Northern Rockies, following the 2011 Round River Rendezvous. Five people locked down, 20 danced […]
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