Pipelines in Bernie-Land: Fighting Fracking in Vermont (Video)
from subMedia Did you know that there is a fracked gas pipeline currently under construction in Vermont? It is a transmission line that will transport fracked gas along the western side of the state, with future hopes of connecting to the national grid. One June 6th, protesters affiliated with Rising Tide Vermont stopped work on the pipeline for seven hours,…
by Sarah Lin / Shanghaiist Vietnamese protesters demonstrate against Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa during a rally in downtown Hanoi on May 1, 2016. Around a thousand people poured into Vietnam’s two major cities Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to protest against Taiwan’s Formosa, which operates a steel plant which they claim is causing mass fish kills due to pollution in Vietnam’s central coast. /…
Twenty-One People Arrested Blockading Oil Train Route in Vancouver, WA
from Fossil Fuel Resistance Network Update: The 21 community members arrested after blockading rail traffic in Vancouver, WA on Saturday June 18th will be arraigned at the Clark County Courthouse on Monday June 20th at 8:30am. Over 100 people stopped rail traffic by forming a human blockade across the tracks in Vancouver, WA today. Organized by the Fossil Fuel Resistance Network in response to…
Chesapeake Earth First! Disrupts Virginia Energy Policy Forum
by Chesapeake Earth First! / Earth First! Newswire On Friday Morning around 8:15 am, right in the middle of Registration for the Virginia Energy Policy Forum, at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Virginia, 4 protesters from Chesapeake Earth First! snuck in the lobby and dropped two banners over the balcony. The banners displayed the phrases “Dump Dominion” and “No Pipelines” which…
Three Environmental Activists Killed Each Week in 2015
from The Guardian Three environmental activists were killed per week last year, murdered defending land rights and the environment from mining, dam projects and logging, a campaign group said on Monday. In 16 countries surveyed in a report by Global Witness, 185 activists were killed, making 2015 the deadliest year for environment and land campaigners since 2002. “The environment is emerging as a…
Vinci Excavator Torched in Berlin in Solidarity With French Activists
from Insurrection News As we have learned from our observations the construction group Vinci is criticized in France for its involvement in projects such as the planned airport on the territory of the ZAD as well as the construction of nuclear power plants and prisons. Sometimes Vinci vehicles have been torched. So we came up with the idea that perhaps a burning Vinci excavator is an appropriate…
Brazil: Awá Blockade Railroad Owned by Vale Mining Co.
from Native News Online This is the first time the Awá have initiated a protest of this kind on their own.© Survival Members of Brazil’s Awá tribe have blockaded a railroad owned by Vale mining company in the eastern Amazon. The company has moved to expand the railroad, but the Awá say the expansion will increase the number and size of trains which transport iron ore from the Carajás mine to the…
Crochet and Knitting Group Protests Logging in Indiana
from Earth First! Newswire Brown County, Indiana – A logging site on Scarce o’ Fat Ridge in Yellowwood State Forest was the canvas for a recent art installation by Hills O’ Indiana Crochet and Knitting Society. (H.I.C.K.S.) The group used yarn to weave together dozens of trees marked to be logged. Dubbed “The Web of Life,” the installation represents the interconnectedness of trees and their…
France: Backhoes Burned at Construction Site
by H24 / Attaque [poorly] translated by Earth First! Journal Firefighters in action. Photo D.R Two backhoes parked at a construction site in Béziers were burned during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Firefighters from the main emergency center of Béziers responded quickly, as soon as a witness who saw large flames gave the warning [at 18?] in the middle of the night. Both vehicles were charred…
Indigenous Group Blockades Brazilian Railroad in Protest of Mining Company
from Native News Online EASTERN AMAZON, BRAZIL – Members of Brazil’s Awá tribe have blockaded a railroad owned by Vale mining company in the eastern Amazon. The company has moved to expand the railroad, but the Awá say the expansion will increase the number and size of trains which transport iron ore from the Carajás mine to the port of São Luis – and that this will make it harder for them to…
China: Activists Set to Stop Yulin Dog Eating Festival
by Julia Orr / Huffington Post Marc Ching in Vietnam investigating the dog meat trade. Image copyright Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation. The Yulin dog eating slaughter is set to start in China on June 21st. I’m calling it what it is, it is not a “dog meat festival” but a level of hell for dogs few can imagine unless of course you are the butchers and the consumers. The slaughter is in…
Meet the Activist Getting Sued for Complaining About a Coal-Ash Dump
by Aura Bogado / Grist Esther Calhoun lives in Uniontown, a small town in Alabama where more than nine out of ten residents are black, and half live below the poverty line. Her family has been there for as long as she knows. Her parents and grandparents worked as sharecroppers on a plantation, and generations of her ancestors were buried in the town’s cemetery.Uniontown is also home to the…
Italy: Telephone Repeaters Sabotaged
from Primo Canale IT translated by Earth First! Journal A Vodafone repeater was sabotaged in the region of Righi in the hills of Genoa. A group of anarchists sliced the lead last Thursday night [May 19], causing problems to the telephone lines of the company’s customers. The gesture was claimed on a website anarcoinsurrezionalist [we found it posted in Spanish on Contra Info who translated the…
Chile: Horse Race Track Attacked
from 325 No State translated by Earth First! Journal A horse racing event at Tokyo race course on April 26, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tsutomu Takasu) [EF! J Editor’s note: This action took place on September 5, 2015, but we just recently found out about it through Return Fire] COMMUNIQUE: Haughty Autonomous Cells at War’s coordinated attack against Teletrack on September 5 The warriors…
Ukraine: Animal Liberation Front Destroy 12 Hunting Towers in the Kiev Woods Region
from Insurrection News On the weekend of 10-12 June, despite the rainy weather, activists from Animal Liberation Front Kiev went into the woods near where the river flows in the Kodra Borodyanskiy district of Kiev. We received information that in this area hunting towers were being used for the shooting of wild animals. ALF Kiev activists stumbled upon a number of these facilities. A total of 12…
